Ausgabe 1/2021
Inhalt (72 Artikel)
Indigenous biosystematics of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: folk taxonomy, ethnolinguistic analysis, and folk descriptors
- Open Access
- Research
Tsegaye Babege Worojie, Bizuayehu Tesfaye Asfaw, Wendawek Abebe Mengesha
Participatory analysis of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) cropping system and production constraints in Burkina Faso
- Open Access
- Research
Boubacar Sinare, Amos Miningou, Baloua Nebié, John Eleblu, Ofori Kwadwo, Appolinaire Traoré, Bertin Zagre, Haile Desmae
Ethnoecology of miriti (Mauritia flexuosa, L.f.) fruit extraction in the Brazilian Amazon: knowledge and practices of riverine peoples contribute to the biodiversity conservation
- Open Access
- Research
Flávio Bezerra Barros, Fagner Freires de Sousa, Josiele Pantoja de Andrade, Fabrício Menezes Ramos, Camila Vieira-da-Silva
What interferes with conducting free lists? A comparative ethnobotanical experiment
- Open Access
- Research
Melise Pessôa Araujo Meireles, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros
Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo
- Open Access
- Research
Kibungu Kembelo Pathy, Nzuki Bakwaye Flavien, Belesi Katula Honoré, Wouter Vanhove, Patrick Van Damme
Wild food plants and fungi sold in the markets of Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
- Open Access
- Research
Łukasz Łuczaj, Vichith Lamxay, Khamphart Tongchan, Kosonh Xayphakatsa, Kongchay Phimmakong, Somphavanh Radavanh, Villapone Kanyasone, Marcin Pietras, Małgorzata Karbarz
Actualized inventory of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Open Access
- Review
Cruz-Pérez Alejandra Lucía, Barrera-Ramos Jacqueline, Bernal-Ramírez Luis Alberto, Bravo-Avilez David, Rendón-Aguilar Beatriz
Correction to: Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo
- Open Access
- Correction
Kibungu Kembelo Pathy, Nzuki Bakwaye Flavien, Belesi Katula Honoré, Wouter Vanhove, Patrick Van Damme
What’s in a name? Revisiting medicinal and religious plants at an Amazonian market
- Open Access
- Research
Isabela Pombo Geertsma, Mariana Françozo, Tinde van Andel, Mireia Alcántara Rodríguez
Traditional knowledge and practice of the Triassic variegated clay from Silesia (Krasiejów), Poland, in human medicine
- Open Access
- Research
Izabela Spielvogel, Krzysztof Spałek, Krzysztof Badora, Jarosław Proćków
Distribution and utilization of homestead windbreak Fukugi (Garcinia subelliptica Merr.) trees: an ethnobotanical approach
- Open Access
- Research
Bixia Chen, Hikaru Akamine
Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine
- Open Access
- Research
N. Stryamets, M. F. Fontefrancesco, G. Mattalia, J. Prakofjewa, A. Pieroni, R. Kalle, G. Stryamets, R. Sõukand
Farmers’ perceptions of navy bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production constraints, preferred traits and farming systems and their implications on bean breeding: a case study from South East Lowveld region of Zimbabwe
- Open Access
- Research
Bruce Mutari, Julia Sibiya, Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Kennedy Simango, Edmore Gasura
An ethnopharmacological survey and comparative analysis of plants from the Sudhnoti District, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan
- Open Access
- Research
Muhammad Faraz Khan, Zia-ur-Rahman Mashwani, Ansar Mehmood, Rehmatullah Qureshi, Rizwan Sarwar, Khawaja Shafique Ahmad, Cassandra L. Quave
Traditional food taboos and practices during pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and infant care of Zulu women in northern KwaZulu-Natal
- Open Access
- Research
Mmbulaheni Ramulondi, Helene de Wet, Nontuthuko Rosemary Ntuli
Use, perception, and local management of Copernicia prunifera (Miller) H. E. Moore in rural communities in the Brazilian Savanna
