Local Knowledge of Past and Present Uses of Medicinal Plants in Prespa National Park, Albania

Ethnobotanical studies have highlighted the need to address temporal dynamics of local knowledge in response to socio-economic changes. The southwestern Balkans are a hotspot of folk botanical knowledge and represent a unique region to study such dynamics. The present study focused on changes in eth...

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