Ausgabe 1/2025
Inhalt (90 Artikel)
Ethnobiology! Until when will the colonialist legacy be reinforced?
- Open Access
- Debate
Sofia Zank, Cristiane Gomes Julião, Adriana de Souza de Lima, Marciano Toledo da Silva, Carolina Levis, Natalia Hanazaki, Nivaldo Peroni
Food resilience and adaptation on the move: the importance of fostering studies on the Romani local knowledge systems
- Open Access
- Analysis
Andrea Pieroni, Naji Sulaiman, Mousaab Alrhmoun
Ethnobotany of vascular plants use, conservation and management practice in the homegardens by the people of Dawuro in Southwestern Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Mathewos Agize, Zemede Asfaw, Sileshi Nemomissa, Tizazu Gebre
Eating "rubbish"? Exploring the herbal secrets of "Laji-He," a traditional herbal rice snack from southern China
- Open Access
- Research
Renchuan Hu, Qianyun Wang, Zhongxin Duan, Yunan Hu, Kedao Lai, Xiaohui Cai, Ya Peng, Binsheng Luo
Effects of socioeconomic and human-modified landscape variables on medicinal species richness at a macroscale: the case of the Caatinga, Brazil
- Open Access
- Research
Aníbal Silva Cantalice, Thiago Gonçalves-Souza, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
The role of Chinese folk ritual music in biodiversity conservation: an ethnobiological perspective from the Lingnan region
- Open Access
- Research
Yibo Liu, Yingjie Song
Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Metema and Quara districts, Northwestern Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Daniel Tadesse, Getinet Masresha, Ermias Lulekal, Asmamaw Alemu
Traditionally used phytomedicines and their associated threats in Bita district, southwestern Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Ashebir Awoke, Girma Gudesho, Kindu Chane, Yared Siyum, Walle Tilahun, Habtamu Gebremedhin, Afework Tadesse
Governance and wild food plant value chains: a look at the Brazilian context
- Open Access
- Debate
Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos da Silva
Correction: Fishery and ecology-related knowledge about plants among fishing communities along Laguna Lake, Philippines
- Open Access
- Correction
Jimlea Nadezhda Mendoza, Baiba Prūse, Aimee Ciriaco, Amelia Mendoza, Harvey Ciriaco, Cynthia Buen, Julie Joyce Pua, Francesco Primavera, Giulia Mattalia, Renata Sõukand
The traditional knowledge about the biodiversity of edible Brazilian fruits and their pollinators: an integrative review
- Open Access
- Review
Luan Victor Brandão dos Santos, Daniel Pereira Monteiro, André Luiz Borba do Nascimento, Roseli Farias Melo de Barros
Ethnobotanical knowledge and ethnomedicinal uses of plant resources by urban communities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: a novel urban ethnobotanical approach
- Open Access
- Research
Irfan Ullah, Seemab Akhtar, Muhammad Adnan, Javed Nawab, Sajid Ullah, M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud
Ethnobotanical investigation of medicinal plants utilized by indigenous communities in the Fofa and Toaba sub-districts of the Yem Zone, Central Ethiopian Region
- Open Access
- Research
Firehun Lulesa, Shiferaw Alemu, Zewdie Kassa, Ashebir Awoke
Beekeepers as guardians of apitherapeutic knowledge in Estonia, SW Ukraine, and NE Italy
- Open Access
- Research
Raivo Kalle, Nataliya Stryamets, Denisa Lorena Cutuca, Julia Prakofjewa, Edy Fantinato, Ingvar Svanberg, Giulia Mattalia, Renata Sõukand
Human–forest interaction of useful plants in the Wof Ayzurish Forest, North Showa Zone, Ethiopia: cultural significance index, conservation, and threats
- Open Access
- Research
Yirefu Tefera, Ermias Lulekal, Bikila Warkineh
Not “just necessity”? Two-x-eco-cultural dilemmas and the ethnobiological importance of the informal grannies’ markets in Moldova
- Open Access
- Analysis
Andrea Pieroni, Dauro Mattia Zocchi, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman, Miroslava Bavorova, Renata Sõukand
Diversity, management, and uses of edible plants in a Ñäñho community of Southern Querétaro, Mexico
- Open Access
- Research
Karla Nicol Hernández-Puente, Luis Hernández-Sandoval, Rosalinda González-Santos, Alejandro Casas, Mahinda Martínez, Victor W. Steinmann
