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Letting Go of “Natural Kind”: Toward a Multidimensional Framework of Nonarbitrary Classification [PDF]

, 2018
This article uses the case study of ethnobiological classification to develop a positive and a negative thesis about the state of natural kind debates.
Ludwig, David
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Species Richness and Traditional Knowledge of Macrofungi (Mushrooms) in the Awing Forest Reserve and Communities, Northwest Region, Cameroon

Journal of Mycology, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
Macrofungi are diverse in their uses as food and medicine and several species serve as decomposers and also form mycorrhizal associations. Awing forest reserve is diverse in plants and fungi species. However, no work has been carried out to assess the diversity and traditional knowledge of macrofungi in the area.
Tonjock Rosemary Kinge, Nkengmo Apiseh Apalah, Theobald Mue Nji, Ache Neh Acha, Afui Mathias Mih, Leo Van Griensven   +5 more
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The ethnomycological knowledge of Karajá indigenous people from Bananal Island, Brazil. [PDF]

PLoS One
The Cerrado is home to a diversity of traditional communities, among which indigenous and quilombola peoples stand out. The Karajá are one of the ethnic groups in this biome, with a rich history and culture that goes back centuries. They mainly inhabit the regions of the Araguaia and Javaés rivers, occupying lands in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso ...
Reis MJD, Leonardo-Silva L, Xavier-Santos S.   +2 more
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Evaluation of the chemical and antioxidant properties of wild and cultivated mushrooms of Ghana [PDF]

, 2014
Knowledge of the chemical composition of both wild and cultivated edible mushrooms in Ghana is limited. This study reports their nutritional value, composition in lipophilic and hydrophilic molecules, minerals and antioxidant properties. The samples were
Barros, Lillian, Dzomeku, Matilda, Fernandes, Ângela, Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R., Mensah, Deborah L. Narh, Obodai, Mary, Prempeh, Juanita, Takli, Richard K., Urben, Arailde F.   +8 more
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Towards the antioxidant and chemical characterization of mycorrhizal mushrooms from Northeast Portugal [PDF]

, 2011
Mushrooms are widely appreciated all over the world for their nutritional properties and pharmacological value as sources of important bioactive compounds. Mycorrhizal macrofungi associate with plant roots constituting a symbiotic relationship.
Barros, Lillian, Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R., Heleno, Sandrina A., Martins, Anabela, Reis, Filipa S., Santos-Buelga, Celestino, Sousa, Maria João   +6 more
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Wild food plants and wild edible fungi of Heihe valley (Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi, central China): herbophilia and indifference to fruits and mushrooms

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2012
The aim of the study was to investigate knowledge and use of wild food plants and fungi in Han (i.e. Chinese) nationality villages in central China, including famine plants used in the respondents' childhood.
Yongxiang Kang, Łukasz Łuczaj, Sebastian Ye, Shijiao Zhang, Jin Kang   +4 more
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Comparative phylogenetic methods and the cultural evolution of medicinal plant use [PDF]

, 2018
Human life depends on plant biodiversity and the ways in which plants are used are culturally determined. Whilst anthropologists have used phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) to gain an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the evolution of ...
A Begossi, A Pieroni, A Touwaide, A Waldstein, B Berlin, B Greenwood, BA Beheim, BC Bennett, C Bowern, C Lacuna-Richman, C Patterson, CA Botero, CH Saslis-Lagoudakis, CH Saslis-Lagoudakis, CH Saslis-Lagoudakis, CL Nunn, CL Nunn, CL Quave, CM Obermeyer, D Rivera, DA Reznick, DE Moerman, DQ Fuller, DQ Fuller, E Thomas, EB Tylor, ENF Souza, ENF Souza, F Zhu, G Menendez-Baceta, G Volpato, GH Shepard, GM Foster, H Rangan, HJ Boer De, hM Heinri, I Teixidor-Toneu, I Teixidor-Toneu, I Vandebroek, J Felsenstein, J Henrich, JA Hawkins, JA Hawkins, JH Steward, K Bostoen, K Chirkova, K Yessoufou, KR Kirby, LLinguistic Maffi, M Borgerhoff Mulder, M Heinrich, M Heinrich, M Leonti, M Leonti, M Leonti, M Leonti, MGG Pinna De, ML Leporatti, MS Geck, N Rønsted, P Turchin, PM Medeiros, R Cámara-Leret, R Ellen, R Mace, R Mace, R Mace, RA Voeks, RD Gray, RD Gray, RJM Fuller, RL Kendal, RMW Dixon, S Collins, S Gairola, S Molares, S Shennan, SC Levinson, SJ Greenhill, T Andel Van, T Vossen, TE Currie, TE Currie, UP Albuquerque, UP Albuquerque, V Reyes-García, W Cornwell, X Perrier   +87 more
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Wild food plants and fungi used by Ukrainians in the western part of the Maramureş region in Romania

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2015
Wild food and fungi use in the countryside has always been an important part of human-nature relationships. Due to social changes in most rural areas of Europe this part of traditional ecological knowledge is shrinking. The aim of our study was to record
Łukasz Łuczaj, Kinga Stawarczyk, Tomasz Kosiek, Marcin Pietras, Anna Kujawa   +4 more
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Co-ingestion of amatoxins and isoxazoles-containing mushrooms and successful treatment: A case report [PDF]

, 2015
Mushroom poisonings occur when ingestion of wild mushrooms containing toxins takes place, placing the consumers at life-threatening risk. In the present case report, an unusual multiple poisoning with isoxazoles- and amatoxins-containing mushrooms in a ...
Andrade, Sérgio, Baptista, Paula, Bastos, Maria de Lourdes, Carneiro, Ana Cristina, Carvalho, Félix, Conceição, Filipe, Costa, Ana Elisa, Costa, Vera M., Garcia, Juliana, Paiva, José Artur, Pinho, P. Guedes de   +10 more
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Ethnomycological Studies in Anatolia from Past to Present

Journal of Fungus, 2022
Edible and medicinal wild mushrooms have been valuable natural sources of ethnofood and ethnomedicine since ancient times. Wild mushrooms growing in Anatolia have seasonally been collected from nature for traditional recipes and traditional treatments by indigenous people for hundreds of years. In addition, economically important wild mushrooms such as
Sanem Bulam, Aysun Pekşen, Nebahat Üstün   +2 more
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