Study of Aquatic Macrophyte Diversity of Pulgaon River Distinct Wardha (Maharashtra) India

Authors(2) :-Ajay .B. Jadhao, A. A Kshrisagar

Macrophytic and phytoplankton vegetation plays an important role to maintaining the ecosystem . Aquatic macrophytes are key components of waterscape because they provide food, affect nutrient cycles and mainly because they increase the habitat complexity. Aquatic macrophytes play a prominent role in water ecosystems. Aquatic plant provide directly or indirectly food, shelter and habitat for a large number of aquatic organisms called zooplankton in which some importanant small fishes, crabs and many more organism. Macrophytes play a significant role in maintaining the growth of fauna in water bodies. the present study focused on microphytes present water as well as along the edge of the Pulgaon river. The present study carried out month Jan 2016- 2017 which include some floating, free-floating, submerged and some algal species also.

Authors and Affiliations

Ajay .B. Jadhao
Department Of Botany, Arts And Science College Pulgaon, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
A. A Kshrisagar
Department Of Botany, Arts And Science College Pulgaon, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

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Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 1 | January-February 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-01-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 30-32
Manuscript Number : IJSRST4108
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

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Ajay .B. Jadhao, A. A Kshrisagar, " Study of Aquatic Macrophyte Diversity of Pulgaon River Distinct Wardha (Maharashtra) India", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.30-32, January-February-2018.
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