Forage Nutritive Values of Cymbopogon olivieri before and after Essential Oil Extraction in Khuzestan Province’s Rangelands, Iran
Subject Areas : Medicinal PlantsAzadeh Afrigan 1 , Hossein Azarnivand 2 , Fatemeh Sefikon 3 , Mohammad Jafari 4 , Mohammad Ali Zare Chahouki 5
1 - Department of Range Mangement Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Reclamation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, Faculty of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj
3 - Research Institue of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Reclamation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, Faculty of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
5 - Professor, Department of Rehabilitation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, Natural Resources Faculty, University of Tehran
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