Rising water salinity: A threat to mangroves of indian sundarbans

Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages 167-183

  Zaman, Sufia ^a   Bhattacharyya, Subhra Bikash ^a   Pramanick, Prosenjit ^a   Raha, Atanu Kumar ^a   Chakraborty, Shankhadeep ^a   Mitra, Abhijit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Bidyadhari siltation; Farakka discharge; Heritiera fomes; Mangroves; Salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901389083     PISSN: 20407262     EISSN: 20407270     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S2040-7262(2013)0000013014     Document Type: Article

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