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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Ausgabe 1/2024

Inhalt (108 Artikel)

Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the indigenous community of the western region of Mizoram, India

  • Open Access
  • Research

Laldinfeli Ralte, Hmingremhlua Sailo, Y. Tunginba Singh

Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plants in Melit area (North Darfur), Western Sudan

  • Open Access
  • Research

Mohammed Almustafa Yosif Mohammed Muhakr, Ikram Madani Ahmed, Gihan Omer Mohamed El hassan, Sakina Yagi

Ethnobotanical study of traditional medicinal plants used by the local people in Habru District, North Wollo Zone, Ethiopia

  • Open Access
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Mulugeta Alemu, Zemede Asfaw, Ermias Lulekal, Bikila Warkineh, Asfaw Debella, Bihonegn Sisay, Eyob Debebe

Integrating depth and rigor in ethnobiological and ethnomedical research

  • Open Access
  • Debate

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Romulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves

Ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal research into medicinal plants in the Mt Stara Planina region (south-eastern Serbia, Western Balkans)

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  • Research

Snežana Jarić, Olga Kostić, Zorana Miletić, Milica Marković, Dimitrije Sekulić, Miroslava Mitrović, Pavle Pavlović

Haitian women in New York City use global food plants for women’s health

  • Open Access
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Ella T. Vardeman, Edward J. Kennelly, Ina Vandebroek

Study on medicinal food plants in the Gaoligongshan Biosphere Reserve, the richest biocultural diversity center in China

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Zhuo Cheng, Shuyan Lin, Ziyi Wu, Chen Lin, Qing Zhang, Congli Xu, Jiahua Li, Chunlin Long

The quest for Homer’s moly: exploring the potential of an early ethnobotanical complex

  • Open Access
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Rafael Molina-Venegas, Rodrigo Verano

Yams (Dioscorea spp.) in shellmounds and swiddens: ancient history in Babitonga Bay, Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil

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Dalzemira Anselmo da Silva Souza, Dione Rocha da Bandeira, Nivaldo Peroni

How do plant demographic and ecological traits combined with social dynamics and human traits affect woody plant selection for medicinal uses in Benin (West Africa)?

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Carlos Cédric Ahoyo, Thierry Dèhouegnon Houéhanou, Alain Sèakpo Yaoitcha, Bénédicte Perpétue Akpi, Armand Natta, Marcel Romuald Benjamin Houinato

The perception of fungi among Karajá indigenous children and adolescents from Brazil

  • Open Access
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Mazulkieliche Jeronimo dos Reis, Lucas Leonardo-Silva, Solange Xavier-Santos

Ethnobotanical study on ritual plants used by Hani people in Yunnan, China

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Xueyu Ma, Dan Luo, Yong Xiong, Caiwen Huang, Ganpeng Li

Advancing ethnobiology for the ecological transition and a more inclusive and just world: a comprehensive framework for the next 20 years

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Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Alfred Maroyi, Ana H. Ladio, Andrea Pieroni, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Bárbara Arias Toledo, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Gustavo Hallwass, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Guillaume Odonne, Ina Vandebroek, Joan Vallès, Julio Alberto Hurrell, Manuel Pardo de Santayana, María de los Ángeles La Torre-Cuadros, María Teresa Pulido Silva, Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob, Viviane Stern da Fonseca-Kruel, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior

Correction: The local medicinal plant knowledge in Kashmir Western Himalaya: a way to foster ecological transition via community-centred health seeking strategies

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  • Correction

Muhammad Manzoor, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Syed Waseem Gillani, Hamayun Shaheen, Andrea Pieroni, Abdullah Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, Mohamed Soliman Elshikh, Saddam Saqib, Trobjon Makhkamov, Khislat Khaydarov

Plant use and perceptions in the context of sexual health among people of Congolese descent in Belgium

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Laura Van Damme, Lars Chatrou, Eduardo de la Peña, Pathy Kibungu, Césarine Sinatu Bolya, Patrick Van Damme, Wouter Vanhove, Melissa Ceuterick, Emiel De Meyer

Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants and their utilization by the people of Soro District, Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia

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Mulatu Hankiso, Zemede Asfaw, Bikila Warkineh, Abiy Abebe, Bihonegn Sisay, Asfaw Debella

Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Yi people in Mile, Yunnan, China

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Hongrui Li, Caiwen Huang, Yanhong Li, Pujing Wang, Jingxian Sun, Zizhen Bi, Shisheng Xia, Yong Xiong, Xishan Bai, Xiangzhong Huang

The influence of exotic and native plants on illnesses with physical and spiritual causes in the semiarid region of Piauí, Northeast of Brazil

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Paulo Henrique da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Sofia Zank, André Luiz Borba do Nascimento, Maria Carolina de Abreu

Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900

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Patrick Hällzon, Zulhayat Ötkür, Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg

Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Dibatie district, Metekel zone, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State, western Ethiopia

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Baressa Anbessa, Ermias Lulekal, Paulos Getachew, Ariaya Hymete

Ethnobotanical study of traditional medicinal plants used by the local Gamo people in Boreda Abaya District, Gamo Zone, southern Ethiopia

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Juhar Zemede, Tegenu Mekuria, Clintone Onyango Ochieng, Guy Eric Onjalalaina, Guang-Wan Hu

Influence of socio-demographic factors on medicinal plant knowledge among three selected ethnic groups in south-central Ethiopia

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Sintayehu Tamene, Mesele Negash, Fortunatus Bulabo Makonda, Linley Chiwona-Karltun

Cultural attitudes and human pressure towards vultures around the Comoé National Park, Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa)

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Asso Armel Asso, N’golo Abdoulaye Koné, Volker Salewski

Traditional knowledge of animal-derived medicines used by Gelao community in Northern Guizhou, China

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Xiaoqi Liu, Shuo Li, Yi Feng, Xingxing Chen, Yuhan Ma, Hai Xiao, Yongxia Zhao, Sha Liu, Guishen Zheng, Xiujuan Yang, Faming Wu, Jian Xie

Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants and their utilization by indigenous and local communities of Dugda District, Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia

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Bula Kere Oda, Ermias Lulekal, Bikila Warkineh, Zemede Asfaw, Asfaw Debella

Saving the local tradition: ethnobotanical survey on the use of plants in Bologna district (Italy)

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Ilaria Chiocchio, Lorenzo Marincich, Manuela Mandrone, Simona Trincia, Clarissa Tarozzi, Ferruccio Poli

Harmony in nature: understanding the cultural and ecological aspects of plant use in Ladakh

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Kunzes Angmo, Bhupendra S. Adhikari, Rainer W. Bussmann, Gopal S. Rawat

Different divergence processes of isoglosses of folk nomenclature between wild trees and rice landraces imply the need for different conservation planning based on the type of plant resources

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Yoshinori Tokuoka, Mincheol Seo, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Fukuhiro Yamasaki, Kenichiro Kimura, Kenji Takashima, Kiyokazu Hashigoe, Hiromitsu Matsui, Mitsunori Oka

Ethnopharmacology of five flowers herbal tea, a popular traditional beverage in Hong Kong and South China

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Kwun-Tin Chan, Hoi-Yan Wu, Wing-Yee Tin, Paul Pui-Hay But, Sidney Chin-Hung Cheung, Pang-Chui Shaw

Local knowledge of homegarden plants in Miao ethnic communities in Laershan region, Xiangxi area, China

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Jin Luo, Qiang Li, Jianwu He, Jin Yan, Shujie Zhang, Xuepei Chang, Tao Wu

Variation in traditional knowledge of culturally important macromycete species among three indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico

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Alexanders López-García, Marko Gómez-Hernández, Etelvina Gándara

A review of the melliferous flora of Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, on the basis for the honey production cycle

  • Open Access
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Donají Zúñiga-Díaz, William Cetzal-Ix, Héctor López-Castilla, Eliana Noguera-Savelli, Iván Tamayo-Cen, Jesús Froylán Martínez-Puc, Saikat Kumar Basu

Ethno-medicinal uses and cultural importance of stingless bees and their hive products in several ethnic communities of Bhutan

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Thubten Gyeltshen, Chet P. Bhatta, Tulsi Gurung, Pelden Dorji, Jigme Tenzin

Plant cultural indicators of forest resources from the Himalayan high mountains: implications for improving agricultural resilience, subsistence, and forest restoration

