Widespread infilling of tidal channels and navigable waterways in human-modified tidal deltaplain of southwest Bangladesh
Since the 1960s, ~5000 km2 of tidal deltaplain in southwest Bangladesh has been embanked and converted to densely inhabited, agricultural islands (i.e., polders). This landscape is juxtaposed to the adjacent Sundarbans, a pristine mangrove forest, both well connected by a dense network of tidal chan...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BioOne
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene |
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| Online Access: | https://www.elementascience.org/articles/263 |