Issue 1/2013
Content (84 Articles)
Wild vegetable mixes sold in the markets of Dalmatia (southern Croatia)
Łukasz Łuczaj, Marijana Zovko Končić, Tihomir Miličević, Katija Dolina, Marija Pandža
Ethno-entomological observations from North Korea (officially known as the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”)
V Benno Meyer-Rochow
Ecological status and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants in Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary of Garhwal Himalaya, India
Jahangeer A Bhat, Munesh Kumar, Rainer W Bussmann
‘Everybody knows’, but the rest of the world: the case of a caterpillar-borne reproductive loss syndrome in dromedary camels observed by Sahrawi pastoralists of Western Sahara
Gabriele Volpato, Antonello Di Nardo, Davide Rossi, Saleh M Lamin Saleh, Alessandro Broglia
Ethnobotanical study of plants used in management of livestock health problems by Afar people of Ada’ar District, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia
Mirutse Giday, Tilahun Teklehaymanot
Medicinal flora and ethnoecological knowledge in the Naran Valley, Western Himalaya, Pakistan
Shujaul M Khan, Sue Page, Habib Ahmad, Hamayun Shaheen, Zahid Ullah, Mushtaq Ahmad, David M Harper
Plants used in artisanal fisheries on the Western Mediterranean coasts of Italy
Valentina Savo, Arianna La Rocca, Giulia Caneva, Fabio Rapallo, Laura Cornara
Phenology of Spondias tuberosaArruda (Anacardiaceae) under different landscape management regimes and a proposal for a rapid phenological diagnosis using local knowledge
Ernani MF Lins Neto, Alyson LS Almeida, Nivaldo Peroni, Cibele C Castro, Ulysses P Albuquerque
A resource management scenario for traditional and scientific management of pink shrimp (Farfantepenaeus paulensis) in the Patos Lagoon estuary (RS), Brazil
Gustavo Goulart Moreira Moura, Daniela Coswig Kalikoski, Antonio Carlos Sant’Ana Diegues
Birds and people in semiarid northeastern Brazil: symbolic and medicinal relationships
Dandara Monalisa Mariz Bezerra, Helder Farias Pereira de Araujo, Ângelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves
Recollections, reflections, and revelations: ethnobiologists and their “First Time” in the field
Justin Nolan, Andrea Pieroni
Ethnobotanical appraisal and medicinal use of plants in Patriata, New Murree, evidence from Pakistan
Ejaz Ahmed, Muhammad Arshad, Abdul Saboor, Rahmatullah Qureshi, Ghazala Mustafa, Shumaila Sadiq, Sunbal Khalil Chaudhari
Ethno-ornithology and conservation of wild birds in the semi-arid Caatinga of northeastern Brazil
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Railson Cidennys Lourenço Leite, Wedson Medeiros Silva Souto, Dandara M M Bezerra, Alan Loures-Ribeiro
Attitudes and local ecological knowledge of experts fishermen in relation to conservation and bycatch of sea turtles (reptilia: testudines), Southern Bahia, Brazil
Heitor de Oliveira Braga, Alexandre Schiavetti
Ethnotaxonomical considerations and usage of ichthyofauna in a fishing community in Ceará State, Northeast Brazil
Márcia Freire Pinto, José da Silva Mourão, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves
Multidimensionality and scale in a landscape ethnoecological partitioning of a mountainous landscape (Gyimes, Eastern Carpathians, Romania)
Dániel Babai, Zsolt Molnár
Medicinal and useful plants in the tradition of Rotonda, Pollino National Park, Southern Italy
Paola Di Sanzo, Laura De Martino, Emilia Mancini, Vincenzo De Feo
Comparative ethnoentomology of edible stinkbugs in southern Africa and sustainable management considerations
Catherine Maria Dzerefos, Ed Tadeusz Fernando Witkowski, Rob Toms
Wild edible plants of Belarus: from Rostafiński’s questionnaire of 1883 to the present
Łukasz Łuczaj, Piotr Köhler, Ewa Pirożnikow, Maja Graniszewska, Andrea Pieroni, Tanya Gervasi
Use and valuation of native and introduced medicinal plant species in Campo Hermoso and Zetaquira, Boyacá, Colombia
Ana Lucía Cadena-González, Marten Sørensen, Ida Theilade
Diversity and use of ethno-medicinal plants in the region of Swat, North Pakistan
