Caroline Weckerle

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Research Interests

People and plants in the Shuiluo Valley, Southwest China
Non-timber forest products and related conservation issues in Southwest China
Continuum between ritual and medicinal plant use
Ethnobotany in Switzerland - Traditional and contemporary use of (medical) plants

Post-doctoral student at Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2004 - 2006)

Ph.D. student at the Institute of Plant Biology and at the Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich (1998 - 2003)

Diploma student at the Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich (1996 - 1998)

Field studies

2004-ongoing	Ethnobotanical field work in southwest China.
2000-2001	Botanical field work in tropical Peru.
1996	Ethnobotanical field work in southwest China.

Teaching

Ethnobotanik, BIO231
Vielfalt der Pflanzen, Praktikum, BIO125 / BI440
Programmleitung des Weiterbildungsstudienganges Ethnobotanik und Ethnomedizin