Diatom Based Pollution Monitoring in Urban Wetlands

Alakananda B¹ Karthick B¹ Mahesh M K² Ramachandra T V^1*

¹ Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA
² Department of Botany, Yuvaraja College, Mysore University, Mysore

Abstract

Introduction

Methods and Materials

Results and Discussion

Acknowledgement

We thank the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India and Indian Institute of Science for the infrastructure support and sustained financial support for ecological research. We are also grateful to Dr. Jonathan Taylor and Dr. J.P. Kociolek for confirming the identity of species. Dr. P Pramod and Mr. Joseph Reginald from The Salim-Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History SACON, Coimbatore provided useful tips during field investigations. We thank Institute Nanoscience Initiative (INI) for permitting us to use Scanning Electron Microscopy facility and INI staff for their help and support.

Citation: Alakananda B., Karthick B., Mahesh M. K. and Ramachandra T. V., 2011, Diatom Based Pollution Monitoring in Urban Wetlands, The IUP Journal of Soil and Water Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 33 – 52.

* Corresponding Author :
	Dr. T.V. Ramachandra Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA. Tel : 91-80-23600985 / 22932506 / 22933099, Fax : 91-80-23601428 / 23600085 / 23600683 [CES-TVR] E-mail : cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, energy@ces.iisc.ernet.in, Web : http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy