Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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Abstract

Mountain Vegetation, Indigenous People and Medicinal Plants

Shujaul Mulk Khan

Plants and plant communities survive at the edge of life in high mountains all over the world; these are also ecosystems where climatic change is more visible and where species extinction is very rapid. Mountains are the most remarkable land forms on the earth’s surface with prominent vegetation zones based mainly on altitudinal and climatic variations