Usage of plants for weather and climate forecasting in Bulgarian folk traditions

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-95

  Nedelcheva, Anely ^a   Dogan, Yunus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Botanical indicators; Bulgaria; Ethnobotany; Folk meteorology; Weather indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952126396     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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