Local knowledge about sustainable harvesting and availability of wild medicinal plant species in Lemnos island, Greece

Abstract Background In Europe and the Mediterranean, over-exploitation and destructive harvesting techniques have been identified as two critical threats affecting the sustainable harvesting of wild medicinal plant (WMP) species. However, unsustainable harvesting is not an issue everywhere and local...

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Main Authors: Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Penelope J. Bebeli, Maria Panitsa, Christoph Schunko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13002-020-00390-4