Ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants used by Baka people in southeastern Cameroon

Ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants used by Baka people in southeastern Cameroon

Abstract Background Forest inhabitants worldwide, and indigenous people especially, have depended for generations on plants and animals harvested in these ecosystems. A number of Baka hunter-gatherer populations in south-eastern Cameroon became sedentarised in the 1950s, but still rely on hunting an...

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Main Authors: Pascal Eric Billong Fils, Natacha Afiong Nana, Jean Lagarde Betti, Oumar Farick Njimbam, Stéphanie Tientcheu Womeni, Eva Ávila Martin, Guillermo Ros Brull, Robert Okale, John E. Fa, Stephan M. Funk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Subjects:
Dja biosphere reserve
Wild edible plants
Ethnobotany
Diversity indexes
Baka people
Hunter-gatherer
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13002-020-00413-0

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