Environmental Science
5 years ago

Himalayan wetland ecosystem degraded due to changing land use dynamics.

Journal of Experimental Sciences
Impact of land use/land cover dynamics on himalayan wetland ecosystem
Akhtar Alam, Shahidur Rashid, M. Sultan Bhat, Ashaq Hussain Sheikh

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