Book Description

Recent Advances in Fish Ecology, Limnology and Eco-Conservation is a publication which deals with the latest researches in the fields of fish ecology, limnology and eco-conservation. It was brought out for the first time in 1988 to felicitate Professor S M Das, D Sc, F Z S (London) F N A Sc, F A Z, F Z S I, F N E S A, Scientist Emeritus, Lucknow on the completion of his fifty years of teaching and active research at the Universities of Lucknow, Kashmir and Kumaun. The present volume is the third in the series and contains sixteen original research papers contributed by leading research workers and dealing with various aspects of fish ecology, limnology and eco-conservation. Contents Chapter 1: Status, Ecology and Behaviour of Fishes of Arun River (Nepal) by T K Shrestha; Chapter 2: Physical Ecology of Four Lakes of Kumaun: Nainital, Naukuchiatal, Bhimtal and Sattal by S M Das; Chapter 3: On the Discovery of an additional Component in the Weberian Chain of Ossicles in Two Air-breathing Catfishes Clarias and Heteropneustes by D K Massey; Chapter 4: A Simple Method of Water Purification by Reeds and Rushes by S M Das; Chapter 5: Faunal Survey and Ecology of Fishes of Tehri-Garhwal by S M Das; Chapter 6: On a Simple Method for Clearing and Exposing Micro Bone Structures for Tracing Their Origin and Development by D K Massey; Chapter 7: On the Systematic and Bioecology of the Mahaseer Fishes of India, with a discussion of the Problem of Their Rapid Decline in Western and Central Himalaya by S M Das; Chapter 8: Studies on the Bioecology of Fishes of Jammu Province (Jammu and Kashmir State) India, Part II: Feeding Ecology by Surendra Nath; Chapter 9: Comparative Fecundity of Some Kashmir Teleosts by Bansi L Koul; Chapter 10: Studies on the Bioecology of Fishes of Jammu Province (Jammu and Kashmir State) India, Part III: Spawning Ecology by Surendra Nath; Chapter 11: A Check-list of Freshwater Crustacea of Jammu and Kashmir State (India) by Surendra Nath; Chapter 12: A Report on the Study of Fish Ponds in Ladakh by A Wanganeo, D P Zutshi and R Wanganeo; Chapter 13: The Ichthygeography of Jammu Province (Jammu & Kashmir State) India by Surendra Nath; Chapter 14: Nanda Devi Sanctuary-Now a National Park by S M Das; Chapter 15: Biomass-Problems and Remedies by S M Das; Chapter 16: Is Nainital Lake Dying-Problems and Remedies by S M Das.