Due to their high nutritive value and the presence of secondary metabolites, wetland plants can be consumed by humans as food and utilized as medicinal drugs.
Maryam Akram Butt is a Ph.D. scholar in the Plant Sciences Department at Quaid-I-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammad Zafar is an Assistant Professor of Plant Sciences at Quaid-I-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan.Mushtaq Amhed is a Professor of Plant Sciences at Quaid-I-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan.Shabnum Shaheen is an Assistant Professor at Lehore College for Women University in Lahore, Pakistan.Shazia Sultana is a Ph.D. Scholar in the Plant Sciences Department at Quaid-I-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Innehållsförteckning
Foreword.- Preface.- Wetlands and Wetland Plants.- Climate of Wetlands.- Types of Wetlands and Wetland Plants.- Importance of Biodiversity in Wetlands.- Nutritive Value of Wetland Flora.- Medicinally Important Wetland Flora.- Threats to Biodiversity of Wetlands.- Conservation Strategies of Wetland Flora.- Wetland Plants of Himalayas: A case study.- A Pictorial Guide to Wetland plants of Himalayas.- Bibliography.
Zohaib Khurshid, Muhammad Zafar, Shariq Najeeb, Jithendra Ratnayake, Saudi Arabia) Khurshid, Zohaib (Lecturer and Course Coordinator, Department of Prosthodontics and Dental Implantology, College of Dentistry, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Pakistan) Zafar, Muhammad (Quaid-i-Azam University, Canada) Najeeb, Shariq (Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Department of Endodontics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, New Zealand) Ratnayake, Jithendra (Lecturer, Department of Oral Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, Muhammad Sohail Zafar