PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed publications
D’Ambrosio, U. and Teixidor-Toneu, I. 2021. Els amazics i les plantes. Paisatges culturals a l’Alt Atles marroquí. Milfulles, 6: 35-39. Available at: https://www.floracatalana.
Teixidor-Toneu, I., Elgadi, S., Zine, H., Manzanilla, V., Ouhammou, A., and D’Ambrosio, U. 2021. Medicines in the Kitchen: Gender Roles Shape Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Marrakshi Households. Foods 10, no. 10: 2332. https://doi.org/10.3390/
Teixidor-Toneu, I., M’Sou, S., Salamat, H., Ait Baskad, H., Ait Illigh, F., Atyah, T., Mouhdach, H., Rankou, H., Ait Babahmad, R., Caruso, E., Martin, G.J., D’Ambrosio U. 2021. Which plants matter? A comparison of academic and community assessments of plant value and conservation status in the Moroccan High Atlas. Ambio-A Journal of Environment and Society. https://doi.org/10.
Ait Babahmad, R., Msou, S., McCandless, S., Caruso, E., D’Ambrosio, U., Martin, G.J. Ouhammou, A.. Rankou, H. 2020. Floristic richness, composition, medicinal diversity and flora checklist of a key biodiversity area in the High Atlas (Imegdal). Manuscript submitted for publication.
Bendella, A., Caruso, E., D’Ambrosio, U., Dominguez, P., Martin, G.J., M’sou, S., Romera, M.C. 2020. Rights over land among High Atlas communities in Morocco: The case of agdals. Manuscript in preparation.
Da Silva, P. 2020. Preserving local cultural heritage through capacity building for girls in the Moroccan High Atlas. In: Hunter, D., Monville-Oro, E., Burgos, B., Roel, C.N., Calub B.M., Gonsalves, J., Lauridsen, N. (eds.). Agrobiodiversity, School Gardens and Healthy Diets: Promoting Biodiversity, Food and Sustainable Nutrition. Routledge. 302 pp.
Rankou, R., Ait Babahmad, R., M’sou, S., Skipper, J., McCandless, S., Caruso, E., Martin, G.J. and Ouhammou, A. 2020. IUCN Red List assessment uncovers the high-level of extinction risk to the High Atlas biodiversity hotspots. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Rankou, R., M’sou, S., Ait Babahmad, R., S., Caruso, E., D’Ambrosio, U., Martin, G.J. and Ouhammou, A. 2020. Moroccan High Atlas Agdals – Floristic richness, composition, medicinal diversity and flora checklist (Case study: Agdal-Igourdane). Manuscript submitted for publication.
Teixidor-Toneu, I., Elhajjam, A &, D’Ambrosio, U. 2020. Ethnoveterinary Practices in the Maghreb. In: McGaw L., Abdalla M. (eds) Ethnoveterinary Medicine. Springer, Cham. pp. 285-310. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-32270-0_13
Teixidor-Toneu, I., Martin, G.J., M’sou, S. & D’Ambrosio, U. 2020. Integrating Amazigh cultural practices in Moroccan High Atlas biodiversity conservation. In: Thornton, F. & Bhagwat, S.A. (eds.). Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge: Global Themes and Practice. The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (pp. 201-213). London, UK.
Rankou, H., D’Ambrosio, U., Caruso, E. and Martin, G.J. 2018. “KBAs for plants by country – Morocco” in Valderrábano, M., Gil, T., Heywood, V., Montmollin, B.d. (eds) Conserving wild plants in the South and East Mediterranean region, pp. 45-52 Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2018.21.en
Roma, Ardón R., Manuel Felipe F., Manuel Perfecto, E., Eduardo González, F. 2018. Estrategias de manejo adaptadas al territorio en la Chinantla. De la recolección a los agroecosistemas: soberanía alimentaria y conservación de la biodiversidad. ED: Silv E, Martínez V, Lascurain M, Rodríguez E. Primera Edición. Unviersidad Veracruzana. Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. 65-80 p. https://libros.uv.mx/index.php/UV/catalog/view/2075/513/566-1
Ouarghidi, A., Powell, B., Martin, G.J. and Abbad, A. 2017. Traditional Sustainable Harvesting Knowledge and Distribution of a Vulnerable Wild Medicinal Root (A. pyrethrum var. pyrethrum) in Ait M’hamed Valley, Morocco. Economic Botany 71: 83-96. https://doi:10.1007/s12231-017-9374-2.
Teixidor-Toneu, I., Martin, G.J., Puri, R.K., Ouhammou, A., Hawkins, J.A. 2017. Treating infants with frigg: Linking disease aetiologies, medicinal plant use and care-seeking behaviour in southern Morocco. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 13:4.
