Wetlands of India: Asia's largest lake (Chilka) : ecology, threats, and imperatives
| Author | : Shahid A. Abbasi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Endangered species |
| ISBN | : |
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The Biology of Temporary Waters
| Author | : D. Dudley Williams |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0198528116 |
'The Biology of Temporary Waters' brings together diverse global literature on pure and applied aspects of temporary waters and their biotas. It examines their roles in both natural and human environments and seeks common evolutionary themes.
Ecology, Conservation, and Restoration of Chilika Lagoon, India
| Author | : C. Max Finlayson |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 451 |
| Release | : 2020-01-31 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3030334244 |
This book chronicles the decades-long work of studying, analyzing, and reversing the environmental pressures that threatened India’s Chilika Lagoon, the largest brackish-water lagoon in the region, and the second largest in the world. Designated as one of India’s first Ramsar Sites in 1981, Chilika Lagoon continued to degrade for a decade longer. Then, the Chilika Development Authority (CDA) was established to gather information and devise a restoration plan that benefits the ecosystems of the lagoon, with sensitivity to the needs and livelihoods of local communities. Expert contributors detail the work of analysis, planning and implementation, including extensive coverage of such topics as: Devising a plan for implementing Ramsar wise use guidelines Sedimentologic, chemical, and isotopic impacts Hydrodynamics and salinity Runoff and sediment in watersheds of the Lagoon's Western Catchment Long-term analysis of water quality and continued water quality monitoring Bio-optical models for cyclone impact assessment Studies of geomorphology, land use, and sedimentary environments Spatiotemporal assessment of phytoplankton communities Creation of a post-restoration scenario for fish and fisheries Assessing status of waterbirds, species diversity and migration patterns The result was a major hydrological intervention to re-establish hydrological and salinity regimes, biodiversity, and fish catches, and help protect the livelihood of lagoon-dependent communities. The story of the rehabilitation and management of Chilika Lagoon demonstrates that it is possible to halt and reverse the encroachment and degradation of wetlands, to restore biodiversity and to provide benefits for large numbers of people. Ecology, Conservation, and Restoration of Chilika Lagoon goes beyond scientific research articles to explore institutional and governance issues, political ecology, and the Ramsar Convention’s guidelines for ecosystem restoration. The book will benefit researchers, wetland managers, government policy makers and more general readers concerned with restoration and conservation of wetlands around the planet.
Ecological and Fisheries Development in Wetlands
| Author | : Kamakhya Pada Biswas |
| Publisher | : Daya Books |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Fisheries |
| ISBN | : 9788170351351 |
Chilka, the largest lagoon of Bay of Bangal on the east cost of India, Orissa State, has been identified as a wetland of International importance at Ramsar Convention. Noticeable changes have taken place in physical features of the lagoon comprising bathy-metry, salinity, silation and rapid weed infestation in recent decades. Present book has been made to review and analyse the recent changes of physical features of the lagoon together with ecological characteristics and flora and fauna particularly fish and fisheries of the lagoon. The present commercial activities of the lagoon, the change in land and water use and the changing socio-economic conditions of population living in and around the lagoon with the shift from usual fishery lease policy have been dealt with cautions for degradation of environment affecting ecology and fisheries due to illegal and rampant fish farming activities in the lagoon have been mentioned in the book with possible consequences. The agencies which are activity taking part in these unlawful activities for earning more and quick money have been identified also. Efforts have also been made in suggesting proposals to mitigate the current ecological, fisheries and socio-economic problems of Chilka lagoon. Restoration and optimizing the brackish water conditions by improving the salinity gradient, recruitment of prawn and fish juveniles, controlling the spreading of weeds; decreasing the silt load; identification and equitable distribution of fishery sources together with the conservation measures suggested in the communication can only save Chilka the largest wetland of the country from rapied eutrophication leading to its extinction in future. Contents: Chapter 1: Limnology, Chapter 2: Hydrography of the Lagoon, Chapter 3: Ecological Characteristics of the Lagoon, Chapter 4: Flora of the Lagoon, Chapter 5: Commercial Activities in the Lagoon, Chapter 6: Traditional Fisherman: Caste and Status, Chapter 7: Fish and Crustacean Ecology: Fisheries of the Lagoon, Chapter 8: Role of Cooperatives, Chapter 9: Fish Trade in the Lagoon, Chapter 10: Aquafarming in the Lagoon, Chapter 11: Conflicts and Problems, Chapter 12: Infrastructure Facilities, Chapter 13: Conservation and Development Proposals.
