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Zooplankton abundance in Amini and Kadmat Islands of Lakshadweep

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Title Zooplankton abundance in Amini and Kadmat Islands of Lakshadweep
 
Creator Varghese, Molly
George, Rani Mary
Jasmine, S
Laxmilatha, P
Sreenath, K R
Behera, Pralaya Ranjan
Thomas, V J
Kingsly, H Jose
 
Subject CMFRI Posters
Zooplankton
 
Description Zooplankters play an important link in the food chain of marine ecosystems. In coral reef ecosystems, they
serve as food for corals, a variety of other invertebrates and reef fishes. As the plankters play an important role
in the health of an aquatic ecosystem, the study on these resources in the productive aquatic systems of
Lakshadweep is important. While searching through the literature, we can see that not much work was carried
out on plankters of Lakshadweep ecosystems. Pratap et al. (1977) studied zooplankton at Kavaratti, Agatti and
Suhelipar, while, Achuthankutty et al. (1989) dealt with zooplankton composition of Kalpeni and Agatti atolls.
Girijavallabhan et al. (1989) studied zooplankters of Kadmat, Kiltan, Chetlat, Agatti, Kalpitti, Bangaram, Bitra,
Kavaratti, Suhelipar, Androth, Minicoy and Kalpeni. Goswami and Goswami (1990) gave an account on diel
variation in zooplankton of Minicoy lagoon and Kavaratti atoll. In 1997, Suresh and Mathew studied on zooplankton
in Kavaratti atoll while Nasser et al. (1998) worked on zooplankton at Minicoy lagoon. Casanova and Nair
(1999) gave an account on Sagitta from Agatti lagoon while, Bhalla et al. (2007) made a review on foraminiferal
studies in Laccadives Islands. Jose et al. (2010) made a hierarchical analysis of zooplankton assemblages
over semidiel pattern in the lagoon of Kavaratti atoll. Recently, Robin et al. (2012) studied planktonic communities
and their trophic interactions in Kavaratti waters. Eventhough a very few studies were undertaken on zooplankters
of Kadmat, no studies were carried out on zooplankton from Amini so far. Hence, an attempt is made here to
study the qualitative and quantitative abundance of zooplankters in Amini and Kadmat lagoons of Lakshadweep
and this is the first report on zooplankton from lagoon of Amini Island.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2016
 
Type Image
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11643/1/Poster_MECOS_Molly%20Varghese.pdf
Varghese, Molly and George, Rani Mary and Jasmine, S and Laxmilatha, P and Sreenath, K R and Behera, Pralaya Ranjan and Thomas, V J and Kingsly, H Jose (2016) Zooplankton abundance in Amini and Kadmat Islands of Lakshadweep. [Image]