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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. The idea that knowledge flows through social networks is implicit in research on traditional knowledge, but researchers have paid scant attention to the role of social networks in shaping its distribution. We ...

    Authors: 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 and Teresa Garnatje
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:53
  8. Skin diseases have been of major concern recently due to their association with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). The study area (northern Maputaland) has t...

    Authors: Helene De Wet, Sibongile Nciki and Sandy F van Vuuren
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:51
  9. A consolidated list of edible insects used in the eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh (N.E. India) by Wangcho (Wancho) and Nocte tribes of the Tirap District and the Shingpo, Tangsa, Deori and Chakma of the Chan...

    Authors: Jharna Chakravorty, Sampat Ghosh and V Benno Meyer-Rochow
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:50
  10. People influence their environments through the manipulation of landscapes and species. Human influence on the landscape may lead to the development of differentiated landscape units that originate from past u...

    Authors: Lucas de Souza Milanesi, Nivaldo Peroni and Maurício Sedrez dos Reis
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:47
  11. This essay represents the first editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field". In this memoir, the author details the evolvement and i...

    Authors: Füsun Ertuğ
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:45
  12. Many ecosystem services provided by forests are important for the livelihoods of indigenous people. Sacred forests are used for traditional practices by the ethnic minorities in northern Thailand and they prot...

    Authors: Auemporn Junsongduang, Henrik Balslev, Angkhana Inta, Arunothai Jampeetong and Prasit Wangpakapattanawong
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:44
  13. The usage of medicinal plants is traditionally rooted in Bangladesh and still an essential part of public healthcare. Recently, a dramatically increasing prevalence brought diabetes mellitus and its therapy to...

    Authors: Soeren Ocvirk, Martin Kistler, Shusmita Khan, Shamim Hayder Talukder and Hans Hauner
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:43
  14. Heracleum persicum was introduced to Norway as an ornamental in the 1830′s. Towards the end of the 19th century, it started spreading outside gardens, later to become a frequent sight in the major towns and settl...

    Authors: Torbjørn Alm
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:42
  15. The Chilean temperate rainforest has been subjected to dramatic fragmentation for agriculture and forestry exploitation. Carnivore species are particularly affected by fragmentation and the resulting resource ...

    Authors: Thora M Herrmann, Elke Schüttler, Pelayo Benavides, Nicolas Gálvez, Lisa Söhn and Nadja Palomo
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:41
  16. Global changes that affect local societies may cause the loss of ecological knowledge. The process of cultural change in Zapotec communities of the Oaxacan Isthmus intensified during the first years of the 20th c...

    Authors: Alfredo Saynes-Vásquez, Javier Caballero, Jorge A Meave and Fernando Chiang
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:40
  17. Management types and their intensity may vary according to indicators such as: (1) practices complexity, (2) degree of techniques specialization, (3) occurrence and types of social regulations, (4) artificial ...

    Authors: José Blancas, Alejandro Casas, Diego Pérez-Salicrup, Javier Caballero and Ernesto Vega
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:39
  18. The Tehuacán Valley, Mexico is a region with exceptionally high biocultural richness. Traditional knowledge in this region comprises information on nearly 1,600 plant species used by local peoples to satisfy t...

    Authors: Yaayé Arellanes, Alejandro Casas, Anselmo Arellanes, Ernesto Vega, José Blancas, Mariana Vallejo, Ignacio Torres, Selene Rangel-Landa, Ana I Moreno, Leonor Solís and Edgar Pérez-Negrón
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:38
  19. Peru is what Peruvian anthropologist Lupe Camino calls the “health axis” of the old Central Andean culture area stretching from Ecuador to Bolivia. In particular in the North of the country the traditional use...

    Authors: Rainer W Bussmann, Narel Paniagua-Zambrana, Marinoli Rivas Chamorro, Natalia Molina Moreira, María Luisa del Rosario Cuadros Negri and Jose Olivera
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:37
  20. Mushrooms generate strong and contrasting feelings ranging from extreme aversion to intense liking. To categorize these attitudes, Wasson and Wasson coined the dichotomic terms “mycophilia” and “mycophobia” in...

    Authors: Felipe Ruan-Soto, Javier Caballero, Carlos Martorell, Joaquín Cifuentes, Alma Rosa González-Esquinca and Roberto Garibay-Orijel
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:36
  21. New kinds of knowledge, usage patterns and management strategies of natural resources emerge in local communities as a way of coping with uncertainty in a changing world. Studying how human groups adapt and cr...

    Authors: Fernando Zamudio, Eduardo Bello-Baltazar and Erin IJ Estrada-Lugo
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:35
  22. Plants have traditionally been used for treatment of human and livestock ailments in Ethiopia by different ethnic and social groups. However, this valuable source of knowledge is not adequately documented, whi...

    Authors: Ketema Tolossa, Etana Debela, Spiridoula Athanasiadou, Adugna Tolera, Gebeyehu Ganga and Jos GM Houdijk
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:32
  23. Folk names of plants are the root of traditional plant biodiversity knowledge. In pace with social change and economic development, Mongolian knowledge concerning plant diversity is gradually vanishing. Collec...

