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- Title
AN INSIGHT ON THE PLANKTON POPULATION OF RIVER SUTLEJ ALONG ITS COURSE IN PUNJAB, INDIA.
- Authors
Kaur, Sarbjeet; Singh, Prabjeet
- Abstract
Present study was carried out to study the plankton diversity of river Sutlej during February 2018-June 2019 along its course of flow in Punjab. Water samples were collected (in triplicate) for studying the plankton population qualitatively and quantitatively from four selected sites i.e. S-1: river Sutlej in Ropar at Headwork, S-2: river Sutlej before the confluence of Buddha Nallah at Phillaur, S-3: river Sutlej after the confluence of Buddha Nallah at Wallipur and S-4: Harike-Pattan where river Sutlej meets with Beas at two monthly intervals. The present studies revealed that the phytoplankton population of river is dominated by chlorophycea followed by bacillariophycea, cyanophycea and euglenophycea while as zooplankton population is dominated by rotifer followed by crustaceans and protozoa populations. We further found that population of total phytoplankton and zooplankton were found to be lower at S-3 as compared to the other sites of study. Higher population of Cyanophyceae were recorded at S-2 hinting towards higher organic pollution load due to the direct discharge of phillaur sewage at S-2 whereas the Bacillariophycea population was recorded higher at S-3 indicating the higher industrial and sewage pollution at this site. Among the zooplanktons, rotifers were found to be higher at S-1, whereas S-2, S-3 and S-4 were dominated by Crustacean and Protozoa populations.
- Subjects
PUNJAB; CRUSTACEAN populations; INDUSTRIAL pollution; PHYTOPLANKTON populations; PLANKTON; RIVERS; BRACHIONUS
- Publication
Journal of Experimental Zoology India, 2020, Vol 23, Issue 2, p1651
- ISSN
0972-0030
- Publication type
Article