Climate Change Dependence in Ex Situ Conservation of Wild Medicinal Plants in Crete, Greece.

ABSTRACT: Over 80% of the global population addresses their primary healthcare needs using traditional medicine based on medicinal plants. Consequently, there's a rising demand for these plants for both household and industrial use at local, regional, national, and international levels. However, wild harvesting has negatively impacted natural ecosystems. Cultivating medicinal species has been proposed as a conservation strategy to alleviate this pressure. Yet, in this age of global climate change concerns, smallholder farmers' views on the benefits of such cultivation clash with the uncertainties of climate change impacts, amplifying their anxieties. In this context, the climate change dependence of ex situ cultivation of ten wild medicinal taxa with significant ethnopharmacological interest in Cret

SUBMITTER: Bariotakis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10604457 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature