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  1. The ethnobotany of Tibetans is a seriously under-studied topic. The aim of the study was to investigate knowledge and use of wild food plants in a valley inhabited by Tibetans in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous ...

    Authors: Yongxiang Kang, Łukasz Łuczaj, Jin Kang, Fu Wang, Jiaojiao Hou and Quanping Guo
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:20
  2. The number of tribes present within Bangladesh has been estimated to approximate one hundred and fifty. Information on traditional medicinal practices, particularly of the smaller tribes and their clans is lac...

    Authors: Mohammad Humayun Kabir, Nur Hasan, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Md Ashikur Rahman, Jakia Alam Khan, Nazia Tasnim Hoque, Md Ruhul Quddus Bhuiyan, Sadia Moin Mou, Rownak Jahan and Mohammed Rahmatullah
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:19
  3. Traditional medicines remained as the most affordable and easily accessible source of treatment in the primary health care system among diverse communities in Ethiopia. The Oromo community living in the prehis...

    Authors: Anteneh Belayneh and Negussie F Bussa
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:18
  4. North-West of Pakistan is bestowed with medicinal plant resources due to diverse geographical and habitat conditions. The traditional use of plants for curing various diseases forms an important part of the re...

    Authors: Muhammad Adnan, Ihsan Ullah, Akash Tariq, Waheed Murad, Azizullah Azizullah, Abdul Latif Khan and Nawab Ali
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:16
  5. Bodhi beads are a Buddhist prayer item made from seeds. Bodhi beads have a large and emerging market in China, and demand for the beads has particularly increased in Buddhism regions, especially Tibet. Many pe...

    Authors: Feifei Li, Jianqin Li, Bo Liu, Jingxian Zhuo and Chunlin Long
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:15
  6. Worldwide, mestizo communities’s ethnobotanical knowledge has been poorly studied. Based on a mestizo group in Mexico, this study assesses a) the use value (UV) of the local flora, b) gendered differences in p...

    Authors: Leonardo Beltrán-Rodríguez, Amanda Ortiz-Sánchez, Nestor A Mariano, Belinda Maldonado-Almanza and Victoria Reyes-García
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:14
  7. This paper constitutes an important ethnobiological survey in the context of utilizing biological resources by residents of Kala Chitta hills of Pothwar region, Pakistan. The fundamental aim of this research e...

    Authors: Muhammad Arshad, Mushtaq Ahmad, Ejaz Ahmed, Abdul Saboor, Azhar Abbas and Shumaila Sadiq
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:13
  8. Riparian forests provide ecosystem services that are essential for human well-being. The Pepital River is the main water supply for Alcântara (Brazil) and its forests are disappearing. This is affecting water ...

    Authors: Danielle Celentano, Guillaume Xavier Rousseau, Vera Lex Engel, Cristiane Lima Façanha, Elivaldo Moreira de Oliveira and Emanoel Gomes de Moura
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:11
  9. In Solomon Islands, forests have provided people with ecological services while being affected by human use and protection. This study used a quantitative ethnobotanical analysis to explore the society–forest ...

    Authors: Takuro Furusawa, Myknee Qusa Sirikolo, Masatoshi Sasaoka and Ryutaro Ohtsuka
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:10
  10. There is continued reliance on conventional veterinary drugs including anthelmintics, to some of which resistance has developed. Loss of indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) from societies affects the opportun...

    Authors: Immaculate Nabukenya, Chris Rubaire-Akiiki, Deogracious Olila, Kokas Ikwap and Johan Höglund
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:9
  11. Consumption of turtles by natives and settlers in the Amazon and Orinoco has been widely studied in scientific communities. Accepted cultural customs and the local dietary and monetary needs need to be taken i...

    Authors: Jackson Pantoja-Lima, Paulo HR Aride, Adriano T de Oliveira, Daniely Félix-Silva, Juarez CB Pezzuti and George H Rebêlo
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:8
  12. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) has been discussed in terms of its similarities to and its potential to complement normative scientific knowledge. In this study, we compared the knowledge of a Brazilian quilombo...

    Authors: Helbert Medeiros Prado, Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta, Cristina Adams and Eduardo Sonnewend Brondizio
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:7
  13. Homegardens are ecologically and culturally important systems for cultivating medicinal plants for wellbeing by healers and farmers in Naxi communities of the Sino Himalayan region. The cultivation of medicina...

    Authors: Lixin Yang, Selena Ahmed, John Richard Stepp, Kai Mi, Yanqiang Zhao, Junzeng Ma, Chen Liang, Shengji Pei, Huyin Huai, Gang Xu, Alan C Hamilton, Zhi-wei Yang and Dayuan Xue
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:6
  14. We can conserve cultural heritage and gain extensive knowledge of plant species with pharmacological potential to cure simple to life-threatening diseases by studying the use of plants in indigenous communitie...

