Ethnobotanist Douglas Yen, along with archaeologists Patrick Kirch and Paul Rosendahl, spent about two months there in 1971, and anthropologist Richard Feinberg lived on Anuta for almost a year in 1972-73.
Gary Paul Nabhan (born 1952) is an agricultural ecologist, ethnobotanist, and writer whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert Southwest.
His travel companion during the grueling and dangerous traversal of the Darien Gap was a young Canadian, Wade Davis, later to become famous in his own right as an ethnobotanist and author.
Wolf-Dieter Storl (born 1942), German American anthropologist and ethnobotanist
Timothy Plowman (November 17,1944 – January 7, 1989) was an ethnobotanist best known for his intensive work over the course of 15 years on the genus Erythroxylum in general, and the cultivated coca species in particular.