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Shiekh Marifatul Haq, Aadil Abdullah Khoja, Muhammad Waheed, Andrea Pieroni, Manzer H. Siddiqui, Rainer W. Bussmann

Ethnobotanical studies on rice landraces under on-farm conservation in Xishuangbanna of Yunnan Province, China

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Fei Wang, Tao Sun, Shuai Yu, Chunhui Liu, Zhuo Cheng, Jianxin Xia, Longzhi Han

Unravelling taboos and cultural beliefs associated with hidden hunger among pregnant and breast-feeding women in Buyende district Eastern Uganda

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Patience Tugume, Abubakar Sadik Mustafa, Abdul Walusansa, Samuel Ojelel, Evelyne B. Nyachwo, Emmanuel Muhumuza, Maria Nampeera, Fredrick Kabbale, Jamilu.E. Ssenku

Knowledge and practices of traditional management of child malnutrition and associated pathologies in Benin

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Ahamidé Carel Sosthène Vissoh, Jean Robert Klotoé, Lauris Fah, Eric Agbodjento, Hornel Koudokpon, Eskyl Togbe, Souad Saïdou, Victorien Dougnon

Study of medicinal plants used in ethnoveterinary medical system in riverine areas of Punjab, Pakistan

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Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Altaf, Taswar Ahsan, Rainer W. Bussmann, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Mansour K. Gatasheh, Mohamed Elrobh

Correction: 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

Ethnobotanical insights into the traditional food plants of the Baiku Yao community: a study of cultural significance, utilization, and conservation

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Binsheng Luo, Yuanming Tong, Yujing Liu, Ying Zhang, Yixin Qin, Renchuan Hu

The global relevance of locally grounded ethnobiology

  • Open Access
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Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Irene Teixidor-Toneu, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Julián Caviedes, José Tomás Ibarra, Dana Lepofsky, Alex C. McAlvay, Zsolt Molnár, R. Mónica Moraes, Guillaume Odonne, Melissa R. Poe, Abolfazl Sharifian Bahraman, Nancy J. Turner

An ethnobotanical survey on the medicinal and edible plants used by the Daur people in China

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Yaqiong Bi, Feng Gao, Jingxia Guo, Xia Yao, Aixiang Wang, Haolin Liu, Yahong Sun, Ruyu Yao, Minhui Li

Correction: Ethno-medicinal uses and cultural importance of stingless bees and their hive products in several ethnic communities of Bhutan

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Thubten Gyeltshen, Chet P. Bhatta, Tulsi Gurung, Pelden Dorji, Jigme Tenzin

Wild edible vegetables of ethnic communities of Mizoram (Northeast India): an ethnobotanical study in thrust of marketing potential

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Rosie Lalmuanpuii, Betsy Zodinpuii, Beirachhitha Bohia, Zothanpuia, J. Lalbiaknunga, Prashant Kumar Singh

Harvesting nature's bounty: exploring the ethnobotanical landscape of wild edible plants in the Awi Agäw community, Northwestern Ethiopia

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Amare Fassil, Ethiopia Mazengia, Bekele Gebreamanuel, Yitayih Dessie, Bulti Kumera, Belsti Atnkut, Destaw Mullualem, Alemu Tsega, Patrick Van Damme

Exploring the ethnobiological practices of fire in three natural regions of Ecuador, through the integration of traditional knowledge and scientific approaches

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Vinicio Carrión-Paladines, Liliana Correa-Quezada, Huayra Valdiviezo Malo, Jonathan Zurita Ruáles, Allison Pereddo Tumbaco, Marcos Zambrano Pisco, Nataly Lucio Panchi, Leticia Jiménez Álvarez, Ángel Benítez, Julia Loján-Córdova

Does commercialization lead to more intensive management strategies? Decision-making for the utilization of non-timber forest products in a Nahua area of the Sierra Negra, Mexico

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Myriam A. Miranda-Gamboa, Andrea Martínez-Ballesté, Martin Ricker, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas

Standard medical ethnobotany of Kohistan, North Pakistan

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Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Ajmal Khan Manduzai, Andrea Pieroni, Jawaher Alkahtani, Mohamed Ragab AbdelGawwad, Yusufjon Gafforov, Abdul Nazeer, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

Knowledge in motion: temporal dynamics of wild food plant use in the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian border region

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Julia Prakofjewa, Matteo Sartori, Povilas Šarka, Raivo Kalle, Andrea Pieroni, Renata Sõukand

Foraging for the future: traditional culinary uses of wild plants in the Western Himalayas–Kashmir Valley (India)

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Musheerul Hassan, Tawseef Ahmad Mir, Muatasim Jan, Muhammad Shoaib Amjad, Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Andrea Pieroni, Ivana Vitasović-Kosić, Rainer W. Bussmann

Peasant perception of beekeeping constraints and practices in large honey production areas in Burkina Faso

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Oswald Gilbert Dingtoumda, Marcellin Yamkoulga, Souhaïbou Sawadogo, Koï Wenceslas Kam, Zakaria Ilboudo

Gathering, agriculture, and exchange: an ethnoecological approach to the study of food patterns and feedstuff sources in communities of the Central Andes, Peru

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Marggiori Pancorbo-Olivera, Fabiola Parra-Rondinel, Juan Torres-Guevara, Aldo Cruz-Soriano, Alejandro Casas

Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Arsi Robe district of East Arsi Zone, Ethiopia

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Sisay Biri, Bereket Ayenew, Getu Dida, Ayalew Sebsibe, Fekadu Gurmessa, Bizuneh Woldeab, Gashaw Awlachew, Zewdie Kassa, Moa Megersa

Ethnobotanical insights on the management of plant pests and diseases by smallholder farmers in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa

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Kutullo N. Shai, Simeon A. Materechera, Stephen O. Amoo, Adeyemi O. Aremu

Ethnozoological study of medicinal animals used by the inhabitants of the Kucha District, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

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Meselech Mengistu, Mulugeta Kebebew, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow

Farmers’ knowledge in the Swiss canton Valais: cultural heritage with future significance for European veterinary medicine?

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Laura Arcangela Holzner, Matthias Hamburger, Maja Dal Cero , Ariane Maeschli, Christian R. Vogl, Beat Meier, Michael Walkenhorst, Theresa Schlittenlacher

Beyond the border: comparative ethnobotany in Valmalenco (SO, Italy) and Valposchiavo (Canton of Grisons, Switzerland)

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Fabrizia Milani, Martina Bottoni, Lorenzo Colombo, Paola Sira Colombo, Piero Bruschi, Claudia Giuliani, Gelsomina Fico

Do socioeconomic factors and local human preference determine the hybridization of knowledge in local medical systems?

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Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Washington Soares Ferreira-Júnior, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Luci de Senna Valle

The nexus between ecology of foraging and food security: cross-cultural perceptions of wild food plants in Kashmir Himalaya

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Syed Waseem Gillani, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Manzoor, Muhammad Waheed, Zafar Iqbal, Riaz Ullah, Andrea Pieroni, Lixin Zhang, Naji Sulaiman, Mousaab Alrhmoun

Socioeconomic benefits associated with bats

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Siya Aggrey, Innocent B. Rwego, Eric Sande, Joyce D. Khayiyi, Robert M. Kityo, Charles Masembe, Rebekah C. Kading

Faith healing: the threat of "Surucucu" and the local cure of Amazon floodplain dwellers

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Beatriz Nunes Cosendey, Juarez Carlos Brito Pezzuti

Conservation of wild food plants from wood uses: evidence supporting the protection hypothesis in Northeastern Brazil

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Roberta de Almeida Caetano, Emilly Luize Guedes da Silva, Luis Fernando Colin-Nolasco, Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos da Silva, Adriana Rosa Carvalho, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros

Legendary fermented herbs: an ethnobotanical study of the traditional fermentation starter of the Chuanqing people in Northwestern Guizhou, China

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Jiawen Zhao, Qinghe Wang, Zixuan Ren, Changqin Yang, Shiyu Guan, Xiaoyan Wang, Yan Huang, Ruyu Yao, Hongxiang Yin

Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Dibatie district, Metekel zone, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State, western Ethiopia

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Baressa Anbessa, Ermias Lulekal, Asfaw Debella, Ariaya Hymete

