Cordyceps articles

Daniel Winkler's Ophiocordyceps sinensis articles: 
 
Latest:

2017: Caterpillar Fungus Production and Sustainability on the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayas. In: Tibetan Pastoralists and Development - Negotiating the Future of Grassland Livelihoods, Eds.: Ingo Breuer & Andreas Gruschke, Publisher: Reichert Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-95490-242-2, p.45-61.  link to buy
 

2017: The Wild Life of Yartsa Gunbu (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) on the Tibetan Plateau. In: Fungi vol. 10:1, Spring 2017, p.53-64.   read or download
 

2015: (with S. Rajbhandary): Ethnobotany. In: Nepal: an introduction to the natural history, ecology and human environment of the Himalayas. Editors: Georg Miehe, Colin Pendry & Ram Chaudhary,  Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.  preview & order (contains a section on Yartsa gunbu I authored)

 

2013: Steps towards Sustainable Harvest of Yartsa Gunbu (Caterpillar Fungus, Ophiocordyceps
sinensis). Proceedings of the 7th International Medicinal Mushroom Conference. Beijing Aug. 26-29, 2013, p. 635-644.                                                      

The Mushrooming Fungi Market in Tibet exemplified by Cordyceps sinensis and Tricholoma matsutake download

 
Caterpillar Fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) Production and Sustainability on the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayas. Asian Medicine 5 (2009) p.291–316. (fake date, published Mai 2011) - Download 
 
Cordyceps sinensis and the Fungal Commodification of the Rural Economy in Tibet  2008- Download  Very detailed research article on the Caterpillar fungus phenomenon
2008 The Mushrooming Fungi Market in Tibet exemplified by Cordyceps sinensis and Tricholoma matsutake. In: Proc. 11. Seminar of International Association for Tibetan Studies, Bonn 2006. Editors Kenneth Bauer, Geoff Childs, Andrew Fischer & Daniel Winkler. In: Journal of the Intern. Assoc. Tibetan Studies / JIATS 4: 1-47. . Download
 
 
Cordyceps sinensis - A Precious Parasitic Fungus Infecting Tibet. In: Field Mycology 2010 vol.11.2: 60-67. Download
 
Infested by the Caterpillar Fungus A once in a lifetime Tibetan experience. 2006. link
 
Cordyceps Radio interview with National Geographic Weekend  MP3 audio file
 
TibetInfoNet interview: on the Cordyceps trade in Tibet, Aug. 2008
 
Detailed Paper: Yartsa Gunbu - Cordyceps sinensis. Economy, Ecology & Ethno-mycology of a Fungus Endemic to the Tibetan Plateau, 2005.
 
 
Other sources:
 
Environment News Service on violent clashes over collection fee in Dzato
 
"Leng", a great fungal fiction on Cordyceps in Tibet by Marc Laidlaw who traveled on a MushRoaming tour.

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