Ecological Evaluation of Estuarine Indian Sundarban

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Mangrove forest on the active delta of Indian Sundarban is a unique biosphere and a declared world heritage site. It prevails with the dynamic features of a tidal estuary along with special floral diversity of mangorves. The estuaries and the adjoining mangroves, brakish water ecosystem sustain a very rich aquatic, terrestrial, aerial and arboreal faunal biodiversity.Mangrove areas are an important media for transport of offshore nutrients, as they are the exporters of large amount of plant and animal detritus.Ever increasing destruction of mangroves and simultaneous conversion of land into different land use pattern coupled with indiscriminate contamination of different xenobiotics with water and soil by various means are affecting the ecological condition of this special ecosystem.This book is the result of an extensive study on Indian Sundarban considering its unique estuarine mangrove ecological status.The content in this book is mainly based on the research works of Debabrata Mukherjee, one of the authors of this book.This book can provide great information on Indian Sundarban and can be helpful for the post-graduate students and researchers.