Environmental Science : Appreciation and Perception

Contents: Preface. 1. Bioreclamation of water as well as soil resource with special reference to phytoremediation/Arvind Kumar. 2. Toxicological effects caused by mercury contained SWE of a chlor-alkali industry on a nitrogen fixing BGA and its detoxification/R.K. Behera, Alaka Sahu and A.K. Panigrahi. 3. Comparative study of zooplankton ecology in the lakes of Mysore, Karnataka/B. Padmanabha and S.L. Belagali. 4. Effect of Nitrogen on growth, nitrogen fixing activity and ammonia excretion of salt tolerant cyanobacteria/P. Amsaveni and S. Kannaiyan. 5. Study of the effects of extracts of Ocimum sanctum (Basil Herb) on phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Bihar, India/Kundan Lal, P. Nath and Ragini Mishra. 6. Performance of Mentha piperita against T. Castaneum Herbst (Coleoptera: tenebrionidae)/Sudhakar Gupta. 7. An assessment of soil fertility: a case study of Varahi River Basin, Udupi District/K.L. Prakash and R.K. Somashekar. 8. Thermal and pH stability of Dibutyl Phthalate: an antimetabolite of proline from streptomyces albidoflavus 321.2/R.N. Roy and S.K. Sen. 9. Biochemical changes in the Snail Bellamya Bengalensis (Lamarck) under toxic stress of sumicidin/P.H. Rohankar and K.M. Kulkarni. 10. influence of load carrying in cross country mode on physiological parameters of Yak (Poephagus grunniens L.) in mountainous terrain of Arunachal Pradesh/B.C. Das, M. Sarkar, D.N. Das, D. Gogoi, A. Basu, D.B. Mondal, M. Mazumder, P. Bora and M. Ahmed. 11. Seasonal impact on per ovarian oocyte retrieval rate in Buffalo/B.C. Das M.L. Madan, R.S. Manik and M. Sarkar. 12. Genetic diversity studies in introgressed lines of Gossypium hirsutum cotton using cluster analysis/J.S.V. Samba Murthy and N. Chamundeswari. 13. Present pollution level in Kolkata and its abatement/Debojyoti Mitra. 14. Analysis of physico-chemical characteristics to study the water quality index, Algal Blooms and Eutrophic conditions of lakes of Udaipur City, Rajasthan/Dilip K. Rathore, P. Sharma, G. Barupal, S. Tyagi and Krishna Chandra Sonie. 15. Larvicidal effect of quinalphos against three clinically important mosquito species/N. Arun Nagendran. 16. Dry matter, leaf area index, roote mass density and yield of bed planted wheat under irrigation and different plant population/Sukhvinder Singh, H.S. Uppal, S.S. Mahal, Avtar Singh and R.K. Mahey. 17. Allelopathic effect of Amaranthus sp. on growth of Oryza sativa/R. Antony Pathrose, X. Rosary Mary and P. Dhasarathan. 18. Screening of chickpea genotypes against fusarium wilt/V.K. Mandhare, G.P. Deshmukh and A.V. Suryawanshi. 19. Screening of pigeonpea genotypes against wilt and sterility mosaic disease in Maharashtra/G.P. Deshmukh, V.K. Mandhare and A.V. Suryawanshi. 20. Assessment of the quality of drinking water in outer rural Delhi: physico-chemical characteristics/Vijender Singh. 21. Toxic effect of Malathion on quantitative alteration of protein in muscular tissues of glossogobius giuris/V. Sreenivasa, V. Aravindan, M.B. Nadoni and P.S. Murthy. 22. Morphological, cultural, physiological and nutritional studies of fusarium wilt pathogen of chickpea/V.S. Shinde, V.K. Mandhare and A.V. Suryawanshi. 23. Ecological study of soil microarthropods in Banana (Musa sp.) plantation of Cachar District, Assam/Ranabijoy Gope and D.C. Ray. 24. Food preferences of the Brown Trout (Salmo trutta L.) in relation to the Benthic Macroinvertebrates of River Sindh, Kashmir Valley/Haroon Ul Rashid and Ashok K. Pandit. 25. Aquatic insects as biological indicators of water pollution/S. Paul Sebastian, R. Kavitha and A. Christopher Lourduraj. 26. Diversity and composition of Insecta in rice agroecosystem in Barak Valley of Assam (N.E. India)/D.C. Ray and Partha P. Bhattacharjee. 27. Physico-chemical analysis of the soil modified by coptotermes heimi (Wasmann) (Rhinotermitidae:Isoptera:Insecta)/C.B. Arora and H.R. Pajni. 