Tree diversity as affected by salinity in the Sundarban Mangrove Forests, Bangladesh

Bangladesh Journal of Botany

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-202

  Ahmed, Ashfaque ^a   Aziz, Abdul ^a   Khan, Azm Nowsher Ali ^a   Islam, Mohammad Nurul ^a   Iqubal, Kazi Farhed ^a,b   Nazma, ^a,b,c   Islam, Md Shafiqul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF BANGLADESH   (Bangladesh)

^c Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Ceriops decandra; GIS; Heritera fomes; Remote Sensing; Salinity; Tree zonation

Indexed keywords

BRUGUIERA SEXANGULA; CERIOPS DECANDRA; EXCOECARIA AGALLOCHA; FOMES; HERITIERA FOMES; SONNERATIA APETALA;

EID: 84856733649     PISSN: 02535416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/bjb.v40i2.9778     Document Type: Article

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