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  1. Stakeholder Analysis for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study from the Living Lab Schouwen-Duiveland, The Netherlands
  2. The Resilience and Change in the Biocultural Heritage of Wild Greens Foraging Among the Arbëreshë Communities in Argolis and Corinthia Areas, Peloponnese, Greece
  3. Perceptions of New Land Among Venetian Migrants in Brazil “Send Me a Pot for Polenta”: Biocultural Adaptation in Letters (1877–1894)
  4. Wild Hops in Breadmaking Among Bulgarians: From History to Modern Perspectives and Future Potentials
  5. Agriculture–Environment Schemes Should Consider Farmers’ Socio-Cultural Background: A Case Study of Estonian Beef Cattle Farmers
  6. Biocultural Diversity at Risk Amidst and Beyond Overtourism: The Decline in Wild Green Foraging in Corfu over the Past 50 Years
  7. Medicinal Plant Use in North Karelia, Finland, in the 2010s
  8. “Please list your favourite …”: How to measure online plant knowledge as a component of plant awareness
  9. Small Farmers’ Agricultural Practices and Adaptation Strategies to Perceived Soil Changes in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy
  10. Isolated Mediterranean foraging: wild greens in the matrifocal community of Olympos, Karpathos Island, Greece
  11. Is Boiling Bitter Greens a Legacy of Ancient Crete? Contemporary Foraging in the Minoan Refugium of the Lasithi Plateau
  12. “But how true that is, I do not know”: the influence of written sources on the medicinal use of fungi across the western borderlands of the former Soviet Union
  13. Going or Returning to Nature? Wild Vegetable Uses in the Foraging-Centered Restaurants of Lombardy, Northern Italy
  14. Knowledge in motion: temporal dynamics of wild food plant use in the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian border region
  15. Cultural vs. State Borders: Plant Foraging by Hawraman and Mukriyan Kurds in Western Iran
  16. Local Wild Food Plants and Food Products in a Multi-Cultural Region: An Exploratory Study among Diverse Ethnic Groups in Bessarabia, Southern Moldova
  17. Keeping their own and integrating the other: medicinal plant use among Ormurs and Pathans in South Waziristan, Pakistan
  18. Ethnobotanical contributions to global fishing communities: a review
  19. 'Everything is protected now, but who protects the local people?': local ecological knowledge of Kihnu Island
  20. Historical Ethnobotany: Interpreting the Old Records
  21. “Forest is integral to life”: people-forest relations in the lower river region, the Gambia
  22. People's migrations and plants for food: a review for fostering sustainability
  23. The importance of the continuity of practice: Ethnobotany of Kihnu island (Estonia) from 1937 to 2021
  24. Bitter Is Better: Wild Greens Used in the Blue Zone of Ikaria, Greece
  25. Gathering wild foods and plant knowledge in Karelia, Finland and Russia
  26. Centralization can jeopardize local wild plant-based food security
  27. Boundaries Are Blurred: Wild Food Plant Knowledge Circulation across the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian Borderland
  28. Traditional foraging for ecological transition? Wild food ethnobotany among three ethnic groups in the highlands of the eastern Hindukush, North Pakistan
  29. Searching for Germane Questions in the Ethnobiology of Food Scouting
  30. The Importance of Becoming Tamed: Wild Food Plants as Possible Novel Crops in Selected Food-Insecure Regions
  31. Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan
  32. Wild food plants gathered by four cultural groups in North Waziristan, Pakistan
  33. The Importance of Being Diverse: The Idiosyncratic Ethnobotany of the Reka Albanian Diaspora in North Macedonia
  34. Plant Use Adaptation in Pamir: Sarikoli Foraging in the Wakhan Area, Northern Pakistan
  35. The Appeal of Ethnobotanical Folklore Records: Medicinal Plant Use in Setomaa, Räpina and Vastseliina Parishes, Estonia (1888–1996)
  36. From Şxex to Chorta: The Adaptation of Maronite Foraging Customs to the Greek Ones in Kormakitis, Northern Cyprus
  37. Promotion of Wild Food Plant Use Diversity in the Soviet Union, 1922–1991
  38. Fishers’ Perspectives: the Drivers Behind the Decline in Fish Catch in Laguna Lake, Philippines
  39. Archaic Food Uses of Large Graminoids in Agro Peligno Wetlands (Abruzzo, Central Italy) Compared With the European Ethnobotanical and Archaeological Literature
  40. Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Galicia in Northeastern Europe, 1805-1905
  41. Hutsuls' perceptions of forests and uses of forest resource in Ukrainian and Romanian Bukovina
  42. Control of foot-and-mouth disease in a closed society: A case study of Soviet Estonia
