Spatiotemporal aspects of plant community structure in open scrub rangelands of sub-mountainous Himalayan Plateaus

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3431-3440

  Ahmad, Iftikhar ^a   Ahmad, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel ^a   Hussain, Mumtaz ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad ^a,b   Yasin Ashraf, M ^c   Hameed, Mansoor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY NIAB   (Pakistan)

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