Freshwater Plankton and Macrophytes of India

by Arvind Kumar

ISBN: 9789351307860
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 11995.00
Biblio : viii+362p.,figs.,ind., 25 cm

Author Profile

Professor (Dr.) Arvind Kumar is the most senior faculty member of Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, SKM University, Dumka, Jharkhand and has 37 years experience as an outstanding teacher and researcher. He served as Pro Vice-Chancellor of SKM University, Dumka, Jharkhand. Professor Kumar also served as Vice-Chancellor of Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag, Jharkhand and Vice-Chancellor of Magadh University, Bodhgaya, Bihar. <BR> He has so far published 86 books and more than 250 research papers in peer reviewed journals. Professor Kumar is recipient of several prestigious awards and medals including Prof. W.A. Nizami Gold Medal by the Zoological Society of India, Dr. S.Z. Quasim Gold Medal by SBBP University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut, ASEA Environment Gold Medal by Gurukul Kangari University, Haridwar, Odum Gold Medal by International Society for Ecological Communications, Poland.

About The Book

The plankton community is a heterogenous group of tiny plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) adapted into live in marine as well as freshwaters. Plankton is the productive base of both freshwater and marine ecosystems, providing food for larger animals and indirectly for humans, so plankton constitutes the basic food sources for any aquatic ecosystem, which supports fish and other aquatic animals. The phytoplankton may become increasingly important in space travel as a source for food and for gas exchange. <BR> The present book entitled “Freshwater Plankton and Macrophytes of India” comprises of three sections and the whole subject has been divided into nine chapters, which includes phytoplankton, zooplankton and macrophytes with their introduction, classification, adaptation methods for study, imporatance, key to identification and taxonomic description of species. The details should help the students as well as researchers to be thorough in the method of collection and identification of different planktonic species. The number of references cited should be adequate to permit easy access to additional information. <BR> This book will be immense use to all those who study or teach aquatic ecology and hydrobiology. Not only this, the present book will also be helpful for students, research scholar, professors, scientists as well as limnologists.

Table of Contents

"Preface Part-I: Phytoplankton 1. Plankton: Classification, Adaptation and Importance 2. Methods for Study of Plankton 3. Phytoplankton: Introduction and Classification 4. Taxonomic Description of Algae Part-II: Zooplankton 5. Protozoa: Introduction, Key to Identification and Taxonomic Description of Species 6. Rotifera: Introduction, Key to Identification and Taxonomic Description of Species 7. Arthropoda: Crustacea and Branchiopoda Introduction, Key to Identification and Taxonomic Description of Species 8. Arthropoda : Copepoda (Calanoida and Cyclopoida): Introduction, Key to Identification and Taxonomic Description of Species Part-III: Macrophytes 9. Macrophytes: Introduction, Key to Identification and Taxonomic Description of Species Bibliography Index"