Rainer W. Bussmann
Rainer W. Bussmann (
Leutkirch, 30 May 1967) is a German-US American botanist and vegetation ecologist, specializing in
ethnobotany and
ethnobiology, wild food plants, wild crop relatives, climate change, gastronomic botany and preservation of
traditional knowledge in the
Andes, the
Caucasus and the
Himalayas. He has worked at the
University of Bayreuth,
University of Hawaii,
University of Texas, the
Missouri Botanical Garden,
Ilia State University and the
State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe; he has founded several international non-governmental organizations, including Nature and Culture International, Saving Knowledge, and Ethnomont.
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