Image 06 INDIA/BANGLADESH: THE MOUTH OF THE GANGES
An enlargement of SPOT Scene KJ 234/306 Dated 11/03/1999
The Sunderbans
On this enlargement, it is very clear that mangrove forests (dominated by Heritiera fomes) is suffered from the so called "top dying" (circled).

Prepared by Ms. Marie Aizpuru, and provided by Prof. François Blasco,Laboratoire d'Ecologie Terestre(LET), Toulouse, France, for ISME
Credit: Laboratoire d' Ecologie Terestre (LET)