Litter production in tropical dry evergreen forests of south India in relation to season, plant life-forms and physiognomic groups

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1255-1263

  Arul Pragasan, L ^a   Parthasarathy, N ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

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