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Marine ecological habitat: A case study on projected thermal power plant around Dharamtar creek, India

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Title Marine ecological habitat: A case study on projected thermal power plant around Dharamtar creek, India
 
Creator Kulkarni, V.A.
Naidu, V.S.
Jagtap, T.G.
 
Subject Marine habitate
Mangroves
pollution
effluents
 
Description Estuaries and tidal creeks, harboring mangroves particularly, face tremendous anthropogenic pressures. Expansion of mega cities and the thermal power plants are generally proposed in the vicinity of estuaries and creek, due to the feasibility of intake and discharge of water for cooling. Discharges from such developments remain constant threat of increasing thermal pollution and affecting the quality of environment. The baseline information on prevailing quality of aquatic environment comes handy for understanding alterations due to such activities. Principle component analysis (PCA) revealed that temperature, pH, salinity, suspended solids, DO, BOD and phaeophytins are major parameters influencing the creek system. Heated effluents may have direct and adverse impacts on these parameters, altering biotic constituents. Hence, periodic and detailed observations are necessary to estimate exact response of biotic communities to changing environment. The present paper is based on case study, projecting a power plant in the vicinity of major mangrove habitats of Dharamtar creek
 
Date 2011-03-09T10:55:47Z
2011-03-09T10:55:47Z
2011
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Journal of Environmental Biology, vol.32(2); 2011; 213-219
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/3809
 
Language en
 
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