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Antarctica, a land of mystery and wonders, is the Earths last great wilderness. Fifty million years back, it had evergreen forests with many types of animals and plants. Today, the continent is a white desert -the coldest, driest, stormiest, windiest and the most inaccessible place in the world. A continent of extremes with nearly six months of continuous day and about six months of continuous night, its lowest temperature of -89.6°C and wind speeds up to 190 ...
This volume contains 21 chapters contributed by 39 well known authors in their respective field. The book covers several aspects of aquaculture which includes seaweeds biology and their cultivation, inputs for aquaculture, experimental work and environmental issues related to aquaculture. This book will be useful to students, teachers, researchers and others interested in the field of aquaculture.
The volume contains 24 papers contributed by 32 well-known authors to an International Seminar on "Indian Ocean in the 21 Century : Linkages and Networking" organised by the Society for Indian Ocean Studies in the year 1998. The volume addresses 24 diverse themes grouped under four sessions and these form a valuable addition to our knowledge about the Indian Ocean.
Handbook of Tropical Estuarine Biology is another innovative approach to describe how each variable behaves in different estuaries of the east and west coasts of India. The diverse variables have broadly been grouped under two headings - environmental features and biological characteristics. The former include tidal rhythm, monsoon cycle, temperature regime, salinity cycle, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and nutrients, while the latter comprise phytoplankton, ...
Indian Estuaries is the first book on this topic giving an exhaustive account of 25 Estuaries in India. It serves a strong reference material and indicates the ways different Estuaries behave in terms of their richness in Flora and Fauna, and the manner in which the tidal cycles and seasonal regime of the monsoon drastically change their hydrobiological features during the year. Starting with the definition of the Estuaries, the book covers the descriptions of ...
In the book Biodiversity of Mangrove Ecosystems, Prof. Kathiresan and Prof. Qasim have covered all the intricacies of the mangrove habitats, their characteristics, global distribution floral diversity in different parts of the world and occurrence of over 877 plant and 3066 animal species in the ecosystems. This book describes energy flow in mangrove ecosystems, ecological role of mangrovers, and their uses, causes of destruction and degradation and conservation ...