Sayhadri Conservation Series 46  
ENVIS Technical Report: 84,  January 2015

FOREST STATUS AND MEDICINAL FLORA STUDIES IN JANKADKAL AND SHIRGUNJI MPCA AREA, UTTARA KANNADA

Ramachandra T.V.                Subash Chandran M.D..                Joshi N V                Rao G.R.               Vishnu D. Mukri               Shreekanth Naik

Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
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