Species richness, ethnobotanical species richness and human settlements along a Himalayan altitudinal gradient: Prioritizing plant conservation in Palas valley, Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 43, Issue Special Issue, 2011, Pages 129-133

  Saqib, Zafeer ^a,b   Naseem Malik, Riffat ^b   Shinwari, Muhammad Ibrar ^a   Shinwari, Zabta Khan ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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