Medicinal plants in old-growth, degraded and re-growth forests of NW Pakistan

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2105-2114

  Adnan, Muhammad ^a,b   Hölscher, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Forest structure; Forest use types; Livelihood; Non timber forest products

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FOREST; BASAL AREA; CANOPY COVER; DEGRADED FORESTS; FOREST STRUCTURE; FOREST-USE TYPES; INCREASING TREES; LIVELIHOOD; LIVESTOCK GRAZING; MEDICINAL HERB; MEDICINAL PLANTS; NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS; OLD-GROWTH; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PAKISTAN; RE-GROWTH; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SIMILARITY INDICES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TREE STANDS; VALERIANA JATAMANSI;

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; LOGGING (FORESTRY); PLANTS (BOTANY); RATING; TIMBER;

REFORESTATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASAL AREA; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST CANOPY; HERB; LIVESTOCK FARMING; LOGGING (TIMBER); MEDICINAL PLANT; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; FOREST PRODUCTS; FORESTS; GROWTH; LOGGING; MEDICINE; PLANTS; RATING; REFORESTATION;

PAKISTAN;

BERGENIA CILIATA; CILIOPHORA; VALERIANA; VALERIANA JATAMANSI; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 79955037035     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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