PAMP-tracheo: Vascular plants with pharmaceutical use in Navarra (Spain). PhD project, S. Akerreta

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Ibáñez R, Imas M, Cavero R Y, Akerreta S (2017): PAMP-tracheo: Vascular plants with pharmaceutical use in Navarra (Spain). PhD project, S. Akerreta. v2.3. University of Navarra – Department of Environmental Biology. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15470/pycn5t

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a33055a3-5e03-4ad9-8447-bc92c967a27b.  University of Navarra – Department of Environmental Biology publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; ethnobotany; flora; herbarium; medicinal plants; Navarra; northern Spain; Tracheophyta

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Navarra province (N Spain) was selected to perform this PhD project. Navarra (Comunidad Foral de Navarra) is a region located in the North of Spain, at the western end of the Pyrenees, covering about 10 391 km2. It is bordered to the north by France, to the west by the Basque Autonomous Community, to the southwest by La Rioja and to the east and southeast by Aragón. Country: Spain. Province: Navarra (N Spain).

Taxonomic Coverage

Out of a total of 1083 specimens, 1041 were identified to species or subspecies level. They belong to 252 species or subspecies and 72 families of vascular plants.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

An ethnobotanical analysis has been carried out in Navarra, focused on the medicinal use of plants. The field work has been done through semi-structured interviews, realized to 667 informants of 265 localities. 3.770 medicinal applications have been collected, referring to 287 taxa. The most relevant families are Compositae, Labiate and Rosaceae, and the taxa Santolina chamaecyparissus subsp. squarrosa, Chamaemelum nobile and Urtica dioica. The most used parts of the plants are the aerial, inflorescence and leaf, and to a great extent, the uses make reference to digestive and dermatological affections.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Samples were collected between the years 2003 and 2007 throughout the territory.

Method step description:

1. Plant collection. Plant vouchers were mostly collected in collaboration with the informants. In some cases, plants were previously collected by the informants.
2. Identification to species or subspecies level. Identification was performed between 2003 and 2009 by S. Akerreta and R.Y. Cavero using Flora europaea (Tutin et al. 1964-1980), Flora iberica (Castroviejo et al. 1986-2015) and Flora del País Vasco y territorios limítrofes (Aizpuru et al. 1999).
3. Plant conservation. Specimens were dried and pressed for conservation using standard protocols. Vouchers were deposited in the herbarium of the University of Navarra.
4. Numbering and digitization of vouchers. From 2012 to date, each specimen was labelled, with a unique collection number, and digitized, using HERBAR software (v3.7.1 Pando et al. 1994-2010).
5. Nomenclature was updated using Flora iberica (Castroviejo 1986-2015).
6. Names of municipalities, localities and place names were updated according to Toponimia Oficial de Navarra (http://toponimianavarra.tracasa.es/).
7. Localities were georeferenced using x- and y- UTM coordinates. Uncertainty was also assigned.
8. Coordinates, characters and format of dates were checked for possible mistakes using Darwin test software (v3.3, Ortega-Maqueda & Pando 2008). This software also allowed the data to fulfil the Darwin Core Standard (Wieczorek et al. 2012).
9. Metadata were documented and the dataset was published in the GBIF data portal using the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT v2.3.5) of GBIF.es (http://ipt.gbif.es/).

Collection Data

Bibliographic Citations

1. Akerreta S (2009): Etnobotánica farmacéutica en Navarra: del uso tradicional de las plantas medicinales a su evidencia científica. PhD thesis. University of Navarra.
2. Akerreta S, Cavero RY, Calvo MI (2007): First comprehensive contribution to medical ethnobotany of Western Pyrenees. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3: 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-3-26
3. Cavero RY, Akerreta S, Calvo MI (2011): Pharmaceutical ethnobotany in Northern Navarra (Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Ethnopharmacology 133: 138-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2010.09.019
4. Aizpuru I, Aseginolaza C, Uribe-Echebarría PM, Urrutia P, Zorrakin I (1999) Claves ilustradas de la Flora del País Vasco y Territorios Limítrofes. Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
5. Castroviejo S (coord.) (1986–2015): Flora iberica. Plantas vasculares de la Península Ibérica y Baleares. Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC), Madrid. http://www.floraiberica.es/index.php
6. Ortega-Maqueda I, Pando F (2008): DARWIN TEST (3.3): Una aplicación para la validación y el chequeo de los datos en formato Darwin Core 1.2, Darwin Core 1.4 o Darwin Core Archive. Unidad de Coordinación de GBIF.ES, CSIC, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, España. http://www.gbif.es/Darwin_test/Darwin_test.php
7. Pando F et al. (1994–2010): HERBAR (3.7): Una aplicación de bases de datos para gestión de herbarios. Unidad de Coordinación de GBIF.ES, CSIC, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, España. http://www.gbif.es/herbar/herbar.php
8. Tutin TG, Heywood VH, Burges NA, Moore DM,Valentine DH, Walters SM & Webb DA (eds.) (1964-1980): Flora Europaea, Vols. 1-5, Cambridge UniversityPress, Cambridge.
9. Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D (2012): Darwin Core: An evolving community-developed biodiversity data standard. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029715

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