Healing Animals, Feeding Souls: Ethnobotanical Values at Sacred Sites in Central Italy
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Ethnobotanical remarks on Central and Southern Italy
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عنوان ژورنال: Economic Botany
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0013-0001,1874-9364
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-014-9290-7