Freshwater Algae of Eastern India

by Siba Prasad Adhikary, Sudipta Kumar Das

ISBN: 9789351304005
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 14995.00
Biblio : vii+453p.,figs.,plts.,tabls.,ind., 25 cm

Author Profile

Dr. Sudipta Kumar Das, obtained his M.Sc. degree in Botany from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar Odisha in 2007 and obtained Ph.D. in Botany from Utkal University in March 2013. His principal research interest is documentation, taxonomy and biodiversity analysis of algae of India. <BR> Dr. Siba Prasad Adhikary, presently Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology at Visva-Bharati (A Central University of National importance founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan) in West Bengal h

About The Book

In the present book “Freshwater Algae of Eastern India” presents comprehensive account of alage of Eastern and North eastern region which showed occurrence of several taxa which were first records from this region as well as of India. Details of these algal species with descriptions, microphotograph of each taxa, mode of occurrence, type of the habitat and location are provided in this book which would serve as a handbook on identification, taxonomy and biodiversity analysis of algae. Since micr

Table of Contents

Preface v <BR> 1. Introduction to Freshwater Algae of India 1 <BR> 2. The Algal Sampling Sites in the Eastern and North-Eastern <BR> Region of India 11 <BR> 3. Methods of Sampling, Preservation, Micrometry, Microphotography <BR> and Identification of Algae 29 <BR> 4. Systematic Enumeration of Algal Taxa from Eastern <BR> and North-Eastern Regions of India 31 <BR> 5. Algae from Various Habitats of Eastern and North-eastern <BR> Regions of India 271 <BR> Bibliography 397 <BR> Index 423