Abstract |
1. Introduction |
2. Objectives |
3. Study Area |
4. Materials and Methods |
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4.1 Water Quality Studies |
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4.2 Hydrological Investigations |
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4.3 Catchment Investigations |
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4.3.1 GIS and Remote sensing |
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4.3.2 Vegetation analysis |
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4.3.3 Soil Analysis |
5. Results and Discussion |
6. Conclusion |
Figures |
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Figure 1: Stream Drainage Pattern. |
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Figure 2: Ordering of Streams |
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Figure 3: Sharavathi River Basin. |
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Figure 4: Sub Basins in Upstream River Sharavathi. |
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Figure 5: Transect cum quadrat method of Vegetation analysis. |
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Figure 6: Land use analysis – Upstream of Sharavathi river basin |
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Figure 7: Variations of pH between the Sub basins |
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Figure 8: Variations of Conductivity between the Tributaries |
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Figure 9: Variations of TDS between the Tributaries |
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Figure 10: Variation of Sodium between the Tributaries |
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Figure 11: Variation of Potassium between the Tributaries |
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Figure 12: Percentage Forest in the Catchment of the Tributaries |
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Figure 13: Variation of Stream flow between the Tributaries |
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Figure 14: Annual Rainfall Across the sub basins of Sharavathi River Basin. |
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Figure 15: Variation of Stream flow in Nandhiholé sub basin |
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Figure 16: Variation of Stream flow in Nagodiholé sub basin. |
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Figure 17: Variation of Stream flow in Yenneholé sub basin |
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Figure 18: Correlation between Endemism and Stream flow |
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Figure 19: Correlation between Evergreeness and Stream flow |
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Figure 20: Correlation between Basal Area and Stream flow |
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Figure 21: Correlation between Trees/ha and Stream flow |
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Figure 22: pH-NANDHIHOLE & Figure 23: pH-NAGODIHOLE |
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Figure 24: pH-YENNEHOLE & Figure 25: EC-NAGODIHOLE |
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Figure 26: EC-NANDHIHOLE & Figure 27: EC-YENNEHOLE |
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Figure 28: TDS-NANDHIHOLE & Figure 29: TDS-NAGODIHOLE |
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Figure 30: TDS-YENNEHOLE & Figure31: SODIUM-NANDHIHOLE |
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Figure 32: SODIUM-NAGODIHOLE & Figure 33: SODIUM-YENNEHOLE |
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Figure 34: POTASSIUM-NAGODIHOLE & Figure 35: POTASSIUM-NANDHIHOLE |
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Figure 36: POTASSIUM-YENNEHOLE |
Tables |
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Table 1: Methodology for water Quality Analysis |
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Table 2: Palmer's Index. |
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Table: 3 Methods for analysis of soil |
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Table 4: Land use Pattern Among of Catchment Area of Eight Tributaries of River Sharavathi (in km2) |
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Table 5: Land use (%) in the Catchment of Eight Tributary |
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Table 6: Variation in Physico-chemical parameters in Tributaries of River Sharavathi. |
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Table 7: Physico-chemical characteristics of water from Nandhiholé sub basin |
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Table 8: Physico-chemical characteristics of water from Yenneholé sub basin |
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Table 9: Physico-chemical characteristics of water from Nagodiholé sub basin |
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Table 10: Physico-chemical characteristics of soil from Nandhiholé (NA), Nagodiholé (NG) and Yenneholé (YE) sub basins. |
7. References |
8. Acknowledgement |
Appendix –1 |
Appendix –2 |
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