A preliminary study on climate change causing decline in forest cover area in district Chakwal, Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3967-3970

  Ahmad, Sheikh Saeed ^a,b   Sherazi, Anusha ^a,b   Shah, Muhammad Tahir Ali ^a,b  

^a FATIMA JINNAH WOMEN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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