A qualitative exploration of cultural illness perceptions and barriers to modern healthcare: the case of Ikirimi and traditional uvulectomy in Rwanda
- Open Access
- Research
Sadallah Bahizi, Michael Schriver, Francois Xavier Sunday, Kathryn Beck, Maaike Flinkenflögel, Vincent K. Cubaka
Botanical Ethnoknowledge Index: a new quantitative assessment method for cross-cultural analysis
- Open Access
- Analysis
Naji Sulaiman
Animals traded for traditional medicine in Ghana: their zootherapeutic uses and implications for biodiversity conservation
- Open Access
- Research
Evans Paul Kwame Ameade, Daniel Korley Attuquayefio, Francis Gbogbo, Joseph Adusei-Sarkodie, Benjamin Yeboah Ofori, Stephen Gbedema, Emmanuel Adom
Use and utility redundancy of medicinal plants in ethnoveterinary medicine by local populations of the Brazilian Caatinga
- Open Access
- Research
Josefa Raianne de Farias Gonçalves, Kamila Marques Pedrosa, Maiara Bezerra Ramos, Stefanny Martins de Souza, Sergio de Faria Lopes
Traditional knowledge and consumption of wild edible plants in rural households, Limpopo Province, South Africa
- Open Access
- Research
Frans Makwena Mothupi, Charlie M. Shackleton
A comprehensive review on animals and their products used in traditional folk medicine in Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Review
Alembrhan Assefa, Kalayu Mesfin, Teklay Girmay
Local people’s interaction with Wejig-Mahgo-Waren Massif Forest in Southern Tigray, Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Mebrahtu Hishe, Mirutse Giday, Zemede Asfaw, Sebsebe Demissew, Bikila Warkineh
Utilitarian diversity and options for the sustainable use of the bush banana Uvaria chamae P. Beauv. in Benin (West Africa)
- Open Access
- Research
Emilienne Houévo Daï, Rodrigue Idohou, Sèwanoudé Scholastique Mireille Toyi, Juliano Sènanmi Hermann Houndonougbo, Fortuné Akomian Azihou, Amadé Ouédraogo, Stefan Hotes, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo
Mixed teff (Eragrostis tef, Poaceae) cultivation and consumption among smallholder farmers in South Wollo Zone, Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Daniel Melese, Zemede Asfaw, Zerihun Woldu, Bikila Warkineh, Endale Amare, Alex C. McAlvay, Morgan Ruelle
Medicinal plants trade in Harare’s urban markets: diversity, conservation status, and economic significance
- Open Access
- Research
Justice Muvengwi, Monicah Mbiba
The contemporary challenge for ethical research involving the knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities and afro-descendants and other marginalized, minority, or minoritized groups
- Open Access
- Debate
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Romulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior
Folk taxonomy of wild mushrooms in communities of the indigenous groups Chatino, Chontal, and Chinantec in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Open Access
- Research
Alexanders López-García, Marko Gómez-Hernández, Etelvina Gándara
Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat human and livestock ailments in Addi Arkay district, northwest Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Worku Misganaw, Getinet Masresha, Asmamaw Alemu, Ermias Lulekal
Healing from the wild: an ethnozoological exploration of animal-based medicine in Jhargram, West Bengal, India
- Open Access
- Research
Rakesh Acharya, Sanjib Kumar Das, Ankur Bhowal, Koushik Sen
Edible caterpillars and their host plants: ethnobotanical insights in Kwilu, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Open Access
- Research
Françoise M. Madamo, Marcellin C. Cokola, Armel Gougbedji, François Malaisse, Constantin Lubini, Dieudonné Mangunza, Paul Latham, Michel Frédérich, Frédéric Francis, Rudy Caparros Megido
Participatory Ethnobotany in indigenous health: study conducted by a Pataxó Hãhãhãi ethnobotanist among his people, Brazil
- Open Access
- Research
H. D. S. Pataxó Hãhãhãi, E. Rodrigues
Can socioeconomic factors and the availability of medicinal plant resources influence people's perception of risk in relation to diseases?
