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Geomicrobial dynamics of Trans-Himalayan sulfur-borax spring system reveals mesophilic bacteria's resilience to high heat
(Springer, 2020)
Geomicrobiology of sulfur-boron-dominated, neutral-pH hydrothermal systems was revealed in a Trans-Himalayan spring named Lotus Pond, located at 4436 m, in Puga Valley, Ladakh (India), where water boils at 85°C. Water ...
Montmorillonite and phosphorus enrichment in sediments as the causative factor for mud bank formation along the southwest coast of India
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)
Mud banks of Kerala (southwest coast of India) are renowned for immense fish harvesting during the southwest monsoon season. Although inclement weather and turbulent waves during monsoon prevent vessels sailing into the ...
Current asymmetry and its implications for morphological changes in Vembanad Lake, the second largest wetland ecosystem in India
(Elsevier, 2020)
Flow dynamics are a key part of the physical processes that drive the sediment transport in an aquatic system, affecting depositional processes and leading to landform evolution. The current asymmetry (CA) noted in Vembanad ...
A highly diverse living benthic foraminiferal assemblage in the oxygen deficient zone of the southeastern Arabian Sea
(Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2020)
The exchange of seawater between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, creates a strong seasonality in the southeastern Arabian Sea, including the oxygen deficient zone (ODZ) at intermediate depth. Here, we assess the ...
Extracellular polymeric substances mediate the coaggregation of aquatic biofilm-forming bacteria
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020)
Coaggregation, a phenomenon contributing to biofilm formation, occurs among biofilm bacteria from different aquatic environments. However, not much is known about molecules involved in aggregation. In this study, freshwater, ...
Report of ciliate-bryozoan-crustacean hyperepibiosis on crab (Decapoda: Brachyura) from west coast of India, Arabian Sea
(Magnolia Press, 2020)
Epibiosis is a common phenomenon, found in different taxa of aquatic animals. This relationship could occur as hyperepibiosis, when a basibiont being also an epibiont, providing a stable substrate for the hypersymbiont. ...
Book Review: Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
(Current Science Association, IAS, 2020)
A short review of the book titled �Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science� authored by John F. Marra and publihsed by Columbia University Press, New York in 2019. The relevance and the description of the content ...
Optimization of urease production by Bacillus halodurans PO15: a mangrove bacterium from Poovar mangroves, India
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)
Mangrove ecosystems are one of the most versatile habitats for microorganisms with a high potential for producing a variety of extracellular hydrolytic enzymes. In this study, bacteria with urease activity, enzymes that ...
Impact of lockdown on the environmental quality along the Indian coast and a tropical estuary
(Elsevier, 2021)
The COVID-19 lockdown significantly improved the global environmental quality by restricted anthropogenic activities. We aimed to understand the response of Indian coastal environmental quality and an estuarine (Zuari ...
Phytoplankton associated with seasonal oxygen depletion in waters of the western continental shelf of India
(2020)
We report here results of a time series study carried out to understand seasonal variability of phytoplankton in relation to changes in dissolved oxygen based on observations at the Candolim Time Series (CaTS) station ...