- Open Access
- Research
José Afonso Santana de Almeilda, Nágila Alves Feitosa, Leilane de Carvalho e Sousa, Raimundo Nonato Oliveira Silva, Rodrigo Ferreira de Morais, Júlio Marcelino Monteiro, José Ribamar de Sousa Júnior
Entomotherapy: a study of medicinal insects of seven ethnic groups in Nagaland, North-East India
- Open Access
- Research
Lobeno Mozhui, L. N. Kakati, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow
Ethnozoological and commercial drivers of the pangolin trade in Benin
- Open Access
- Research
Stanislas Zanvo, Sylvestre C. A. M. Djagoun, Fortuné A. Azihou, Bruno Djossa, Brice Sinsin, Philippe Gaubert
Ethnobotanical study on herbal market at the Dragon Boat Festival of Chuanqing people in China
- Open Access
- Research
Qinghe Wang, Ling Zhao, Chi Gao, Jiawen Zhao, Zixuan Ren, Yuxiang Shen, Ruyu Yao, Hongxiang Yin
Homegarden agroecosystems managed by Salar people on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
- Open Access
- Research
Mingjing Zhu, Binsheng Luo, Ben La, Ruijie Chen, Fenggui Liu, Chunlin Long
Ethnobotanical biocultural diversity by rural communities in the Cuatrociénegas Valley, Coahuila; Mexico
- Open Access
- Research
Eduardo Estrada-Castillón, José Ángel Villarreal-Quintanilla, Juan Antonio Encina-Domínguez, Enrique Jurado-Ybarra, Luis Gerardo Cuéllar-Rodríguez, Patricio Garza-Zambrano, José Ramón Arévalo-Sierra, César Martín Cantú-Ayala, Wibke Himmelsbach, María Magdalena Salinas-Rodríguez, Tania Vianney Gutiérrez-Santillán
Exploring the historical distribution of Dracaena cinnabari using ethnobotanical knowledge on Socotra Island, Yemen
- Open Access
- Research
Abdulraqeb Al-Okaishi
Assessment of biodiversity goods for the sustainable development of the chagra in an indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon: local values of crops
- Open Access
- Research
Giovanny Garavito, Rafael Clavijo, Pilar Luengas, Pablo Palacios, María Helena Arias
Traditional food plants of the upper Aswa River catchment of northern Uganda—a cultural crossroads
- Open Access
- Research
Eliot T. Masters
Quality blues: traditional knowledge used for natural indigo identification in southern China
- Open Access
- Research
Yuru Shi, Libin Zhang, Lu Wang, Shan Li, Zuchuan Qiu, Xiaoyong Ding, Yuhua Wang
The use of medicinal plants to prevent COVID-19 in Nepal
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Research
Dipak Khadka, Man Kumar Dhamala, Feifei Li, Prakash Chandra Aryal, Pappu Rana Magar, Sijar Bhatta, Manju Shree Thakur, Anup Basnet, Dafang Cui, Shi Shi
Farmer preferred traits and genotype choices in Solanum aethiopicum L., Shum group
- Open Access
- Research
Brenda Nakyewa, Godfrey Sseremba, Nahamya Pamela Kabod, Moses Rwothtimutung, Tadeo Kyebalyenda, Kenneth Waholi, Ruth Buteme, Mildred Julian Nakanwangi, Gerard Bishop, Elizabeth Balyejusa Kizito
Breaking the paradigms of residual categories and neglectable importance of non-used resources: the “vital” traditional knowledge of non-edible mushrooms and their substantive cultural significance
- Open Access
- Research
Amaranta Ramírez-Terrazo, E. Adriana Montoya, Roberto Garibay-Orijel, Javier Caballero-Nieto, Alejandro Kong-Luz, Claudia Méndez-Espinoza
Fungal ethnoecology: observed habitat preferences and the perception of changes in fungal abundance by mushroom collectors in Poland
- Open Access
- Research
Marcin Andrzej Kotowski, Zsolt Molnár, Łukasz Łuczaj
Contested or complementary healing paradigms? Women’s narratives of COVID-19 remedies in Mwanza, Tanzania
- Open Access
- COVID-19
- Research
Gerry Mshana, Zaina Mchome, Diana Aloyce, Esther Peter, Saidi Kapiga, Heidi Stöckl
Ethnobotany of the medicinal plants used by the ethnic communities of Kerman province, Southeast Iran