Naveed Akhtar, Abdur Rashid, Waheed Murad, Erwin Bergmeier
A cross sectional survey of knowledge, attitude and practices related to house flies among dairy farmers in Punjab, Pakistan
Hafiz Azhar Ali Khan, Waseem Akram, Sarfraz Ali Shad, Muhammad Razaq, Unsar Naeem-Ullah, Khuram Zia
Medicinal plants, traditional medicine, markets and management in far-west Nepal
Ripu M Kunwar, Laxmi Mahat, Ram P Acharya, Rainer W Bussmann
The utilization and management of plant resources in rural areas of the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Marula T Rasethe, Sebua S Semenya, Martin J Potgieter, Alfred Maroyi
One century later: the folk botanical knowledge of the last remaining Albanians of the upper Reka Valley, Mount Korab, Western Macedonia
Andrea Pieroni, Besnik Rexhepi, Anely Nedelcheva, Avni Hajdari, Behxhet Mustafa, Valeria Kolosova, Kevin Cianfaglione, Cassandra L Quave
Eating from the wild: diversity of wild edible plants used by Tibetans in Shangri-la region, Yunnan, China
Yan Ju, Jingxian Zhuo, Bo Liu, Chunlin Long
Wild plant folk nomenclature of the Mongol herdsmen in the Arhorchin national nature reserve, Inner Mongolia, PR China
Soyolt, Galsannorbu, Yongping, Wunenbayar, Guohou Liu, Khasbagan
Traditional use of medicinal plants in south-central Zimbabwe: review and perspectives
Alfred Maroyi
The socio-cultural importance of Mauritia flexuosa palm swamps (aguajales) and implications for multi-use management in two Maijuna communities of the Peruvian Amazon
Michael P Gilmore, Bryan A Endress, Christa M Horn
Ethno-medicinal study of plants used for treatment of human and livestock ailments by traditional healers in South Omo, Southern Ethiopia
Ketema Tolossa, Etana Debela, Spiridoula Athanasiadou, Adugna Tolera, Gebeyehu Ganga, Jos GM Houdijk
Ethnobotanic importance of plants used in pigeon-breeding in Eastern Spain
Antonio Belda, Carolina Cortés, Victoriano Peiró
Learning to hunt Crocodiles: social organization in the process of knowledge generation and the emergence of management practices among Mayan of Mexico
Fernando Zamudio, Eduardo Bello-Baltazar, Erin IJ Estrada-Lugo
Ethnobotanical knowledge on indigenous fruits in Ohangwena and Oshikoto regions in Northern Namibia
Ahmad Cheikhyoussef, Werner Embashu
Wild food plants and wild edible fungi in two valleys of the Qinling Mountains (Shaanxi, central China)
Yongxiang Kang, Łukasz Łuczaj, Jin Kang, Shijiao Zhang
The role of traditional medicine practice in primary health care within Aboriginal Australia: a review of the literature
Stefanie J Oliver
Evaluation of the degree of mycophilia-mycophobia among highland and lowland inhabitants from Chiapas, Mexico
Felipe Ruan-Soto, Javier Caballero, Carlos Martorell, Joaquín Cifuentes, Alma Rosa González-Esquinca, Roberto Garibay-Orijel
Peril in the market-classification and dosage of species used as anti-diabetics in Lima, Peru
Rainer W Bussmann, Narel Paniagua-Zambrana, Marinoli Rivas Chamorro, Natalia Molina Moreira, María Luisa del Rosario Cuadros Negri, Jose Olivera
Influence of traditional markets on plant management in the Tehuacán Valley
Yaayé Arellanes, Alejandro Casas, Anselmo Arellanes, Ernesto Vega, José Blancas, Mariana Vallejo, Ignacio Torres, Selene Rangel-Landa, Ana I Moreno, Leonor Solís, Edgar Pérez-Negrón
Ecological and socio-cultural factors influencing plant management in Náhuatl communities of the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico
José Blancas, Alejandro Casas, Diego Pérez-Salicrup, Javier Caballero, Ernesto Vega
Values, animal symbolism, and human-animal relationships associated to two threatened felids in Mapuche and Chilean local narratives
Thora M Herrmann, Elke Schüttler, Pelayo Benavides, Nicolas Gálvez, Lisa Söhn, Nadja Palomo
Ethnobotany of Heracleum persicum Desf. ex Fisch., an invasive species in Norway, or how plant names, uses, and other traditions evolve
Torbjørn Alm
Traditional medicinal plants used for the treatment of diabetes in rural and urban areas of Dhaka, Bangladesh – an ethnobotanical survey
Soeren Ocvirk, Martin Kistler, Shusmita Khan, Shamim Hayder Talukder, Hans Hauner
