Browsing Scholarly literature by Subject "backwaters"
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The complex estuarine formation of six rivers (Cochin backwaters system on west coast of India) - Sources and distribution of trace metals and nutrients
(Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science; Colombo; Sri Lanka, 2002)The largest backwater system on the western coast of India is the Cochin Backwaters to which 16 major industries discharge nearly 0.104 M m super(3) d super(-1) of wastes containing organic wastes at 260 t d super(-1). The ... -
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 ... -
The Protozoan Associates of some Crustaceans
(Indian Association for Limnology and Oceanography, 1980)Protozoan associates found on the estuarine shrimp Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius) and the tanaidacean Apseudes chilkensis (Chilton) from Cochin backwaters have been described. A peritrich ciliate Zoothamnium rigidum ... -
The shrinking backwaters of Kerala
(Marine Biological Association of India, 1983)The most serious anthropogenic environmental alteration taken place in the estuaries of Kerala, India in the living memory, is it's alarming rate of reduction in extent. Vembanad Kayal, the largest backwaters system on the ... -
Tidal cycle and the environmental features of Cochin backwater (a tropical estuary)
(Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 1969)In the Cochin Backwater, Kerala, India the tides are of a mixed, semidiurnal type with a maximum range of about 1 m. Two high and two low water-marks occur each day, with an appreciable difference in range and time. The ... -
Toxic metals enrichment in the surficial sediments of a eutrophic tropical estuary (Cochin Backwaters, Southwest coast of India)
(The Scientific World Journal, 2012)Concentrations and distributions of trace metals (Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn) in surficial sediments of the Cochin backwaters were studied during both monsoon and pre-monsoon periods. Spatial variations were ... -
Vulnerability of Cochin Backwaters to meteorological disturbances with special reference to tidal propagation
(School of Naval Oceanology and Meteorology, 2007)Features of water level oscillation in the Cochin backwaters are presented in relation to its vulnerability to meteorological disturbances. A steep surge formed after a sharp atmospheric depression (8 mb) followed by storm ...