- Open Access
- Research
Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini, Hossein Bibak, Abdollah Ramzani Ghara, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Abolfaz Shakeri
Ethnobiological study on traditional medicinal plants and fungi recorded in the Naxi Dongba sutras
- Open Access
- Research
Haitao Li, Zhiyong Li, Xiaobo Zhang, Shaohua Yang, Cui Chen, Qingning Yang, Chengfeng He, Jianqin Liu, Jingyuan Song
Nahua biocultural richness: an ethnoherpetological perspective
- Open Access
- Research
Miriam Itzel Linares-Rosas, Benigno Gómez, Elda Miriam Aldasoro-Maya, Alejandro Casas
The role of schools as an opportunity for transmission of local knowledge about useful Restinga plants: experiences in southeastern Brazil
- Open Access
- Research
Nicky van Luijk, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Viviane Stern da Fonseca-Kruel
What are the factors influencing the aversion of students towards reptiles?
- Open Access
- Research
Moacyr Xavier Gomes da Silva, Franciany Braga-Pereira, Mikaela Clotilde da Silva, José Valberto de Oliveira, Sérgio de Faria Lopes, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves
A historical and ethnobotanical study on local botanical knowledge recorded in the book “Mongolia and Amdo and the Dead City of Khara-Khoto”
- Open Access
- Research
Guixi Liu, Wurheng, Yanying Zhang, Shirong Guo, Yongmei, Khasbagan
Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)
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- Research
Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Karina Ferreira Figueiredo, Paulo Henrique Santos Gonçalves, Roberta de Almeida Caetano, Élida Monique da Costa Santos, Gabriela Maria Cota dos Santos, Déborah Monteiro Barbosa, Marcelo de Paula, Ana Maria Mapeli
Notes on current Mbyá-Guarani medicinal plant exchanges in southern Brazil
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- Research
Julian Henrique Carlotto de Andrade, José Rodrigues, André Benites, Cornélio Benites, Arlindo Acosta, Marcelina Benites, Cocelina Benites, Ilda Gomes, Jaime Valdir da Silva, Eunice Antunes, Elisete Antunes, José Martins, Daniel Martins Timóteo, Santiago Franco, José Cirilo Pires Morinico, Fernanda Ribeiro da Silva, Natalia Hanazaki
On pickles: biological and sociocultural links between fermented foods and the human gut microbiome
- Open Access
- Research
Andrew Flachs, Joseph D. Orkin
Collection calendar: the diversity and local knowledge of wild edible plants used by Chenthang Sherpa people to treat seasonal food shortages in Tibet, China
- Open Access
- Research
Xiao-Yong Ding, Yu Zhang, Lu Wang, Hui-Fu Zhuang, Wen-Yun Chen, Yu-Hua Wang
Comparative analysis of management practices and end-users’ desired breeding traits in the miracle plant [Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach & Thonn.) Daniell] across ecological zones and sociolinguistic groups in West Africa
- Open Access
- Research
Dèdéou A. Tchokponhoué, Enoch G. Achigan-Dako, Sognigbé N’Danikou, Daniel Nyadanu, Rémi Kahane, Alfred O. Odindo, Julia Sibiya
Ichthyological ethnoknowledge of the “piabeiros” from the Amazon region, Brazil
- Open Access
- Research
Daniel da Silva Ladislau, Maiko Willas Soares Ribeiro, Philip Dalbert da Silva Castro, Jackson Pantoja-Lima, Paulo Henrique Rocha Aride, Adriano Teixeira de Oliveira
Ethnozoology among the Berbers: pre-Islamic practices survive in the Rif (northwestern Africa)
- Open Access
- Research
Aymane Budjaj, Guillermo Benítez, Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos
Ethnobotany of an indigenous tree Piliostigma thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redh. (Fabaceae) in the arid and semi-arid areas of South Omo Zone, southern Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Mesfin Belete Hailemariam, Zerihun Woldu, Zemede Asfaw, Ermias Lulekal
