Phytotherapeutical plants from the Deliblato Sands (Serbia): Traditional pharmacopoeia and implications for conservation

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 385-400

  Popovic, Zorica ^a   Smiljanic, Miroslava ^a   Matic, Rada ^a   Kostic, Miroslav ^b   Nikic, Predrag ^c   Bojovic, Srdjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute for Medicinal Plants Research   (Serbia)

^c Alfa University   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Botanical diversity; Deliblato sand; Ethnobotany; Human resource; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863860314     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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