Climate change impacts on Indian Sunderbans: A time series analysis (1924-2008)

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1289-1307

  Raha, Atanu ^a   Das, Susmita ^a   Banerjee, Kakoli ^c   Mitra, Abhijit ^b  

^a Office of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^c CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ORISSA   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Indian Sunderbans; Land dynamics; Mangrove; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EROSION; HISTORICAL RECORD; MANGROVE; MAP; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANTATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SALINITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

INDIA; SUNDARBANS NATIONAL PARK; WEST BENGAL;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA ALBA; EXCOECARIA AGALLOCHA; SONNERATIA APETALA;

EID: 84863393778     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0260-z     Document Type: Article

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