Traditional uses of wild food and medicinal plants among Brigasc, Kyé, and Provençal communities on the Western Italian Alps

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 587-603

  Mattalia, Giulia ^a   Quave, Cassandra L ^b   Pieroni, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alps; Briga; Ethnobotany; Famine food; Ky ; Occitans; Piedmont; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; ETHNOBOTANY; FIELD METHOD; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOUNTAIN; VASCULAR PLANT;

ALPS; ITALY;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84873524032     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-012-9859-x     Document Type: Article

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