Are we failing to protect threatened mangroves in the Sundarbans world heritage ecosystem?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Sarker, Swapan K ^a,d   Reeve, Richard ^a   Thompson, Jill ^b   Paul, Nirmal K ^c   Matthiopoulos, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Management Plan Division   (Bangladesh)

^d SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; RHIZOPHORACEAE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BANGLADESH; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84958555169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21234     Document Type: Article

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