Healing Plants of South Asia - Parrotta, John A.
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Healing Plants of South Asia provides an overview of its floristic biodiversity and the traditional plant-based healing practices associated with the region's rich cultural diversity.

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Healing Plants of South Asia provides an overview of its floristic biodiversity and the traditional plant-based healing practices associated with the region's rich cultural diversity.
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John Parrotta, Ph.D., is a forest scientist engaged in research for over 40 years, in Puerto Rico, Brazil, India and other countries worldwide. His areas of interest and expertise include tropical forest ecology, biodiversity conservation, ecology and management of planted forests, forest landscape restoration, forest history, and traditional forest-related knowledge. He is the author of nearly 200 scientific publications, including two books in the fields of traditional forest knowledge and medicinal plants, Healing Plants of Peninsular India (CABI: 2001), and Traditional Forest Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity (Springer: 2012). He holds a B.A. in Biology and B.S. in Chemistry from Merrimack College (in Massachusetts, USA), an M.Sc. in Ecology from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK), and a Ph.D. from Yale University. A career scientist and national research program leader for international science issues with the USDA Forest Service, his current work focuses on the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests worldwide. Dr. Parrotta also serves as the president (2019-2024) of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) in which he has held many leadership positions since 1993, He also serves as an editorial board member for several scientific journals, including Restoration Ecology, Ecosystems and People, and Forest Ecology and Management.