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Ethnoecology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Ethnoecology – the study of cultural explications of nature – generates insights into the interface between peoples and the more-than-human world. Ecology is the scientific study of the interrelationships between plants, animals, and the environment, and
Faulstich, Paul
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Different Ecological Niches of Poisonous Aristolochia clematitis in Central and Marginal Distribution Ranges—Another Contribution to a Better Understanding of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy [PDF]

open access: yesPlants, 2023
Aristolochia clematitis L. is a perennial herbaceous plant distributed throughout Europe, Asia Minor and Caucasus. It has been used as a medicinal plant since antiquity but not in recent times because it contains poisonous aristolochic acid, causing ...
Ivan Brzić   +14 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Ethnoecology of pollination and pollinators [PDF]

open access: yesRevue d'ethnoécologie, 2015
This paper brings together three case studies on the interrelationships amongst people, pollination processes and pollinators (notably honeybees).
Marie Roué   +3 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Applied research in ethnoecology: Fieldwork experiences [PDF]

open access: yesAntropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red, 2012
Ethnoecology studies human beings’ relation with their environment aiming at understanding several current social-ecological problems such as ecological degradation and loss of cultural diversity, mainly from a local point of view.
Isabel Ruíz-Mallén   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Shifting Herbal Knowledge: The Ecological and Cultural Dynamics Behind Plant Use Changes in the Southern Occitan Alps [PDF]

open access: yesPlants
This study examines changes in medicinal and wild food plant knowledge in the Alpine Southern Occitan area, focusing on temporal and cultural shifts.
Mousaab Alrhmoun   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Multiple Uses of Wild Edible Trees by a Nahua-Origin Community in Western Mexico [PDF]

open access: yesPlants
Wild edible trees (WETs) play an important role in the diet of many rural communities. Therefore, research on their use and management is important to support both food sovereignty and local conservation of biocultural resources.
Alana Pacheco-Flores   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Caiçara Ethnoecology: artisanal fishermen's knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesBiotemas, 2007
Through artisanal fishing, the fishermen explore the aquatic environment in a specific manner, maintaining a great diversity of direct interactions with the environment.
Natalia Hanazaki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnoecology - The best medicine against allergy? [PDF]

open access: yesJ Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2015
This essay, which is the 6(th) in the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and Their First Time in the Field", is a personal reflection by the researcher on his first field experiences with ethnobiology. Author writes on how Hungarian herders in the Hortobágy salt steppes and Csángó people in the Carpathian mountains ...
Molnár Z.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics

open access: yesQuaternary, 2021
The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations.
Charles R. Clement   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Le maïs et la mémoire bioculturelle de Mésoamérique

open access: yesRevue d'ethnoécologie, 2021
Our contribution focuses on revisiting the theme of maize and the regenerative traditional agricultural system called milpa (corn-beans-squash) in its cosmogonic, cognitive, and practical context within the Mesoamerican agricultural tradition.
Víctor M. Toledo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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