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  1. Local ecological knowledge, governance and commercialisation in mangrove–oyster fisheries of the Gambia
  2. One sign might not be enough: intergenerational erosion of tacit storm knowledge among Kachhi fishers in urban Karachi Harbor, Pakistan
  3. Nine Centuries, Seven Words: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Evidence for the Erosion of Gallo-Lucanian Plant Heritage in Inland Southern Italy
  4. Continuity and Change in the Arbëreshë Wild Food Plant Foraging in Inland Southern Italy
  5. Ecological fingerprints of mountain migration in wild food plants of North Macedonian and other Balkan Gorani
  6. Local farmers, custodians of wild food plant knowledge and uses in the touristified Venice Lagoon
  7. A global biodiversity use data infrastructure acknowledging indigenous and local knowledge
  8. “I know a lot about medicinal plants. I read, I watch, and I search": towards hybrid knowledge systems in the modern era
  9. Where medicinal plants are enjoyed as a tea: Ethnobotany of herbal teas in the coastal region of Syria
  10. Time Travel Within the History of Ethnobotany
  11. Searching for a ghost?! The vain ethnobotany of foraging in three coastal Mediterranean areas
  12. Impacts of invasive algae from the perspective of fishers in the Lagoon of Venice, Northern Italy
  13. Stakeholder Analysis for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study from the Living Lab Schouwen-Duiveland, The Netherlands
  14. The Resilience and Change in the Biocultural Heritage of Wild Greens Foraging Among the Arbëreshë Communities in Argolis and Corinthia Areas, Peloponnese, Greece
  15. Perceptions of New Land Among Venetian Migrants in Brazil “Send Me a Pot for Polenta”: Biocultural Adaptation in Letters (1877–1894)
  16. Wild Hops in Breadmaking Among Bulgarians: From History to Modern Perspectives and Future Potentials
  17. Agriculture–Environment Schemes Should Consider Farmers’ Socio-Cultural Background: A Case Study of Estonian Beef Cattle Farmers
  18. Biocultural Diversity at Risk Amidst and Beyond Overtourism: The Decline in Wild Green Foraging in Corfu over the Past 50 Years
  19. Not “just necessity”? Two-x-eco-cultural dilemmas and the ethnobiological importance of the informal grannies’ markets in Moldova
  20. Beekeepers as guardians of apitherapeutic knowledge in Estonia, SW Ukraine, and NE Italy
  21. Native Italian poultry products: the factors influencing consumer perceptions
  22. ‘A Starving Man Does Not Sniff His Food’: Ukrainian Famine Plants during the Holodomor , 1932–1933
  23. Medicinal Plant Use in North Karelia, Finland, in the 2010s
  24. Herbarium with Poetry: How to Connect People and Plants
  25. Fishery and ecology-related knowledge about plants among fishing communities along Laguna Lake, Philippines
  26. “Please list your favourite …”: How to measure online plant knowledge as a component of plant awareness
  27. Small Farmers’ Agricultural Practices and Adaptation Strategies to Perceived Soil Changes in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy
  28. Isolated Mediterranean foraging: wild greens in the matrifocal community of Olympos, Karpathos Island, Greece
  29. Is Boiling Bitter Greens a Legacy of Ancient Crete? Contemporary Foraging in the Minoan Refugium of the Lasithi Plateau
  30. “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
  31. Going or Returning to Nature? Wild Vegetable Uses in the Foraging-Centered Restaurants of Lombardy, Northern Italy
  32. Knowledge in motion: temporal dynamics of wild food plant use in the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian border region
  33. Commons are cared for: Coexistence between humans and wild birds on the island of Kihnu, Estonia
  34. Dark local knowledge: the yet-to-be scientifically discovered and locally acknowledged aspects of local knowledge systems
  35. Cultural vs. State Borders: Plant Foraging by Hawraman and Mukriyan Kurds in Western Iran
  36. Local Wild Food Plants and Food Products in a Multi-Cultural Region: An Exploratory Study among Diverse Ethnic Groups in Bessarabia, Southern Moldova
  37. Keeping their own and integrating the other: medicinal plant use among Ormurs and Pathans in South Waziristan, Pakistan
  38. Ethnobotanical contributions to global fishing communities: a review
  39. 'Everything is protected now, but who protects the local people?': local ecological knowledge of Kihnu Island
  40. Historical Ethnobotany: Interpreting the Old Records
  41. “Forest is integral to life”: people-forest relations in the lower river region, the Gambia
  42. People's migrations and plants for food: a review for fostering sustainability
  43. The importance of the continuity of practice: Ethnobotany of Kihnu island (Estonia) from 1937 to 2021
  44. Bitter Is Better: Wild Greens Used in the Blue Zone of Ikaria, Greece
  45. Gathering wild foods and plant knowledge in Karelia, Finland and Russia
  46. Centralization can jeopardize local wild plant-based food security
  47. Boundaries Are Blurred: Wild Food Plant Knowledge Circulation across the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian Borderland
  48. Traditional foraging for ecological transition? Wild food ethnobotany among three ethnic groups in the highlands of the eastern Hindukush, North Pakistan
  49. Searching for Germane Questions in the Ethnobiology of Food Scouting
  50. The Importance of Becoming Tamed: Wild Food Plants as Possible Novel Crops in Selected Food-Insecure Regions
