CHAPTER 3 The Cultural Significance of Wildgathered Plant Species in Kartitsch (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) and the Influence of Socioeconomic Changes on Local Gathering Practices

Christanell, Anja; Vogl-Lukasser, Brigitte; Vogl, Christian R.; Gütler, Marianne

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“…Seven of the culturally most important medicinal plants in South Tyrol (Achillea millefolium agg., Alchemilla xanthochlora, Arnica montana, Hypericum perforatum, Juniperus communis subsp. communis, Sambucus nigra, and Urtica dioica) were also reported to be among the most important medicinal plants of other Alpine regions (Christanell et al 2010, Vitalini et al 2013, Cornara et al 2014, Dei Cas et al 2015. A common biocultural background may explain this similarity because these mountain regions share environmental, historical, and cultural characteristics.…”

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Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps

Petelka¹,

Bonari²,

Säumel³

et al. 2022

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The concept of "cultural keystone species" (CKS) combines ecological and socioeconomic aspects and has a great potential for improving the overall success of conservation and restoration of ecosystems. In our study, we combined an ecological analysis of traditional medicinal plant species with an explorative analysis of the stakeholder landscape to understand the importance of plants for local communities. We investigate the feasibility of the CKS concept for traditional medicinal plants using the Southern Alps (Northern Italy) as a case study. Based on a comprehensive survey of traditional medicinal plants, we analyzed the habitats where they occur and their significance as CKS candidates. We applied the index of identified cultural influence (ICI). We identified some of the relevant stakeholders and their potential interest in traditional medicinal plants. From a total of 273 native medicinal species, we ranked the 10 most important CKS candidates. These comprised species with different ecology such as the herbs Achillea millefolium agg., Alchemilla xanthochlora, Arnica montana, Hypericum perforatum, Matricaria chamomilla, Peucedanum ostruthium, Urtica dioica, the shrub Juniperus communis, and the tree species Betula pendula. By merging their importance for the local communities with their occurrences in the habitats of South Tyrol, the concept of CKS can stimulate species and habitat conservation, and ecosystem restoration.

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Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps

Petelka¹,

Bonari²,

Säumel³

et al. 2022

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“…Wild plants provide important benefits, including food, medicine, and other goods (Bharucha and Pretty 2010; Christanell et al 2010). In countries such as South Korea, the gathering of wild vegetables and other aromatic and medicinal plants for subsistence and income generation is popular even among urban people (Lange 2004; Lee 2021).…”

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Useful Plants from the Wild to Home Gardens: An Analysis of Home Garden Ethnobotany in Contexts of Habitat Conversion and Land Use Change in Jeju, South Korea

Hong

Zimmerer

2022

Journal of Ethnobiology

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Home gardens are often the most agrobiodiverse sites in the anthropogenic environment, a space where crops and other useful plants are often transplanted from other components of the landscape. This study investigates the plant composition of home gardens and their usefulness in 12 small towns and villages-with three of these chosen as the focus for in-depth research-situated in the Jeju province of South Korea. The goal of the research is to explore their roles in local ethnobotany in the context of habitat conversion and land use change. The 131 home gardens surveyed in these villages yielded 164 species-and variety-level plant taxa (52 wild, 109 domesticated, and 3 introduced), of which 95 were useful plant taxa (39 wild, 55 domesticated, and 1 introduced). Use of home garden plants was predominantly for food and medicinal purposes. Home garden plant usefulness was more multi-functional and thus more versatile than practices associated with these plants in nongarden habitats. Plant diversity in home gardens was supported by the presence of nearby forest and grassland areas. Interview data indicate that plant users were motivated to transplant wild plants into their home gardens in order to secure a consistent supply, given decreases in wild plant populations in the last 15-20 years. The loss and overharvesting of forests and other wild plant habitats have caused the decrease in these plant populations. Underlying drivers of the habitat conversion and land use change influencing increased wild plant transplants to home gardens are local livelihood and lifestyle changes, including the earlier expansion of commercial agriculture beginning in the late 1960s and the accelerated growth of tourism since 2000.

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“…Nowadays, the increasing interest is based on efforts to provide food security in times of agricultural crisis or use in regional/local cuisine (Turner et al, 2011;Łuczaj, 2012;Simkova and Polesny, 2015). The gathering of wild plants is not only an active living custom (Christanell et al, 2010) but it is also a source of cultural identity (cultural services) that is forming an important knowledge about the environment and sustainable living known as traditional ecological knowledge (Turner et al, 2011). While the issues/reviews of the traditional use of edible plants have been evaluated in several works in Slovakia (Łuczaj, 2012;Stoličná, 2016) and abroad (Dogan et al, 2004;Dénes et al, 2012;Di Novella et al, 2013;Guarrera and Savo, 2016;Kuklina and Vinogradova, 2018), the prospective use of such species from energy plantations has not yet been studied.…”

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Edible wild plants growing in adjacent spontaneous vegetation of energy plantations in southwest Slovakia

Končeková

Halmová

Fehér

2020

Potr. S. J. F. Sci.

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This paper evaluates the potential and perspectives of wild plant species and macrofungi from short rotation coppice. The research was conducted during the years 2014 – 2018 in stands of short rotation coppice willow and miscanthus grass in southwest of Slovakia. Evaluated wild plant species and macrofungi were divided into four groups (green vegetables, fruits and seeds, flowers and nectar, subterranean parts). The results showed that ground flora of short rotation coppice consisted of 74 edible species from 34 botanical families. Asteraceae, Rosaceae, Poaceae, Polygonaceae and Cichoriaceae families were represented the most. From the evaluated categories the most species belonged to the category with consumable aerial parts like leaves and shoots (59 species). The similar representation of species was found in the category of wild fruits and seeds consumed in the raw or preserved state and in category of edible subterranean parts (27 species and 22 species respectively). Principal component analysis showed that the edible parts with the strongest effect on the functional group differentiation were the fruits, seeds and subterranean parts.

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CHAPTER 3 The Cultural Significance of Wildgathered Plant Species in Kartitsch (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) and the Influence of Socioeconomic Changes on Local Gathering Practices

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Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps

Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps

Useful Plants from the Wild to Home Gardens: An Analysis of Home Garden Ethnobotany in Contexts of Habitat Conversion and Land Use Change in Jeju, South Korea

Edible wild plants growing in adjacent spontaneous vegetation of energy plantations in southwest Slovakia

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