The dawn of ethnomicrobiology: an interdisciplinary research field on interactions between humans and microorganisms

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César Ojeda-Linares, Alejandro Casas, Tania González-Rivadeneira, Gary P. Nabhan

Diversity of ethnomycological knowledge and mushroom foraging culture in a small nation: case of Lithuania

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Jurga Motiejūnaitė, Vita Džekčioriūtė, Ernestas Kutorga, Jonas Kasparavičius, Reda Iršėnaitė

Tracing gender variation in traditional knowledge: participatory tools to promote conservation in a Quilombola community in Brazil

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Daniele Cantelli, Maiara Cristina Gonçalves, Vilson Omar da Silva, Dirceu Nunes da Silva, Natalia Hanazaki

Can family structure and contact with natural resources influence young people’s knowledge about medicinal plants? An approach in the Northeast of Brazil

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Paula Thayanne Mata, Aníbal Silva Cantalice, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Taline Cristina da Silva

Correction: Conservation of wild food plants from wood uses: evidence supporting the protection hypothesis in Northeastern Brazil

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  • Correction

Roberta de Almeida Caetano, Emilly Luize Guedes da Silva, Luis Fernando Colin-Nolasco, Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos da Silva, Adriana Rosa Carvalho, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros

Nanhai Jigui Neifa Zhuan: exploration of and research on hygiene, medicine and health care knowledge in ancient India

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Ting Zhang, Wanyue Chen, Ran Li, Lili Xu, Yunhui Shen, Xinyang Song, Tingting Kuang, Zhang Wang

Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in the mountainous regions of Semnan Province, Iran

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Majid Jalali, Mehdi Abedi, Farshid Memariani, Abdolbaset Ghorbani

Core-periphery structure of a medicinal botanical system in Uruguay

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Elena Castiñeira Latorre, Ana Inés Borthagaray, Andrés Canavero

Plasmodial slime moulds (myxomycetes) in Swedish and Nordic folk biology

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Ingvar Svanberg, Sabira Ståhlberg

Isolated Mediterranean foraging: wild greens in the matrifocal community of Olympos, Karpathos Island, Greece

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Andrea Pieroni, Naji Sulaiman, Julia Prakofjewa, Shiekh Marifatul Haq, Dauro M. Zocchi, Nikos Krigas, Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou, Renata Sõukand

Wild food plant knowledge in multicultural peri-urban area of North-Western Punjab, Pakistan

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Amna Malik, Muhammad Adnan, Fahdah Falah ben hasher, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Mansour K. Gatasheh, Zahid Ullah, Ali Abdullah Aldosari, Hazrat Ali, Muhammad Abdul Aziz

Ethnoecology and use of fishes by the Cubeo people from the Cuduyarí River, Colombian Amazonia

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Juan David Bogotá-Gregory, Luis Fernando Jaramillo Hurtado, Juan Felipe Guhl Samudio, Edwin Agudelo Córdoba

Climate change perceptions and adaptation by Sebei pastoralists in Mount Elgon, Uganda: a qualitative survey

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Siya Aggrey, Elsa Varela, Rodrigue Batumike, Aida Cuni-Sanchez

Sociodemographic characteristics and participation of women in meliponiculture from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

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Jesús Froylán Martínez-Puc, Miguel Ángel Magaña-Magaña, William Cetzal-Ix, Gustavo E. Mendoza-Arroyo, Ángel Carmelo Sierra-Vasquez, Saikat Kumar Basu

The influence of urbanization on local ecological knowledge: a systematic review

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Juliana Melo Linhares Rangel, André Luiz Borba do Nascimento, Marcelo Alves Ramos

Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants and their threats in Yeki district, Southwestern Ethiopia

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Ashebir Awoke, Yared Siyum, Derbew Awoke, Habtamu Gebremedhin, Afework Tadesse

Fishery and ecology-related knowledge about plants among fishing communities along Laguna Lake, Philippines

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Jimlea Nadezhda Mendoza, Baiba Prūse, Aimee Ciriaco, Amelia Mendoza, Harvey Ciriaco, Cynthia Buen, Julie Joyce Pua, Francesco Primavera, Giulia Mattalia, Renata Sõukand