  51. Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan
  52. Wild food plants gathered by four cultural groups in North Waziristan, Pakistan
  53. The Importance of Being Diverse: The Idiosyncratic Ethnobotany of the Reka Albanian Diaspora in North Macedonia
  54. Plant Use Adaptation in Pamir: Sarikoli Foraging in the Wakhan Area, Northern Pakistan
  55. The Appeal of Ethnobotanical Folklore Records: Medicinal Plant Use in Setomaa, Räpina and Vastseliina Parishes, Estonia (1888–1996)
  56. From Şxex to Chorta: The Adaptation of Maronite Foraging Customs to the Greek Ones in Kormakitis, Northern Cyprus
  57. Promotion of Wild Food Plant Use Diversity in the Soviet Union, 1922–1991
  58. Fishers’ Perspectives: the Drivers Behind the Decline in Fish Catch in Laguna Lake, Philippines
  59. Archaic Food Uses of Large Graminoids in Agro Peligno Wetlands (Abruzzo, Central Italy) Compared With the European Ethnobotanical and Archaeological Literature
  60. Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Galicia in Northeastern Europe, 1805-1905
  61. Hutsuls' perceptions of forests and uses of forest resource in Ukrainian and Romanian Bukovina
  62. Control of foot-and-mouth disease in a closed society: A case study of Soviet Estonia
  63. The nexus between traditional foraging and its sustainability: a qualitative assessment among a few selected Eurasian case studies
  64. Green pharmacy at the tips of your toes: medicinal plants used by Setos and Russians of Pechorsky District, Pskov Oblast (NW Russia)
  65. One more way to support Ukraine: Celebrating its endangered biocultural diversity
  66. Chorta (Wild Greens) in Central Crete: The Bio-Cultural Heritage of a Hidden and Resilient Ingredient of the Mediterranean Diet
  67. 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
  68. “Mushrooms (and a cow) are A Means of Survival for Us”: Dissimilar Ethnomycological Perspectives among Hutsuls and Romanians Living Across The Ukrainian-Romanian Border
  69. Why the ongoing occupation of Ukraine matters to ethnobiology
  70. Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland, and Galicia, 1805-1905
  71. Homogenisation of Biocultural Diversity: Plant Ethnomedicine and Its Diachronic Change in Setomaa and Võromaa, Estonia, in the Last Century
  72. 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
  73. Food Behavior in Emergency Time: Wild Plant Use for Human Nutrition during the Conflict in Syria
  74. Historical Review of Ethnopharmacology in Karelia (1850s–2020s): Herbs and healers
  75. Changements dans l’usage des plantes lors des rituels et des jours de fête sur l’île de Kihnu
  76. 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
  77. “Wild fish are a blessing”: changes in fishing practices and folk fish cuisine around Laguna Lake, Northern Philippines
  78. The Fading Wild Plant Food–Medicines in Upper Chitral, NW Pakistan
  79. Multifarious Trajectories in Plant-Based Ethnoveterinary Knowledge in Northern and Southern Eastern Europe
  80. Active Wild Food Practices among Culturally Diverse Groups in the 21st Century across Latgale, Latvia
  81. Socio–Cultural Significance of Yerba Maté among Syrian Residents and Diaspora
  82. The trauma of no-choice: Wild food ethnobotany in Yaghnobi and Tajik villages, Varzob Valley, Tajikistan
  83. On the Trail of an Ancient Middle Eastern Ethnobotany: Traditional Wild Food Plants Gathered by Ormuri Speakers in Kaniguram, NW Pakistan
  84. 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
  85. Gathered Wild Food Plants among Diverse Religious Groups in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan
  86. Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine
  87. Borders as Crossroads: The Diverging Routes of Herbal Knowledge of Romanians Living on the Romanian and Ukrainian Sides of Bukovina
  88. Language of Administration as a Border: Wild Food Plants Used by Setos and Russians in Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, NW Russia
  89. The Importance of Keeping Alive Sustainable Foraging Practices: Wild Vegetables and Herbs Gathered by Afghan Refugees Living in Mansehra District, Pakistan
  90. “We Became Rich and We Lost Everything”: Ethnobotany of Remote Mountain Villages of Abruzzo and Molise, Central Italy
  91. Dining Tables Divided by a Border: The Effect of Socio-Political Scenarios on Local Ecological Knowledge of Romanians Living in Ukrainian and Romanian Bukovina
  92. 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
  93. We need to appreciate common synanthropic plants before they become rare: Case study in Latgale (Latvia)
  94. Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
  95. The Inextricable Link Between Food and Linguistic Diversity: Wild Food Plants among Diverse Minorities in Northeast Georgia, Caucasus
  96. Medicinal plant use at the beginning of the 21st century among the religious minority in Latgale Region, Latvia
  97. Re-written narrative: transformation of the image of Ivan-chaj in Eastern Europe
  98. Foraging in Boreal Forest: Wild Food Plants of the Republic of Karelia, NW Russia
  99. Knowledge transmission patterns at the border: ethnobotany of Hutsuls living in the Carpathian Mountains of Bukovina (SW Ukraine and NE Romania)
  100. Gaining momentum: Popularization of Epilobium angustifolium as food and recreational tea on the Eastern edge of Europe
  101. Wild Food Thistle Gathering and Pastoralism: An Inextricable Link in the Biocultural Landscape of Barbagia, Central Sardinia (Italy)