Medicinal plants from swidden fallows and sacred forest of the Karen and the Lawa in Thailand
Auemporn Junsongduang, Henrik Balslev, Angkhana Inta, Arunothai Jampeetong, Prasit Wangpakapattanawong
Cultural change and loss of ethnoecological knowledge among the Isthmus Zapotecs of Mexico
Alfredo Saynes-Vásquez, Javier Caballero, Jorge A Meave, Fernando Chiang
Use of the palm Euterpe edulismartius in landscape units managed by migrants of German origin in Southern Brazil
Lucas de Souza Milanesi, Nivaldo Peroni, Maurício Sedrez dos Reis
“Tertius gaudens”: germplasm exchange networks and agroecological knowledge among home gardeners in the Iberian Peninsula
Victoria Reyes-García, José Luis Molina, Laura Calvet-Mir, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Juan J Lastra, Ricardo Ontillera, Montse Parada, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Montse Rigat, Joan Vallès, Teresa Garnatje
Traditional botanical knowledge of artisanal fishers in southern Brazil
Marcela Meneghetti Baptista, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Gabriela Coelho-de-Souza, Mara Rejane Ritter
Comparative Survey of Entomophagy and Entomotherapeutic Practices in Six Tribes of Eastern Arunachal Pradesh (India)
Jharna Chakravorty, Sampat Ghosh, V Benno Meyer-Rochow
Treading & threading memories: a personal encounter with forest and people in Southern Venezuela
Egleé L Zent
Indigenous knowledge of zootherapeutic use among the Biate tribe of Dima Hasao District, Assam, Northeastern India
Albert Lalduhawma Sajem Betlu
Johan Turi’s animal, mineral, vegetable cures and healing practices: an in-depth analysis of Sami (Saami) folk healing one hundred years ago
Thomas A DuBois, Jonathan F Lang
Use of weeds as traditional vegetables in Shurugwi District, Zimbabwe
Alfred Maroyi
Wild mushroom- an underutilized healthy food resource and income generator: experience from Tanzania rural areas
Donatha D Tibuhwa
Botanical identification of medicinal roots collected and traded in Morocco and comparison to the existing literature
Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Gary J Martin, Bronwen Powell, Gabrielle Esser, Abdelaziz Abbad
A comparison of traditional food and health strategies among Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sandy Jiang, Cassandra L Quave
Use and knowledge of Cactaceae in Northeastern Brazil
Camilla Marques de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena, Gabriela Maciel Costa, Thamires Kelly Nunes Carvalho, Gyslaynne Gomes da Silva Costa, Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves, Daniel Duarte Pereira, João Everthon da Silva Ribeiro, Carlos Antônio Belarmino Alves, Zelma Glebya Maciel Quirino, Ernane Nogueira Nunes
Ethnomedicinal study of plants used for human ailments in Ankober District, North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Ermias Lulekal, Zemede Asfaw, Ensermu Kelbessa, Patrick Van Damme
Collection and trade of wild-harvested orchids in Nepal
Abishkar Subedi, Bimal Kunwar, Young Choi, Yuntao Dai, Tinde van Andel, Ram P Chaudhary, Hugo J de Boer, Barbara Gravendeel
Traditional medicine practitioners’ knowledge and views on treatment of pregnant women in three regions of Mali
Hedvig Nordeng, Waled Al-Zayadi, Drissa Diallo, Ngolo Ballo, Berit Smestad Paulsen
Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia
James R Veteto
Diversity of flora used for the cure of equine diseases in selected peri-urban areas of Punjab, Pakistan
Khurram Goraya, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Sohail Sajid, Ghulam Muhammad, Qurat ul Ain, Muhammad Saleem
An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Wayu Tuka District, East Welega Zone of Oromia Regional State, West Ethiopia
Moa Megersa, Zemede Asfaw, Ensermu Kelbessa, Abebe Beyene, Bizuneh Woldeab
Medicinal plants used for the treatment of various skin disorders by a rural community in northern Maputaland, South Africa
Helene De Wet, Sibongile Nciki, Sandy F van Vuuren
An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in Kilte Awulaelo District, Tigray Region of Ethiopia
Abraha Teklay, Balcha Abera, Mirutse Giday
