Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030993566)

Alejandro Casas is a Mexican researcher, graduated in biological sciences at the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, Mexico and doctorated in Plant Sciences at the University of Reading, UK. Since 1997 he is full-time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, UNAM. He has conducted research in the following Fields: (1) ecology, culture and evolution of biodiversity under processes of domestication, (2) management of ecosystems and landscape domestication (3) ecology for the sustainable management of biotic resources and ecosystems, (4) in situ management of genetic resources, and (5) ethnoecology and biocultural heritage.

José Blancas is a Mexican researcher, graduated in biological sciences at the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, Mexico and doctorated in the Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, UNAM. Since 2015 he is full-time researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, in the city of Cuernavaca. He has conducted research in the following fields: (1) ethnobotany, (2) management strategies of wild plant resources by traditional human communities, (3) ecological consequences of plant management, and (4) non-timber forest products.