John Pethick, Julian D. Orford
Md Mizanur Rahman, Md. Nabiul Islam Khan, Anwarul Hoque, Imran Ahmed
Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Ashraf Dewan, Jim W. Hall
The construction of polders in the coastal region of Bangladesh has significantly modified the patterns of flooding, as well as leading to significant land use/land cover (hereinafter, LULC) changes. The impact of LULC change and flooding on poverty is complex and poorly understood. This study prese...
Peter Saenger, N. A. Siddiqi
The coastal areas of Bangladesh have a high cyclone frequency. The protection from cyclone damage afforded by the natural mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, led the Forest Department in 1966 to initiate a mangrove afforestation programme. These initial plantings proved highly successful in protecti...
Abdul Aziz, A.C. Paul
The Sundarbans is a deltaic mangrove forest, formed about 7000 years ago by the deposition of sediments from the foothills of the Himalayas through the Ganges river system, and is situated southwest of Bangladesh and south of West Bengal, India. However, for the last 40 years, the discharge of sedim...
Md. Shams Uddin, Erik De Ruyter van Steveninck, Mishka Stuip, Mohammad Aminur Rahman Shah
Stuart Hamilton
To fill a gap in the marine science literature, I calculated the amount of mangrove deforestation in tropical estuaries that is attributable to commercial aquaculture. The eight countries analyzed were Indonesia, Brazil, India, Bangladesh, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Ecuador. Together these countr...
Md. Golam Mahabub Sarwar, Colin D. Woodroffe
Md Sayed Iftekhar, Peter Saenger
Abhrajyoti Ghosh, Nirmalya Dey, Amit Bera, Amit Kumar Tiwari et al.
BACKGROUND: Sundarban is the world's largest coastal sediment comprising of mangrove forest which covers about one million hectares in the south-eastern parts of India and southern parts of Bangladesh. The microbial diversity in this sediment is largely unknown till date. In the present study an att...
Aaron M. Ellison, Barid B. Mukherjee, Ansarul Karim
Summary 1 Associations between abiotic variables and patterns of species distribution and abundance are a major preoccupation of community ecologists. In many habitats, this association is manifest in discrete zones of vegetation. 2 We used statistical methods to examine tree species distribution pa...
Tharani Gopalakrishnan, Md Kamrul Hasan, A. T. M. Sanaul Haque, S. Jayasinghe et al.
Climatic and non-climatic stressors, such as temperature increases, rainfall fluctuations, population growth and migration, pollution, land-use changes and inadequate gender-specific strategies, are major challenges to coastal agricultural sustainability. In this paper, we discuss all pertinent issu...
Md. Mahbub Alam, Md. Arif Hossain, SULTANA SHAFEE
Abstract All the storms and depressions that formed in the Bay of Bengal during 1974–99 have been analysed. The number of occurrences in July is not in harmony with that of other months of the monsoon. Regions stricken are taken into account on a monthly, seasonal and annual basis. The Indian coast ...
Shekhar R. Biswas, Junaid K. Choudhury, Ainun Nishat, Md. Matiur Rahman
Sundarbans mangrove forest has substantial ecological and economic importance at local, national and global scales. Over the past decades, invasive species have spread significantly in the mangrove ecosystem. We conducted a study to identify the different types of invasive species present, the rate ...
Andrés Payo, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sugata Hazra, Tuhin Ghosh et al.
The Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem, located in India and Bangladesh, is recognized as a global priority for biodiversity conservation and is an important provider of ecosystem services such as numerous goods and protection against storm surges. With global mean sea-level rise projected as up to 0.98 ...