Robinia pseudoacacia leaves improve soil physical and chemical properties

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 266-271

  Khan, Babar ^a,b   Ablimit, Abdukadir ^b   Mahmood, Rashed ^c   Qasim, Muhammad ^a  

^a World Wide Fund for Nature   (Pakistan)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^c COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Gilgit Baltistan; Robinia pseudoacacia; Soil physical and chemical properties

Indexed keywords

ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

EID: 84860780245     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1227.2010.00266     Document Type: Article

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