The book presents a detail account of algae of Chilika lake, the largest brackish water lagoon in Asia, in the East coast of India. The algal forms of the lake were collected during the year 1999 to 2001, documented with microphotographs and cameralucida diagrams and identified by us. The taxonomic account of these algal forms has also been prepared. Besides the documentation of algal forms, resource mapping and biomass estimation of economically important algal species in different salinity gradients of the lake was carried out for the first time and presented in this book. Viable protocol for agar-agar extraction from Gracilaria verrucosa occurring in the lake and its possible commercial exploitation is also given. Details of algal forms presented in this book with descriptions, photographs, line diagrams and site of occurrence in Chilka lake can be used as a monograph for future study of algal diversity changes in Chilika lake and other wetlands else where.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jnanendra Rath
Dr. Jnanedra Rath, both on 1976, in Belapada of Bolangir District of Orissa state, was awarded Ph.D. degree of Utkal University in 2003. Presently he is working as a Research Associate in Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar under the National Project on “Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction Systemsâ€, sponsored by Department of Ocean Development, Government of India. He published several scientific papers in well cited journals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Siba Prasad Adhikary
Dr. Siba Prasad Adhikary, was born on 1954 in the village Maniakati under Sorada block, Ganjam district of Orissa state. He worked on heterotrophic growth and nitrogen fixation of cyanobacteria and obtained Ph.D. degree in 1980. Recently he was awarded D.Sc. degree in Botany by Utkal University for his work on “Strategies of cyanobacteria under diverse environmental conditionâ€. Currently he is associated as In-charge of the coordinating Unit for Eastern India in All India Coordinated Project on Taxonomy (AICOPTAX) – research in Algae and is actively engaged in research on biodiversity mapping of freshwater algae of Orissa, West Bengal, Assam and North Eastern states during the 10th plan period.
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