Ecological and Ethnomedicinal Survey of Plants within Homesteads in Abia State, Nigeria
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2288-9744
DOI: 10.7747/jfs.2013.29.4.257