- Open Access
- Research
Cecilia de Fatima Castelo Branco Rangel de Almeida, Maria Lorena da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Junior, Taline Cristina da Silva
Wild fungi used in an ecoturistic town in Central Mexico
- Open Access
- Research
Adriana Díaz-Pérez, Adriana Montoya, Alejandro Kong, Mariana Cuautle, Laura Trejo-Hernández, Luís Pacheco-Cobos, Marco Antonio Hernández-Muñoz
How funnel chanterelle (Craterellus tubaeformis) became an urban forager favorite in Scandinavia
- Open Access
- Research
Ingvar Svanberg, Mai Løvaas, Sabira Ståhlberg
Ethnobotanical study and traditional knowledge on Tibetan wooden bowls in Benzilan Town, Yunnan, China
- Open Access
- Research
Wei Liu, Qing Huang, Shicai Shen, Lun Yin
Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plants used in the Aseer province, Southwestern Saudi Arabia
- Open Access
- Research
Manal A. Alshaqhaa, Imen Souid, Atef Korchef, Manar D. Alshehri
Priorities of marine ethnobiology: reflections from the perspective of sustainable marine management
- Open Access
- Debate
Alejandro Espinoza-Tenorio
Traditional ecological knowledge for great ape conservation in Gabon
- Open Access
- Research
Mohamed H. Mohamed-Djawad, Neil M. Longo-Pendy, Serge Ely Dibakou, Costanza Puppo, Jean Nzue-Nguema, Désiré Otsaghe-Ekore, Patrice Makouloutou-Nzassi, Cyr Moussadji-Kinga, Alain P. Kouga, Barthelemy Ngoubangoye, Pape Ibnou Ndiaye, Larson Boundenga
Honey production, an economic alternative for coastal areas with mangrove ecosystems: a case study in Sabancuy, Campeche, southeastern Mexico
- Open Access
- Research
Crhistian Laynes-Magaña, William Cetzal-Ix, Héctor M. J. López-Castilla, Iván Tamayo-Cen, Jesús F. Martínez-Puc, Eliana Noguera-Savelli, Benito B. Dzib-Castillo, Saikat Kumar Basu
Ethnobotanical study of traditional medicinal plants used by the Miao people in Hainan, China
- Open Access
- Research
Tian-Liang, Shengzhuo Huang, Jun Zeng, Shoubai Liu, Honglei Jin, Yijun Chen, Battseren Tsambaa, Urtnasan Mandakh, Xilong Zheng, Wenli Mei, Almaz Borjigidai, Haofu Dai
The influence of socioeconomic factors on the knowledge of reptiles and mammals in the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Northeast Brazil
- Open Access
- Research
Pedro Victor Cardoso dos Santos, Felipe Silva Ferreira, Samuel Vieira Brito
Local knowledge, perception and practices regarding edible insects among different ethnic groups in Northern Uganda
- Open Access
- Research
Martha F. Alaroker, Ronald Twongyirwe, Philip Nyeko, Francis Sengendo, Valtonen Anu, Bruno Massa, Harriet Angwech, Geoffrey M. Malinga, Sabine Van Miert
Plural and commoning? Forecasting four scenarios for ethnobiology and ethnomedicine by 2035
- Open Access
- Editorial
Andrea Pieroni, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman
Medicinal plants traded in Hakka communities of southeastern Guangxi, China
- Open Access
- Research
Yongqing Liufu, Yaozhang Xie, Min Shao, Qiongyao Fu, Zhongxin Duan, Dipak Khadka, Binsheng Luo
Diachronic changes in local food heritage: the ethnobiology of wild foods in central Tuscany
- Open Access
- Research
Mousaab Alrhmoun, Valter Guiggi, Syed Waseem Gillani, Muhammad Manzoor, Naji Sulaiman, Andrea Pieroni
Who are leeches? Exploring malleability in human–leech relations through ethnographies from Dagestan and Turkey
- Open Access
- Research
Iwona Kaliszewska, Iwa Kołodziejska
Reflections on the future of European ethnobiology
- Open Access
- Analysis
Victoria Reyes-García, Doyle McKey
Cultural significance and conservation challenges of the hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) and other vulture species in northeastern Benin
- Open Access
- Research
Fidèle Ezéchiel Koffi Hounnouvi, Jemima Lydie Obandza-Ayessa, Stanislas Mahussi Gandaho, Lindy Jane Thompson
From forgotten to frontier: vindicating Latin America’s indigenous biotechnology
- Open Access
- Review
Francisca Villanueva-Flores, Igor Garcia-Atutxa
Divine thus good, devilish thus bad? Folk linguistic perceptions about plants and their characteristics in Polish folklore
- Open Access
- Research
Olga Kielak
Ethnobotanical study of wild and semi-wild edible plants in Yeki district, Sheka Zone, Southwest Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Ashebir Awoke, Yared Siyum, Girma Gudesho, Fetku Akmel, Kiros Shiferaw Abate
