MA 48: Analysis and Strategic Action Plan for the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Program.

Title: MA 48: Analysis and Strategic Action Plan for the Bay of Bengal Large Marine ...
Abstract: Two sea bays separated by the promontory of Elephant Point. Vandeloos Bay in the south contains the estuarine system of the Valaichchenai and Maduru Oya rivers. The two rivers unite in a broad estuarine lagoon (Valaichchenai Lagoon) which opens into the bay during the wet season and is then tidal. There are several large muddy islands in the lagoon, and extensive fringing mangrove swamps and brackish marshes. The maximum depth is about two metres, and the tidal range 40-60 cm. Elephant Poi...
Publication Date: May 21, 2018, 11:51 p.m.
Category: Coastal and Marine Sensitive Habitats; flora and/or fauna in natural environment. Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat
Regions: JS 5
Owner: prds1

Language: English
Supplemental Information: Kotagama SW, Pinto L and Samarakoon JI (1989). Sri Lanka, In: A Directory of Asian Wetlands, Scott DA (ed.) IUCN, Gland Switzerland and Cambridge UK. ; BOBL...

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