The use of non-cultivated plants in a daily diet based on local cuisines is potentially of
considerable interest to nutritional scientists, because of the plants' role as local products …

Strong feedback between global biodiversity loss and persistent, extreme rural poverty are
major challenges in the face of concurrent food, energy, and environmental crises. This …

The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred
because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical …

An ethnobiological field study on food plants and medicinal foods traditionally consumed in
three Arbëresh (ethnic Albanian) communities in northern Lucania (southern Italy) document …

The use of local Mediterranean food plants is at the brink of disappearance. Even though
there is relatively abundant information on inventories of wild edible taxa, there is also a …

Discover neglected wild food sources—that can also be used as medicine! The long-
standing notion of “food as medicine, medicine as food,” can be traced back to Hippocrates …

Study of the ecological and economic effects of invasive species has paralleled their
progressively pervasive influence worldwide, yet their cultural impacts remain largely …

Local Knowledge Systems (LKS) consist of the knowledge, beliefs, traditions, practices,
institutions, and worldviews developed and sustained by indigenous and local communities …

Pollinator dependency is a life history trait that affects the evolutionary trajectory of individual
plant species and their pollinators. It has consequences for plant communities, particularly in …

The Cultural Value of Invasive Species: A Case Study from Semi–Arid Northeastern Brazil.
Invasive species are often considered the pariahs of the plant kingdom. In this study, we …