Ramachandra T.V., Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Sudarshan P. Bhat, Asulabha K.S., Sincy Varghese, Bharath H. Aithal
ENVIS[RP], Environmental Information System, Energy and Wetlands Research Group,
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science - 560012
envis.ces@iisc.ac.in    tvr@iisc.ac.in      Phone: 080 22933099/22933503

10.0 References

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Macrophytes of Wetlands at Jakkur
Outlet of the lake - people washing clothes (S1)
Second Outlet (S2)
Macrophyte cover before outlet
Inlet from treatment plant(treated water in channel and untreated beside)
Inlet to the lake after algae pond(with macrophytes)
Algae and macrophyte in the algae pond(wetland)