Environmental variability of some edaphic components from virgin areas of tropical mangrove forest of Sundarban, India
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Environmental variability of some edaphic components from virgin areas of tropical mangrove forest of Sundarban, India
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Creator |
Mukherjee, Subrat
Ghosh, Phanibhusan Sarkar, Subhasis Saha, Tapan |
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Subject |
Sundarbans
Mangrove forests Surface sediments Edaphic components |
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Description |
1815-1824
Level of occurrence and characteristics of some important edaphic components were studied in the intertidal surface sediments from core mangrove forest of Sundarbans in a comprehensive way for the first time. Sediments were characterized to be dominated by finer particles of silt and clay with moderate to high carbon content (0.40 - 2.76%), low cation exchange capacity (average of 11.10 me100 g-1), low available nitrogen (about 10% of total nitrogen), high salt content with alkaline nature (pH, 7.5 – 8.2) and well supply of easily available form of phosphorous (17.75 - 57.0 mg.kg-1as P2O5) and potassium (12.7-22.5 meq.100g-1). Statistical analysis revealed that clay deposition was favored at high pH (p |
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Date |
2016-07-21T10:54:41Z
2016-07-21T10:54:41Z 2015-11 |
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Article
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Identifier |
0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/jspui/handle/123456789/35005 |
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en_US
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Rights |
CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
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NISCAIR-CSIR, India
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Source |
IJMS Vol.44(11) [November 2015]
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