Distribution of elements in marine algae of Karachi coast

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 357-363

  Rizvi, Muhammad Afzal ^a   Shameel, Mustafa ^b  

^a HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

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