9788170352266 - Biodiversity and Environment von Aditya, A.; Halder, P. (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xiii + 249 Figures, Illus., Map.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreward. Preface. I. Organismal Response/Bioindicators: 1. Radioecology by 21st century/Anjali Mookerjee. 2. Responses of antioxidase and detoxifying enzymes of Balanus balanoides and Saccostrea cucullata collected from polluted and non-polluted zones of Hooghly Estuary/S. Biswas, S. Niyogi & A.G. Dutta. 3. Inorganic mercury specifically binds to rat platelet membrane and initiates a cascade of actions/Shelley Bhattacharya, S. Vinaya Kumar & R. Bose. 4. Impact of roadside soil extracts on germination and growth of Phaseolus aureus Roxb and Dolichos biflorus L./V. Roopashree & R.K. Somashekar. 5. Heavy metal accumulation in fish: an assessment in sewage fed aquafarm of East Calcutta, India/S.C. Santra and N. Bano. 6. Bioindicators for freshwater Mussel, Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck) farming/A. Biswas and S.K. Raut. 7. Effect of industrial effluent on germination and growth of Phaseolus aureus L./A.G. Malini Shetty and R.K. Somashekar. II. Human Impact on Ecosystem: 1. Heavy metal pollution of subernarekha river: its ecological impact on water quality and biota/J.S. Datta Munshi, A.N. Mishra and J. Datta Munshi. 2. Digestive enzymes in Porcellio laevis (Isopoda : crustacea) as indicator of heavy metal toxicity in soil/S. Joy, S.K. Maity and V.C. Joy. 3. Influence of environmental factors on the SGR of Catla catla grown in sewage ecosystem investigated with multiple regression analysis/A.K. Roy, M. Rout, P.K. Saha and A.K. Datta. 4. Impact of anthropogenic activities on Hugli estuary with special reference to the distribution pattern of intertidal macrozoobenthos/S. Paul, A Mitra and N.C. Nandi. 5. Cumulative effect of bactericide and insecticides on nutrient release from leaf litter by detritivore soil arthropods/R. Pramanik, K. Sarkar and V.C. Joy. 6. Importance of biodiversity/J.R.B. Alfred. III. Invertebrate Biodiversity : Aquatic Environment: 1. The problem of Hydra photoresponse/C. Taddei-Ferretti, C. Musio, S. Santillo and A. Cotugno. 2. Glimpses of the biodiversity of culicoides insects (diptera : ceratopogonidae) in India/D. Gangopadhyay and S.K. Dasgupta. 3. Induced abnormalities and Neoplasia in planarians, Dugesia bengalensis, Kawaskatsu/S. Mitra and A.K. Aditya. 4. The macroinvertebrate diversity of some urban wetlands of Calcutta/M. Mukherji, S. Paul and N.C. Nandi. 5. Insect fauna associated with large waterhyacinth in fresh water wetlands of West Bengal/D.K. Bhattacharya. 6. Divesity in population composition of a medically important freshwater snail species Lymnaea (Radix) acuminata (Lamarck)/T.K. Misra and S.K. Raut. 7. Ecology and diversity of cladocerans in some Calcutta wetlands/C. Sinha and R.A. Khan. 8. Macrophyte preference and insect diversity of freshwater wetlands in southeastern Bengal/S. Pal, S.R. Dey and D.K. Bhattacharya. IV. Invertebrate Biodiversity : Terrestrial Ecosystem: 1. Diversity in soil mites (Acari) of West Bengal/A.K. Sanyal and A.K. Bhaduri. 2. Insect biodiversity in agroecosystem : consequences of insecticide use and remedial role of integrated pest management/G.T. Gujar. 3. Biodiversity in island environment with special reference to Andaman and Nicobar islands/A.K. Das. 4. A contribution to the diversity of insects with reference to pollination mechanism in some angiosperms/A. Bhattacharya and S. Mandal. 5. Acaciasides and root-knot nematode extract suppress Meloidogyne incognita infection in lady's finger plants/S.C. Datta, R. Datta (Nag), S.P. Sinha Babu and N.C. Sukul. 6. Studies on the biodiversity in acridids (Orthoptera : Acridoidea) at Santiniketan, West Bengal, India/P. Haldar, A. Das & R.K. Gupta. 7. Polyphagy in plant-parasitic nematodes: a favourable force for speciation and biodiversity/A. Chatterjee and D. Sen. 8. A new method of kitchen waste compositing by Perionyx excavatus/P.S. Chaudhuri and G. Bhattacharjee. 9. Biodiversity of aphids in India (Homoptera : aphididae)/R.C. Basu and L.K. Ghosh. 10. Studies on cocoons of some tropical earthworms/G. Bhattac.