Sensitivity of Mangrove Ecosystem to Changing Climate

• Main Author: Mitra, Abhijit (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Physical geography.; Coasts.; Environmental sciences.; Ecology.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Sciences.; Coastal Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Environmental Science and Engineering.

Mangroves are basically salt tolerant forest ecosystems found mainly in tropical and sub-tropical inter-tidal regions. Till about 1960s, mangroves were largely viewed as “economically unproductive areas” and were therefore destroyed for reclaiming land for various economic and commercial activities....

Table of Contents:

• Climate change: A threat of the era
• Mangroves: A unique gift of nature
• How mangroves resist natural disaster?
• Impact of climate change on mangroves
• Climate change and plankton spectrum of mangrove ecosystem
• Climate change and its impact on brackish water fish and fishery
• Climate change and livelihood: Are we approaching towards an inevitable change?.  .