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Evaluating and Ranking the Threats in the Indian Mangrove Forest Adjacent to Bangladesh Sundarbans

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  • Arpita Saha
  • Tanmay Ray Chaudhuri
  • Sufia Zaman
  • Prosenjit Pramanick

    (Department of Oceanography, Techno India University, India)

  • Abhishek Saha
  • Abhijit Mitra

    (Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta, India)

Abstract

Mangrove ecosystems are exposed to a variety of threats. These threats encompass stressors like deforestation, over exploitation of mangroves, pollution, sea level rise, siltation etc. In this paper, we have captured the major threats operating on the mangrove ecosystem of Indian Sundarbans, which is mostly under the reserve forest and lies adjacent to the western part of the Bangladesh Sundarbans. We selected five categories of respondents to evaluate and rank the major threats by the product of Threat Ranking (TR) and % of voting of the respondents to achieve the total Threat Score (TS) and finally the Combined Threat Scale (CTS) for each category of threat. Our analysis revealed highest CTS (Combined Threat Scale) value to erosion and lowest to pollution, which may be attributed to high wave actions and minimum anthropogenic pressure in the eastern Indian Mangrove forest adjacent to Bangladesh Sundarbans

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  • Arpita Saha & Tanmay Ray Chaudhuri & Sufia Zaman & Prosenjit Pramanick & Abhishek Saha & Abhijit Mitra, 2017. "Evaluating and Ranking the Threats in the Indian Mangrove Forest Adjacent to Bangladesh Sundarbans," Organic & Medicinal Chemistry International Journal, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 2(4), pages 95-98, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jomcij:v:2:y:2017:i:4:p:95-98
    DOI: 10.19080/OMCIJ.2017.02.555595
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