Seven centuries of reconstructed Brahmaputra River discharge demonstrate underestimated high discharge and flood hazard frequency

MP Rao, ER Cook, BI Cook, RD D'Arrigo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The lower Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh and Northeast India often floods
during the monsoon season, with catastrophic consequences for people throughout the …

Biomass estimation in mangrove forests: a comparison of allometric models incorporating species and structural information

MS Rahman, DNM Donoghue… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Improved estimates of aboveground biomass (AGB) are required to improve our
understanding of the productivity of mangrove forests to support the long-term conservation …

Salinity drives growth dynamics of the mangrove tree Sonneratia apetala Buch.-Ham. in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh

MS Rahman, U Sass-Klaassen, PA Zuidema… - …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mangroves throughout the world are threatened by environmental changes apart from
anthropogenic disturbances. Many of these changes may inhibit the growth and survival of …

[HTML][HTML] 1980s–2010s: The world's largest mangrove ecosystem is becoming homogeneous

SK Sarker, J Matthiopoulos, SN Mitchell… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge gaps in spatiotemporal changes in mangrove diversity and composition
have obstructed mangrove conservation programs across the tropics, but particularly in the …

Is soil organic carbon underestimated in the largest mangrove forest ecosystems? Evidence from the Bangladesh Sundarbans

MS Rahman, DNM Donoghue, LJ Bracken - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Globally, mangroves sequester a large amount of carbon into the sediments, although
spatial heterogeneity exists owing to a wide variety of local, regional, and global controls …

Modelling spatial biodiversity in the world's largest mangrove ecosystem—The Bangladesh Sundarbans: A baseline for conservation

SK Sarker, R Reeve, NK Paul… - Diversity and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Mangrove forests are among the most threatened and rapidly vanishing, but poorly
understood ecosystems. We aim to uncover the variables driving mangrove biodiversity and …

Solving the fourth‐corner problem: forecasting ecosystem primary production from spatial multispecies trait‐based models

SK Sarker, R Reeve, J Matthiopoulos - Ecological Monographs, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting productivity and stress across an ecosystem is complicated by the multiple
interactions between competing species, the unknown levels of intra‐and interspecific trait …

Changes in sensitivity of tree-ring widths to climate in a tropical moist forest tree in Bangladesh

M Rahman, M Islam, J Wernicke, A Bräuning - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Tree growth in the tropics is strongly influenced by climate. However, reported tree growth
responses to climate are largely inconsistent, varying with geographic location, forest type …

Dendrochronological potential of four neotropical dry-forest tree species: Climate-growth correlations in northeast Brazil

JRV Aragão, P Groenendijk, CS Lisi - Dendrochronologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Tropical dry forests (TDF) are highly important tropical forest ecosystems. Yet, these forests
are highly threatened, usually neglected and only poorly studied. Understanding the long …

Synergistic effects of climate and salinity on radial growth of Excoecaria agallocha L. in the Sundarbans world heritage mangrove ecosystem

MQ Chowdhury, SK Sarker, R Sultana, A Datta… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sundarbans World Heritage ecosystem provides valuable ecosystem goods
and services to> 7.5 million coastal people in South Asia. This sentinel mangrove ecosystem …