Aquatic and Marshy Plants of four selected Ponds in Venganoor Grama Panchayat, Trivandrum District, Kerala, India

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Aquatic and Marshy Plants of four selected Ponds in Venganoor Grama Panchayat, Trivandrum District, Kerala, India

Author Affiliations

¹Department of botany Scott Christian College (Autonomous) Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, 629003, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., Volume 4, Issue (4), Pages 49-51, April,10 (2015)

Abstract

The aquatic and marshy flora of four ponds located in Venganoor grama panchayat, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala were studied for a period of 12 months. Altogether 20 genera of aquatic and marshy macrophytes were identified in the present investigation. The physico-chemical characteristics of pond water to be altered due to these aquatic plants. We have found a general relationship between trophic status of a water and the aquatic plants present there.

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[ref10] Gupta O.P., Aquatic Weeds: Their Manace and Control, Today and Tomorrow’s Printers and Publisher, New Delhi, India, (1979)

[ref11] Jacklin Jemi R. and Regini Balasingh G.S., Studies on physico-chemical characteristics of freshwater temple ponds in kanyakumari district (south tamilnadu), Int. J. of Geology, Earth and Environ. Sci., 1(1), 59-62 (2011)

[ref12] Willmer P., Stone G. and Jhonston I., Environmental Physiology of Animals, Blackwell Science Ltd., USA, (2000)

[ref13] Dhanya S., Smitha Sebastian and Ammini Joseph, A survey of algal blooms in the ponds of Pallippuram, Kerala, India, J. Environ.Sciences., 3(3), 1185–1193 (2012)

[ref14] Upadhyay K., Mishra P. and Gupta A.K., Studies on the physic-chemical status of two ponds at Varanasi and Bhadohi under Biotic stress, Plant Archives, 10(2), 691-693 (2010)