    Authors: Soyolt, Galsannorbu, Yongping, Wunenbayar, Guohou Liu and Khasbagan
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:30
  24. Fruit from the palm Mauritia flexuosa (aguaje) is harvested throughout the Peruvian Amazon for subsistence and commercial purposes. Recent estimates suggest that residents of Iquitos, the largest city in the regi...

    Authors: Michael P Gilmore, Bryan A Endress and Christa M Horn
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:29
  25. Locally harvested wild edible plants (WEPs) provide food as well as cash income for indigenous people and are of great importance in ensuring global food security. Some also play a significant role in maintain...

    Authors: Yan Ju, Jingxian Zhuo, Bo Liu and Chunlin Long
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:28
  26. Most rural people in the Limpopo Province depend on plant resources to meet their livelihood needs. However, there is insufficient recorded information regarding their use and management. The current study the...

    Authors: Marula T Rasethe, Sebua S Semenya, Martin J Potgieter and Alfred Maroyi
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:27
  27. The aim of the study was to investigate knowledge and use of wild food plants in two mountain valleys separated by Mount Taibai – the highest peak of northern China and one of its biodiversity hotspots, each a...

    Authors: Yongxiang Kang, Łukasz Łuczaj, Jin Kang and Shijiao Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:26
  28. Due to its diverse geographical and habitat conditions, northern Pakistan harbors a wealth of medicinal plants. The plants and their traditional use are part of the natural and cultural heritage of the region....

    Authors: Naveed Akhtar, Abdur Rashid, Waheed Murad and Erwin Bergmeier
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:25
  29. Modern therapeutic medicine is historically based on indigenous therapies and ethnopharmacological uses, which have become recognized tools in the search for new sources of pharmaceuticals. Globalization of he...

    Authors: Ripu M Kunwar, Laxmi Mahat, Ram P Acharya and Rainer W Bussmann
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:24
  30. Medicinal plant species contribute significantly to folk medicine in Colombia. However, few local studies have investigated whether species used are introduced or native and whether there is a difference in im...

    Authors: Ana Lucía Cadena-González, Marten Sørensen and Ida Theilade
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:23
  31. Ethnobotanical surveys of the Western Balkans are important for the cross-cultural study of local plant knowledge and also for obtaining baseline data, which is crucial for fostering future rural development a...

    Authors: Andrea Pieroni, Besnik Rexhepi, Anely Nedelcheva, Avni Hajdari, Behxhet Mustafa, Valeria Kolosova, Kevin Cianfaglione and Cassandra L Quave
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:22
  32. Belarus is an Eastern European country, which has been little studied ethnobotanically. The aim of the study was to compare largely unpublished 19th century sources with more contemporary data on the use of wi...

    Authors: Łukasz Łuczaj, Piotr Köhler, Ewa Pirożnikow, Maja Graniszewska, Andrea Pieroni and Tanya Gervasi
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:21
  33. Insects, such as stinkbugs, are able to produce noxious defence chemicals to ward off predators, nevertheless, some ethnic groups have recipes to render them delicious. We provide an example of edible stinkbugs (

    Authors: Catherine Maria Dzerefos, Ed Tadeusz Fernando Witkowski and Rob Toms
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:20
  34. This paper reports an ethnobotanical survey of the traditional uses of medicinal and useful plants in an area of the Pollino National Park, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The study, conducted between 2009 and 201...

    Authors: Paola Di Sanzo, Laura De Martino, Emilia Mancini and Vincenzo De Feo
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:19
  35. The editors of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 8 (2012).

    Authors: Andrea Pieroni
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:16
  36. House flies are of major public health concerns in areas with poor sanitation and hygienic conditions. Unfortunately, sanitation and hygiene have always been ignored in dairy farms particularly in the developi...

    Authors: Hafiz Azhar Ali Khan, Waseem Akram, Sarfraz Ali Shad, Muhammad Razaq, Unsar Naeem-Ullah and Khuram Zia
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:18
  37. Artisanal fishery is one of the most important economic activities for human populations living in coastal areas. The traditional knowledge that fishermen have of fishes is of utmost importance for the establi...

    Authors: Márcia Freire Pinto, José da Silva Mourão and Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:17
  38. The use of ethnoecological tools to evaluate possible damage and loss of biodiversity related to the populations of species under some degree of threat may represent a first step towards integrating the politi...

    Authors: Heitor de Oliveira Braga and Alexandre Schiavetti
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:15
  39. The utilization of birds as pets has been recognized as one of the principal threats to global avifauna. Most of the information about the use and sale of birds as pets has been limited to areas of high biodiv...

    Authors: Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Railson Cidennys Lourenço Leite, Wedson Medeiros Silva Souto, Dandara M M Bezerra and Alan Loures-Ribeiro
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:14
  40. This paper reflects the empirical findings of an ethnobotanical survey which was undertaken in Patriata (New Murree) of district Rawalpindi in Pakistan. The aims and objectives of the study were to document in...

    Authors: Ejaz Ahmed, Muhammad Arshad, Abdul Saboor, Rahmatullah Qureshi, Ghazala Mustafa, Shumaila Sadiq and Sunbal Khalil Chaudhari
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:13

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