Aportes al componente de conocimientos locales de la flora de Bogotá en el Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis

Abstract

The flora, constitutive element of the ecosystems, represents a challenge for the investigation, regarding the knowledge that is had of it. This challenge is assumed by the Bogotá Botanical Garden (JBB), in its different lines of research. The scientific subdirectorate, through the flora de Bogotá line and reference collections; in the component of local knowledge, it gathers the knowledge of the communities referring to the uses of the plants. They are validated with information of scientific origin, and they make communion this knowledge. This work contributed to the entry of new records of plants with different uses and complementary information that nourish the web space published by this work team. Likewise, the first version of a susceptible document to be published was consolidated, about plants, which, due to their synergies, exercise biocontrol in populations of invertebrates, bacteria and other organisms, that attack plants of productive interest, within an agroecosystem . This information was validated mostly with interviews with informants. Finally, he built a list of pieces of cultural importance, made from plants, that could possibly be acquired to increase the JBB ethnobiological collection. The internship included training spaces, support for day-to-day processes of the research line, administrative processes and socialization inherent in the practices of the students linked to the work team.