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