Studying Biodiversity of Plant Associations in Mount On Ebn-e-Ali in Tabriz, Iran

Subject Areas : Biodiversity

Tohid Ebrahimi Gagoti ¹ (Forests and Rangelands Research Department, East Azerbaijan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO,Tabriz, Iran.)
Raheleh Ostadhashemi ² (Forests and Rangelands Research Department, East Azerbaijan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO,Tabriz, Iran.)
Ahmad Razban Haghighi ³ (Forests and Rangelands Research Department, East Azerbaijan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO,Tabriz, Iran.)
Naser Kasebi ⁴ (Forests and Rangelands Research Department, East Azerbaijan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO,Tabriz, Iran.)

Received: 2018-10-22 Accepted : 2019-05-02 Published : 2019-10-01

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