Wetland: Crisis and Options
Contents: Foreword. I. Wetland: Faunal Wealth: 1. Indian Wetlands: Problems, Prospects and Potentials/Goutam Kumar Saha. 2. Insect Diversity in Wetland Ecosystem of West Bengal/Asok Kanti Sanyal. 3. Brachyuran Crab Diversity, Distribution, Behaviour and Adaptation in Sundarban Delta/Malay Kanti Dev Roy and Nepal Chandra Nandi. 4. Chironomids Associated with Rice Agroecosystem of West Bengal: A Review/Sailesh Chattopadhyay and Abhijit Mazumdar. 5. Less Known Invertebrate Community in Wetland Ecosystems of West Bengal/Santanu Mitra.6. Indigenous Ornamental Fish Resources of West Bengal/Abhisek Basu. 7. Fish Diversity of Riverine Systems along Eastern Himalayan Region/Munmun Chakraborty and Sumit Homechaudhuri. 8. Amphibians in Lentic Wetlands of West Bengal: Diversity, Behaviour and Adaptations/Kaushik Deuti. 9. Reptiles in Wetlands of West Bengal: Diversity, Behaviour and Adaptations/Kaushik Deuti. 10. Mammals of Indian Wetlands with Special Reference to West Bengal/Rina Chakraborty. 11. Indian Sundarban: Faunal Diversity and their Ecological Adjustment/Pranabes Sanyal. 12. Bioresources and Socio-economic Developmental Plans (SDPs) in Wetland Ecosystem: A Case Study/Debnath Palit, Ambarish Mukherjee and Santanu Gupta. II. Wetlands: Ecosystem Service Provider: 13. Biomonitoring Potential of Aquatic Insects in Freshwater Ecosystem: An Overview/Srimoyee Basu, K.A. Subramanian and Goutam Kumar Saha.14. A Narrative on the Theories and Empirical Evidences of Intraguild Predation/Shreya Brahma, Gautam Aditya and Goutam Kumar Saha. 15. Plankton Mediated Carbon Cycling Process in Sewage-Fed Fisheries/Parthiba Basu, Sarmistha Saha and Tapan Saha. 16. Heavy Metal Accumulation in Zooplankton and Fish in a Sewage-Fed Wetland/Subinooy Mondal and Apurba Ratan Ghosh.17. Water Hyacinth: Origin, Mode of Invasion and its Role as Ecosystem Service Provider/Barnali Sarkar, Gautam Aditya and Goutam Kumar Saha. 18. Wetlands as a Potential Mosquito Larval Habitat: Boon or Curse?/Soumyajit Banerjee, Gautam Aditya and Goutam Kumar Saha.19. Non-Fish Food Resources of Wetlands of West Bengal, India: Prospects for Food Security/Joy Chakraborty, Sk. Habibur Rahaman, Dibyendu Saha and Gautam Aditya. 20. Macroinvertebrate and Macrophyte Assemblages in Wetlands of North Bengal: Benefit Sharing/Dipendra Sharma, Gautam Aditya and Goutam Kumar Saha. 21. Fish as Indicator of Metal Pollution in the Waste-Fed Ponds of East Kolkata Wetlands/Paulami Maiti and Samir Banerjee. 22. Evaluating Wetland Services: Ecology to Economy/Moumit Roy Goswami and Aniruddha Mukhopadhayay. III. Wetlands: Challenges and Conservation Initiatives: 23. Wetland Conservation: Indian Perspective/Asish Kumar Ghosh. 24. Wetlands in Urban Landscapes: Problems and Potentials/Subhendu Mazumdar and Goutam Kumar Saha. 25. Population Trends of Waterbirds in an Urban Wetland in Response to Habitat Degradation/Anirban Sinha, Prantik Hazra and Tarak Nath Khan. 26. Ecotoxicological Threats of Agro and Geogenic Chemicals in the Freshwater Molluscs of India: A Review/Anindya Sundar Bhunia, Mitali Ray and Sajal Ray. 27. High Altitude Lakes of Sikkim: Conservation Initiatives/Lak Tsheden Theengh, Priyadarshinee Shrestha and Partha Sarathi Ghose. Index.
This edited volume is enriched with 27 lead articles contributed by the authorities in their respective fields and appears to fill up the vacant niche towards better understanding of this habitat both in theory and practice and thus meant to serve as a resource material for both undergraduate and post-graduate students, researchers, academicians, ecologist and environmentalists, nature lovers as well as common people by large. The present compilation provides diversified information ranging from microscopic zooplankton to charismatic mega fauna including macrophytes, aberrant groups, aquatic insects, molluscs, migratory and resident birds, mammals associated with wetland habitats. Special emphasis on their potentiality as ecosystem service providers are worth for the reader to extend the concepts and reality of wetland sustenance. At the same time it also discusses the problems and crises in and around functioning of this unique ecosystem in greater details and suggests conservation measures. (jacket)
