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  1. Black-boned sheep is a precious genetic resource with black quality traits cultivated by the Pumi people in Tongdian Town, Lanping County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest Yunnan, China. It has be...

    Authors: Yanxiao Fan, Zhuo Cheng, Bo Liu, Xian Hu, Maroof Ali and Chunlin Long
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:39
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  2. Hunting wild animals is essential for nutrition, clothing, predator control and disease treatment. As part of a system based on food choices and uses, it is influenced by ecological, economic and sociocultural...

    Authors: Jeferson de M. Souza, Ernani M. F. Lins Neto and Felipe S. Ferreira
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:38
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  3. The persistence of threatened and protected wildlife depends not only on habitat suitability but also remarkably on local communities’ acceptance. The black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is a flagship species f...

    Authors: Yun Ruan, Yalong Li, Yuanping Xia, Tailin Yu and Chuanyin Dai
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:37
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  4. Traditional veterinary medicine (TVM) or ethnoveterinary medicine comprises knowledge, practices, and beliefs about farm animals. Its study serves to offer ecologically and culturally appropriate strategies fo...

    Authors: Fernanda Olivares, Carla Marchant and José Tomás Ibarra
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:36
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  5. Amputation of the uvula by lay providers, so-called “traditional uvulectomy”, is common in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, the procedure is a treatment of persistent cough, and in some areas of the c...

    Authors: Siri Lange and Dorcas Mfaume
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:35
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  6. The risk of losing traditional knowledge of medicinal plants and their use and conservation is very high. Documenting knowledge on distribution and use of medicinal plants by different ethnic groups and at spa...

    Authors: Ripu M. Kunwar, Bikash Baral, Sanjeev Luintel, Yadav Uprety, Ram C. Poudel, Binaya Adhikari, Yagya P. Adhikari, Suresh C. Subedi, Chandra K. Subedi, Prakash Poudel, Hem R. Paudel, Basanta Paudel, Laxmi Mahat Kunwar, Kul S. Upadhayaya, Shandesh Bhattarai, Dipesh Pyakurel…
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:34
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  8. Wild edible mushrooms (WEM) are economically significant and used in traditional medicines worldwide. The region of Jammu and Kashmir (Western Himalayas) is enriched with the diversity of edible mushrooms, col...

    Authors: Tariq Saiff Ullah, Syeda Sadiqa Firdous, Wayne Thomas Shier, Javeed Hussain, Hamayun Shaheen, Muhammad Usman, Maryam Akram and Abdul Nasir Khalid
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:32
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  9. Social–ecological systems are based on particular species and on their direct and human-mediated interactions. The ‘golden humped tench’ or tinca gobba dorata, a variety of tench—Tinca tinca (L., 1758)—traditiona...

    Authors: Alessandro Delpero and Gabriele Volpato
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:31
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  10. The Dong people mainly live in Hunan, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, China, with a long history of glutinous rice cultivation, among which Kam Sweet Rice (KSR) is a group of rice landraces that has been domest...

    Authors: Chunhui Liu, Yanjie Wang, Xiaoding Ma, Di Cui, Bing Han, Dayuan Xue and Longzhi Han
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:30
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  11. As a hard-hit area during the COVID-19 pandemic, Belgium knew the highest mortality among people from sub-Saharan African descent, compared to any other group living in the country. After migration, people oft...

    Authors: Emiel De Meyer, Patrick Van Damme, Eduardo de la Peña and Melissa Ceuterick
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:29
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  12. Plant resources gathered from the wild are important sources of livelihood needs, especially for low-income populations living in remote areas, who rely on these plants for food, fuelwood, medicine and buildin...

    Authors: Chang-An Guo, Xiao-Yong Ding, Yi-Won Addi, Yu Zhang, Xiao-Qian Zhang, Hui-Fu Zhuang and Yu-Hua Wang
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:28
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  13. In the past, wild edible fruits (WEFs) were a significant source of food and nutrition in Bhutan. These nutrient-rich species can enhance food security and alleviate poverty in Bhutan. However, recent developm...

    Authors: Pema Yangdon, Tetsuya Araki, Yen Yen Sally Rahayu and Kunzang Norbu
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:27
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  14. Rice field agroecosystems produce food for more than half of the world’s population and deliver important services supporting farmers’ livelihoods. However, traditional rice field agroecosystems are facing a v...

    Authors: Alexander Hollaus, Christoph Schunko, Rainer Weisshaidinger, Poline Bala and Christian R. Vogl
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:26
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  15. Traditional fishing communities are strongholds of ethnobiological knowledge but establishing to what degree they harbor cultural consensus about different aspects of this knowledge has been a challenge in man...

    Authors: Vítor Renck, Deborah M. G. Apgaua, David Y. P. Tng, Paride Bollettin, David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:25
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  17. Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has a rich tradition of usage of wild edible mushrooms (WEMs) for culinary and medicinal purposes. But very few studies, restricted to some regions of the Union Terri...

    Authors: Roshi Sharma, Yash Pal Sharma, Sayed Azhar Jawad Hashmi, Sanjeev Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Manhas
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:23
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  18. Medicinal plants have been used countless times for curing diseases mainly in developing countries. They are easily available with little to no side effects when compared to modern medicine. This manuscript en...

