Availability, diversification and versatility explain human selection of introduced plants in Ecuadorian traditional medicine

• G. Hart ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gmhart@hawaii.edu

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4589-2204

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• Orou G. Gaoue,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Botany, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, United States of America, Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, APK Campus, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Lucía de la Torre,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Hugo Navarrete,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Priscilla Muriel,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Manuel J. Macía,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Área de Bótanica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Henrik Balslev,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut for Bioscience, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Susana León-Yánez,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Peter Jørgensen,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• David Cameron Duffy

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Botany, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, United States of America, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, United States of America

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