    Authors: Dol Raj Luitel, Maan B Rokaya, Binu Timsina and Zuzana Münzbergová
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:5
  15. Bapedi traditional healers play a vital role in the primary health care of rural inhabitants in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. However, literature profiling their social and demographic variables, as well...

    Authors: Sebua S Semenya and Martin J Potgieter
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:4
  16. The Quilombola communities of Ipiranga and Gurugi, located in Atlantic Rainforest in Southern of Paraíba state, have stories that are interwoven throughout time. The practice of meliponicultura has been carrie...

    Authors: Roberta Monique Amâncio de Carvalho, Celso Feitosa Martins and José da Silva Mourão
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:3
  17. Data from an ethnobotanical study were analyzed to see if they were in agreement with the biochemical basis of the apparency hypothesis based on an analysis of a pharmacopeia in a rural community adjacent to t...

    Authors: Alejandro Lozano, Elcida Lima Araújo, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:2
  18. Investigations into knowledge about food and medicinal plants in a certain geographic area or within a specific group are an important element of ethnobotanical research. This knowledge is context specific and...

    Authors: Ruth Haselmair, Heidemarie Pirker, Elisabeth Kuhn and Christian R Vogl
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:1
  19. Ethnoveterinary knowledge is highly significant for persistence of traditional community-based approaches to veterinary care. This is of particular importance in the context of developing and emerging countrie...

    Authors: Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Mir Ajab Khan, Cassandra Leah Quave and Andrea Pieroni
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:84
  20. Agroforestry is a sustainable land use method with a long tradition in the Bolivian Andes. A better understanding of people’s knowledge and valuation of woody species can help to adjust actor-oriented agrofore...

    Authors: Regine Brandt, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Susanne Lachmuth, Isabell Hensen and Stephan Rist
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:83
  21. Liáng chá (“cooling tea”, “herbal tea” or “cool tisane” in Chinese) are herbal drinks widely produced in southern China and consumed by billions of people worldwide to prevent and treat internal heat as well as a...

    Authors: Yujing Liu, Selena Ahmed and Chunlin Long
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:82
  22. We report on a comparative ethno-ornithological study of Zapotec and Cuicatec communities in Northern Oaxaca, Mexico that provided a challenge to some existing descriptions of folk classification. Our default ...

    Authors: Graciela Alcántara-Salinas, Roy F Ellen, Leopoldo Valiñas-Coalla, Javier Caballero and Arturo Argueta-Villamar
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:81
  23. Common sense [CS], especially that of the non-scientist, can have predictive power to identify promising research avenues, as humans anywhere on Earth have always looked for causal links to understand, shape a...

    Authors: Thomas C Erren, Melissa S Koch and V Benno Meyer-Rochow
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:80
  24. Despite being an ancient practice that satisfies basic human needs, the use of wild edible plants tends to be forgotten along with associated knowledge in rural communities. The objective of this work is to an...

    Authors: Margarita Paloma Cruz, Nivaldo Peroni and Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:79
  25. The dietary shift from indigenous and traditional plants (ITPs) to cash crops and exotic plant food sources increases the risk of malnutrition and other nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, especially ...

    Authors: Marinka van der Hoeven, Jennifer Osei, Minrie Greeff, Annamarie Kruger, Mieke Faber and Cornelius M Smuts
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:78
  26. The Indigenous knowledge of plants is scientifically and culturally very significant. This paper elucidates the empirical findings of an ethnobotanical survey of Banda Daud Shah, District Karak, Pakistan.

    Authors: Waheed Murad, Azizullah Azizullah, Muhammad Adnan, Akash Tariq, Kalim Ullah Khan, Saqib Waheed and Ashfaq Ahmad
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:77
  27. Selection criteria are important for analyzing domestication of perennial plant species, which experience a selection pressure throughout several human generations. We analyze the preferred morphological chara...

    Authors: Xitlali Aguirre-Dugua, Edgar Pérez-Negrón and Alejandro Casas
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:76
  28. The shifting baseline syndrome is a concept from ecology that can be analyzed in the context of ethnobotanical research. Evidence of shifting baseline syndrome can be found in studies dealing with intracultura...

    Authors: Natalia Hanazaki, Dannieli Firme Herbst, Mel Simionato Marques and Ina Vandebroek
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:75
  29. The Tehuacán Valley is one of the areas of Mesoamerica with the oldest history of plant management. Homegardens are among the most ancient management systems that currently provide economic benefits to people ...

    Authors: Carolina Larios, Alejandro Casas, Mariana Vallejo, Ana Isabel Moreno-Calles and José Blancas
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:74
  30. The country of Madagascar is renowned for its high level of biodiversity and endemism, as well as the overwhelming pressures and threats placed on the natural resources by a growing population and climate chan...

