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The text related to the cultural heritage 'The Sundarbans' has mentioned 'Swamp' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 3 Geography 4 Physiography 5 Ecoregions 5.1 Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests 5.2 Sundarbans Mangroves 5.3 Ecological succession 6 Flora 7 Fauna 7.1 Mammals 7.2 Avifauna 7.3 Aquafauna 8 Endangered and extinct species 9 Climate change impact 10 Hazards 10.1 Natural hazards 10.2 Man made hazards 11 Economy 11.1 Agriculture 11.2 Habitation 12 Administration 13 Protected areas 13.1 Sundarban National Park 13.2 Sundarbans West Wildlife Sanctuary 13.3 Sundarbans East Wildlife Sanctuary 13.4 Sundarbans South Wildlife Sanctuary 13.5 Sajnakhali Wildlife Sanctuary 14 In popular culture 15 See also 16 References 17 Sources 18 External links | WIKI |
| The seasonally flooded Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie inland from the mangrove forests on the coastal fringe. | WIKI |
| The mangrove vegetation itself assists in the formation of new landmass and the intertidal vegetation plays a significant role in swamp morphology. | WIKI |
| Sundarbans features two ecoregions xe2x80x94 "Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests" (IM0162) and "Sundarbans mangroves" (IM1406). | WIKI |
| Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests[edit] | WIKI |
| The Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Bangladesh. | WIKI |
| It represents the brackish swamp forests that lie behind the Sundarbans Mangroves, where the salinity is more pronounced. | WIKI |
| The Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie between the upland Lower Gangetic plains moist deciduous forests and the brackish-water Sundarbans mangroves bordering the Bay of Bengal. | WIKI |
| According to Champion and Seth (1968), the freshwater swamp forests are characterised by Heritiera minor, Xylocarpus molluccensis, Bruguiera conjugata, Sonneratia apetala, Avicennia officinalis, and Sonneratia caseolaris, with Pandanus tectorius, Hibiscus tiliaceus, and Nipa fruticans along the fringing banks. | WIKI |
| The varieties of the forests that exist in Sundarbans include mangrove scrub, littoral forest, saltwater mixed forest, brackish water mixed forest and swamp forest. | WIKI |
| Some more popular birds found in this region are open billed storks, black-headed ibis, water hens, coots, pheasant-tailed jacanas, pariah kites, brahminy kites, marsh harriers, swamp partridges, red junglefowls, spotted doves, common mynahs, jungle crows, jungle babblers, cotton teals, herring gulls, Caspian terns, gray herons, brahminy ducks, spot-billed pelicans, great egrets, night herons, common snipes, wood sandpipers, green pigeons, rose-ringed parakeets, paradise flycatchers, cormorants, white-bellied sea eagles, seagulls, common kingfishers, peregrine falcons, woodpeckers, Eurasian whimbrels, black-tailed godwits, little stints, eastern knots, curlews, golden plovers, pintails, white-eyed pochards and lesser whistling ducks. | WIKI |
| Some species such as hog deer (Axis porcinus), water buffalos (Bubalus bubalis), barasingha or swamp deer (Cervus duvauceli), Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus), Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and the mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) started to become extinct in the Sundarbans towards the middle of the 20th century, because of extensive poaching and hunting by the British. | WIKI |
| It is mainly mangrove scrub, forest and swamp. | WIKI |