Knowledge and utilization of edible mushrooms by local populations of the rain forest of South Cameroon

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Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-23

  Van Dijk, Han ^a   Onguene, Neree Awana ^b   Kuyper, Thomas W ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; HUNTER-GATHERER; MUSHROOM; RAINFOREST; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

CAMEROON;

AGARICALES; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0037324718     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.1.19     Document Type: Article

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33. Financial support was provided by the Tropenbos Foundation and The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO - Priority Programme Biodiversity in Disturbed Ecosystems). The Tropenbos Cameroon Programme (TCP) provided logistic and administrative support. Furthermore we thank our colleagues in the TCP and the many people in the forest who contributed to our surveys. We are also specially indebted to the field crews, Serge Aba'a, Daniel Esso, Guy Mba, James Mfoulou, Jean Baptiste Mva, Edouard Nsomoto, Joseph Ntoutoumou, Daniel Owono; Eric Semengue, and Léopold Zonko. We finally acknowledge the constructive comments by three referees on an earlier version of the manuscript.
34. First submitted 10 Aug. 2001. Accepted for publication after revision 6 Febr. 2002.