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding vector-borne diseases in central Mexico
- Open Access
- Research
Joel E. Nava-Doctor, César A. Sandoval-Ruiz, Antonio Fernández-Crispín
Wild plants used by the Lhoba people in Douyu Village, characterized by high mountains and valleys, in southeastern Tibet, China
- Open Access
- Research
Wen-Yun Chen, Tao Yang, Jun Yang, Zhu-Chuan Qiu, Xiao-Yong Ding, Yu-Hua Wang, Yue-Hu Wang
Ethnobotany of the Aegadian Islands: safeguarding biocultural refugia in the Mediterranean
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- Research
Alfonso La Rosa, Laura Cornara, Alessandro Saitta, Akram M. Salam, Santo Grammatico, Marco Caputo, Tommaso La Mantia, Cassandra L. Quave
How does urbanization affect perceptions and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants?
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- Research
Cecilia Arjona-García, José Blancas, Leonardo Beltrán-Rodríguez, Citlalli López Binnqüist, Hortensia Colín Bahena, Ana Isabel Moreno-Calles, José Antonio Sierra-Huelsz, Xavier López-Medellín
Wild edible plants traditionally collected and used in southern Yemen
- Open Access
- Research
Mohamed Al-Fatimi
Indigenous plant protection practices of Tripura, India
- Open Access
- Research
Satyapriya Singh, Biswajit Das, Anup Das, Sujan Majumder, Hidangmayum Lembisana Devi, Ranjeet Singh Godara, Alok Kumar Sahoo, Manas Ranjan Sahoo
Prioritization and selection of high fuelwood producing plant species at Boset District, Central Ethiopia: an ethnobotanical approach
- Open Access
- Research
Tinsae Bahru, Berhane Kidane, Amsalu Tolessa
Uses, abundance perception, and potential geographical distribution of Smilax aristolochiifolia Mill (SMILACACEAE) on the Totonacapan Region of Puebla, Mexico
- Open Access
- Research
José Espinoza-Pérez, César Reyes, Jesús Hernández-Ruíz, Maximino Díaz-Bautista, Francisco Ramos-López, Abel Espinoza-Gómez, Oscar Pérez-García
Local plant knowledge and its variation among farmer’s families in the Napf region, Switzerland
- Open Access
- Research
Anna Poncet, Christoph Schunko, Christian R. Vogl, Caroline S. Weckerle
In situ conservation of traditional vegetable diversity in Wa homegardens in southwestern Yunnan, China
- Open Access
- Research
Hua Shao, Rosemary Hill, Dayuan Xue, Jingbiao Yang
Exploration of ethnomedicinal plants and their practices in human and livestock healthcare in Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Open Access
- Research
Zeeshan Siddique, Nasir Shad, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Abid Naeem, Liu Yali, Muhammad Hasnain, Arshad Mahmood, Muhammad Sajid, Muhammad Idrees, Ilyas Khan
Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia)
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- Research
Zsolt Molnár, Klára Szabados, Alen Kiš, Jelena Marinkov, László Demeter, Marianna Biró, Kinga Öllerer, Krisztián Katona, Marko Đapić, Ranko Perić, Viktor Ulicsni, Dániel Babai
The Primate Cultural Significance Index: applications with Popoluca Indigenous people at Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve
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- Research
Marianna Pinto-Marroquin, John F. Aristizabal, Yasminda García-Del Valle, Felipe Ruan-Soto, Juan Carlos Serio-Silva
Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants on Gau Island, Fiji: differences between sixteen villages with unique characteristics of cultural value
- Open Access
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Kana Miyamoto, Hiroshi Ehara, Randolph Thaman, Joeli Veitayaki, Takehito Yoshida, Hikaru Kobayashi
Selection of medicinal plants for traditional medicines in Nepal
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- Research
