Structure of the common plant population along Alamain- Wadi El- Natrun desert road

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 177-193

  Mossallam, Hosny A ^a   Morsy, Amal A ^a   Youssef, Ashraf M ^a   Abd Al Latif, Ahmed H ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Alamain; Cover; Height diameter ratio; Plant communities; Size class; Size frequency distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549143130     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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