An ethnobotanical survey on fuel wood and timber plant species of Kaghan valley, Khyber pakhtoonkhwa province, Pakistan

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 82, 2011, Pages 19075-19083

  Jan, Gul ^a   Khan, Mir Ajab ^b   Khan, Aman ^a   Jan, Farzana Gul ^c   Khan, Rafiullah ^a   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^b   Atta Ur Rehman, ^a   Danish, Muhammad ^a   Asif, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Saimdad ^a   Zafar, Muhammad ^b   Jan, And Masood ^d  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b HAZARA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c Post Graduate College   (Pakistan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Fuel wood; Kaghan valleys; Khyber pakhtoon khwa province; Pakistan; Timber species

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEDRUS; CEDRUS DEODARA; DEFORESTATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ETHNOBOTANY; FUEL WOOD; INTERVIEW; NONHUMAN; OAK; PAKISTAN; QUERCUS DIALATA; QUERCUS INCANA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXUS WALLICHIANA; TIMBER WOOD; WOOD; WOOD CONSUMPTION;

CEDRUS DEODARA; QUERCUS INCANA; TAXUS WALLICHIANA;

EID: 84863395378     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/AJB10.980     Document Type: Article

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