Conservation of Plant Diversity in Rural Homegardens with Cultural and Geographical Variation in Three Districts of Barak Valley, Northeast India1

Economic Botany

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-71

  Das, Tapasi ^a   Das, Ashesh Kumar ^a  

^a ASSAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

conservation; cultural groups; Homegardens; plant diversity; underutilized species; wild species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939956757     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-015-9299-6     Document Type: Article

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