Bacchetta, L., Visioli, F., Cappelli, G., Caruso, E., et al. 2016. ‘A manifesto for the valorization of wild edible plants’ Journal of Ethnopharmacology 191:180-187. DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037887411630349X
Caruso, E. et al. 2016. ‘Lessons for Research Policy and Practice: The Case of Co-enquiry Research With Rural Communities’. Journal of Research Practice 12(1), Article M1. Open Access: https://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/504/450
Teixidor-Toneu, I., Martin G.J., Ouhammou A., Puri, R.K., Hawkins, J.A. 2016. An ethnomedicinal survey of a Tashelhit-speaking community in the High Atlas, Morocco. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 188:96–110.
Teixidor-Toneu, I., Martin, G.J., Ouhammou, A., Puri, R.K., Hawkins, J.A. 2016. Comprehensive dataset of the medicinal plants used by a Tashelhit-speaking community in the High Atlas, Morocco. Data in Brief, 8, 516-519.
Caruso, E. (ed.) 2015. Conducting and Communicating Ethnobotanical Research: a methods manual. MedPlant/Global Diversity Foundation. Available for download at: https://www.global-diversity.org/2016/01/08/conducting-and-communicating-ethnobotanical-methods/
Caruso, E., Camacho Benavides, C., del Campo García, C., Roma, R, Medinaceli, A., 2015. Co-enquiry and Participatory Research for Community Conservation: a methods manual. COMBIOSERVE/Global Diversity Foundation. Available for download at: https://www.global-diversity.org/2016/01/08/co-enquiry-and-participatory-research-for-community-conservation-a-methods-manual/
Rankou, H., A. Culham, M.S. Taleb, A. Ouhammou, G.J. Martin, S.L. Jury. 2015. Conservation assessments and Red Listing of the endemic Moroccan flora (monocotyledons). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 177:504-575.
de Boer, H.J., Ouarghidi, A., Martin, G.J., Abbad, A., Kool, A. 2014. DNA Barcoding Reveals Limited Accuracy of Identifications Based on Folk Taxonomy. PLoS ONE 9(1): e84291. https://doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084291.
Ibarra, J.T., Barreau, A., Del Campo, C., Camacho, C. I., McCandless, S. R. and Martin, G.J. 2011. When formal and market based conservation mechanisms disrupt food sovereignty: impacts of community conservation and payments for environment services on an indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico. Special Issue on Forests, Biodiversity and Food Security: International Review of Forestry 13(3):318-337.
Martin, G.J., C.I. Camacho, C. del Campo, S. Anta, F. Chapela and M.A. González. 2011. Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas in Oaxaca, Mexico. Management of Environmental Quality 22(2):250-226. Special Issue on Traditional Agricultural landscapes and Community Conserved Areas.
Martin, G.J., C. del Campo, C.I. Camacho, G. Espinoza and X. Zolueta. 2010. Negotiating the web of law and policy: community designation of Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas in Mexico, Policy Matters 17:195-204 – Special Issue on Conservation Pluralism: Towards Diversity in Law Policy and Practice
Conference papers
D’Ambrosio, U. 2019. Ethnobiology as a tool to analyze change dynamics, minimize conflict over land use and support ecosystem services in the Moroccan High Atlas. 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme. 24-27 April 2019, Bern, Switzerland. Sessions list: https://glp.earth/sites/default/files/glp_osm2019_sessions_list.pdf
D’Ambrosio, U, Teixidor-Toneu, I, Salamat, H , M’Sou, S., Ait Baskad, H,, Ait Illigh F, Atyah, T., Bellia, G., El Hajjam, A., Mouhdach, H., Rankou, H., Caruso, E. & Martin, G.J. 2018. Ethnobotanical knowledge in the High Atlas: potential for plant biodiversity conservation. 2nd Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week, 12-16 November 2018. La Valetta, Malta.
Rankou, H., Ait Babahmad, R., M’sou, S., D’Ambrosio, U., Caruso, E. and Martin, G.J. 2018. Integrated Conservation Approach in the Moroccan High Atlas. 2nd Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week, 12-16 November 2018. La Valetta, Malta.
COMBIOSERVE Consortium. Conference proceedings. Community Conservation in Latin America: Innovations in Research and Practice, 6-9 November 2014. Veracruz, Mexico.
BEDE, ICCA Consortium and Global Diversity Foundation. Pre-congress workshop and congress report. Conservation by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Advances in Participatory Action Research, Dissemination and Advocacy. 13th Congress of the International Society for Ethnobiology. May 2012. Montpellier, France. Also available in French and Spanish.