Traditional ecological knowledge and practices in Zimbabwe: medicinal ethnobotany and ethnozoology among communities in Chipinge district
- Open Access
- Research
Justice Muvengwi, Alfred Maroyi
What affects the sustainability of a non-timber forest product value chain? A case study of an endemic palm harvested by local communities in Brazil
- Open Access
- Research
Ilana Araujo-Santos, Karen A. Kainer, Fernando Grenno, Alexandre Schiavetti
Ethnobotanical uses of plants in Nigeria: an analysis of current research trends and patterns
- Open Access
- Review
Basirat O. Rafiu, Abiodun O. Omotayo, Ibraheem O. Lawal, Adeyemi O. Aremu
The shifting dynamics of plant and mushroom foraging in Kashmir
- Open Access
- Research
Muhammad Manzoor, Mushtaq Ahmad, Syed Waseem Gillani, Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Andrea Pieroni, Muhammad Waheed, Amir Sohail, Abeer Hashem, Khalid F. Almutairi, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah
Biocultural memory of reciprocity: the Mapuche trafkintu as social-ecological relationships of care and vindication
- Open Access
- Research
Gonzalo Salazar, Magdalena Reyes, Santiago Kaulen-Luks, María Guadalupe Barrera, Alison Burgos, José Tomás Ibarra
Indigenous medicinal knowledge and therapeutic practices of the endangered Ongota/Birale of Southwest Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Endalkachew Hailu Guluma, Temesgen Minwagaw Lemma, Sintayehu Semu Workineh, Gashaw Kachano Kitolo, Behailu Merdekios Gello, Mulugeta Kebebew Robi, Andualem Girma Desalegn, Gebreiyesus Mekt Bayleyegn
Healing hands: a traditional bone-setting practice in South Wollo, Kelala Woreda Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Girum Melkamu Tadesse, Endris Kassaw
Selection criteria for use and conservation priorities for plant species in a Quilombola community in Baixada Maranhense, Brazil
- Open Access
- Research
Thauana Oliveira Rabelo, André Luiz Borba do Nascimento, Eduardo Bezerra de Almeida Jr.
What are the most significant challenges that ethnobiology and ethnomedicine have faced so far, and how were they dealt with?
- Open Access
- Debate
Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, Emiel De Meyer
The ecology of plant ingredients, food heritage, and adaptation among Syrian, Afghan, and Egyptian Coptic diasporas in Northwestern Italy
- Open Access
- Research
Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman, Laura Longhi, Ajmal Khan Manduzai, Abdullah Faiz, Francesca Manzetti, Chiara Gasperini, Alice Peruzzo, Dauro M. Zocchi, Andrea Pieroni
An ethnobotanical study on medicinal food plants used by the Kazakh people in Altay, Xinjiang, China
- Open Access
- Research
Ya-qin Zhao, Bo Lei, Yuan-jin Qiu, Ji-zhao Zhang, Wen-dan Song, Yelxat Danabek, Cong-zhao Fan, Guo-ping Wang
Eco-cultural synergy: exploring the links between native trees, rituals, and conservation in Guji Society, Southern Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Gemeda Odo Roba
Boat-shaped houses of the indigenous Li people on Hainan Island, China: plant resources and ecological adaptations
- Open Access
- Research
Guang-Hui Ma, Ming-Xun Ren, Ding-Hai Yang, Xiao-Dong Mu
A potion for prolonged life? Germes’ recipe, a secret handwritten note from an 18th-century Swedish physician
- Open Access
- Research
Fabien Schultz, Tobias Niedenthal, Isabel Nicolai-Lorenz, Kandace Baez, Tabitha Iker, Leif-Alexander Garbe
Ethnobryology in e-commerce: traditional uses and emerging applications of bryophytes in China’s online market
- Open Access
- Research
Tianyun Qi, Jinjiong Zhuang, Xin Su, Xiang Zhang, Kai Zhang, Donghai Li, Jiewei Hao
Ethnomedicinal and indigenous healing practices of the Tripuri people of Northeast India
- Open Access
- Research
Sandipan Das, Jayita Das, Sarbani Dey Ray, Prantosh Roy, Supratim Ray, Israel Maldonado Rosas, Sethuraman Sivakumar Paramsivan, Bibhas Deb, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury
Biodiversity, sustainable utilization, and conservation of the wild plants used in Traditional Mongolian Medicine of the Greater Khingan Mountains
- Open Access
- Research
Yi-ru-gui, Wenxiao Zhang, Xiongfei Ren, Liqing Zhao
