Overview: Richly illustrated with over 200 color illustrations.First comprehensive volume on the ethnobiology of Uzbekistan.Covers medicinal plants, fungi, animals, and local cultural traditions, plus other key.Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for humans, particularly in rural areas and mountain regions around the world. Over centuries, indigenous peoples, traditional societies and local communities have developed their own specific knowledge regarding plant use, management, and conservation. The history of plant use by humans as food and to
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