Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies

Amazonian biocultural heritage under climate change

This study assesses how climate change will impact Amazonian biological and cultural heritage by analyzing plant species and Indigenous knowledge.

A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance

This study compiles a national checklist of edible crop wild relatives in Zimbabwe, highlighting their diversity, utility, and conservation needs.

Small grassland patches are hotspots for medicinal plants and associated phytochemical diversity in European agricultural landscapes

This study identifies ancient burial mounds as conservation hotspots for medicinal plants and phytochemical diversity in European agricultural landscapes.

Random patterns of medicinal plants on a phylogeny do not imply random selections of medicinal plants

The paper challenges the assumption that random phylogenetic patterns in medicinal plants indicate random human selection, proposing a framework to interpret selection patterns more accurately.