Biomass availability and forage quality of Eurotia ceratoides Mey in the rangelands of Changthang, eastern Ladakh

Current Science

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 201-205

  Uniyal, Sanjay Kr ^a,b   Awasthi, Anjali ^a   Rawat, Gopal S ^a  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; CERATOIDES LATENS; EUROTIA;

EID: 27944451092     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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