    Authors: Mendrika Razafindraibe, Alyse R Kuhlman, Harison Rabarison, Vonjison Rakotoarimanana, Charlotte Rajeriarison, Nivo Rakotoarivelo, Tabita Randrianarivony, Fortunat Rakotoarivony, Reza Ludovic, Armand Randrianasolo and Rainer W Bussmann
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:73
  31. Recent reviews have demonstrated an increase in the number of papers on ethnobiology in Latin America. Among factors that have influenced this increase are the biological and cultural diversity of these countr...

    Authors: Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Josivan Soares Silva, Juliana Loureiro Almeida Campos, Rosemary Silva Sousa, Taline Cristina Silva and Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:72
  32. We test whether traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) about how to make an item predicts a person’s skill at making it among the Tsimane’ (Bolivia). The rationale for this research is that the failure to dist...

    Authors: Eric P Kightley, Victoria Reyes-García, Kathryn Demps, Ruth V Magtanong, Victoria C Ramenzoni, Gayatri Thampy, Maximilien Gueze and John Richard Stepp
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:71
  33. Plants have widely been used and documented for their therapeutic potential in many parts of the world. There are, however, few reports on the use of plants for the treatment of diseases of equines. To this en...

    Authors: Khurram Goraya, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Sohail Sajid, Ghulam Muhammad, Qurat ul Ain and Muhammad Saleem
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:70
  34. This paper reports an ethnobotanical study that focused on the traditional medicinal plants used by local communities to treat human and livestock ailments. A cross-sectional study was undertaken from Septembe...

    Authors: Moa Megersa, Zemede Asfaw, Ensermu Kelbessa, Abebe Beyene and Bizuneh Woldeab
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:68
  35. Despite the widespread use of medicinal plants in Mali, knowledge about how traditional practitioners (TPs) treat pregnant and lactating women is lacking.

    Authors: Hedvig Nordeng, Waled Al-Zayadi, Drissa Diallo, Ngolo Ballo and Berit Smestad Paulsen
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:67
  36. The association among food and health is momentous as consumers now demand healthy, tasty and natural functional foods. Knowledge of such food is mainly transmitted through the contribution of individuals of h...

    Authors: Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Mir Ajab Khan, Munir H Shah, Mohammad Maroof Shah, Arshad Pervez and Mushtaq Ahmad
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:66
  37. The Ethiopian people have been dependent on traditional medicine, mainly medicinal plants, from time immemorial for control of human and animal health problems, and they still remain to be largely dependent on...

    Authors: Abraha Teklay, Balcha Abera and Mirutse Giday
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:65
  38. Wild orchids are illegally harvested and traded in Nepal for use in local traditional medicine, horticulture, and international trade. This study aims to: 1) identify the diversity of species of wild orchids i...

    Authors: Abishkar Subedi, Bimal Kunwar, Young Choi, Yuntao Dai, Tinde van Andel, Ram P Chaudhary, Hugo J de Boer and Barbara Gravendeel
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:64
  39. Ankober District has long been inhabited by people who have a long tradition of using medicinal plants to treat human ailments. Overexploitation of medicinal plants coupled with an ever-increasing population g...

    Authors: Ermias Lulekal, Zemede Asfaw, Ensermu Kelbessa and Patrick Van Damme
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:63
  40. This study aimed to record the use, and knowledge that residents from São Francisco community (Paraiba, Brazil) have regarding the Cactaceae.

    Authors: 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 and Ernane Nogueira Nunes
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:62
  41. Ethnobotanical studies on the use of plants amongst migrant populations are of great relevance to public health. Traditional health strategies, which incorporate plants as medicines, foods, or both – can play ...

    Authors: Sandy Jiang and Cassandra L Quave
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:61
  42. A literature review revealed heavy reliance on a few key publications for identification of medicinal plant species from local or vernacular names and a lack of citation of voucher specimens in many publicatio...

    Authors: Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Gary J Martin, Bronwen Powell, Gabrielle Esser and Abdelaziz Abbad
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:59
  43. This paper is a review of local plants used in water infusions as aromatic and refreshing hot beverages (recreational tea) consumed in food-related settings in Europe, and not for specific medicinal purposes. ...

    Authors: 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 and Behxhet Mustafa
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:58
  44. The healing knowledge of a Sami (Saami) hunter and reindeer herder was surveyed as a window into the concepts of health, healing, and disease in early twentieth-century Sapmi (Northern Sweden). The two books o...

    Authors: Thomas A DuBois and Jonathan F Lang
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:57
  45. The present study addresses the use of zootherapy in the traditional healthcare system of the Biate tribe of Dima Hasao district, Assam, India. It sought to identify the different species used for zootherapeut...

    Authors: Albert Lalduhawma Sajem Betlu
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:56
  46. This study characterized the botanical knowledge of artisanal fishers of the Lami community, Porto Alegre, southern Brazil based on answers to the following question: Is the local botanical knowledge of the ar...

    Authors: Marcela Meneghetti Baptista, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Gabriela Coelho-de-Souza and Mara Rejane Ritter
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:54

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