Rainer W. BussmannStaatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe | SMNK
Rainer W. Bussmann
Prof. (Ilia State University Tbilisi) Dr. rer. nat.
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Introduction
I am Head of the Department of Botany, State Museum for Natural History Karlsruhe, and Professor of Ethnobotany at the Institute of Botany of Ilia State University, Tbilisi. Previously I was Director of William L. Brown Center at Missouri Botanical Garden, Associate Professor of Botany and Scientific Director of Harold Lyon Arboretum at University of Hawaii, and Postdoc at University of Bayreuth. I focus on ethnobotany and vegetation ecology in global mountain regions.
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June 2021 - November 2024
October 2017 - present
Ethnomont / Saving Knowledge
Position
- Co Director
November 1994 - June 2003
Education
January 1993 - November 1994
September 1987 - January 1993
Publications
Publications (3,970)
We tested this hypothesis by conducting a complete ethnobotanical inventory of almost the entire adult Chácobo population, with interviews and plant collection conducted directly by Chácobo counterparts. The results verify our initial hypothesis, and showed that the loss of knowledge perceived in previous studies simply was an artifact of the resea...
Although freelisting and semi-structured interviews are widespread methods in ethnobotany, few studies quantitatively examine how these methods may bias results. Using a comprehensive ethnobotanical inventory of palm species, uses and names in the Chácobo tribe of Bolivia, we show that interviews elicit more items than freelists, but the effect is...
Background: That the answers elicited through interviews may be influenced by the knowledge of the interviewer is accepted across disciplines. However, in ethnobotany there is little evidence to quantitatively assesses what impact this effect may have. We use the results of a large study of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of plant use of the...
Work up to 2012—besides developing a database of 510 medicinal plants (Bussmann and Sharon 2006b, 2007b, 2009c) and 974 remedies of mixtures (Bussmann, Glenn, Meyer, Kuhlman, and Townesmith 2010)—has demonstrated that herbal commerce in Peru is a major economic resource (Bussmann, Sharon, Vandebroek, Jones and Revene 2007), which, although used alo...
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Trabajo hasta la Fecha
Nuestro trabajo hasta le fecha—además de desarrollar una base de datos de 510 plantas medicinales (Bussmann y Sharon 2006, 2007a, 2009a) y 974 remedios de mezclas (Bussmann, Glenn, Meyer, Kuhlman y Townesmith 2010)—ha demostrado que el...
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