Vegetation dynamics in the Bangladesh Sundarbans mangroves: a review of forest inventories
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...The remaining mangrove forests are under pressure by continuous cutting, encroachment, storms and climate change (Iftekhar and Saenger, 2008)....
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...Change detection analysis (Figure 4) shows that the new sedimentary deposits along small tidal channels are colonized within a couple of years by light demanding pioneer plant communities which are later replaced by different successional communities due to land rise and modified inundation and salinity conditions [70]....
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...The forest is, nationally and internationally, of great conservation significance for its environmental services and biodiversity (Seidensticker and Hai 1983; Iftekhar and Saenger 2008)....
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...The forest is, nationally and internationally, of great conservation significance for its environmental services and biodiversity (Seidensticker and Hai 1983; Iftekhar and Saenger 2008)....
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...4 FR fresh water zone, MO moderate saline zone, and ST strong saline zone Source (Chaffey et al. 1985; Iftekhar and Saenger 2008) Wetlands Ecol Manage (2015) 23:269–283 271...
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...In Sundarbans there are ten prominent vegetation types (Table 2) (Chaffey et al. 1985; Iftekhar and Saenger 2008)....
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...In mangrove forest, zonation is often interpreted as the expression of succession (Tomlinson 1986)....
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...Thus, if the rate of decline continues, this species will become endangered as it presently is in India and Myanmar (Blasco et al. 2001)....
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...Thus, if the rate of decline continues, this species will become endangered as it presently is in India and Myanmar (Blasco et al. 2001)....
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...Heritiera fomes is distributed in Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh (Das and Siddiqi 1985)....
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