  43. The nexus between traditional foraging and its sustainability: a qualitative assessment among a few selected Eurasian case studies
  44. Green pharmacy at the tips of your toes: medicinal plants used by Setos and Russians of Pechorsky District, Pskov Oblast (NW Russia)
  45. One more way to support Ukraine: Celebrating its endangered biocultural diversity
  46. Chorta (Wild Greens) in Central Crete: The Bio-Cultural Heritage of a Hidden and Resilient Ingredient of the Mediterranean Diet
  47. Diverse in Local, Overlapping in Official Medical Botany: Critical Analysis of Medicinal Plant Records from the Historic Regions of Livonia and Courland in Northeast Europe, 1829–1895
  48. “Mushrooms (and a cow) are A Means of Survival for Us”: Dissimilar Ethnomycological Perspectives among Hutsuls and Romanians Living Across The Ukrainian-Romanian Border
  49. Why the ongoing occupation of Ukraine matters to ethnobiology
  50. Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland, and Galicia, 1805-1905
  51. Homogenisation of Biocultural Diversity: Plant Ethnomedicine and Its Diachronic Change in Setomaa and Võromaa, Estonia, in the Last Century
  52. Early Citizen Science Action in Ethnobotany: The Case of the Folk Medicine Collection of Dr. Mihkel Ostrov in the Territory of Present-Day Estonia, 1891–1893
  53. Food Behavior in Emergency Time: Wild Plant Use for Human Nutrition during the Conflict in Syria
  54. Historical Review of Ethnopharmacology in Karelia (1850s–2020s): Herbs and healers
  55. Building a safety buffer for European food security: the role of small-scale food production and local ecological and gastronomic knowledge in light of COVID-19
  56. “Wild fish are a blessing”: changes in fishing practices and folk fish cuisine around Laguna Lake, Northern Philippines
  57. The Fading Wild Plant Food–Medicines in Upper Chitral, NW Pakistan
  58. Multifarious Trajectories in Plant-Based Ethnoveterinary Knowledge in Northern and Southern Eastern Europe
  59. Active Wild Food Practices among Culturally Diverse Groups in the 21st Century across Latgale, Latvia
  60. Socio–Cultural Significance of Yerba Maté among Syrian Residents and Diaspora
  61. The trauma of no-choice: Wild food ethnobotany in Yaghnobi and Tajik villages, Varzob Valley, Tajikistan
  62. On the Trail of an Ancient Middle Eastern Ethnobotany: Traditional Wild Food Plants Gathered by Ormuri Speakers in Kaniguram, NW Pakistan
  63. Building a safety buffer for European food security: the role of small-scale food production and local ecological and gastronomic knowledge in light of COVID-19
  64. Gathered Wild Food Plants among Diverse Religious Groups in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan
  65. Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine
  66. Borders as Crossroads: The Diverging Routes of Herbal Knowledge of Romanians Living on the Romanian and Ukrainian Sides of Bukovina
  67. Language of Administration as a Border: Wild Food Plants Used by Setos and Russians in Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, NW Russia
  68. The Importance of Keeping Alive Sustainable Foraging Practices: Wild Vegetables and Herbs Gathered by Afghan Refugees Living in Mansehra District, Pakistan
  69. “We Became Rich and We Lost Everything”: Ethnobotany of Remote Mountain Villages of Abruzzo and Molise, Central Italy
  70. Dining Tables Divided by a Border: The Effect of Socio-Political Scenarios on Local Ecological Knowledge of Romanians Living in Ukrainian and Romanian Bukovina
  71. The name to remember: Flexibility and contextuality of preliterate folk plant categorization from the 1830s, in Pernau, Livonia, historical region on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea
  72. We need to appreciate common synanthropic plants before they become rare: Case study in Latgale (Latvia)
  73. Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
  74. The Inextricable Link Between Food and Linguistic Diversity: Wild Food Plants among Diverse Minorities in Northeast Georgia, Caucasus
  75. Medicinal plant use at the beginning of the 21st century among the religious minority in Latgale Region, Latvia
  76. Re-written narrative: transformation of the image of Ivan-chaj in Eastern Europe
  77. Foraging in Boreal Forest: Wild Food Plants of the Republic of Karelia, NW Russia
  78. Knowledge transmission patterns at the border: ethnobotany of Hutsuls living in the Carpathian Mountains of Bukovina (SW Ukraine and NE Romania)
  79. Gaining momentum: Popularization of Epilobium angustifolium as food and recreational tea on the Eastern edge of Europe
  80. Wild Food Thistle Gathering and Pastoralism: An Inextricable Link in the Biocultural Landscape of Barbagia, Central Sardinia (Italy)
