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Title: Spatial Distribution of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community in a Plateau River of Bundelkhand Region India
Researcher: Pandey, Chandan Kumar
Guide(s): Asheesh Shivam
Keywords: Life Sciences
Plant and Animal Science
Zoology
University: Nehru Gram Bharati University
Completed Date: 2022
Abstract: Benthic macroinvertebrates are ubiquitous and inhabit all aquatic systems. The benthic macroinvertebrates are using as an indicators of water quality preferred over other organisms (e.g., fish, periphyton). Compare to other organisms, macroinvertebrate life spans may be an ideal range. They live long enough to detect changes in water quality over time but also have a short enough life span to produce multiple generations for long-term investigations. The macroinvertebrates typically stay in the same area and are less likely to move away from polluted areas. Therefore, information on factors affecting benthic macroinvertebrates is not only vital for basic ecological understanding, but also serves as a reference for monitoring, restoring and maintaining the quality of stream ecosystems. newlineBiologists use abundance and distributional patterns of organism to detect the environmental changes. At the assemblage level, use of the biological approach is already well established and accepted. Biological surveillance of communities- with special emphasis on the characterizing the taxonomic richness and composition - is perhaps the most sensitive tool now available for detecting alteration in the ecosystem. Some environmental factors are affected by human activities at different scales. newlineThe framework emerging from the study is useful to understand impacts of anthropogenic stress caused by large scale activities such as agriculture, urbanization, industrialization and hydropower projects. Anthropogenic impacts are likely to distort the spatial continuum of the communities through changes in the abundance pattern or replacement of the taxa and thus serve as indicators of the impact of human interferences and influence. Such knowledge can also help to distinguish streams/rivers impacted by respective activities. newline newline newline
Pagination: All Pages
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10603/401289
Appears in Departments:Department of Zoology

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