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Ethnobotanical Survey of Useful Species in Bustamante, Nuevo León, Mexico

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Acknowledgments

We are very grateful to the residents of Bustamante for sharing their knowledge about useful plants. We thank PAICYT (Programa de Apoyo a la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica) of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León for the economic support to conduct this study.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Linares, Nuevo León, Mexico

    Eduardo Estrada-Castillón, María Magdalena Rodríguez-Salinas, Juan Antonio Encinas-Domínguez & Humberto González-Rodríguez

  2. Departamento de Botánica, Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Buenavista, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

    José Ángel Villarreal-Quintanilla

  3. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Rosarito, Mexico

    Guillermo Romero Figueroa

  4. Departamento de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Laguna, Islas Canarias, Spain

    José Ramón Arévalo

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Estrada-Castillón, E., Villarreal-Quintanilla, J.Á., Rodríguez-Salinas, M.M. et al. Ethnobotanical Survey of Useful Species in Bustamante, Nuevo León, Mexico. Hum Ecol 46, 117–132 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9962-x

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