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    • Managing coastal tourism: Perspectives from India and the European union 

      Noronha, L.; Lourenco, N.; Lobo-Ferreira, J.P.; Feoli, E.; Lleopart, A.; Sawkar, K.; Chachadi, A. (Tata Energy Research Institute, India, 2003)
      Tourism can, and does, impact local development and the environment, as seen in this multi-authored volume, and attention is needed to avoid what has been termed as the 'golden goose' problem. The beauty and environmental ...
    • Manganese oxidation by bacterial isolates from the Indian Ridge System 

      Fernandes, S.O.; Krishnan, K.P.; Khedekar, V.D.; LokaBharathi, P.A. (Springer, 2005)
      The abundance and activity of culturable manganese-oxidizing bacteria were assessed from near-bottom water samples of the tectonically active Carlsberg Ridge. Retrievable counts as colony forming units (CFU) on dilute ...
    • Marine actinobacteria showing phosphate-solubilizing efficiency in Chorao Island, Goa, India 

      Dastager, S.G.; Damare, S.R. (Springer, 2013)
      The occurrence and distribution of an actinobacteria group of bacteria capable of dissolving insoluble phosphates were investigated in this study in marine environments, especially in sediments of Chorao Island, Goa, India. ...
    • Modelling tide-driven currents and residual eddies in the Gulf of Kachchh and their seasonal variability: A marine environmental planning perspective 

      Babu, M.T.; Vethamony, P.; Desa, E. (Elsevier, 2005)
      Tide-driven currents in the Gulf of Kachchh (GoK) have been studied using MIKE21 hydrodynamic model. The results are validated with measured currents for three different periods characterized by different wind fields. ...
    • Molecular Biomarkers: Their significance and application in marine pollution monitoring 

      Sarkar, A.; Ray, D.; Shrivastava, A.N.; Sarkar, S. (Springer, 2006)
      This paper presents an overview of the significance of the use of molecular biomarkers as diagnostic and prognostic tools for marine pollution monitoring. In order to assess the impact of highly persistent pollutants such ...
    • Ocean outfall off Mangalore, west coast of India 

      Mandal, S.; Chandramohan, P.; Raju, N.S.N.; Pathak, K.C. (Allied, Chennai (India), 1996)
      Various industries like refineries, petrochemicals, thermal power, iron and steel, copper smelter, nylon and resins, etc. are coming up along the coastal belt of India. They generally intend to discharge the effluent, brine ...
    • Petroleum hydrocarbons in intertidal ecosystem along the Bombay Coast 

      Ingole, S.A.; Kadam, A.N.; Mayadeo, M.S.; Dhadke, P.M. (NISCAIR, CSIR, 1995)
      Petroleum hydrocarbon content in intertidal sediment and water samples collected at Madh, Worli and Colaba were in the ranges of 5.1-7, 5.8-7.4, 2.9-10.3 mu g.g sup(-1), wet wt and N.D.-18.5, N.D.-5.8 mu g.l sup(-1) ...
    • Potential roles of Labyrinthula spp. in global seagrass population declines 

      Sullivan, B.K.; Sherman, T.D.; Damare, V.S.; Lilje, O.; Gleason, F.H. (Elsevier, 2013)
      Overwhelming evidence suggests that seagrass ecosystems are declining around the world. Pathogens from the genus Labyrinthula have repeatedly been found to cause disease in a variety of seagrass species. For example, the ...
    • Protective role of coastal ecosystems in the context of the tsunami in Tamil Nadu coast, India: Implications for hazard preparedness 

      Mascarenhas, A.; Jayakumar, S. (Taylor and Francis, 2007)
      To assess the damage caused by the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004, post-tsunami field surveys were undertaken during January and April, 2005 from Chennai to Velankanni along the Tamil Nadu coast. Beach profiles ...
    • Riverine input of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the coastal pollution 

      Sarkar, A.; Everaarts, J.M. (The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Easton, PA, USA, 1998)
      This chapter presents an overview of the contamination of the coastal ecosystem of the North Sea, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, East China Sea, Atlantic Sea, Aegean Sea, East Java Sea, Australian coast and the Mediterranean ...
    • Seasonal shift in net ecosystem production in a tropical estuary 

      Ram, A.S.P.; Nair, S.; Chandramohan, D. (American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 2003)
      Net ecosystem production was examined in the Mandovi and Zuari estuaries (southwestern India) and the adjoining coastal waters for a period of 1 yr (January to December 1998). The study period encompassed premonsoon, ...
    • Socioeconomic significance of mangroves for coastal people of India: A changing scenario 

      Untawale, A.G.; Jagtap, T.G. (Int. Soc. for Mangrove Ecosystems, Okinawa, Japan, 1999)
      The importance of mangrove ecosystems with particular reference to the coastal population of India has been realised recently. Natural calamities like cyclones, floods, famine, siltation and erosion are directly related ...
    • Status of a seagrass ecosystem: An ecologically sensitive wetland habitat from India 

      Jagtap, T.G.; Komarpant, D.S.; Rodrigues, R.S. (The Society of Wetland Scientists, 2003)
      Seagrasses in shallow sheltered regions of estuarine, brackish, and marine environments are of productive and ecological importance. The major seagrass meadows in India exist along the southeast coast (Gulf of Mannar and ...
    • The Arabian Sea 

      Naqvi, S.W.A.; Naik, H.; Narvekar, P.V. (Blackwell, 2003)
      The Arabian Sea makes contributions to global biogeochemical cycles that are far in excess of what might be expected from its modest size. It experiences extremes in atmospheric forcing, asymmetrically distributed over the ...
    • Tropical marine ecosystems: The microbial component 

      Chandramohan, D. (Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, 1992)
      Microbes such as bacteria, fungi and unicellular algae assume greater importance in the tropical marine ecosystems because of their abundance, biomass and activity in a number of chemical and biological processes that ...
    • Tsunamis and marine life 

      Rao, D.V.S.; Ingole, B.S.; Tang, D.; Satyanarayan, B.; Zhao, H. (Taylor and Francis, 2007)
      The 26 December 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean exerted far reaching temporal and spatial impacts on marine biota. Our synthesis was based on satellite data acquired by the Laboratory for Tropical Marine Environmental ...
    • Understanding marine microbes - Trends and future diections 

      Chandramohan, D. (Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (India), 1999)
      Microbes which form an integral part of any ecosystem including the marine ecosystem are represented by groups such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, diatoms, algae, protozoa etc. These being fundamental blocks of an ecosystem ...
    • Vulnerability and adaptation of ecologically sensitive mangrove habitats to the changing climate 

      Jagtap, T.G.; Kulkarni, V.A.; Verlecar, X.N. (2008)
      Maldive islands on Laccadive archipelago, from Indian Ocean sustain multi tier ecologically sensitive marine habitats in shallow and intertidal zones. They consist of coral, seagrass, seaweed, mangrove and sand dune ...