Ecological assessment and phenotypic and fitness variation of Sinai's remnant populations of Moringa peregrina

Applied Ecology and Environmental Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 351-366

  Zaghloul, M S ^a,b   Abd El Wahab, R H ^a   Moustafa, A A ^a  

^a SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fitness; Medicinal plants; Moringa peregrina; Sinai

Indexed keywords

MORINGA; MORINGA PEREGRINA;

EID: 79251564768     PISSN: 15891623     EISSN: 17850037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15666/aeer/0804_351366     Document Type: Article

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