Contents: Preface. 1. Environmental challenges for copepods/Anil Kumar Jha and Arvind Kumar. 2. Hydrobiological survey of the Manipur river with reference to fish migration/Laishram Kosygin and T. Romi Singh. 3. Impact of distillery spentwash, biocompost, biosuper and inorganic fertilizer on soil microflora/V. Davamani and A. Christopher Lourduraj. 4. Investigation on sub surface water quality of Tarikere Taluk with special reference to physico-chemical characteristics/K. Harish Babu and E.T. Puttaiah. 5. Growth analysis, nutrient uptake (kg ha-1) and nitrogen use efficiency of hybrid rice CoRH2 as influenced by crop establishment methods and split applications of N and K/R. Gobi, S. Ramesh, B.J. Pandian and B. Chandrasekaran. 6. Studies on water pollution at Gorakhpur: a review/A.K. Srivastava and Gopal Chandra. 7. Water quality index for ground water affected with bicycle manufacturing industrial wastes: an environmental quality audit/Vineeta Shukla, Sharda Abusaria, Monika Dhankhar and K.V. Sastry. 8. Isolation of bacteriophages specific to Pseudomonas aeuroginosa/P. Dhevagi, M.A. Shibu, M. Rabeeth and V. Bharath Kumar. 9. Occupational health problems observed among the Saltpan workers of Thoothukudi District, South East Coast of India/R. Sornaraj. A. Amutha Jaisheeba and A. Pushparaj. 10. Effect of nitrogen management on growth and micro-climatic parameters of bed planted durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.)/Navneet Kaur Brar and D.S. Kler. 11. Impact of organic mulberry cultivation practices on soil microbial and fertility of M5 mulberry garden/K. Rashmi, M.A. Shankar, T.K. Narayanaswamy, K.R. Sreeramulu and Rajegowda. 12. Himalayas: seat of Pristine biodiversity/Rajan Kumar Gupta and Shiwani Kaushik. 13. Evaluation of antifungal property of Catharanthus roseus in relation to amino acid content of the seeds of Pisum sativum/Sucharita Das Gupta and Padma Chatterjee. 14. Rapid composting of irrigated Pearl Millet Straw/J. Kannan and P. Singaram. 15. Influence of pollutants of soil bacteria/D. Vijaya Lakshmi, C. Krishna Kanth and M.A. Singara Charya. 16. Protective effect of Mucuna pruriens seed on ethanol treated rat brain ATPases/G. Krishnamoorthy and A. Sivamady. 17. The Allergenicity of pollen on environmental influences/M. Venkateshwarlu, Ch. Sridhar Rao and B. Digamber Rao. 18. Neem derivatives as a Larvicide for the management of country bean pest pericallia ricini F. (Lepidoptera : arctidae)/N. Revathi amd S. Kingsley. 19. Efficacy of five plant extracts as ovicide against pulse bettle, callosobruchus chinensis (L.)/S.C. Dwivedi and Padam Chand Bhati. 20. Aquatic macrophyte species with potential to remove heavy metals from sewage water of Faizabad (U.P.)/Arun K. Pandey and G.C. Pandey. 21. Content and meaning of ecosystem management/I. Sundar and K. Sivakumar. 22. Economics, soil health and productivity of different cropping systems under various levels of irrigation in Maharashtra/H.M. Patil, A.G. Wani, C.B. Gaikwad and B.T. Shete. 23. To study irrigation methods, planting layouts and integrated nutrient management on yield attributes of Kabuli Chickpea/V.J. Dhage, B.T. Shete, H.M. Patil and S.S. Ihle. 24. Status of black pepper in high altitude and tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh/M.M. Naidu and P. Prasanna Kumari. 25. A case study of lake Jaisamand with special reference to algal flora, India/Premlata Vikal and Sandhya Tyagi. 26. Fertigation management in cauliflower (Brassica oleracea)/U.S. Kadam, M.R. Deshmukh, S.A. Kadam and H.M. Patil. 27. Uniformity in micro-sprinkler irrigation system/S.A. Kadam, U.S. Kadam, S.D. Gorantiwar and H.M. Patil. 28. Micro-sprinkler irrigation system for onion/U.S. Kadam, S.A. Kadam, S.D. Gorantiwar and H.M. Patil. 29. Micro-sprinkler irrigation system for Garlic/S.A. Kadam, U.S. Kadam and H.M. Patil. 30. Studies on the physico-chemical characteristics of lake Pichhola/Premlata Vikal and Sandhya Tyagi. 31. Efficiency of Lactic Acid bacteria present in locally available fermented milks as probiotic cultures/R. Mallikarjuna Reddy. 32. Water scarcity zones of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand/Gouri Suresh, Neena Sharma, G. Rajalakshmi and Rajni Kumari. 33. Bhitarkanika Mangrove forest: a sensitive fragile ecosystem/Lakshman Nayak and Durga Prasad Behera. 34. Characterization of conducting polymers by MALDI-TOFMS method/R. Palanivel, K. Balamurugan and M.E. Raja Saravanan. 35. Application of clustering algorithms in robotic manipulators/A.K. Dash. 36. Effects of dietary supplementation of spirulina maxima on the feeding energetics, growth and carcass composition of common carp cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus) frys./T.A. Sethuramalingam, K. Alangara Ahila and J. Mary Benny. 37. Soils of Mandhala watershed in Shiwalik foot hills of Himachal Pradesh-I: their characterisation, classification and mapping/J.C. Sharma and Sanjeev K. Chaudhary. 38. Soils of Mandhala watershed in Shiwalik foot hills of Himachal Pradesh-II: available S and suitability for mustard/J.C. Sharma and Sanjeev K. Choudhary. 39. Effect of different planting methods and irrigation schedules on water use and water use efficiency of Soybean (Glycine max L.)/C.S. Maan, S.S. Mahal, R.K. Mahey and K.K. Vashist. 40. A study on the selection of habitat by the post larval and juvenile banana shrimp, Penaeus merguiensis in and around Kali Estuary, Karwar/S. Sampath Kumar and Kusumia Neelakantan. 41. Impact of ethanol and Mucuna Pruriens seed on rat testicular phosphomonoesterases/G. Krishnamoorthy, A. Sivamady and A. Antoniraj. 42. Evaluation of Basmati rice based crop sequences for productivity, economic returns and soil health/M.S. Sidhu and R. Sikka. 43. Puberty acceleration effects of male urine in female lesser banticoot rat bandicota bengalensis (Gray and Hard wicke)/Gurpreet Kaur and V.R. Parshad. 44. Medicinal wealth of District Pauri Garhwal/Upma Dobhal and Sneh Lata Bhandari. 45. Soil-water-plant relations of sunflower under various tillage and irrigation regimes in rice fallow alfisol of semiarid tropics/P. Gurumurthy and M. Singa Rao. 46. Correlation coefficient (r) value between LCC Vs SPAD as influenced by hybrids and nitrogen management practices/S. Ramesh, S. Ravi and B. Chandrasekaran. 47. Study of biodiversity and water quality of Kareh River in Samastipur District, North Bihar/Shikha Kumari and B.P. Verma. 48. Development of coatings by varying current density in electroforming techniques for high temperature applications/S. Ramachandran and J. Abbas Mohaideen. 49. Effect of irrigation and nitrogen on phonological stages, water use efficiency, oil yield, protein content and seed yield of hybrid canola (Brassica napus L.)/A.S. Sidhu and S.S. Mahal. 50. Studies on ecology of the Phumdis (floating mats) of the Loktak Lake, Manipur/N. Beenakumari Devi and B. Manihar Sharma. 51. Compatibility studies of some fungicides, insecticides and micronutrients in apple/Dharmesh Gupta, V.K. Rana, D.D. Sharma and P.L. Sharma. 52. Performance evaluation of ET0 equations for Palleru sub basin of River Krishna, India/M.V.S.S. Giridhar and G.K. Viswanadh. 53. Synthesis and pharmacological screening of 3-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-Phenyl- 1H-pyrazole-4-carboxaldehyde and it's schiff's bases/Ajit D. Jagtap, Chandrakant S. Magdum, Shrinivas K. Mohite. 54. Quality improvement through second-order slope-rotable designs over all directions/G.V.S.R. Anjaneyulu, P. Venkateswara Rao and V.L. Narasimham. 55. FT-IR spectroscopic analysis of some archaeological pottery shreds recently excavated at Adichanallur in Tamil Nadu/G. Velraj and M. Vigneswari. 56. Phase equilibria studies for multicomponent systems/V.A. Shinde, S.J. Raut, S.V. Gadekar, K.S. Kulkarni and S.N. Kaul. 57. Comparison of toxicity between plant extracts and Malathion against two beetles/Sameer Mishra and Ranjana Saxena. 58. On a new species of the Genus agriocnemis selys (Order : Odonata) from India/K.P. Shinde and T.V. Sathe. 59. Variability and heritability in castor (Ricinus communis L.)/S. Rajamani. 60. Synthesis and biological evaluation of 2,5-disubstituted 1,3,4-Oxadiazoles/S.K. Mohite, C.S. Magdum, L.V. Sonawane, A.T. Dalvi and S.S. Patil. 61. Carbamate pesticide methomyl (Lannate) induced chromosomal aberrations and micronucleus test on the freshwater cichlid oreochromis mossambicus (Peters)/J.J. Arockia Rita and M.C. John Milton. 62. Behavioural responses of male lesser bandicoot rat bandicota bengalensis (gray and hardwicke) towards cyclic and pregnant female urine/Gurpreet Kaur and V.R. Parshad. 63. Ethnobotany and biodiversity conservation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria/Rufus M. Ubom. 64. Growth parameters, biomass production and nutrient uptake by greengram as influenced by Potash and zinc levels/S.V. Patil, A.V. Solanke, T.K. Tiwari and B.J. Shete. 65. Utilization of waste sludge from paper mill and pressmud from sugar mill for the culture of a compost earthworm perionyx excavatus (Perrier)/S. Chandran and R. Ramalingam. 66. Combined effect of copper coating and extended expansion of SI engine/V. Krishnamoorthy and S. Chandrasekaran. 67. Microbial quality of fresh and smoked Channa Punctatus available in Imphal market with reference to salted and smoked in laboratory/Ch. Sarojnalini and N. Jaya Devi. 68. Impact of tsunami on physico-chemical characteristics of coastal water in Kulachel Area of Kanyakumari District/V. Ramasubramanian, R. Jeyaprakash and S. Jeyakumar. Index.
"In recent years, man, first time in his history, has confronted with certain entirely new kinds of tragic problems like speedily recurring floods and droughts; grave pollution of air, water and land; ever shrinking natural landscapes: fast vanishing wild life and depleting natural resources; human population explosion and resultant continuously increasing greed, competition, anxiety tension, feeling of insecurity, fear, confusion, violence, wars poverty in people, to name a few. All of these problems have cropped up only due to thoughtless exploitation of various natural resources by and also due his absolutely egoist attitude towards nature. Science of ecology has come forward to human rescue to save him from this state of self-destruction, dilemma and paradox. Timely recognition of environmental challenges, the subject of ecology has resulted in its inclusion in the syllabi of various Indian Universities. Visualizing the current ecological awareness, the authors have prepared this book "New Challenges for the Environment" for the research scholars, professors, scientists and ecoplanners.
This book is the compilation of esteemed articles of internationally acknowledged experts in the field of aquatic biology with the intention of providing a sufficient depth of the subject to satisfy the needs at a level which will be comprehensive and interesting. The present book will be useful to the students, research scholars, scientists in the field of environmental management and ecoplanners, politicians and other people with similar interest." (jacket)
