Biogeographical Relationships and Diversity in the Peruvian Flora Reported by Hipolito Ruiz and Jose Pavon: Vegetation, Uses and Anthropology.

ABSTRACT: The Royal Spanish Botanical Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru in the 18th century was one of the most important European expeditions to American territories. Using the herbarium sheets of Ruiz and Pavón (Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid) and their edited works, manuscripts and expedition diaries, we have constructed a database of the collected and observed flora, which has served as the basis for a map containing all of the Peruvian localities of the expedition. Based on the method of bioclimatic belts and our own observations, we have deduced to which type of vegetation the flora studied in the expedition belongs. The uses of the flora per locality were studied, as well as the ethnic groups involved in the different localities. By using a Principal Component Analysis, we have obtained

SUBMITTER: Arias-Gamez JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9953382 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature