Return to Floras of India CatalogueAquatic and Semi-aquatic Plants of the Lower Ganga Delta: Its Taxonomy, Ecology and Economic Importance/Kumudranjan Naskar. 1990, xiv, 408 p., colour plates, figs., tables, $26.
Contents: Introduction. 1. Biology of the aquatic plants. 2. Ecosystems. 3. Climate of the Lower Ganga Delta in West Bengal. 4. Manipulation of some biotic factors in aquatic ecosystems. 5. Ecological succession of the aquatic plants. 6. Classification of the marshy/aquatic plants. 7. Different types of the aquatic and marshy environments of this delta. 8. Different types of macro-vegetation zones in the marshy areas of the Lower Ganga Delta. 9. Problems caused by the aquatic weeds in the Lower Ganga Delta. 10. Some common aquatic weeds and their extent of infestation. 11. Transmission or migration of the aquatic weeds. 12. Methods of controlling aquatic weeds. 13. Importance of the ecological life-cycle studies for aquatic plants. 14. Economic uses or utilization of the aquatic plants. 15. Discussion regarding the aquatic flora of Lower Bengal. 16. List of the common aquatic, semi-aquatic, marshy and moist loving plants from the Lower Ganga Delta in West Bengal. 17. Keys to the families and brief diagnostic characters of the freshwater loving plants. 18. Taxonomic enumerations. 19. Bibliography of the freshwater plants. 20. Index to the scientific names, families names and generic names.
[Kumudranjan Naskar is a senior scientist attached to the Central Inland Capture Fisheries Research Institute at Barrackpore, West Bengal.]