Biodiversity, Ecophysiology and Conservation of Freshwater Animals

Contents: Preface. 1. Influence of certain ecological factors on the pigmentation of ornamental fish/Umesh C. Goswami. 2. Aspects of modification in the epidermis of teleosts and ecological considerations/A.K. Mittal. 3. Diversity, ecophysiology and conservation of hill stream fishes/Jagdish Ojha. 4. Freshwater insect biodiversity and their food chain relationship in lacustrine environment/S.P. Roy. 5. On the status of some eco-biological parameters of river Bhagirathi-Ganga and its few minor tributaries, from Garhwal Himalayas/B.D. Joshi. 6. Haematological indices as indicators of fish health: present status and needs/Neelima Gupta. 7. Ecological engineering approach in lake restoration: a new paradigm/B.B. Jana. 8. Distribution of aquatic insects in Khaji Kotnoor Reservoir/K. Padmavathi, Vijay Kumar and S. Majagi. 9. Ephemeral aquatic habitats and zooplankton diversity with reference to wetlands, Sonipat district, Haryana/Ram Kumar and P. Prasad. 10. Community composition and population dynamics of copepoda in a lentic habitat in Midnapore, W.B./P.R. Pahari and T. Bhattacharya. 11. Partial characterization of amylase of a freshwater calanoid copepod Heliodiaptomus viduus (Gurney)/Tapan Kr. Dutta and T. Bhattacharya. 12. Detergents and environmental impact assessment/B. Mukherjee and P.N. Pandey. 13. Role of nutrients in disease resistance of fishes/A. Dutta, S. Dutta, M. Mukherjee, T. Ahmad and P.N. Pandey. 14. Comparison of BOD273 and BOD205 test and its effect on treatability studies of wastewater/S.K. Maity and Sangeeta Ganguly. 15. Gastropod biodiversity at Dumka/N.C. Rooj.