Outlook and Future Prospects

Azeem, Uzma; Hakeem, Khalid Rehman; Ali, Mohammed Ashraf

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58756-7_9

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“…While interactions between humans and fungi go back many millennia and peaked in the foraging era, documented evidence of traditional mycological knowledge is a more recent development. The first scientific papers with a focus on ethnomycological content and ‘ethnomycology’ in the title appeared in the second half of the last century (Wasson 1971; Singh 1999; Azeem et al 2020). The field of research became a new discipline that developed from ethnobiology (interactions between humans and the environment) and ethnobotany (cultural use of plants) (Kreisel 2014).…”

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Management and publication of scientific data on traditional mycological and lichenological knowledge in Africa

Kinge,

Jefwa,

Houdanon

et al. 2023

The Lichenologist

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Africa is an important global reservoir for biological, cultural and traditional knowledge about fungi and lichens, which are used as food, medicine and in mythology, among other things. African human populations are undergoing highly significant changes and adaptation processes, which are accompanied by rapid urbanization, meeting with western civilization, high rural migration and the loss of natural ecosystems. Indigenous knowledge is being lost, including that concerning fungi and lichens. Ethnomycology and ethnolichenology provide a diversity of knowledge about beneficial and poisonous fungi and lichens, and give insights into their sociological impact on human behaviour and use. Here we present a working and publishing environment established with the Diversity Workbench software in line with national and international initiatives for FAIR guided provision of research data. The database application called ‘EthnoMycAfrica’ contains published ethnomycological and ethnolichenological information from Africa. The content is created and curated by team partners from Central, East, West, North and Southern Africa. Data entry is performed both online and offline, optionally via a mobile device. Currently, the system with the tools DiversityDescriptions and DiversityNaviKey contains a total of 1350 well-structured and freely and openly accessible data records. EthnoMycAfrica is the first database with a data schema, standard descriptors and data content created mainly by African scholars. The data can be useful for researchers, students, conservationists, policy makers, and others. It will also provide a basis for facilitating hypothesis generation and meta-analysis.

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confidence: 99%