Holocene mangrove and coastal environmental changes in the western Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta, India

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 159-169

  Hait, Arghya K ^a   Behling, Hermann ^b  

^a City College   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ganga Brahmaputra Delta; Holocene; India; Mangrove dynamics; Palynology; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149095822     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0203-5     Document Type: Article

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