Seasonal seed bank patterns of an Arthrocnemum Macrostachyum (Chenopodiaceae) community along a coastal marsh inundation gradient on the arabian sea near Karachi, Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 305-314

  Gul, Bilquees ^a   Khan, M Ajmal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

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