    Authors: T. B. C. Laldingliani, Nurpen Meitei Thangjam, R. Zomuanawma, Laldingngheti Bawitlung, Anirban Pal and Awadhesh Kumar
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:22
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  19. Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine investigate the continuously changing complex and inextricable relations among culture, nature, and health. Since the emergence of modern ethnobiology a few decades ago, its esse...

    Authors: Nataliya Stryamets, Julia Prakofjewa, Giulia Mattalia, Raivo Kalle, Baiba Pruse, Dauro M. Zocchi, Renata Sõukand, Andrea Pieroni and Michele F. Fontefrancesco
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:21
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  20. Modern sports equipment is nowadays manufactured industrially according to globally accepted and standardized models, but traditionally tools for play and games were prepared from materials found in the local ...

    Authors: Isak Lidström, Ingvar Svanberg and Sabira Ståhlberg
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:20
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  21. The local Dong people in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China, with rich biocultural diversity, have developed the traditional rice-duckweed-fish-duck agroecosystem (RDFDA) to support biodiversity c...

    Authors: Jianwu He, Liping Peng, Wei Li, Jin Luo, Qiang Li, Hanyong Zeng, Maroof Ali and Chunlin Long
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:19
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  22. Folk plant nomenclature is a part of knowledge of indigenous people often used to distinguish plant species. This study aimed to document the folk botanical nomenclature of the Yi people in Xiaoliangshan, Yunn...

    Authors: Yi-Won Addi, Yu Zhang, Xiao-Yong Ding, Chang-An Guo and Yu-Hua Wang
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:18
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  23. Many communities in developing countries rely on ecosystem services (ESs) associated with wild and cultivated plant species. Plant resources provide numerous ESs and goods that support human well-being and sur...

    Authors: Alfred Maroyi
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:17
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  24. The traditional knowledge on wild edible plants has been shown in many studies a worrying decline throughout the last few decades. Therefore, the first aim of this study was to document the population knowledg...

    Authors: Ridwane Ghanimi, Ahmed Ouhammou, Abdellah Ahouach and Mohamed Cherkaoui
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:16
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  25. The bryophytes are a plant group that is smaller than and not as well known as the vascular plants. They are less used and are almost completely neglected in ethnobotanical studies. Traditional nativity scenes...

    Authors: Marija Bučar, Vedran Šegota, Anja Rimac, Nikola Koletić, Tihana Marić and Antun Alegro
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:15
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  27. The wooden bowl is an important symbol of the Tibetan cultures, yet, in China, little has been documented regarding the raw materials used to make these items as well as their cultural significance in Tibet. T...

    Authors: Xiao-Yong Ding, Chang-An Guo, Hua-Bin Hu and Yu-Hua Wang
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:13
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  28. Illegal capture and trade of wild birds are some of the most present types of wildlife trade in Brazil, and are often associated with cultural and socioenvironmental aspects. Those habits are particularly pres...

    Authors: Antonio Iderval Sodré Neto, Ricardo Evangelista Fraga and Alexandre Schiavetti
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:12
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  29. The cockle is available to numerous fishing villages in Europe, especially Portugal. In the Ria de Aveiro, there is a lack of a fisheries management program and the need for new ecological studies on cockle bi...

    Authors: Heitor O. Braga, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro and Luísa Magalhães
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:11
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  30. The growing interest for more natural products in food and health industries has led to increasing research on traditional knowledge related to plants. While theoretical knowledge (TK) on the uses of a species...

    Authors: Janine C. F. Donhouedé, Kolawolé Valère Salako, Kisito Gandji, Rodrigue Idohou, Roméo Tohoun, Achille Hounkpèvi, Natasha Ribeiro, Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros, Romain Glèlè Kakaï and Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:10
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  31. The Biebrza Valley is one of the largest complexes of wetlands (floodplain and percolation mire) and conservation sites in Central Europe. Local communities have managed the area extensively for subsistence an...

    Authors: Joanna Sucholas, Zsolt Molnár, Łukasz Łuczaj and Peter Poschlod
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:9
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  32. In Burkina Faso, Sudanian savannas are important ecosystems for conservation of plant diversity. Due to desertification and insecurity, population migration from the North has increased human density and anthr...

    Authors: Assétou Nabaloum, Dethardt Goetze, Amadé Ouédraogo, Stefan Porembski and Adjima Thiombiano
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:8
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  33. Urban ethnobotanical research in Costa Rica is rather rare and home gardens are poorly studied so far. Investigating their biodiversity is crucial in gathering knowledge on the uses of this particular flora, e...

    Authors: Roxana González-Ball, Tania Bermúdez-Rojas, Marilyn Romero-Vargas and Melissa Ceuterick
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:7
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  34. Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) plays a key role in family farming systems in Senegal. It makes an essential contribution to economic, nutritional and food security. Although it is crucial, little is known about how f...