Global Diversity Foundation, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP). Community Conservation in Practice. 12th International Society of Ethnobiology Congress. May 2010. Tofino, British Columbia.
IUCN Conservation Assessments
Rankou, H., M’Sou, S., Diarra, A. & Ait Babahmad, R.A. 2020. Capparis spinosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T137745831A139593491.
Rankou, H., M’Sou, S., Diarra, A. & Ait Babahmad, R.A. 2020. Mentha gattefossei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T164184A72262769.
Rankou, H., M’Sou, S., Ait Babahmad, R.A. & Diarra, A. 2020. Thymus saturejoides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T139600868A139601223
Rankou, H., M’Sou, S., Diarra, A. & Ait Babahmad, R.A. 2020. Lavandula maroccana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T139600541A139600544.
Rankou, H., M’Sou, S., Ait Babahmad, R.A. & Diarra, A. 2020. Cistus monspeliensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T73094084A139593829.
Rankou, H., M’Sou, S., Ait Babahmad, R.A. & Diarra, A. 2020. Salvia taraxacifolia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T139603526A139603531.
Rankou, H., M’SOU, S., Ait Babahmad, R.A., Ouhammou, A., Alifriqui , M. & Martin, G. 2018. Pistacia atlantica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T19365844A117264678.
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Articles
Global Diversity Foundation (2024). No atlas for the High Atlas? A bio-physical and human characterization of the Moroccan High Atlas landscapes for biocultural and socioecological research. Canterbury, United Kingdom: GDF.
Global Diversity Foundation and Moroccan Biodiversity and Livelihoods Association (2022). Placing the High Atlas on the global map: experiences and insights from a cultural landscapes approach to conservation and human wellbeing. GDF: Canterbury, England (UK). xviii + 170pp.
The Darwin Initiative. Supporting Amazigh farmers for the conservation of local agrobiodiversity in the Moroccan High Atlas. Darwin Initiative Newsletter, December 2020, p.7-8
The Darwin Initiative. Co-creating an ethnobotanical school garden for Amazigh girls in the High Atlas, Morocco. Darwin Initiative Newsletter, February 2019, p.5-6
Aman Sham, M. There is so much more to a story than meets the eye: Tales from the Dusun of Ulu Papar. Langscape Magazine Volume 7, Issue 1, Summer 2018, p.58-61.
Teixidor-Toneu, I., Caruso, E., Rankou, H., D’Ambrosio, U., Martin, G. Global Diversity Foundation – Conducting ethical conservation research. Botanic Gardens Conservation International ABS Implementation examples.
The Darwin Initiative. Achieving the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation in the Moroccan High Atlas. Darwin Initiative Newsletter, May 2018, p.5-6.
The Darwin Initiative. Conserving threatened plant species to support community adaptation and resilience to climate change in the High Atlas, Morocco. Darwin Initiative Newsletter, November 2017, p. 13.
Vogl, C.R., Martin, G.J. and Schunko, C. Protecting biocultural diversity. International Innovation Magazine (Research Media), Issue 151: Firm Foundations
Nelson, M. In Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains, Seeds of Progress. Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund website, 15 November 2016.
The Darwin Initiative. Traditional knowledge of medicinal root harvesting and plant conservation in Southern Morocco. Darwin Initiative Newsletter, November 2015, p.10.
Aman Sham, M., Dolan, J., McCandless, S., and Nelson, M. Building Cross-continental Connections among North American Indigenous Nations; The Sharing Circle 2015, International Funders for Indigenous Peoples
The ICCA Consortium. Community Action for Conservation: Mexican Experiences. The ICCA Consortium Newsletter, Issue#7, June 2014, p.34.
Martin, G. Multiscale action for medicinal plants: implementing the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation on a human dimension. Samara, Issue 26, Jan-June 2014, p.1-2.
Tekguc, I., Yoshida, Y., McCandless, S., Otieno, N., Heubach, K., Kamelamela, K., Bray, K. Perspectives from the Global Environments Summer Academy Alumni. Langscape Volume 2, Issue 13, Winter 2013, p.28-41.
Caruso, E. Reflections from a participant in the Symposium “Protected Areas: are they safeguarding biodiversity?” – Zoological Society of London, 8-9 November 2012. The ICCA Consortium Newsletter, Issue#3, January 2013.
Tekguc, I. Kakakapan id Gayo Ngaran (Return to the Big Name). Langscape, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2012.
The Darwin Initiative. A Community Protocol for Ulu Papar. Darwin Initiative Newsletter, July 2012, p. 7-8.
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