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    • Dissolved organic carbon in the INDEX area of the Central Indian Basin 

      Sardessai, S.; DeSousa, S.N. (Pergamon, 2001)
      Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations at the Indian Deep-Sea Environment Experiment (INDEX) site of the Central Indian Basin can be divided into three depth intervals. The subsurface layer (25-200 m) shows highly ...
    • Variation in the composition of carbohydrates in the Dona Paula, Bay (west of India) during May/June 1998 

      DeSouza, F.P.; Bhosle, N.B. (Ifremer/ CNRS/ IRD/ Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS. Tous droits reserves, 2001)
      Suspended particulate material was analysed for particulate carbohydrate concentration and composition and for the bulk parameters: suspended particulate matter, chlorophyll a, particulate organic carbon, particulate organic ...
    • Chemical characteristics of Central Indian Basin waters during the southern summer 

      DeSousa, S.N.; Sardessai, S.; RameshBabu, V.; Murty, V.S.N.; Gupta, G.V.M. (Pergamon, 2001)
      Chemical properties of the water column were examined at the Indian Deep-sea Environment Experiment (INDEX) site in the Central Indian Basin (CIB), as a part of baseline studies prior to the benthic disturbance experiment ...
    • Oceanography of marginal seas 

      DileepKumar, M. (Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 2001)
      The North Indian Ocean consists of three marginal seas; The Persian Gulf and the Red Sea in the west and the Andaman Sea in the east. Oceanographic features of these semi-enclosed basins have been discussed in this article. ...
    • Chemical oceanography 

      Naqvi, S.W.A. (Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 2001)
      Extremes in atmospheric forcing, asymmetrically distributed over the northern Indian Ocean, bring about exceptionally large hydrographical changes and produce a wide variety of ecosystems or biogeochemical provinces. While ...
    • Mangroves 

      Wafar, S.; Untawale, A.G. (Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 2001)
      The present paper describes the status of the mangrove ecosystem along the Indian Ocean region in terms of climatology and biodiversity. Out of 37 countries surrounded by Indian Ocean, India, Pakistan, countries around ...
    • EIA of anthropogenic activities on marine macrobenthos 

      Govindan, K. (Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, 2001)
    • Bacterial standing stock, meiofauna and sediment-nutrient characteristics: Indicators of benthic disturbance in the Central Indian Basin 

      Raghukumar, C.; LokaBharathi, P.A.; Ansari, Z.A.; Nair, S.; Ingole, B.S.; Sheelu, G.; Mohandass, C.; Nath, B.N.; Rodrigues, N. (Pergamon, 2001)
      As a part of the environmental impact assessment studies for polymetallic nodule mining, the effect of simulated "benthic disturbance" caused by a benthic hydraulic disturber was studied in the Central Indian Basin (CIB). ...
    • Mesozooplankton biomass, composition and distribution in the Arabian Sea during the fall intermonsoon: Implications of oxygen gradients 

      Madhupratap, M.; Gopalakrishnan, T.C.; Haridas, P.; Nair, K.K.C. (Pergamon, 2001)
      Mesozooplankton biomass and distribution of calanoid copepods were studied for the upper 500 m between 3 and 21 degrees N along an open-ocean transect in the Arabian Sea during the Fall Intermonsoon (September-October 1992, ...
    • Primary productivity 

      Verlecar, X.N.; Parulekar, A.H. (Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 2001)
      Photosynthetic production in the oceans in relation to light, nutrients and mixing processes is discussed. Primary productivity in the estuarine region is reported to be high in comparison to coastal and oceanic waters. ...
    • Assessment of viability in the bacterial standing stock of the Antarctic Sea from the Indian side 

      LokaBharathi, P.A.; Nair, S.; DeSouza, M.J.B.D.; Chandramohan, D. (Ifremer/ CNRS/ IRD/ Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS. Tous droits reserves, 2001)
      During the austral summer, the bacterial population along the cruise track extending from 70 degrees S and 18 degrees E to 30 degrees S and 35 degrees E are examined. During the cruise, three distinct fractions of the ...
    • Marine microbiology: A glimpse of the strides in the Indian and the global arena 

      LokaBharathi, P.A.; Nair, S.; Chandramohan, D. (Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 2001)
      The chapter reviews the development in marine microbiology in the national and international arena. It traces salient features from the pre-Zobell era to the mid 1990s. The studies in India have just made a beginning into ...
    • Impact of benthic disturbance on megafauna in Central Indian Basin 

      Rodrigues, N.; Sharma, R.; Nath, B.N. (Pergamon, 2001)
      Deep-sea photographs and video data were studied to evaluate the effects of benthic disturbance on megafaunal distribution in the Central Indian Basin. Xenophyophores (41%) and holothurians (30%) are the most abundant taxa, ...
    • Captive shrimp broodstock production: Relevance of eyestalk ablation and its regeneration in gonad maturation 

      Achuthankutty, C.T.; Desai, U.M. (Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, 2001)
    • Features at some significant estuaries of India 

      Bhattathiri, P.M.A. (Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 2001)
      The river basins of India are classified into three groups on the basis of catchment areas: (1) above 20,000 km sup(2), (2) 2,000-20,000 km sup(2) and (3) less than 2,000 km sup(2). The total number of rivers under first ...
    • Biology of corals and coral reefs 

      Rajkumar, R.; Parulekar, A.H. (Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 2001)
      This chapter deals with biology of corals, coral reefs (in general) and coral reefs of the Indian Ocean. Biology of corals is lucidly dealt with, beginning from the clarification on hermatypic and ahermatypic forms. A ...
    • Temporal and ephemeral variations in copepod community in the estuaries of Mandovi and Zuari - west coast of India 

      Dalal, S.G.; Goswami, S.C. (Cambridge Univ. Press, UK, 2001)
      In the tidal-dominated coastal plain estuaries, the magnitude of temporal and ephemeral variations in the abundance of the calonoid copepod community was evaluated over two annual cycles by two-way ANOVA. The species by ...
    • Microbial biomass and organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin 

      Raghukumar, C.; Sheelu, G.; LokaBharathi, P.A.; Nair, S.; Mohandass, C. (Taylor and Francis, 2001)
      In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian ...
    • Fungi in Porites lutea: Association with healthy and diseased corals 

      Ravindran, J.; Raghukumar, C.; Raghukumar, S. (Inter-Research, 2001)
      Healthy and diseased scleractinian corals have been reported to harbour fungi. However, the species of fungi occurring in them and their prevalence in terms of biomass have not been determined and their role in coral ...
    • Seaweed resources 

      Deshmukhe, G.V.; Dhargalkar, V.K.; Untawale, A.G. (Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, 2001)
      The chapter summarizes our present knowledge of the seaweed resources of the Indian Ocean region with regard to the phytogeographical distribution, composition, biomass, utilization, cultivation, conservation and management. ...