Planktonic Scenario of the River Ganga&Yamuna at Prayagraj in COVID-19 Lockdown:A Case Study

作     者：Kalpana Srivastava Jitendra Kumar Dharmnath Jha Venkatesh Ramrao Thakur Vijay kumar Basanta kumar Das 

作者机构：ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research InstituteRegional CentrePrayagrajUttar Pradesh211002India ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research InstituteBarrackporeWest Bengal700120India 

出 版 物：《Journal of Fisheries Science》 (水产科学杂志（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第4卷第1期

页      面：19-25页

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071002[理学-动物学] 

主　　题：River Ganga and Yamuna Plankton Diversity COVID-19 Lockdown&Prayagraj 

摘      要：Ganga is the most prestigious river of *** COVID-19 lockdown may have forced us to stay indoors,but it has been boon for pollution-ridden Ganga and *** is tiny organisms drifting with water current,influenced by river physical and chemical *** lockdown anthropogenic factors were reduced which affected water and plankton *** samples were collected from the upstream of the river Ganga(Shankerghat,latitude 25030’28N and longitude,81052’10E)and Yamuna(near boat club,latitude 25024’29N and longitude 81054’50E)at Prayagraj,during national *** the before lockdown period(2019),total 28 planktonic taxa were recorded from the river Ganga,among them 10 taxa from Bacillariophyceae,15 from Chlorophyceae and 3 from *** during LD period total 54 genera with 86 species was recorded(Bacillariophyceae 10 taxa,Chlorophyceae 23 taxa,Myxophyceae 9 taxa,Euglenophyceae 2 taxa,Dianophyceae,1,Rotiferea 7 taxa,Protozoa 2 taxa).Various species of green algae were observed in this small period of lockdown,some species were not observed since a long,like Pediastrum tetras,Scenedesmus abundans,Ankistrodesmus fusiformis,and Brachionus *** species of phytoplankton and zooplankton were in reproductive phase because river was flowing silently,without any internal and external *** was more affected by anthropogenic activity and factory discharge than Yamuna So lack of chemicals in the water and minimum human interference favoured auto rejuvenation of Ganga in terms of plankton quality,diversity and reproduction *** type of environmental changes may stimulate for origin of new species and disappear or reappear of various aquatic species.