  102. Devil Is in the Details: Use of Wild Food Plants in Historical Võromaa and Setomaa, Present-Day Estonia
  103. Wild food plants traditionally gathered in central Armenia: archaic ingredients or future sustainable foods?
  104. Inventing a herbal tradition: The complex roots of the current popularity of Epilobium angustifolium in Eastern Europe
  105. The importance of tolerating interstices: Babushka markets in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their role in maintaining local food knowledge and diversity
  106. Where tulips and crocuses are popular food snacks: Kurdish traditional foraging reveals traces of mobile pastoralism in Southern Iraqi Kurdistan
  107. Scholarly vs. Traditional Knowledge: Effects of Sacred Natural Sites on Ethnobotanical Practices in Tuscany, Central Italy
  108. Resilience in the mountains: biocultural refugia of wild food in the Greater Caucasus Range, Azerbaijan
  109. Blended divergences: local food and medicinal plant uses among Arbëreshë, Occitans, and autochthonous Calabrians living in Calabria, southern Italy
  110. Ethnic and religious affiliations affect traditional wild plant foraging in Central Azerbaijan
  111. 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
  112. Forest as Stronghold of Local Ecological Practice: Currently Used Wild Food Plants in Polesia, Northern Ukraine
  113. Celebrating Multi-Religious Co-Existence in Central Kurdistan: the Bio-Culturally Diverse Traditional Gathering of Wild Vegetables among Yazidis, Assyrians, and Muslim Kurds
  114. Use of cultivated plants and non-plant remedies for human and animal home-medication in Liubań district, Belarus
  115. 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
  116. The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models
  117. Multi-functionality of the few: current and past uses of wild plants for food and healing in Liubań region, Belarus
  118. Traditional food uses of wild plants among the Gorani of South Kosovo
  119. Perceived reasons for changes in the use of wild food plants in Saaremaa, Estonia
  120. Current and Remembered Past Uses of Wild Food Plants in Saaremaa, Estonia: Changes in the Context of Unlearning Debt
  121. The importance of a border: Medical, veterinary, and wild food ethnobotany of the Hutsuls living on the Romanian and Ukrainian sides of Bukovina
  122. Perceiving the Biodiversity of Food at Chest-height: use of the Fleshy Fruits of Wild Trees and Shrubs in Saaremaa, Estonia
  123. Changes in the Use of Wild Food Plants in Estonia
  124. A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
  125. An ethnobotanical perspective on traditional fermented plant foods and beverages in Eastern Europe
  126. EMIC CONCEPTUALIZATION OF A ‘WILD EDIBLE PLANT’ IN ESTONIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY
  127. What are the main criteria of science? Unconventional methods in ethnopharmacology
  128. Where does the border lie: Locally grown plants used for making tea for recreation and/or healing, 1970s–1990s Estonia
  129. Plants used for making recreational tea in Europe: a review based on specific research sites
  130. Wild plants eaten in childhood: a retrospective of Estonia in the 1970s-1990s
  131. Complementary Treatment of the Common Cold and Flu with Medicinal Plants – Results from Two Samples of Pharmacy Customers in Estonia
  132. Uses of tree saps in northern and eastern parts of Europe
  133. Wild food plant use in 21st century Europe: the disappearance of old traditions and the search for new cuisines involving wild edibles
  134. Historical ethnobotanical review of wild edible plants of Estonia (1770s–1960s)
  135. The use of teetaimed in Estonia, 1880s–1990s
  136. Personal and shared: the reach of different herbal landscapes
  137. Gustav Vilbaste kui etnobotaanilise ainese koguja, uurija ja publitseerija; pp. 249-268
  138. Change in medical plant use in Estonian ethnomedicine: A historical comparison between 1888 and 1994
  139. Uninvited Guests: Traditional Insect Repellents in Estonia used Against the Clothes Moth Tineola bisselliella, Human Flea Pulex irritons and Bedbug Cimex lectularius
  140. Plant as Object within Herbal Landscape: Different Kinds of Perception
  141. HERBAL LANDSCAPE: THE PERCEPTION OF LANDSCAPE AS A SOURCE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
  142. HOW THE NAME ARNICA WAS BORROWED INTO ESTONIAN
  143. CLASSIFICATION OF REMEDIES AND MEDICAL PLANTS OF ESTONIAN ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY