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ARITULUK AYDIN Z. C. (Executive), GENÇLER ÖZKAN A. M., KÖRÜKLÜ S. T., YILMAZ G.
TUBITAK Project, 2022 - 2023
Ethnobotany is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the relationships between plants and humans. Ethnobotanical studies enable us to record the knowledge that emerges as a result of the interaction of the local people with their environmental resources and become traditional over time, and to evaluate them in a scientific framework. Since Turkey has a rich flora and cultural accumulation, it constitutes an important resource for ethnobotanical studies. However, this biocultural wealth, which has accumulated especially in the rural areas of Anatolia and has been passed down from generation to generation, has been rapidly disappearing due to migration from villages to cities, the pressure of urbanization and modernization, the rapid development of technology and indifference of the new generation to this information.
In this project, we aimed to determine the ethnobotanical features in Nallıhan (Ankara) District, where no detailed ethnobotanical study has been done before. In fieldworks to be carried out in various settlements of Nallıhan District, face-to-face interviews will be conducted with the local people, ethnobotanical data and plant materials will be collected. After the scientific description, herbarium materials prepared from the plant samples will be stored in the herbarium. The results of the study will be evaluated by comparing with the ethnobotanical studies conducted before in Turkey, and new uses, new local names, and plants detected for the first time will be revealed. At the end of the study, suggestions and contributions will be made to the conservation and sustainable use of traditional knowledge and our natural resources.