Community structure, species diversity, and aboveground biomass of the Sundarbans mangrove swamps

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 283-303

  Joshi, Hema Gupta ^a,b   Ghose, M ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Cluster analysis; Community type; Complexity index; Mangroves; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898489929     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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