What is it about?
It focuses on three important entities: multipurpose, medicinal, and wild edible plant species associated with the local knowledge. This article also showed the floristic similarities using Sorensen's Coefficient Similarity Index with the surrounding districts.
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Why is it important?
Ethnobotany is a living science for alleviating human suffering from health and food scarcity. In this respect, our study is a baseline finding for further studies on phytochemical and nutritional developments.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure, as it features co-authors with whom I have had long-standing collaborations. In order to provide relevant information, this article used ethnobotanical techniques, including both etic and emic approaches.
Dr. Misganaw Meragiaw
Addis Ababa University
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This page is a summary of: Ethnobotanical survey of multipurpose, medicinal and wild edible plants in the upper Gibe watershed landscapes, West Shewa zone, Ethiopia, Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, August 2024, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2024.2395843.
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