Plant species diversity among ecological species groups in the Caspian Sea coastal sand dune; Case study: Guilan Province, North of Iran

Biodiversitas

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 16-21

  Ravanbakhsh, Mokarram ^a   Amini, Tayyebeh ^b   Hosseini, Sayed Mohsen Nassaj ^a  

^a AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Mazandaran (RCANRM)   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coastal sand dune; Ecological species groups; Guilan; Iran; Plant species diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921962762     PISSN: 1412033X     EISSN: 20854722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13057/biodiv/d160103     Document Type: Article

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