Naslov
Plant uses in Croatia

Autori
Nikolić, Toni ; Rešetnik, Ivana

Izvornik
Phytologia Balcanica (Sofia) (1310-7771) 13 (2007), 2; 229-238

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
economic botany; flora; Croatia

Sažetak
Despite the long history of plant usage, the economic values of the highly diverse Croatian vascular flora (5516 taxa) were never investigated. For the purpose of a survey of the useful and harmful species, the available information was accumulated in the Flora Croatica Database (FCD) and a new database module for economic botany has been developed. An Economic Botany Standard was adopted on the basis of TDWG conception. The most important references were studied and the data were transferred to the database. The results show that 1144 taxa (17 %) have some usage or other relationships with humans on the national territory. The highest number of useful plants (25 %) is related to medicine, followed by plants used for food (12 %), bee plants (12 %), plants for environmental uses (8 %), plants for materials (8 %), food additives (5 %), plants for social usage (4 %), etc. The vertebrates and non-vertebrates poisons were registered, as well as the plants used as animal food, non-vertebrates food, fuels, etc. Each category of use was further analyzed on 121 sublevels. A total of 128 useful taxa are at the same time threatened plants in their natural localities and poorly covered by the conservation legislation. Full publication of data on the useful plants was ensured by the web interface to FCD and the different queries provided different kind of information.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija

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