Abundance and prey availability assessment of ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) in a stretch of upper Ganges River, India

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-26

  Bashir, Tawqir ^a,c   Khan, Afifullah ^a,c   Gautam, Parikshit ^b,c   Behera, Sandeep Kumar ^b,c  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Freshwater and Wetland Division   (India)

^c WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Cirrhinus reba; Confluence; Deep water pool; Ganges river dolphin; Line transect; Mastacembelus armatus; Platanista gangetica gangetica

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; DEEP WATER; DOLPHIN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PREY AVAILABILITY;

GANGES DELTA;

CIRRHINUS REBA; MASTACEMBELUS ARMATUS; PLATANISTA GANGETICA; PLATANISTA GANGETICA GANGETICA;

EID: 77955634174     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.36.1.2010.19     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. American Public Health Association (APHA), American Water Works Association (AWWA), Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF). (1985). Standard methods for the estimation of water and waste water (16th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Anderson, J. (1879). Anatomical and zoological researches: Comparing an account of zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yamuna in 1868 and 1875: Platanista and Orcella. London: Berward Quaritch.
3. Anonymous. (2006). Species/freshwater fact sheet: River dolphins. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
4. Bashir, T. (2010). Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica) seeks help. Current Science, 98(3), 287-288.
5. Bashir, T., Khan, A., Khan, J. A., Gautam, P., & Behera, S. K. (2007). Aspects of ecology of Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in Western Uttar Pradesh, India (A survey report funded by WWF-India). Aligarh, India: Department of Wildlife Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University.
6. Behera, S. K. (1995). Studies on population dynamics, habitat utilization and conservation aspects of Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in a stretch of Ganga River from Rishekesh to Kanpur. Ph.D. thesis, School of Studies in Zoology, Jiwaji University, Gawalior.
7. Behera, S. K. (2002). Ganges River dolphin-Wanted alive! (Status report submitted to WWF-Sweden). New Delhi: Ganges River Dolphin Conservation Project, World Wide Fund for Nature-India.
8. Behera, S. K., & Rao, R. J. (1999). Observation on the behaviour of Gangetic dolphins in the upper Ganga River. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 96, 43-47.
9. Behera, S. K., Sagar, V., & Nawab, A. (2008, September). Environmental flow requirements vis-à-vis habitat use pattern of freshwater dolphins. Proceedings of the 11th International River Symposium, Brisbane, Australia.
10. Biswas, S. P., Baruah, A., & Mohan, R. S. L. (1997). Current status of river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in River Brahamputra. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 23, 357-361.
11. Blandford, W. T. (1891). Mammalia (2nd vol.) (Fauna of British India series). London: Taylor and Francis.
12. Box, G. E. P., Hunter, W. G., & Stuart, J. S. (1978). Statistics for experimenters: An introduction to design, data analysis, and model building. New York: John Wiley.
13. Choudhary, S. K., Smith, B. D., Dey, S., & Prakash, S. (2006). Conservation and biomonitoring in the Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary, Bihar, India. Oryx, 40(2), 189-197.
14. Colwell, R. K. (2005). EstimateS version 7.5: Statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples (software and user guide). Retrieved 1 December 2009 from http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu\estimates.
15. Geise, L., Gormes, N., & Cerqueira, R. (1999). Behaviour, habitat use and population size of Sotalia fluvialitis in the Canareia estuary region, Sao Paulo Brazil. Revised Brasil Biology, 59, 183-194.
16. Gremion, F., Chatzinotas, A., Kaufmann, K., Sigler, W. V., & Harms, H. (2004). Impacts of heavy metal contamination and phytoremediation on microbial communities and functions during a twelve month microcosm experiment. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 48, 273-283.
17. Hamilton-Buchanan, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the River Ganges and its branches. Edinburgh, Scotland: Archibald Constable and Company.
18. Hammond, P. S. (1986). Line transect sampling of dolphin populations. In M. M. Bryden & R. Harrison (Eds.), Research on dolphins (pp. 251-279). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
19. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). (1991). The red data book: Dolphins, porpoises and whales of the world. Gland, Switzerland: Author.
20. IUCN. (2004). 2004 IUCN red list of threatened animals. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: Author.
21. Jones, S. (1982). The present status of the Gangetic susu, Platanista gangetica (Roxburgh), with comments on the Indus susu, P. minor (Owen) (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] Advisory Committee on Marine Resources Research, Working Party on Marine Mammals). FAO Fisheries Series, 5, 97-115.
22. Junk, W. J., Bayley, P. B., & Sparks, R. E. (1989). The flood pulse concept in river-floodplain systems. Canadian Special Publications of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 106, 110-127.
23. Kannan, K., Sinha, R. K., Tanabe, S., Ichihashi, H., & Tatsukawa, R. (1993). Heavy metals and organochlorine residues in Ganges River dolphins from India. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 26, 159-162.
24. Kelkar, N. (2008). Patterns of habitat use and distribution of Ganges River dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica in a human-dominated riverscape in Bihar, India. M.Sc. thesis, Manipal University, Sikkim.
25. Kreb, D., & Budiono. (2005). Conservation management of small core areas: Key to survival of critically endangered population of Irrawaddy River dolphin Orcaella brevirostris in Indonesia. Oryx, 39, 178-188.
26. McGuire, T. L., & Winemiller, K. O. (1998). Occurrence pattern, habitat associations, and potential prey of the river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, in the Cinaruco River, Venezeula. Biotropica, 30, 625-638.
27. Mohan, R. S. L. (1989). Conservation and management of the Ganges River dolphin, Platanista gangetica, in India. In W. F. Perrin, R. L. Brownell, Jr., Z. Kaiya, & L. Jiankang (Eds.), Biology and conservation of the river dolphins (IUCN Species Survival Commission Occasional Paper No. 3) (pp. 64-69). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
28. Mohan, R. S. L., Dey, S. C., & Bairagi, S. P. (1998). On a resident population of Ganges River dolphins in the Kulsi River (Assam), a tributary of Brahamputra. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 95, 1-7.
29. Mohan, R. S. L., Dey, S. C, Bairagi, S. P., & Roy, S. (1993). Studies on the population of Ganges River dolphin, Platanista gangetica of Brahamputra, Assam. In IUCN annual report (1992-1993). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
30. Mohan, R. S. L., Dey, S. C., Bairagi, S. P., & Roy, S. (1997). On a survey of Ganges River dolphins Platanista gangetica of Brahamputra River, Assam. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 94, 483-495.
31. Nair, A. K. (2009). The status and distribution of major aquatic fauna in the National Chambal Gharial Sanctuary in Rajasthan with special reference to the Gangetic dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica (Cetartiodactyla: Platanistidae). Journal of Threatened Taxa, 1(3), 141-146.
32. Norusis, M. J. (1990). PSS/PC+ advanced statistics 4.0 for the IBM PC/XT/AT and PS2. Chicago: SPSS Inc.
33. Perrin, W. F., & Brownell, R. L., Jr. (1989). Report of the workshop. In W. F. Perrin, R. L Brownell, Jr., Z. Kaiya, & L. Jiankang (Eds.), Biology and conservation of the river dolphins (IUCN Species Survival Commission Occasional Paper No. 3) (pp. 1-21). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
34. Rao, R. J., Hussain S. A., & Sharma, R. K. (1989, April-June). The status and conservation of Gangetic dolphin in the National Chambal Sanctuary. Tiger Paper, 6-10.
35. Reeves, R. R., & Brownell, R. L., Jr. (1989). Susu Platanista gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801), and Platanista minor (Owen, 1853). In S. H. Ridgway & R. Harrison (Eds.), Handbook of marine mammals (Vol. 4, pp. 69-99). London: Academic Press.
36. Reeves, R. R., & Leatherwood, S. (Eds.). (1997). Report of the first meeting of the Asian River Dolphin Committee, Ocean Park, Hong Kong, 5-7 December 1994. Hong Kong, China: Ocean Park Conservation Foundation.
37. Reeves, R. R., Leatherwood, S., & Mohan, R. S. L. (1993). A future for Asian river dolphins (Report from a seminar on the conservation of river dolphins in the Indian subcontinent). Bath, UK: Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
38. Roberts, T. J. (1997). The mammals of Pakistan. Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press.
39. Sarkar, U. K., Kapoor, D., Paul, S. K., Pathak, A. K., Basheer, V. S., Deepak, P. K., et al. (2007). Fish biodiversity in the water bodies of Samaspur Bird Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 104, 51-54.
40. Shrestha, T. N. (1989). Biology, status and conservation of the Ganges River dolphin, Platanista gangetica, in Nepal. In W. F. Perrin, R. L. Brownell, Jr., Z. Kaiya, & L. Jiankang (Eds.), Biology and conservation of river dolphins (IUCN Species Survival Commission Occasional Paper No. 3) (pp. 70-76). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
41. Singh, L. A. K., & Sharma, R. K. (1985). Gangetic dolphin, Platanista gangetica, observations on habits and distribution pattern in National Chambal Sanctuary. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 82, 648-653.
42. Singh, S. (2001, December) The Gangetic dolphin. Sanctuary Asia Magazine, 56-58.
43. Sinha, R. K. (1997). Status and conservation of Ganges River dolphin in Bhagirathi-Hoogly River systems in India. International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 23, 343-355.
44. Sinha, R. K. (2000). Status of the Ganges River dolphins Platanista gangetica in the vicinity of Farakka Barrage, India. In R. R. Reeves, B. D. Smith, & T. Kasuya (Eds.), Biology and conservation of freshwater cetaceans in Asia (IUCN Species Survival Commission Occasional Paper No. 23) (pp. 42-48). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
45. Sinha, R. K., & Sharma, G. (2003). Current status of the Ganges River dolphin, in the River Kosi and Son, Bihar India. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 100, 27-37.
46. Sinha, R. K., Sinha, S. K., Sharma, G., & Kedia, D. K. (2010). Surfacing and diving behaviour of free-ranging Ganges river dolphin, Platanista gangetica gangetica. Current Science, 98(2), 230-236.
47. Sinha, R. K., Das, N. K., Singh, N. K., Sharma, G., & Ahsan, S. N. (1993). Gut contents of Gangetic dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 24, 317-321.
48. Smith, B. D. (1993). 1990 status and conservation of Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica), in the Karnali River, Nepal. Biological Conservation, 66, 159-169.
49. Smith, B. D., & Reeves, R. R. (2000a). Report of the second meeting of the Asian River Dolphins Committee, 22-24 February 1997, Rajendrapur, Bangladesh. In R. R. Reeves, B. D. Smith, & T. Kasuya (Eds.), Biology and conservation of freshwater cetaceans in Asia (IUCN Species Survival Commission Occasional Paper No. 23) (pp. 1-11). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
50. Smith, B. D., & Reeves, R. R. (2000b). Survey methods for population assessment of Asian river dolphins. In R. R. Reeves, B. D. Smith, & T. Kasuya (Eds.), Biology and conservation of freshwater cetaceans in Asia (IUCN Species Survival Commission Occasional Paper No. 23) (pp. 97-115). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
51. Smith, B. D., Sinha, R. K., Zhou, K., Chaudhary, A. A., Renjun, L., Wang, D., et al. (2000). Register of water development projects affecting Asian river cetaceans. In R. R. Reeves, B. D. Smith, & T. Kasuya (Eds.), Biology and conservation of fresh water cetaceans in Asia (IUCN Species Survival Commission Occasional Paper No. 23) (pp. 22-39). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
52. Thomas, L., Laake, J. L., Strindberg, S., Marques, F. F. C., Buckland, S. T., Borchers, D. L., et al. (2002). Distance 5.0. Release "x"1. St. Andrews, UK: Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment, University of St. Andrews. Retrieved February 15, 2010, from www.ruwpa.st-and.ac.uk/distance.
53. Wakid, A. (2005). Status and distribution of a newly documented residential Gangetic dolphin population in Eastern Assam. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 102, 158-161.
54. Walker, E. P. (1968). Mammals of the world (2nd vol.). Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press.