28. Treatment studies on pthalogen blue dye waste from a dye house in Tiruppur/K. Sadhana, K. Revathi, Suman Gulati, V. Rekha, N. Uma Chandra Meera Lakshmi and R. Kungumapriya. 29. Preliminary study on the seasonal distribution of plankton in Irai River at Irai Dam Site, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra/A.P. Sawane, P.G. Puranik and A.N. Lonkar. 30. Studies on the effect of variation in sweep line length of bottom trawls over fish catch along Mangalore Coast/Jaya Naik, B. Hanumantahppa, C.V. Raju and Shashidhar H. Badami. 31. Plant-lore with reference to Manipur proverbs in associated with various human affairs of Manipur State/M.M. Ahmed and P.K. Singh. 32. Microbial changes during the fermentation of sun dried puntius sophore/Ch. Sarojnalini and T. Suchitra. 33. Study on Haemogram of Yak (Poephagus grunniens L.) while carrying load in cross country mode/B.C. Das, M. Sarkar, D.N. Das, D. Gogoi, D.B. Mondal, A. Basu, M. Mazumder, P. Bora and M. Ahmed. 34. Seed germination and seedling growth response of some crop plants to solid waste of a Chlor-Alkali Industry of Orissa/B. Padhy, P.K. Gantayet and S.K. Padhy. 35. Study of fluctuation of groundwater level in Somni stream watershed, Patan Block, Durg District, Chhattisgarh/Prashant Shrivastava and Anupama Asthana. 36. Emetine an antioxidant from melothria purpusilla (Blume) cogn: a well known home remedy herbal for humankind/S.R. Singh and M. Neshwari Devi. 37. Growth analysis of cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] as influenced by phosphorus, bioinoculants, zinc and sulphur/Charanjit Singh Kahlon and Sharanappa. 38. Effect of isopod parasite, cymothoa indica on pearl spot, etroplus suratensis (Bloch) from Parangipettai coastal waters (Southeast coast of India)/M. Rajkumar, P. Perumal, P, Santhanam and N. Veerappan. 39. Investigation of artificial neural networks and is applications in medicine/J. Justin Anand, J. Justin Suresh and P. Dhasarathan. 40. Investigation on sub surface water quality of Tarikere Taluk with special reference to physico-chemical characteristics/K. Harish Babu and E.T. Puttaiah. 41. Effect of sugar and distillery wastes application of different crops: a review/V. Davamani and A. Christopher Lourduraj. 42. Toxicological effects of the effluent of a Chlor-alkali Industry on a cyanobacterium under controlled conditions and its ecological significance/Priyadarshini Hotta and Ashok K. Panigrahi. 43. Histopathological alterations induced by aquatic pollutants in glossogobius giuris from Avalapalli Dam/G.V. Venkataraman, P.N. Sandhya Rani, M.B. Nadoni and P.S. Murthy. 44. The assessment of the soil pollution parameters of the various soil samples of Sanganer Town of Pink City, Rajasthan/Dinesh Kumar, H.S. Shrivran, M. Prasad and R.V. Singh. 45. Accumulation of heavy metal concentrations in Indian and foreign cigarettes/P. Martin Deva Prasath, J. Samu Solomon and M. Palanisamy. 46. Influence of nitrogen and spacings on growth and yield of the medicinal plant: kasturibenda (Abelmoschus moschata)/M.M. Naidu and G. Narasimha Murthy. 47. Studies on the management of sunflower necrosis disease/P. Dhevagi, S.K. Manoranjitham, M. Ramaiah and P. Vindhiyavarman. 48. Distribution and ecology of zoobenthos in the Anchar Lake of Kashmir (India)/M. Jeelani, H. Kaur and S.G. Sarwar. 49. Eco-ethology and conservation of Hanuman Langur, Semnopithecus entellus/L.S. Rajpurohit, A.K. Chhangani, R.S. Rajpurohit, N.R. Bhaker, D.S. Rajpurohit and G. Sharma. 50. Phycological aspects and water quality assessment in the rivers of Andhra Pradesh, India/P. Manikya Reddy and V. Venkateswarlu. 51. Biocontrol of house fly, musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) by Hymenopteran pupal parasitoid spalangia cameroni P. (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)/J. Muruheswari, N. Krishnaveni and Sarojini Sukumar. Index.

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