Contents: I. Organismal Response/Bioindicators: 1. Radioecology by 21st century/Anjali Mookerjee. 2. Responses of antioxidase and detoxifying enzymes of balanus balanoides and saccostrea cucullata collected from polluted and non-polluted zones of hooghly estuary/S. Biswas, S. Niyogi and A. G. Dutta. 3. Inorganic mercury specifically binds to rat platelet membrane and initiates a cascade of actions/Shelley Bhattacharya, S. Vinaya Kumar and R. Bose. 4. Impact of roadside soil extracts on germination and growth on phaseolus aureus roxb and dolichos biflorus L/V. Roopashree and R. K. Somashekar. 5. Heavy metal accumulation in fish: An assessment in sewage fed aquafarm of east calcutta, India/S. C. Santra and N. Bano. 6. Bioindicators for freshwater mussel, lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck) farming/A. Biswas and S. K. Raut. 7. Effect of industrial effluent on germination and growth of phaseolus aureus L/A. G. Malini Shetty and R. K. Somashekar. II. Human Impact on Ecosystem: 8. Heavy metal pollution of subernarekha river: Its ecological impact on water quality and biota/J. S. Datta Munchi, A. N. Mishra and J. Datta Munshi. 9. Digestive enzymes in porcellio laevis (Isopoda: Crustacea) as indicator of heavy metal toxicity in soil/S. Joy, S. K. Maity and V. C .Joy. 10. Influence of environment factors on the SGR of catla catla grown in sewage ecosystme investigated with multiple regression analysis/A. K. Roy, M. Rout, P. K. Saha and A. K. Datta. 11. Impact of anthropogenic activities on hugli estuary with special reference to the distribution pattern of intertidal macrozoobenthos/S. Paul, A. Mitra and N. C. Nandi. 12. Cumulative effect of bactericide and insecticides on nutrient release from leaf litter by detritivore soil arthropods/R. Pramanik, K. Sarkar and V. C. Joy. 13. Importance of biodiversity/J. R. B. Alfred. III. Invertebrate Biodiversity: Aquatic Environment: 14. The problem of hydra photoresponse/C. Taddei-Ferretti, C Musio, S. Santillo and A. Cotugno. 15. Glimpses of the biodiversity of culicoides insects (Diptera: ceratopogonidae) in india/D. Gangopadhyay and S. K. Dasgupta. 16. Induced abnormalities and neoplasia in planarians, dugesia bengalensis, kawaskatsu/S. Mitra and A. K. Aditya. 17. The macroinvertebrate diversity of some urban wetlands of calcutta/M. Mukherjii, S. Paul and N. C. Nandi. 18. Insect fauna associated with large waterhyacinth in fresh water wetlands of west bengal/D. K. Bhattacharya. 19. Diversity in population composition of a medically important freshwater snail species lymnaea (Radix) acuminata (Lamarck)/T. K. Misra and S. K. Raut. 20. Ecology and diversity of cladocerans in some calcutta wetlands/C. Sinha and R. A. Khan. 21. Macrophyte preference and insect diversity of freshwater wetlands in Southeastern Bengal/S. Pal, S. R. Dey and D. K. Bhattacharya. IV. Invertebrate Biodiversity: Terrestrial Ecosystem: 22. Diversity in soil mites (Acari) of West Bengal/A. K. Sanyal and A. K. Bhaduri. 23. Insect biodiversity in agroecosystem: Consequences of insecticide use and remedial role of integrated pest management/G. T. G.
The present book is an attempt to make the people acquainted throughly with the knowledge of ecosystem and the factors concerned with the deterioration of the environment and its valued resources with the view to plant and manage the developmental programmes in such a way that exploitation of natural resources may not upset the balance of nature. (jacket)
