Relationships between Soil Properties and Plant Species Diversity in Natural and Disturbed Ecosystems (Case Study: Jamilabad Region, Kerman Province, Iran)
Subject Areas : Biodiversity
1 - Department of Desert studies, Faculty of Natural Resources and Geoscience
University of Kashan
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