Diversity of Medicinal Plants among Different Forest-use Types of the Pakistani Himalaya

Economic Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 344-356

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Forest degradation; forest recovery; livelihood; non timber forest products; similarity

Indexed keywords

FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 84871822298     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-012-9213-4     Document Type: Article

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