Knowledge-Based Estimation of Edible Fern Harvesting Sites in Mountainous Communities of Northeastern Japan

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 175 - 192
• Main Authors: Matsuura, Toshiya, Sugimura, Ken, Miyamoto, Asako, Tanaka, Nobuhiko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Ferns; Forest products; Geographic information systems; Harvest; Hierarchies; Knowledge; Matteuccia struthiopteris; Osmunda; Pteridium aquilinum; Rural areas; Snow; Sustainability; Timber; Fukushima Japan; Japan

Once local expert knowledge regarding the harvesting of various non-timber forest products (NTFPs) is lost, it is difficult to recover. We investigated whether the knowledge of expert forest harvesters can be used to determine the habitat distribution and harvesting sites of three popular edible wil...