Survival and growth of seedlings of a few tree species in the four sacred groves of Manipur, Northeast India

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1781-1788

  Khumbongmayum, Ashalata Devi ^a   Khan, M L ^a   Tripathi, R S ^b  

^a NORTH EASTERN REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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