Plant diversity in six forest types of Uttaranchal, Central Himalaya, India

Current Science

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 975-978

  Ram, Jeet ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^a   Bhatt, Jitendra ^a  

^a KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

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CUPRESSUS; PINUS ROXBURGHII; QUERCUS;

EID: 4444332880     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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