Limnological studies of Bisnoor Pachdhar Reservoir in relation to phytoplankton diversity
Kalpana Barskar and Manglesh Kumar Jawalkar
School of Life Sciences, Madhyanchal Professional University Bhopal-462044 (India) Email: manglesh77@gmail.com; barskarkalpana@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
In India, the inland water resources, whether lentic or lotic suffer a lot due to environmental degradation. Water and life have indivisible relationships and are considered as two sides of the same coin. Aquatic ecosystem is an integral part of the nature of the region. Almost all human activities have harmful impact on freshwater bodies. Limnology has great scope in the healthy existence of natural and manmade water bodies and in harvesting the natural resources at sustainable level. Our present work focused on the taxonomic composition and abundance of phytolankton in relation to Physico-chemical characteristics of water in different sites of Bisnoor pachdhar reservoir, Betul district. During the period of investigation, the seasonal variations of the following physico-chemical parameters were studied. They were atmospheric temperature, water temperature, pH, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, hardness, chloride, total hardness, calcium, magnesium, dissolved oxygen, biological, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate. The total phytoplankton percentage contribution was observed seasonally.