  81. Devil Is in the Details: Use of Wild Food Plants in Historical Võromaa and Setomaa, Present-Day Estonia
  82. Wild food plants traditionally gathered in central Armenia: archaic ingredients or future sustainable foods?
  83. Inventing a herbal tradition: The complex roots of the current popularity of Epilobium angustifolium in Eastern Europe
  84. The importance of tolerating interstices: Babushka markets in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their role in maintaining local food knowledge and diversity
  85. Where tulips and crocuses are popular food snacks: Kurdish traditional foraging reveals traces of mobile pastoralism in Southern Iraqi Kurdistan
  86. Scholarly vs. Traditional Knowledge: Effects of Sacred Natural Sites on Ethnobotanical Practices in Tuscany, Central Italy
  87. Resilience in the mountains: biocultural refugia of wild food in the Greater Caucasus Range, Azerbaijan
  88. Blended divergences: local food and medicinal plant uses among Arbëreshë, Occitans, and autochthonous Calabrians living in Calabria, southern Italy
  89. Ethnic and religious affiliations affect traditional wild plant foraging in Central Azerbaijan
  90. Keeping or changing? Two different cultural adaptation strategies in the domestic use of home country food plant and herbal ingredients among Albanian and Moroccan migrants in Northwestern Italy
  91. Forest as Stronghold of Local Ecological Practice: Currently Used Wild Food Plants in Polesia, Northern Ukraine
  92. Celebrating Multi-Religious Co-Existence in Central Kurdistan: the Bio-Culturally Diverse Traditional Gathering of Wild Vegetables among Yazidis, Assyrians, and Muslim Kurds
  93. Use of cultivated plants and non-plant remedies for human and animal home-medication in Liubań district, Belarus
  94. Are Borders More Important than Geographical Distance? The Wild Food Ethnobotany of the Boykos and its Overlap with that of the Bukovinian Hutsuls in Western Ukraine
  95. The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models
  96. Multi-functionality of the few: current and past uses of wild plants for food and healing in Liubań region, Belarus
  97. Traditional food uses of wild plants among the Gorani of South Kosovo
  98. Perceived reasons for changes in the use of wild food plants in Saaremaa, Estonia
  99. Current and Remembered Past Uses of Wild Food Plants in Saaremaa, Estonia: Changes in the Context of Unlearning Debt
  100. The importance of a border: Medical, veterinary, and wild food ethnobotany of the Hutsuls living on the Romanian and Ukrainian sides of Bukovina
  101. Perceiving the Biodiversity of Food at Chest-height: use of the Fleshy Fruits of Wild Trees and Shrubs in Saaremaa, Estonia
  102. Changes in the Use of Wild Food Plants in Estonia
  103. A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
  104. An ethnobotanical perspective on traditional fermented plant foods and beverages in Eastern Europe
  105. EMIC CONCEPTUALIZATION OF A ‘WILD EDIBLE PLANT’ IN ESTONIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY
  106. What are the main criteria of science? Unconventional methods in ethnopharmacology
  107. Where does the border lie: Locally grown plants used for making tea for recreation and/or healing, 1970s–1990s Estonia
  108. Plants used for making recreational tea in Europe: a review based on specific research sites
  109. Wild plants eaten in childhood: a retrospective of Estonia in the 1970s-1990s
  110. Complementary Treatment of the Common Cold and Flu with Medicinal Plants – Results from Two Samples of Pharmacy Customers in Estonia
  111. Uses of tree saps in northern and eastern parts of Europe
  112. Wild food plant use in 21st century Europe: the disappearance of old traditions and the search for new cuisines involving wild edibles
  113. Historical ethnobotanical review of wild edible plants of Estonia (1770s–1960s)
  114. The use of teetaimed in Estonia, 1880s–1990s
  115. Personal and shared: the reach of different herbal landscapes
  116. Gustav Vilbaste kui etnobotaanilise ainese koguja, uurija ja publitseerija; pp. 249-268
  117. Change in medical plant use in Estonian ethnomedicine: A historical comparison between 1888 and 1994
  118. Uninvited Guests: Traditional Insect Repellents in Estonia used Against the Clothes Moth Tineola bisselliella, Human Flea Pulex irritons and Bedbug Cimex lectularius
  119. Plant as Object within Herbal Landscape: Different Kinds of Perception
  120. HERBAL LANDSCAPE: THE PERCEPTION OF LANDSCAPE AS A SOURCE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
  121. HOW THE NAME ARNICA WAS BORROWED INTO ESTONIAN
  122. CLASSIFICATION OF REMEDIES AND MEDICAL PLANTS OF ESTONIAN ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY