Decadal variation of nutrient level in two major estuaries in Indian Sundarbans

Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 231-236

  Mitra, Abhijit ^a   Trivedi, Subrata ^b   Zaman, Sufia ^c   Pramanick, Prosenjit ^c   Chakraborty, Shankhadeep ^c   Pal, Nabonita ^c   Fazli, Pardis ^d   Banerjee, Kakoli ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABUK   (Saudi Arabia)

^c TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^e CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF ORISSA   (India)

Author keywords

AILA; Indian Sundarbans; Nutrients; Spatio temporal variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941053241     PISSN: 19956673     EISSN: 23077166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12816/0026964     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Banerjee K, Mukherjee D, Das S, Banerjee S and Mitra A. 2005. Physico-chemical characteristics of coastal waters of West Bengal. J Ecotoxicol Environ Monitoring, 7: 37-46.
2. Bhattacharyya SB, Roychowdhury G, Zaman S, Raha AK, Chakraborty S, Bhattacharjee AK and Mitra A. 2013. Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in Indian white shrimp (Fenneropenaeus indicus: A time series analysis). Inter J Life Sci Biotechnol Pharma Res., 2 (2): 97-113.
3. Chaudhuri A, Mitra A, Trivedi S, Gupta A and Choudhury A. 1994. Phosphate and nitrate status in the east coast of Indian Subcontinent. Seminar on Our Environment: Its Challenges to Development Projects, American Society of Civil Engineers-India Section, Kolkata.
4. Danulat E, Muniz P, García-Alonso J and Yannicelli B. 2002. Fist assessment of the highly contaminated harbour of Montevideo, Uruguay. Marine Pollution Bull., 44: 554-565.
5. Hecky RE and Kilham P. 1988. Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton in freshwater and marine environments: a review of recent evidence on the effects of enrichment. Limnology and Oceanography, 33: 796-82.
6. Howarth RW. 1988. Nutrient limitation of net primary production in marine ecosystems. Ann Rev Ecol and Systematics, 19: 898-910.
7. Luger M and Brown C. 1999. The impact of Treated Sewage Effluent on Urban Rivers. An ecological, Social and Economic Perspective.
8. Majumder S, Mitra A, Panda UC, Choudhury A and Bhattacharyya DP. 2002. Baseline studies of hydrological parameters in and around Digha, Northeast coast of India. Proceedings of National Seminar on Pollution in Bay of Bengal.
9. Mitra A. 1998. Status of coastal pollution in West Bengal with special reference to heavy metals. J Indian Ocean Studies, 5 (2): 135-138.
10. Mitra A. 2000. The Northeast coast of the Bay of Bengal and deltaic Sundarbans. In: Sheppard C. (Ed): Seas at the Millennium-An environmental evaluation. Chapter 62, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK), Elsevier Science, 143-157.
11. Mitra A. 2013. Blue carbon: A hidden treasure in the climate change science. J Marine Sci Res Development, 3 (2): 1-2.
12. Mitra A and Banerjee K. 2005. Living resources of the Sea: Focus Indian Sundarbans. WWF India, Sundarbans Landscape Project, Canning Field Office, West Bengal, India.
13. Mitra A and Bhattacharyya DP. 1999. An ecological profile of Sundarbans ecosystem. Indian J Biodiversity, II (2): 63-71.
14. Mitra A and Choudhury A. 1993. Seasonal variations in metal content in the gastropod Nerita articulata (Gould). Indian J Environ Health. 35 (1): 31-35.
15. Mitra A, Halder P and Banerjee K. 2011. Changes of selected hydrological parameters in Hooghly estuary in response to a severe tropical cyclone (Aila). Indian J Geo Marine Sci., 40(1): 32-36.
16. Mitra A, Sengupta K and Banerjee K. 2009. AILA and its impact on Gangetic delta. Environment Watch-A Newsletter of Indian Chamber of Commerce, 5-6.
17. Mitra A and Zaman S. 2015. Blue carbon reservoir of the blue planet, published by Springer, ISBN 978-81-322-2106-7 (Springer DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2107-4).
18. Panja U, Majumdar S and Mitra A. 2003. An ecological profile of Sundarbans ecosystem. Sea Explorers, 6: 21-27.
19. Rabalais N. 2002. Nitrogen in aquatic ecosystems. Ambio, 31: 102-112.
20. Ray Choudhuri T, Banerjee K, Zaman S, Chakraborty S, Rudra T, Guha A, Karmakar D, Pramanick P, Fazli P and Mitra A. 2015. Diluted proxies of climate change in the inshore estuarine complex of Bay of Bengal: A case of overlapping noise and facts. J Environ Sci Computer Sci and Eng Technol., 4(2): 1-15.
21. Strickland JDH and Parsons TR. 1972. A practical handbook of seawater analysis. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Issue: 167(1977), 45-103.
22. Trivedi S, Chakraborty S, Zaman S, Pramanick P, Fazli P, Amin G and Mitra A. 2015a. Impact of Salinity on the Condition Factor on the Commercially Important Fin Fish in the Lower Gangetic Delta. J Environ Sci Computer Sci Eng Technol., 4(2): 473-480.
23. Trivedi S, Zaman S, Roy Choudhury T, Pramanick P, Fazli P, Amin G and Mitra A. 2015b. Inter-annual variation of salinity in Indian Sundarbans. Indian J Geo-marine Sci (in press).
24. Tyrrel SF. 1999. The Microbiological Quality of Water Used for Irrigation. Irrigation News, 27: 39-42.
25. WHO (World Health Organization). 2003. Looking back: looking ahead: five decades of challenges and achievements in environmental sanitation.
26. Zaman S and Mitra A. 2014. Warning Bell of Climate Change in the Lower Gangetic Delta. Res Rev: J Ecol., 3 (1): 41-45.