IGCSE Geography / Coastal environments

Inside one coastal ecosystem: the Sundarbans mangrove revision notes

Edexcel International GCSE Geography (4GE1), chapter 2: Coastal environments, specification point 2.2b, 2.S4. Part of the full course.

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The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest, shared by Bangladesh and India. Its non-living conditions shape the plants and animals that live there, and nutrients move through the ecosystem in food webs and cycles.

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