Md Mizanur Rahman, Md. Nabiul Islam Khan, Anwarul Hoque, Imran Ahmed
Md Sayed Iftekhar, Peter Saenger
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...
Swapan Kumar Sarker, Richard Reeve, Jill Thompson, Nirmal K. Paul et al.
The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove ecosystem in the world, is under threat from historical and future human exploitation and sea level rise. Limited scientific knowledge on the spatial ecology of the mangroves in this world heritage ecosystem has been a major impediment to conservation efforts. He...
Shamim Ahmed, Swapan Kumar Sarker, Daniel A. Friess, Md. Kamruzzaman et al.
) to the salinity and functional variable relationships. In this study, we found that rises in salinity significantly impede forest growth and produce less productive ecosystems dominated by dwarf species while reducing stand structural properties (i.e., tree height, basal area, dominant tree height...
Manoj Kumer Ghosh, Lalit Kumar, Chandan Roy
The Sundarbans mangrove forest is an important resource for the people of the Ganges Delta. It plays an important role in the local as well as global ecosystem by absorbing carbon dioxide and other pollutants from air and water, offering protection to millions of people in the Ganges Delta against c...
Shekhar R. Biswas, Prity L. Biswas, Sharif Hasan Limon, En‐Rong Yan et al.
Plant invasion is a major threat to natural ecosystems, and mangrove forests are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. However, since mangrove species primarily occur in the saline and intertidal environment that is inhospitable for most terrestrial and freshwater plants, it is commonly...
Shafi M. Tareq, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Keiichi Ohta
F. Blasco, Marie-France Bellan, M. Aizpuru
Abstract. A vegetation map at scale 1:5 million is presented. * It covers Bangladesh, Burma (Myanmar), India, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka and fills a conspicuous gap in the cartography of tropical vegetation, following the publication of vegetation maps of South America, Africa a...
Mohammad Sayedur Rahman, Gazi Mosharof Hossain, Saleh Ahammad Khan, Sarder Nasir Uddin
The study revealed the occurrence of 528 species of vascular plants belonging to 356 genera and 111 families in the Sundarban Mangrove Forest of Bangladesh. Among these species, 24 were pteridophytes and the rest were angiosperms, of which only 24 were true mangroves and 70 were mangrove associates....
Yisheng Peng, Mingxuan Zheng, Zhouxiang Zheng, Guichang Wu et al.
Contrary to the global trend, the area of mangrove in Guangdong Province, southern China, has been increasing over the last two decades. Currently, three exotic mangrove species have been introduced for large-scale afforestation since 1985. A reassessment of the overall status of the mangrove specie...
Swapan Kumar Sarker, Richard Reeve, Nirmal K. Paul, Jason Matthiopoulos
Abstract Aim Mangrove forests are among the most threatened and rapidly vanishing, but poorly understood ecosystems. We aim to uncover the variables driving mangrove biodiversity and produce baseline biodiversity maps for the Sundarbans world heritage site—the Earth's largest contiguous mangrove eco...
Li Huang, Cheng Jin, Ying Pan, Lihua Zhou et al.
Old trees have many ecological and socio-cultural values. However, knowledge of the factors influencing their long-term persistence in human-dominated landscapes is limited. Here, using an extensive database (nearly 1.8 million individual old trees belonging to 1,580 species) from China, we identifi...
Md. Qumruzzaman Chowdhury, Maaike De Ridder, Hans Beeckman
Mangroves occur along the coastlines throughout the tropics and sub-tropics, supporting a wide variety of resources and services. In order to understand the responses of future climate change on this ecosystem, we need to know how mangrove species have responded to climate changes in the recent past...
Mohammad Main Uddin, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, Ammar Abdul Aziz, Catherine E. Lovelock