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Marine faunal diversity in India : taxonomy, ecology and conservation /
More than 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water, making it an ideal and abundant resource for studying species diversity, faunal communities, and ecosystems. India's massive coastline (5,044 miles) means it plays a major role in housing these faunal communities. Of the 32 animal p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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London ; San Diego, CA :
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2014]
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- Part I. Marine Faunal Diversity. 1. An updated report on the diversity of marine sponges of Andaman and Nicobar Islands / T. Immanuel, P. Krishnan and C. Raghunathan ; 2. Abundance of shallow water octocorals from the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago, India / J.S. Yogesh Kumar, C. Raghunathan and K. Venkataraman ; 3. Occurrence of brown paper nautilus Argonauta hians (Lightfoot, 1786) at Inglis Island, South Andaman / K. Devi ; 4. Marine molluscan diversity in India / B. Tripathy and A.K. Mukhopadhyay ; 5. Diversity of brachyuran crabs of Cochin backwaters, Kerala, India / P. Lakshmi Devi, A. Joseph and S. Ajmal Khan ; 6. Status of horseshoe crabs at Digha, northern east coast of India / P. Yennawar ; 7. Diversity of bryozoans of India with new records from Maharashtra / M. Mankeshwar, A. Kulkarni and D. Apte ; 8. Diversity, distribution and nesting behavior of sea urchins along the coast of Port Blair, South Andaman / J.K. Mishra, Yasmin, A. Mishra, J. Sinduja, D. Adhavan and N.P. Kumar ; 9. Coral reef associated macrofaunal communities of Rutland Island, Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago / C. Raghunathan and K. Venkataraman ; 10. Diversity and distribution of sea grass associated macrofauna in Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve, southern India / K. Paramasivam, K. Venkataraman, C. Venkatraman, R. Rajkumar and S. Shrinivaasu ; 11. Diversity and ecology of sedentary ascidians of the Gulf of Mannar, southeast coast of India / G. Ananthan, S. Mohamed Hussain, A. Selva Prabhu and T. Balasubramanian ; 12. Diversity of marine fish of India / K.C. Gopi and S.S. Mishra ; 13. Fish and shellfish fauna of Chilika Lagoon : an updated checklist / A. Mohapatra, S.K. Mohanty and S.S. Mishra ; 14. New records of reef fishes from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands / K. Devi, K. Sadhukhan, J.S. Yogesh Kumar and S. Kumar Shah ; 15. Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, India / P. Yennawar, A. Mohapatra, D. Ray and P. Tudu ; 16. Seasonal abundance of sea snakes on the Chennai coast, southern India / C. Venkatraman, P. Padmanaban and C. Sivaperuman ; 17. Coastal and marine bird communities of India / C. Sivaperuman and C. Venkatraman ; 18. Diversity of marine mammals of India : status, threats, conservation strategies and future scope of research / S. Venu and B. Malakar ; 19. Coastal and marine biodiversity of India / K. Venkataraman and C. Raghunathan
- Part II. Ecology and Conservation. 20. DNA barcoding of marine venomous and poisonous fish of families Scorpaenidae and Tetraodontidae from Andaman waters / V. Sachithanandam, P.M. Mohan and N. Muruganadam ; 21. Molecular taxonomy of Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae, genus Plectropomus (Oken, 1817) of Andaman waters by DNA barcoding using COI gene sequence / V. Sachithanandam, P.M. Mohan, N. Muruganadam I.K. Chaaithanya and R. Baskaran ; 22. Diversity of antagonistic Streptomyces species in mangrove sediments of Andaman Island, India / R. Baskaran, P.M. Mohan, R. Vijayakumar and V. Sachithanandam ; 23. Impact of anthropogenic activity and natural calamities on fringing reef of North Bay, South Andaman / R. Raghuraman and C. Raghunathan ; 24. Lucrative business opportunities with shrimp brood stocks / V.S. Gowri and P. Nammalwar ; 25. An assessment of faunal diversity and its conservation in shipwrecks in Indian seas / J.S. Yogesh Kumar, S. Geetha, C. Raghunathan and K. Venkataraman ; 26. Saltwater crocodiles in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with special reference to human-crocodile conflict / S. Sivaperuman ; 27. Conservation status of marine faunal diversity in India : an analysis of the Indian wildlife (Protection Act) and IUCN threatened species / P.T. Rajan ; 28. Macrofaunal assemblages of Carbyn's Cove mangroves, South Andaman / R. Mohanraju ; 29. Status of fauna in mangrove ecosystems of India / K. Kathiresan, N. Veerappan and R. Balasubramanian.