Species diversity of Cyanobacteria in a freshwater river under thermal effect in Rajasthan, India
Leena Choubisa and Anuradha Dubey*
Department of Botany, School of Science and Technology, Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Rawatbhata Road Kota-324021 (India) *Corresponding author: E-mail: anuradhasharma@vmou.ac.in
ABSTRACT
Cyanoabacteria form the important component of phytoplanktons which are affected first when encountered with any kind of change in water. Aquatic cyanobacteria being at first trophic level are the first to be affected when water is used for cooling purpose by a power plant. This present work is an attempt to study the diversity of freshwater Cyanobacteria under the effect of thermal power station using a diversity index.