Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 6592363, 13 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6592363
Effect of Gender on the Knowledge of Medicinal Plants: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
1Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems (LEA), Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Av. Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s/n, Dois Irmãos, 52171-900 Recife, PE, Brazil
2Ethnobiology and Human Ecology Group, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Rod. BR 104, Km 85, s/n, 57000-100 Rio Largo, AL, Brazil
Received 19 July 2016; Accepted 6 September 2016
Academic Editor: Rainer W. Bussmann
Copyright © 2016 Wendy Torres-Avilez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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