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  1. Devil Is in the Details: Use of Wild Food Plants in Historical Võromaa and Setomaa, Present-Day Estonia

    Article • Foods, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  2. Wild food plants traditionally gathered in central Armenia: archaic ingredients or future sustainable foods?

    Article • Environment Development and Sustainability, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  3. Inventing a herbal tradition: The complex roots of the current popularity of Epilobium angustifolium in Eastern Europe

    Article • Journal of Ethnopharmacology, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  4. The importance of tolerating interstices: Babushka markets in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their role in maintaining local food knowledge and diversity

    Article • Heliyon, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  5. Where tulips and crocuses are popular food snacks: Kurdish traditional foraging reveals traces of mobile pastoralism in Southern Iraqi Kurdistan

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  6. Scholarly vs. Traditional Knowledge: Effects of Sacred Natural Sites on Ethnobotanical Practices in Tuscany, Central Italy

    Article • Human Ecology, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  7. Resilience in the mountains: biocultural refugia of wild food in the Greater Caucasus Range, Azerbaijan

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  8. Blended divergences: local food and medicinal plant uses among Arbëreshë, Occitans, and autochthonous Calabrians living in Calabria, southern Italy

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Renata Soukand, Dr Renata Sõukand

  9. Ethnic and religious affiliations affect traditional wild plant foraging in Central Azerbaijan

    Article • Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  10. 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

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  11. Forest as Stronghold of Local Ecological Practice: Currently Used Wild Food Plants in Polesia, Northern Ukraine

    Article • Economic Botany, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  12. Celebrating Multi-Religious Co-Existence in Central Kurdistan: the Bio-Culturally Diverse Traditional Gathering of Wild Vegetables among Yazidis, Assyrians, and Muslim Kurds

    Article • Human Ecology, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  13. Use of cultivated plants and non-plant remedies for human and animal home-medication in Liubań district, Belarus

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  14. 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

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology, July 2017, Society of Ethnobiology

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  15. The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Dr PhD EU pl. Kevin Cianfaglione, Dr Renata Sõukand

  16. Multi-functionality of the few: current and past uses of wild plants for food and healing in Liubań region, Belarus

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  17. Traditional food uses of wild plants among the Gorani of South Kosovo

    Article • Appetite, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  18. Perceived reasons for changes in the use of wild food plants in Saaremaa, Estonia

    Article • Appetite, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  19. Current and Remembered Past Uses of Wild Food Plants in Saaremaa, Estonia: Changes in the Context of Unlearning Debt

    Article • Economic Botany, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  20. The importance of a border: Medical, veterinary, and wild food ethnobotany of the Hutsuls living on the Romanian and Ukrainian sides of Bukovina

    Article • Journal of Ethnopharmacology, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  21. Perceiving the Biodiversity of Food at Chest-height: use of the Fleshy Fruits of Wild Trees and Shrubs in Saaremaa, Estonia

    Article • Human Ecology, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  22. An ethnobotanical perspective on traditional fermented plant foods and beverages in Eastern Europe

    Article • Journal of Ethnopharmacology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  23. EMIC CONCEPTUALIZATION OF A ‘WILD EDIBLE PLANT’ IN ESTONIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY

    Article • Trames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, January 2015, Estonian Academy Publishers

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  24. What are the main criteria of science? Unconventional methods in ethnopharmacology

    Article • Journal of Ethnopharmacology, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  25. Where does the border lie: Locally grown plants used for making tea for recreation and/or healing, 1970s–1990s Estonia

    Article • Journal of Ethnopharmacology, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  26. Plants used for making recreational tea in Europe: a review based on specific research sites

    Article • Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Ingvar Svanberg, Dr Renata Sõukand

  27. Wild plants eaten in childhood: a retrospective of Estonia in the 1970s-1990s

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  28. Complementary Treatment of the Common Cold and Flu with Medicinal Plants – Results from Two Samples of Pharmacy Customers in Estonia

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  29. Uses of tree saps in northern and eastern parts of Europe

    Article • Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, December 2012, Polish Botanical Society

    Mr Ingvar Svanberg, Dr Renata Sõukand

  30. Wild food plant use in 21st century Europe: the disappearance of old traditions and the search for new cuisines involving wild edibles

    Article • Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, November 2012, Polish Botanical Society

    Mr Ingvar Svanberg, Dr Renata Sõukand

  31. Historical ethnobotanical review of wild edible plants of Estonia (1770s–1960s)

    Article • Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, November 2012, Polish Botanical Society

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  32. The use of teetaimed in Estonia, 1880s–1990s

    Article • Appetite, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  33. Personal and shared: the reach of different herbal landscapes

    Article • Estonian Journal of Ecology, January 2012, Estonian Academy Publishers

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  34. Change in medical plant use in Estonian ethnomedicine: A historical comparison between 1888 and 1994

    Article • Journal of Ethnopharmacology, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  35. Uninvited Guests: Traditional Insect Repellents in Estonia used Against the Clothes Moth Tineola bisselliella, Human Flea Pulex irritons and Bedbug Cimex lectularius

    Article • Journal of Insect Science, September 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mr Ingvar Svanberg, Dr Renata Sõukand

  36. Plant as Object within Herbal Landscape: Different Kinds of Perception

    Article • Biosemiotics, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  37. HERBAL LANDSCAPE: THE PERCEPTION OF LANDSCAPE AS A SOURCE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

    Article • Trames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, January 2010, Estonian Academy Publishers

    Dr Renata Sõukand

  38. HOW THE NAME ARNICA WAS BORROWED INTO ESTONIAN

    Article • Trames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, January 2008, Estonian Academy Publishers

    Dr Renata Sõukand