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Seagrass Diversity and Influence of Beach Erosion in Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar Seagrass Beds

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Title Seagrass Diversity and Influence of Beach Erosion in Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar Seagrass Beds
 
Creator Sulochanan, Bindu
Kumaraguru, A K
Mathew, Grace
 
Subject Restoration
Conservation
Algae
 
Description The study area was selected based on its variability in current pattern with the change of season, topography and anthropogenic activity. Sangumal situated in Rameswaram island is located in Palk Bay (9°17' N lat; 79°19' E long). As it is near the temple of Rameswaram, it attracts
a lot of tourists round the year. There is a sewage outlet adjacent to this site which brings in effluent from the habitation in the island. The seagrass beds located here are exposed during the lowest low tide in the southwest monsoon season up to a distance of 1-2 km from the shore,
while during northeast monsoon season the current is in the reverse direction towards the coast from Bay of Bengal, hence there will be no exposure of seagrass beds even during low tide.
 
Publisher Society of Fisheries Technologists
 
Contributor Meenakumari, B
Boopendranath, M R
Edwin, Leela
Sankar, T V
Gopal, Nikita
Ninan, George
 
Date 2010
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/8756/1/Bindu_Sulochanan.pdf
Sulochanan, Bindu and Kumaraguru, A K and Mathew, Grace (2010) Seagrass Diversity and Influence of Beach Erosion in Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar Seagrass Beds. In: Coastal Fishery Resources of India - Conservation and sustainable utilisation. Society of Fisheries Technologists, pp. 209-219.