Browsing by Subject "habitat"
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Coastal ecosystem and environmental aspects of placer mining
(Allied, India, 2004)The world demand for mineral raw material is expected to increase more than threefold with the increase in population and the industrilization. Though, India's mineral resources generally appear to be sufficient to meet ... -
Coeloseira compressa Hollenb. (Champiaceae, Rhodophyta) - a new marine algal species from Goa, India
(CSIR-NISCAIR, 1986)Occurrence of a red algal species Coeloseira is recorded from Bambolim coast, Goa along the central west coast of India. The genus is characterised by the presence of polysporangia, stoloniferous pattern branching, separate ... -
Decolorization of molasses spent wash by the white-rot fungus Flavodon flavus, isolated from a marine habitat
(Springer, 2001)Flavodon flavus (Klotzsch) Ryvarden, a basidiomycete (NIOCC strain 312) isolated from decomposing leaves of a sea grass, decolorized pigments in molasses spent wash (MSW) by 80% after 8 days of incubation, when used at ... -
Feeding Efficiency of Penaeus Indicus and Metapenaeus Dobsoni in different Experimental Substrata
(Indian Association for Limnology and Oceanography, 1980)Preying efficiency in the substrata of different concentrations of mud sand, silt and clay and also in mud from natural habitat was examined with respect to Penaeus indicus and Metapenaeus dobsoni in order to understand ... -
Fungi living in diverse extreme habitats of the marine environment
(Mycological Society of India, 2014)The marine environment contains several habitats characterized by extreme living conditions. However, extremophilic marine fungi were neither well known, nor often studied. Many studies in recent years have shown that fungi ... -
Marine Fauna of Malvan, Central West Coast of India
(Indian Association for Limnology and Oceanography, 1981)Marine fauna of the rocky, sandy and muddy shores of Malvan (Lat. 16 degrees 05'N; Long. 73 degrees 03'E) comprises of 208 species belonging to 172 genera, 97 families, 16 classes and 9 phyla. Forty major animal types ... -
Occurrence and distribution of soft corals (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(Bombay Natural History Society, 1996)Occurrence and new distributional records for 26 species of Alcyonaceans are given. These include 12 species of Sinularia, 6 of Lobophytum, 6 of Sarcophytum, one of Cladiella and one of Nephthea. Their ecological information ... -
Occurrence of Green Alga Ernodesmisverticillata (Kuetzing) Boergesen at Malvan (Maharashtra coast)
(Indian Association for Limnology and Oceanography, 1981)The occurrence of Ernodesmis verticillata belonging to Chlorophyta has been recorded for the first time from Malvan, along the Maharashtra Coast. The general distribution, habit and habitat of this species are given. During ... -
Status of a seagrass ecosystem: An ecologically sensitive wetland habitat from India
(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 effect of salinity on some endocommensalic ciliates from shipworms
(Society of Fisheries Technologists, 1985)The ciliates, Nucleocorbula adherens, Boveria teredinidi, Trichodina balakrishnia, Thigmozoon fencheli and Nyctothereus marina, live inside the mantle cavity of the ship-worms in the estuaries and backwaters of the south-west ... -
Vulnerability and adaptation of ecologically sensitive mangrove habitats to the changing climate
(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 ...