Ethnobotanical appraisal and cultural values of medicinally important wild edible vegetables of Lesser Himalayas-Pakistan
Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Mir Ajab Khan, Munir H Shah, Mohammad Maroof Shah, Arshad Pervez, Mushtaq Ahmad
The current status of ethnobiological research in Latin America: gaps and perspectives
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Josivan Soares Silva, Juliana Loureiro Almeida Campos, Rosemary Silva Sousa, Taline Cristina Silva, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves
Plants used for making recreational tea in Europe: a review based on specific research sites
Renata Sõukand, Cassandra L Quave, Andrea Pieroni, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Javier Tardío, Raivo Kalle, Łukasz Łuczaj, Ingvar Svanberg, Valeria Kolosova, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Gorka Menendez-Baceta, Iwona Kołodziejska-Degórska, Ewa Pirożnikow, Rolandas Petkevičius, Avni Hajdari, Behxhet Mustafa
Medicinal plants used by women from Agnalazaha littoral forest (Southeastern Madagascar)
Mendrika Razafindraibe, Alyse R Kuhlman, Harison Rabarison, Vonjison Rakotoarimanana, Charlotte Rajeriarison, Nivo Rakotoarivelo, Tabita Randrianarivony, Fortunat Rakotoarivony, Reza Ludovic, Armand Randrianasolo, Rainer W Bussmann
Plant management and biodiversity conservation in Náhuatl homegardens of the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico
Carolina Larios, Alejandro Casas, Mariana Vallejo, Ana Isabel Moreno-Calles, José Blancas
Evidence of the shifting baseline syndrome in ethnobotanical research
Natalia Hanazaki, Dannieli Firme Herbst, Mel Simionato Marques, Ina Vandebroek
Phenotypic differentiation between wild and domesticated varieties of Crescentia cujeteL. and culturally relevant uses of their fruits as bowls in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Xitlali Aguirre-Dugua, Edgar Pérez-Negrón, Alejandro Casas
Ethnobotanical assessment of plant resources of Banda Daud Shah, District Karak, Pakistan
Waheed Murad, Azizullah Azizullah, Muhammad Adnan, Akash Tariq, Kalim Ullah Khan, Saqib Waheed, Ashfaq Ahmad
Indigenous and traditional plants: South African parents’ knowledge, perceptions and uses and their children’s sensory acceptance
Marinka van der Hoeven, Jennifer Osei, Minrie Greeff, Annamarie Kruger, Mieke Faber, Cornelius M Smuts
Knowledge, use and management of native wild edible plants from a seasonal dry forest (NE, Brazil)
Margarita Paloma Cruz, Nivaldo Peroni, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
Alternative ways of representing Zapotec and Cuicatec folk classification of birds: a multidimensional model and its implications for culturally-informed conservation in Oaxaca, México
Graciela Alcántara-Salinas, Roy F Ellen, Leopoldo Valiñas-Coalla, Javier Caballero, Arturo Argueta-Villamar
Common sense: folk wisdom that ethnobiological and ethnomedical research cannot afford to ignore
Thomas C Erren, Melissa S Koch, V Benno Meyer-Rochow
Knowledge and valuation of Andean agroforestry species: the role of sex, age, and migration among members of a rural community in Bolivia
Regine Brandt, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Susanne Lachmuth, Isabell Hensen, Stephan Rist
Botanical ethnoveterinary therapies in three districts of the Lesser Himalayas of Pakistan
Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Mir Ajab Khan, Cassandra Leah Quave, Andrea Pieroni
Ethnobotanical survey of cooling herbal drinks from southern China
Yujing Liu, Selena Ahmed, Chunlin Long
An empirical comparison of knowledge and skill in the context of traditional ecological knowledge
Eric P Kightley, Victoria Reyes-García, Kathryn Demps, Ruth V Magtanong, Victoria C Ramenzoni, Gayatri Thampy, Maximilien Gueze, John Richard Stepp
The use of the head louse as a remedy for jaundice in Spanish folk medicine: an overview
José Ramón Vallejo, José Antonio González
Ethnopharmacological survey of medicinal plants in Jeju Island, Korea
Mi-Jang Song, Hyun Kim, Brian Heldenbrand, Jongwook Jeon, Sanghun Lee