Durga H. Kutal, Ripu M. Kunwar, Yadav Uprety, Yagya P. Adhikari, Shandesh Bhattarai, Binaya Adhikari, Laxmi M. Kunwar, Man D. Bhatt, Rainer W. Bussmann
The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname
- Open Access
- Research
Melissa Ramdayal, Harro Maat, Tinde van Andel
Cultural significance of medicinal plants in healing human ailments among Guji semi-pastoralist people, Suro Barguda District, Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Mersha Ashagre Eshete, Ermias Lulekal Molla
Zootherapeutic uses of animals excreta: the case of elephant dung and urine use in Sayaboury province, Laos
- Open Access
- Research
Jean-Marc Dubost, Phommachack Kongchack, Eric Deharo, Palamy Sysay, Chithdavone Her, Lamxay Vichith, Duffillot Sébastien, Sabrina Krief
Known but not called by name: recreational fishers’ ecological knowledge of freshwater plants in Hungary
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Viktor Löki, Jenő Nagy, András Nagy, Dániel Babai, Zsolt Molnár, Balázs András Lukács
Correction to: Selection of medicinal plants for traditional medicines in Nepal
- Open Access
- Correction
Durga H. Kutal, Ripu M. Kunwar, Yadav Uprety, Yagya P. Adhikari, Shandesh Bhattarai, Binaya Adhikari, Laxmi M. Kunwar, Man D. Bhatt, Rainer W. Bussmann
Shifting perceptions, preferences and practices in the African fruit trade: the case of African plum (Dacryodes edulis) in different cultural and urbanization contexts in Cameroon
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- Research
Aurore Rimlinger, Jérôme Duminil, Taïna Lemoine, Marie-Louise Avana, Armel Chakocha, Alexis Gakwavu, Franca Mboujda, Mélanie Tsogo, Marlène Elias, Stéphanie M. Carrière
The loneliness of the long-distance ethnobotanist: a constructive critique of methods used in an ethnoveterinary study in Mongolia
- Open Access
- Research
Barbara C. Seele, Léanne Dreyer, Karen J. Esler, Anthony B. Cunningham
Herbal plants traded at the Kaili medicinal market, Guizhou, China
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- Research
Sizhao Liu, Beixi Zhang, Jiangju Zhou, Qiyi Lei, Qiong Fang, Edward J. Kennelly, Chunlin Long
In search of traces of the mandrake myth: the historical, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names
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Amots Dafni, Cesar Blanché, Salekh Aqil Khatib, Theodora Petanidou, Bedrettin Aytaç, Ettore Pacini, Ekaterina Kozuharova, Aharon Geva-Kleinberger, Soli Shahvar, Zora Dajic, Helmut W. Klug, Guillermo Benítez
Species perceived to be dangerous are more likely to have distinctive local names
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Harith Farooq, Cláudio Bero, Yolanda Guilengue, Clementina Elias, Yasalde Massingue, Ivo Mucopote, Cristóvão Nanvonamuquitxo, Johan Marais, Alexandre Antonelli, Søren Faurby
Temporal assessment of the medicinal plants trade in public markets of the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil
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- Research
Ezequiel da Costa Ferreira, Reinado Farias Paiva de Lucena, Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana, Denise Dias da Cruz
Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Adwa District, Central Zone of Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia
- Open Access
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Muhidin Tahir, Letebrhan Gebremichael, Tadesse Beyene, Patrick Van Damme
Unity in diversity—food plants and fungi of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus
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Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, Inayat Ur Rahman, Zaal Kikvidze, Shalva Sikharulidze, David Kikodze, David Tchelidze, Manana Khutsishvili, Ketevan Batsatsashvili
