Distribution of phytoplankton in selected salt pans of Tamil Nadu, southeast coast of India
Shenbaga Devi, A.; Santhanam, P.; Ananth, S.; Dinesh Kumar, S. (2018). Distribution of phytoplankton in selected salt pans of Tamil Nadu, southeast coast of India, in: Santhanam, P. et al. (2019). Basic and applied phytoplankton biology. pp. 251-276. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7938-2_14
In: Santhanam, P.; Begum, A.; Pachiappan, P. (Ed.) (2019). Basic and applied phytoplankton biology. Springer Nature Singapore: Singapore. ISBN 978-981-10-7937-5; e-ISBN 978-981-10-7938-2. X, 336 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7938-2, more
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| Keywords |
Aquatic communities > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Marine/Coastal |
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Salt Pans, Salt Production Process, Nutrient-rich Seawater, Vedaranyam |
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- Shenbaga Devi, A.
- Santhanam, P.
- Ananth, S.
- Dinesh Kumar, S.
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| Abstract |
Salt is one of the world’s best-known minerals and the chemical substances most related with the history of human civilization (Korovessis and Lekkas 2009). Solar evaporation is a process that has been profitably used for salt production for millennia. However still, the biology of a saline ecosystem in relation with the salt production process has not been well studied. Recently many countries have shown interest in maintaining and manipulating the hypersaline ecosystem for aquaculture and other related activities. Salt pan ecosystem is highly dynamic where the organisms are subjected to vulnerable physico-chemical disturbances. Salt pans are unique enclosed ecosystem that is characteristically exposed to a wide range of environmental stress and perturbations manifest mainly through salinity changes. In the extreme astatic physico-chemical conditions of these hypersaline habitats, only a few plant and animal species can live. Salt pan ecosystem offers a number of unique ecological niches having a strange combination of environmental factors. The nutrient-rich seawater in saltworks favours algal blooms in reservoirs and evaporators. |
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