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This chapter reflects our recent fieldwork results on Saaremaa Island (see Sect. 4.4 for methods of data collection and plant identification), allowing both for quantification of the results and for deep semi-qualitative analysis of people’s narratives on the reasons why they use wild plants for food. It is the scope of the analysis of the present use of wild food plants in one, relatively isolated part of Estonia, covered in more details in three recently published articles (Kalle and Sõukand 2016; Sõukand and Kalle 2016; Sõukand 2016).
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Sõukand, R., Kalle, R. (2016). Recent Changes in Use of and Perceptions on Wild Food Plants in Saaremaa. In: Changes in the Use of Wild Food Plants in Estonia. SpringerBriefs in Plant Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33949-8_7
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