Seaweed floristic studies along tsunami affected Indian coasts: A litmus test scenario after 26th December 2004 |
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| Authors: | Vaibhav A Mantri |
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| Institution: | (1) Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, 364 002 Gujarat, India |
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| Abstract: | On 26th December 2004, the world witnessed the devastating power of tsunami, affecting many countries, bordering the Indian
Ocean region. This has caused significant changes in the shallow and intertidal regions of the Indian coast, especially the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry. The baseline data on biomass availability and distribution
of benthic intertidal seaweed species were collected immediately after this catastrophic event by spot surveying 11 selected
localities of the above-mentioned regions. In all, 45 species belonging to 31 genera were recorded during the present survey,
the maximum number of seaweed species were recorded at Thirumullavarum, Kerala with the minimum at Car Nicobar, Andaman and
Nicobar Islands. A very different trend was observed in the case of biomass availability at some locations which was due to
the influence of habitat suitability over the tsunami damage. The details of this study have been provided in the present
communication |
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| Keywords: | Seaweeds tsunami species diversity similarity index |
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