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<journal-meta>
<publisher-id>RAS</publisher-id>
<title>Journal of Research in Biology</title>
<short_title>JRB</short_title>
<subject>Biology</subject>
<web_url> http://jresearchbiology.com/</web_url>
<journal_id_issn>2231–6280</journal_id_issn>
<journal_id_issn_online>2231- 6299</journal_id_issn_online>
<publisher-name>Redolence Academic Services</publisher-name>
<language>en</language>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<volume>10</volume>
<number>4</number>
<publish_type>online</publish_type>
<article_type>fulltext</article_type>
<articleset>
<article>
<language>en</language>
<title>Appraisal of phytoplankton and macrophytic composition in Tungabhadra river ecosystem, Harihar, Karnataka</title>
<subject>Biology</subject>
<content_type>Short Communication</content_type>
<start_page>2837</start_page> 
<end_page>2841</end_page>
<web_url>http://jresearchbiology.com/documents/RA0723.pdf</web_url>
<author_list>
<first_author>
<first_name>Suresh</first_name>
<middle_name/>
<last_name>Basavarajappa</last_name>
<coreauthor>Yes</coreauthor>
<affiliation>Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology,Davangere-577004</affiliation>
</first_author> 
<second_author>
<first_name>Suresh</first_name>
<middle_name/>
<last_name>Sadashivappa</last_name>
<coreauthor>No</coreauthor>
<affiliation> Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology,Davangere-577004</affiliation>
</second_author>
</author_list>
<pubdate>
<year>2020</year>
<month>06</month>
<day>28</day>
</pubdate>
<accdate>
<year>2020</year>
<month>06</month>
<day>02</day>
</accdate>
<recdate>
<year>2020</year>
<month>05</month>
<day>18</day>
</recdate>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright 2020, Journal of Research in Biology</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2020</copyright-year>
<license>
<license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions>
<abstract>Aquatic pollution is harmful both to human and river ecosystem health. Phytoplankton, the most important producers in the food chain of the natural water body, plays a determining role in biological productivity and water quality of the aquatic system. It also acts as a sensitive biomonitor of aquatic ecosystem. Phytoplankton can play a significant role in the control of environmental quality. Macrophytes represented a significant biotype of the aquatic ecosystem and trophic level of the food chain from aquatic to the terrestrial life. Aquatic macrophytes are of utmost ecological and economic importance and they contribute significantly to the productivity of an aquatic ecosystem. This research deals with a preliminary survey on seasonal changes that occur in phytoplankton and it’s macrophytic composition from December 2013 to July 2014. It was observed that total of 37 phytoplankton species were collected using plankton net from lotic ecosystem, which includes, Chlorophyceae being represented by 14 species, Bacillariophyceae by 9 species, Cyanophyceae by 8 species, Euglenophyceae by 6 species and a collection of 8 macrophytic species were recorded from different stations out of which Ceratophyllum was the sole species present at all the stations. The algae plays a prominent role as pollution indicator owing to their high range of tolerance capacity against the polluted water discharged from city municipality domestic sewage and industrial activities</abstract>
<keyword>Phytoplankton, Macrophytes, Tungabhadra river, Ceratophyllum</keyword> 
</article>
</articleset>
</article-meta>
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