Towards a forward-looking ethnobiology: envisioning and co-creating biocultural futures
- Open Access
- Research
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Irene Teixidor-Toneu
Correction: Reflections on the future of European ethnobiology
- Open Access
- Correction
Victoria Reyes-García, Doyle McKey
Wild edible plants selection of Tibetan and Naxi people in Northwest Yunnan, China
- Open Access
- Research
Yao Fu, Jinlong Zhang, Aye Mya Mon, Yinxian Shi, Yingfeng Bi, Yanan Wang, Prateep Panyadee, Xuefei Yang, Cory W. Whitney
Ethnomedicinal plants used for immediate care in Nepal: A cross-cultural review
- Open Access
- Research
Sujan Chaudhary, Saroj Babu Koirala, Laxmi Dhungana, Shristi Khand, Sanju Neupane, Elina Rai, Dipak Khadka, Ripu Mardhan Kunwar, Deng Tao, Yadav Uprety, Ram Chandra Poudel, Lok Ranjan Bhatt
Exploring public perceptions of owl species in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Implications for conservation management
- Open Access
- Research
Lindiswa Buthelezi, Mfundo S. T. Maseko, Siboniso Magoso, Colleen T. Downs
Ethnobotanical assessment of wild edible plants and associated threats in Guraferda district, Bench-Sheko Zone, Southwest Ethiopia
- Open Access
- Research
Ashebir Awoke, Temesgen Tigab, Yitayih Dessie, Gizachew Bitew
From home garden to market: ethnobotanical insights from Jīn Sān Jiǎo Agricultural Market, Baise City, Guangxi, China
- Open Access
- Research
Yuefeng Zhang, Bin Huang, Wei Shen, Lingling Lv, Piyaporn Saensouk, Thawatphong Boonma, Tammanoon Jitpromma, Surapon Saensouk
Ethnobotanical investigation of central and rural villages (neighborhoods) in the Ergani district of Diyarbakır, Turkey
- Open Access
- Research
Mustafa Aslan
Medicinal plant use in a context of coloniality: Congolese perspectives on lost and preserved healing traditions in Belgium
- Open Access
- Research
Emiel De Meyer, Sarah Derveeuw, Césarine Sinatu Bolya, Eduardo de la Peña, Melissa Ceuterick
Andorran ethnomycology: culinary uses and beyond
- Open Access
- Research
Canòlich Álvarez-Puig, Teresa Garnatje, Manel Niell, Airy Gras, Joan Vallès
Ethnoentomology (1952–2024): scientific production, emerging trends and research gaps
- Open Access
- Research
Johnson Andrade Junior, Paulo Roberto Ramalho Silva, Roseli Farias Melo de Barros
Pollination as a biocultural process: integrating local ecological knowledge of family farmers in northern Argentinian Patagonia for inclusive conservation
- Open Access
- Research
Pablo Andres Grimaldi, Ana Ladio
Traditional utilization of weeds and ethnic ecological wisdom in Longsheng terraces—a study based on globally important agricultural heritage systems
- Open Access
- Research
Wanli Ma, Yu Zeng, Jiurun Zhou, Renchuan Hu, Haiou Liu, Yujing Liu
Wisdom in periodic markets and traditionally used edible & medicinal plants in Jingdong intermontane region, Southwest China
- Open Access
- Research
Ziyuan Li, Qing Zhang, Feifei Li, Xiwen Zeng, Ting Wang, Yijia Geng, Shirong Chen, Gang Yang, Cuixiang Xie, Gang Peng, Guangxue Zhao, Fan Yang, Sainan Che, Shang Qu, Wenhui Liu
Ethnomedicinal value of karst paddy weeds: insights from Zhuang communities in Jingxi, China
- Open Access
- Research
Long Chen, Yujian Liu, Xuan Fan, Renchuan Hu, Shi Qi, Haiou Liu, Yujing Liu
Ethno-ecological knowledge of tiger nut (Cyperus esculentus L.) across contrasted climate zones: uses, diversity, production system, and perception of climate change in Togo (West Africa)
- Open Access
- Research
Koffi Kibalou Palanga, Anissou Bawa, Yendoupalou Gniana Lare, Aliou Dicko, Jacques Idohou Kadjogbé Ayena, Dowo Michée Adjacou, Thierry Dèhouégnon Houehanou, Gérard Nounagnon Gouwakinnou, Armand Kuyema Natta
Diversity of wild edible plants of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa): traditional uses and trade
- Open Access
- Research
Bucar Indjai, Amélia Frazão-Moreira, Pedro Segurado, Maria Manuel Romeiras, Luís Catarino
Documenting traditional knowledge of the Trans-Himalaya: ethnic uses of plants in Drass valley, Ladakh
- Open Access
- Research
Sakina Banoo, Aijaz Hassan Ganie, Anzar Ahmad Khuroo
Regional dynamics of zoonotic risk perception and wildlife use in Ghana
- Open Access
- Research
Haruna Abukari, Bright O. Kankam, Ziblim A. Imoro