    Authors: Awa Sarr, Amy Bodian, Mame Codou Gueye, Badara Gueye, Ghislain Kanfany, Cyril Diatta, Lardia Ali Bougma, Elisabeth A. M. C. Diop, Ndiaga Cissé, Diaga Diouf and Christian Leclerc
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:6
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  36. We aimed to verify whether the taste and chemical composition influence the selection of plants in each medicinal category, whether within a socio-ecological system or between different socio-ecological system...

    Authors: Rafael Corrêa Prota dos Santos Reinaldo, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque and Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:4
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  37. Dulong (Drung people) are one of the ethnic minorities of China, consisting of a small population living in remote and mountainous regions with limited facilities. Over the years, the Dulong have maintained th...

    Authors: Zhuo Cheng, Xiaoping Lu, Fengke Lin, Abid Naeem and Chunlin Long
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:3
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  38. The Baiku Yao is a branch of the Yao nationality in China. The unique dying process of traditional clothing employed by these people has distinct national characteristics, a profound impact on the production a...

    Authors: Renchuan Hu, Tingting Li, Yunrui Qin, Yujing Liu and Yunfeng Huang
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:2
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  39. Drawing on Phillipe Descola’s comparative analysis of ontological regimes across cultures, this article identifies analogism guiding ethnobiological repertories among two distinctive traditional tropical forest c...

    Authors: Helbert Medeiros Prado, Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta, Glenn Harvey Shepard Jr, Tamires de Lima Souza and Marcelo Nivert Schlindwein
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2022 18:1
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  40. The Republic of Georgia is part of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot, and human agricultural plant use dates back at least 6000 years. Over the last years, lots of ethnobotanical research on the area has been ...

    Authors: Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, Inayat Ur Rahman, Zaal Kikvidze, Shalva Sikharulidze, David Kikodze, David Tchelidze, Manana Khutsishvili and Ketevan Batsatsashvili
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:72
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  41. Medicinal plants have been used for ages in Ethiopia. Some 887 plant species have been documented to heal human and livestock health problems. Documenting the traditional use of medicinal plants is a vital ste...

    Authors: Muhidin Tahir, Letebrhan Gebremichael, Tadesse Beyene and Patrick Van Damme
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:71
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  42. Open and public markets are the main providers of medicinal plants in urban environments. The present study evaluated the medicinal plants sold in public markets in different municipalities in the mesoregions ...

    Authors: Ezequiel da Costa Ferreira, Reinado Farias Paiva de Lucena, Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana and Denise Dias da Cruz
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:70
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  43. Species with direct uses, such as sources of food, shelter, building material and medicine tend to have more specific local names. But could the same apply for species that people fear?

    Authors: Harith Farooq, Cláudio Bero, Yolanda Guilengue, Clementina Elias, Yasalde Massingue, Ivo Mucopote, Cristóvão Nanvonamuquitxo, Johan Marais, Alexandre Antonelli and Søren Faurby
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:69
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  44. Mandrake (Mandragora spp.) is one of the most famous medicinal plant in western cultures since Biblical times and throughout written history. In many cultures, mandrake is related to magic and witchcraft, which i...

    Authors: Amots Dafni, Cesar Blanché, Salekh Aqil Khatib, Theodora Petanidou, Bedrettin Aytaç, Ettore Pacini, Ekaterina Kohazurova, Aharon Geva-Kleinberger, Soli Shahvar, Zora Dajic, Helmut W. Klug and Guillermo Benítez
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:68
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  45. Marketplaces reflect not only the commerce of an area, but also its culture. In Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture with Kaili as its capital, Guizhou Province, China, traditional medicine is thriv...

    Authors: Sizhao Liu, Beixi Zhang, Jiangju Zhou, Qiyi Lei, Qiong Fang, Edward J. Kennelly and Chunlin Long
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:67
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  46. Fieldwork plays an important role in research projects across a variety of fields, especially in the multidisciplinary setting of natural and social science research. As is the nature of fieldwork, things do n...

    Authors: Barbara C. Seele, Léanne Dreyer, Karen J. Esler and Anthony B. Cunningham
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:66
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  47. Understanding the perceptions, preferences and management practices associated with intraspecific variability of emblematic African tree crops is critical for their sustainable management. In this paper, we ex...

    Authors: Aurore Rimlinger, Jérôme Duminil, Taïna Lemoine, Marie-Louise Avana, Armel Chakocha, Alexis Gakwavu, Franca Mboujda, Mélanie Tsogo, Marlène Elias and Stéphanie M. Carrière
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:65
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  49. Documenting local ecological knowledge (LEK) has recently become a topic of considerable interest. LEK can contribute to various areas of ecology, including habitat management and conservation biology. It has ...

    Authors: Viktor Löki, Jenő Nagy, András Nagy, Dániel Babai, Zsolt Molnár and Balázs András Lukács
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:63
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  50. Despite a widespread aversion towards faeces and urine, animal excreta are used in traditional medicine in many countries since centuries, but records are scattered and few therapeutic uses have been accuratel...

    Authors: Jean-Marc Dubost, Phommachack Kongchack, Eric Deharo, Palamy Sysay, Chithdavone Her, Lamxay Vichith, Duffillot Sébastien and Sabrina Krief
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2021 17:62
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