The Ecology and Management of Wetlands
| Author | : Donal D. Hook |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1468483781 |
This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference in a Session organized by Professor B.B. Vartepetian. This group and others later conspired to contribute to a book entitled Plant Life in Anaerobic Environments (eds. D. D. Hook and R. M. M. Crawford, Ann Arbor Science, 1978). Several contributors to the book suggested in 1983 that a broad-scoped symposium on wetlands would be useful (a) in facilitating communication among the diverse research groups involved in wetlands research (b) in bringing researchers and managers together and (c) in presenting a com prehensive and balanced coverage on the status of ecology ami management of wetlands from a global perspective. With this encouragement, the senior editor organized a Plan ning Committee that encompassed expertise from many disciplines of wetland scientists and managers. This Committee, with input from their colleagues around the world, organized a symposium that addressed almost every aspect of wetland ecology and management.
Agroforestry Systems in India: Livelihood Security & Ecosystem Services
| Author | : Jagdish Chander Dagar |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2013-11-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 8132216628 |
Agroforestry, the word coined in early seventies, has made its place in all the developed and the developing countries of the world and is now recognized as an important approach to ensuring food security and rebuilding resilient rural environments. India has been an all-time leader in agroforestry. The South and Southeast Asia region comprising India is often described as the cradle of agroforestry. Almost all forms of agroforestry systems exist across India in ecozones ranging from humid tropical lowlands to high-altitude and temperate biomes, and perhumid rainforest zones to parched drylands. The country ranks foremost among the community of nations not only in terms of this enormous diversity and long tradition of the practice of agroforestry, but also in fostering scientific developments in the subject. Agroforestry applies to private agricultural and forest lands and communities that also include highly erodible, flood-prone, economically marginal and environmentally sensitive lands. The typical situation is agricultural, where trees are added to create desired benefits. Agroforestry allows for the diversification of farm activities and makes better use of environmental resources. Owing to an increase in the population of human and cattle, there is increasing demand of food as well as fodder, particularly in developing countries like India. So far, there is no policy that deals with specifics in agroforestry in India. But, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research has been discussing on the scope of having a National Agroforestry Policy in appropriate platforms. However, evolving a policy requires good and reliable datasets from different corners of the country on the subject matter. This synthesis volume containing 13 chapters is an attempt to collate available information in a classified manner into different system ecologies, problems and solutions, and converging them into a policy support.
Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration
| Author | : William J. Mitsch |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2003-09-18 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9780471332640 |
Completely updated to keep pace with current technology. * Provides a firm grounding the fundamentals, theory, and latest techniques. * Includes completely updated case studies.
Freshwater Biodiversity
| Author | : David Dudgeon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 517 |
| Release | : 2020-05-21 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1108882625 |
Growing human populations and higher demands for water impose increasing impacts and stresses upon freshwater biodiversity. Their combined effects have made these animals more endangered than their terrestrial and marine counterparts. Overuse and contamination of water, overexploitation and overfishing, introduction of alien species, and alteration of natural flow regimes have led to a 'great thinning' and declines in abundance of freshwater animals, a 'great shrinking' in body size with reductions in large species, and a 'great mixing' whereby the spread of introduced species has tended to homogenize previously dissimilar communities in different parts of the world. Climate change and warming temperatures will alter global water availability, and exacerbate the other threat factors. What conservation action is needed to halt or reverse these trends, and preserve freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing world? This book offers the tools and approaches that can be deployed to help conserve freshwater biodiversity.
