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Zooplankton community of Bhayandar and Thane salt pans around Bombay

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Title Zooplankton community of Bhayandar and Thane salt pans around Bombay
 
Creator Mustafa, S.
Nair, Vijayalakshmi R.
Govindan, K.
 
Description 184-191
The
zooplankton community of the salt pans of Bhayandar and Thane was stud ied
based on the contribution of microzooplankton and meso-macrozoop lankton. Population
of microzooplankton was about 4 times more in Bhayandar as compared to Thane
salt pan. The protozoan ciliate Fabrea salina dominated the
microzooplankton community. The meso-macrozooplankton standing stock was more
at Thane (av 1.7g wet wt/m3) as compared to Bhayandar (av 1.4 g wet
wt/m3). However, group diversity was more at Bhayandar. A reduction
in group diversity to the order of 50% was observed from creek to crystallizer
associated with high salinity regime. Copepods were the most abundant group at
both the salt pans. Calanoids dominated the Bhayandar salt pan while cyclopoids
were predominant at Thane. Decapods and mysids were common in the area. During
the monsoon season mysids were dominant in the crystallizer and condenser of
Thane. Artemia was observed only at Bhayandar. In general the salt pans
sustain a fairly rich zooplankton standing stock with low diversity.
 
Date 2014-01-15T09:09:13Z
2014-01-15T09:09:13Z
1999-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/25697
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.28(2) [June 1999]