The impact of climate change on mangrove forests

DM Alongi - Current Climate Change Reports, 2015 - Springer
Mangrove forests have survived a number of catastrophic climate events since first
appearing along the shores of the Tethys Sea during the late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary. The …

Construction and maintenance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta: linking process, morphology, and stratigraphy

CA Wilson, SL Goodbred Jr - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We present a review of the processes, morphology, and stratigraphy of the Ganges-
Brahmaputra-Meghna delta (GBMD), including insights gained from detailed elevation data …

Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts

JL Raff, SL Goodbred Jr, JL Pickering… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The principal nature-based solution for offsetting relative sea-level rise in the Ganges-
Brahmaputra delta is the unabated delivery, dispersal, and deposition of the rivers'~ 1 billion …

[HTML][HTML] Bangladesh's dynamic coastal regions and sea-level rise

H Brammer - Climate risk management, 2014 - Elsevier
The physical geography of Bangladesh's coastal area is more diverse and dynamic than is
generally recognised. Failure to recognise this has led to serious misconceptions about the …

[HTML][HTML] Subsidence and human influences in mega deltas: the case of the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna

S Brown, RJ Nicholls - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Relative sea/land level changes are fundamental to people living in deltas. Net subsidence
is complex and attributed to tectonics, compaction, sedimentation and anthropogenic …

Flood risk of natural and embanked landscapes on the Ganges–Brahmaputra tidal delta plain

LW Auerbach, SL Goodbred Jr, DR Mondal… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The Ganges–Brahmaputra river delta, with 170 million people and a vast, low-lying
coastal plain, is perceived to be at great risk of increased flooding and submergence from …

Stratigraphic evolution of the late Holocene Ganges–Brahmaputra lower delta plain

MA Allison, SR Khan, SL Goodbred Jr, SA Kuehl - Sedimentary Geology, 2003 - Elsevier
Sediment cores from the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh were examined for
sedimentological character, clay mineralogy, elemental trends (C, N, S), and 14C …

Rapid rise in effective sea-level in southwest Bangladesh: its causes and contemporary rates

J Pethick, JD Orford - Global and Planetary Change, 2013 - Elsevier
Evidence is presented from three estuarine tide gauges located in the Sundarban area of
southwest Bangladesh of relative sea level rise substantially in excess of the generally …

Controls on facies distribution and stratigraphic preservation in the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta sequence

SL Goodbred Jr, SA Kuehl, MS Steckler, MH Sarker - Sedimentary Geology, 2003 - Elsevier
Abundant sediment supply and accommodation space in the Bengal Basin have led to the
development of a major Late Quaternary delta sequence. This sequence has formed in a …

Response of the Sundarbans coastline to sea level rise and decreased sediment flow: A remote sensing assessment

AF Rahman, D Dragoni, B El-Masri - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2011 - Elsevier
The Sundarbans is the world's largest remaining single block of mangrove forest, covering
approximately 1millionha (~ 10,000 km2) of the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta along the …