New Insights into Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Systematics, Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Classification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 10684
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ethnobotany; ethnoecology; vegetation; landscape ecology; species diversity; plant invasion; grazing and feed value
Interests: ethnomycology; wild food plants; wild foods; medicinal plants; ethnobotany; edible insects; food history
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wild plants and non-cultivated edible mushrooms have always been around us, but nowadays, in many countries, they once again form a significant part of the diets and folk medicine of people and animals. The influence of climate change on expanding the plant distribution range may change people's eating habits, and climate change also enables the growth of once "exotic alochtoneous" plants and their local application.
This Special Issue seeks to address all contemporary challenges caused by changing environmental conditions (e.g., climate change, natural disasters), as well as the historical and present cross-border migration of people causing changes in traditional ecology knowledge. The legacies of such relationships are visible in the present, and are ultimately important for understanding the human history of past and present landscapes.
This Special Issue welcomes research into agroecosystems from different parts of the world and discusses similarities and differences in the use of edible, medicinal, and economic plants across different cultures and segments of society. Additionally, articles that contribute to the preservation of the tradition of using local varieties of cultivated plants are encouraged for the purpose of preserving traditional local customs and genetic sources of plant seeds (e.g., practices of use, management, and domestication) in order to increase food supplies.
Furthermore, emphasis could be placed on the new processes of the globalization of knowledge through modern Internet technologies and their influence on the survival of different traditional cultures and customs.
Studies should state a clear hypothesis and research question(s) and address them through original research or through a systematic review of the literature. We encourage the publication of research papers where researchers provide guidelines and proposals for the application of ethnobotanical and ethnoecological methods.
The following categories of manuscripts will be considered: scientific articles, review articles, and short pieces of communication.
Dr. Ivana Vitasović Kosić
Dr. Łukasz Łuczaj
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- cross-border ethnobotany knowledge transmission
- traditional ecology praxis
- ethnopharmacology herbal tradition
- ethnoveterinary praxis
- edible wild mushrooms
- ethnoecology
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Montane Environments, Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Wild Plant Procurement in Highland, Chiapas, Mexico and Southern Yunnan, China
Authors: John Richard Stepp
Affiliation: University of Florida
Abstract: Montane environments are significant worldwide for high biocultural diversity. These patterns also appear to extend to traditional ecological knowledge and behavior. This study, based on long term fieldwork with indigenous communities in the Highland Maya region of Southern Mexico and Southern Yunnan, China, examines wild plant procurement for food and medicinal purposes. Knowledge is highly generalized and shared across households and communities, with hundreds of medicinal and wild food plants commonly known. Children play an important role in plant procurement, especially for wild foods. Different sociolinguistic groups tend to choose particular elevations for residences, and then utilize vegetation in a band of between approximately 200-500 meters for virtually all of their plant needs. Each sociolinguistic group is generally found at a distinct elevation, rather than across spatial ranges. Both regions show remarkable similarities in the indigenous communities approach to subsistence and relationships with the biophysical environment.