A Matter of Taste: Local Explanations for the Consumption of Wild Food Plants in the Catalan Pyrenees and the Balearic Islands1

Economic Botany

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 176-189

  Serrasolses, Ginesta ^a   Calvet Mir, Laura ^b,c   Carrió, Esperança ^a   D’Ambrosio, Ugo ^a,d   Garnatje, Teresa ^d   Parada, Montse ^a   Vallès, Joan ^a   Reyes García, Victoria ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Edible wild plants; ethnobotany; motivations; quantitative analysis; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966671676     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-016-9343-1     Document Type: Article

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