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Foods. 2020 Jul 29;9(8). doi: 10.3390/foods9081015.

Foraging in Boreal Forest: Wild Food Plants of the Republic of Karelia, NW Russia.

Foods (Basel, Switzerland)

Valeria Kolosova, Olga Belichenko, Alexandra Rodionova, Denis Melnikov, Renata Sõukand

Affiliations

  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino 155, 30172 Venice, Italy.
  2. Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tuchkov pereulok 9, 199004 St Petersburg, Russia.
  3. Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkinskaya St. 11, 185910 Petrozavodsk, Russia.
  4. Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Popov St. 2, 197376 St Petersburg, Russia.

PMID: 32751145 PMCID: PMC7466288 DOI: 10.3390/foods9081015

Abstract

While the current consumption of wild food plants in the taiga of the American continent is a relatively well-researched phenomenon, the European taiga area is heavily underrepresented in the scientific literature. The region is important due to its distinctive ecological conditions with restricted seasonal availability of wild plants. During an ethnobotanical field study conducted in 2018-2019, 73 people from ten settlements in the Republic of Karelia were interviewed. In addition, we conducted historical data analysis and ethnographical source analysis. The most widely consumed wild food plants are forest berries (three

Keywords: Karelia; Local Ecological Knowledge; Nordic studies; boreal forest; ethnobotany; wild food plants

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