Sundarbans-An Extended Overview
Sundarbans:Location
Sundarbans is located in the estuary of the river Ganges. About 62% of the mangrove forest is spread over the Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira districts in the southwest extremity of Bangladesh; the rest lies in the southeast of the state of West Bengal in India.
The Sundarbans mangrove ecosystems are delicate, dynamic and complex and their principal parameters are the environment, the flora, the fauna and human interference (Choudhury, 1984). The forest land is highly influenced by tidal interactions because of the presence of these water bodies. The forest receives freshwater and sediment from a number of distributaries of the Ganges. It hosts one of the richest natural gene pools for forest flora and fauna species in the world, including the Bengal tiger . Each one of the following elements of the ecosystem, namely climate, salinity, fresh water, siltation, erosion, substrate and nutrients have first order reaction on flora and fauna. The upper regions of the Sundarbans are primarily influenced by the upstream stress conditions. To some extent, the decomposing litter and detritus do affect the particular tension zone. The factors in the cycles of transported materials include daily tides, run-off, rainfall, decomposition, mineral intake, and activities of the fauna in general, fish and wildlife in particular.
The Sundarbans mangrove ecosystems are delicate, dynamic and complex and their principal parameters are the environment, the flora, the fauna and human interference (Choudhury, 1984). The forest land is highly influenced by tidal interactions because of the presence of these water bodies. The forest receives freshwater and sediment from a number of distributaries of the Ganges. It hosts one of the richest natural gene pools for forest flora and fauna species in the world, including the Bengal tiger . Each one of the following elements of the ecosystem, namely climate, salinity, fresh water, siltation, erosion, substrate and nutrients have first order reaction on flora and fauna. The upper regions of the Sundarbans are primarily influenced by the upstream stress conditions. To some extent, the decomposing litter and detritus do affect the particular tension zone. The factors in the cycles of transported materials include daily tides, run-off, rainfall, decomposition, mineral intake, and activities of the fauna in general, fish and wildlife in particular.