Ramachandra, TV and Ahalya, N and Murthy, Rajasekara (2005) Aquatic Ecosystems: Conservation, Restoration and Management. Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi. ISBN 9788185589381
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Aquatic Ecosystems perform numerous valuable environmental functions. They recycle nutrients, purify water, recharge ground water, augment and maintain stream flow, and provide habitat for a wide variety of flora and fauna and recreation for people. A rapid population increase accompanied by unplanned developmental works has led to the pollution of surface waters due to residential, agricultural, commercial and industrial wastes/effluents and decline in the number of water bodies. Increased demands for drainage of wetlands have been accommodated by channelisation, resulting in further loss of stream habitat, which has led to aquatic organisms becoming extinct or imperiled in increasing numbers and to the impairment of many beneficial uses of water, including drinking, swimming and fishing. Various anthropogenic activities have altered the physical, chemical and biological processes within aquatic ecosystems. An integrated and accelerated effort toward environmental restoration and preservation is needed to stop further degradation of these fragile ecosystems. Failure to restore these ecosystems will result in sharply increased environmental costs later, in the extinction of species or ecosystem types, and in permanent ecological damage.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Publisher: | Capital Publishing Company |
| Additional Information: | Copyright to this publication belongs to the publisher |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2012 10:48 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Feb 2012 10:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/43656 |
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