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Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India

Impact of barge movement on phytoplankton abundance and biomass was assessed in the lower stretch of river Ganga, popularly known as Bhagirathi-Hooghly river, during April 2016 to March, 2017. Based on the magnitude of tide, intensity of shipping and boating activities, the stretch from Baranagar to...

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Autores principales: Das Sarkar, Soma, Naskar, Malay, Gogoi, Pranab, Raman, Rohan Kumar, Manna, Ranjan Kumar, Samanta, Srikanta, Mohanty, Bimal Prasanna, Das, Basanta Kumar
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6726143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31483812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221451
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author Das Sarkar, Soma
Naskar, Malay
Gogoi, Pranab
Raman, Rohan Kumar
Manna, Ranjan Kumar
Samanta, Srikanta
Mohanty, Bimal Prasanna
Das, Basanta Kumar
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Naskar, Malay
Gogoi, Pranab
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description Impact of barge movement on phytoplankton abundance and biomass was assessed in the lower stretch of river Ganga, popularly known as Bhagirathi-Hooghly river, during April 2016 to March, 2017. Based on the magnitude of tide, intensity of shipping and boating activities, the stretch from Baranagar to Lalbag (278 km), located at latitude (22°38'33.41"N to 24°10'59.75"N) and longitude (88°21'21.29"E to 88°16'5.65"E) was divided into three zones viz. zone—I (Baranagar to Barrackpore), zone II (Triveni to Balagarh) and zone III (Nabadweep to Lalbag). Water samples were collected randomly from six stations covering 22 barge movements at their passage at three different time intervals viz., 30 minutes before ‘barge movement’, during ‘barge movement’ and 30 minutes after ‘barge movement’. Analysis revealed the presence of 52 phytoplankton taxa belonged to 5 phylum during the study period. The abundance of phytoplankton was highest in zone—I followed by zone III and the zone II. A 44% decrease (1,997 ±1,510 ul(-1)) in phytoplankton abundance was observed during ‘barge movement’ with respect to normal condition (3,513 ± 2,239 ul(-1)) which could be due to propeller turbulence in the passage. Cell damage study revealed 21% damage in phytoplankton cell structure in ‘during barge’ followed by ‘after barge’ (10%) condition compared to natural state (6%). Study revealed that phytoplankton biomass (Chlorophyll a) was influenced by ‘barge movement’ in the sampling stretches and the impact was assessed by one way ANOVA. The effect was found significant at Barrackpore (p <0.01), Triveni (p <0.01), Balagarh (p <0.01) and Lalbag (p <0.01) where as it was insignificant at Baranagar and Nabadweep, which may be due to continuous and existing boat trafficking at Baranagar and Nabadweep. Two way ANOVA computed using ‘barge movement’ and sampling stations showed significant (p<0.01) effect on magnitude of Chl a concentrations in the sampling locations. Thus, the ‘barge movement’ influenced phytoplankton abundance and biomass, it had a detrimental effect on phytoplankton cell architecture also. The data set of this work serves as foundation information to understand the ecological implications augmented barge induced environmental disturbances in waterways. This is the first such study which depicts the impact of ‘barge movement’ on aquatic food chain linkages in Bhagirathi- Hooghly river.
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spelling pubmed-67261432019-09-16 Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India Das Sarkar, Soma Naskar, Malay Gogoi, Pranab Raman, Rohan Kumar Manna, Ranjan Kumar Samanta, Srikanta Mohanty, Bimal Prasanna Das, Basanta Kumar PLoS One Research Article Impact of barge movement on phytoplankton abundance and biomass was assessed in the lower stretch of river Ganga, popularly known as Bhagirathi-Hooghly river, during April 2016 to March, 2017. Based on the magnitude of tide, intensity of shipping and boating activities, the stretch from Baranagar to Lalbag (278 km), located at latitude (22°38'33.41"N to 24°10'59.75"N) and longitude (88°21'21.29"E to 88°16'5.65"E) was divided into three zones viz. zone—I (Baranagar to Barrackpore), zone II (Triveni to Balagarh) and zone III (Nabadweep to Lalbag). Water samples were collected randomly from six stations covering 22 barge movements at their passage at three different time intervals viz., 30 minutes before ‘barge movement’, during ‘barge movement’ and 30 minutes after ‘barge movement’. Analysis revealed the presence of 52 phytoplankton taxa belonged to 5 phylum during the study period. The abundance of phytoplankton was highest in zone—I followed by zone III and the zone II. A 44% decrease (1,997 ±1,510 ul(-1)) in phytoplankton abundance was observed during ‘barge movement’ with respect to normal condition (3,513 ± 2,239 ul(-1)) which could be due to propeller turbulence in the passage. Cell damage study revealed 21% damage in phytoplankton cell structure in ‘during barge’ followed by ‘after barge’ (10%) condition compared to natural state (6%). Study revealed that phytoplankton biomass (Chlorophyll a) was influenced by ‘barge movement’ in the sampling stretches and the impact was assessed by one way ANOVA. The effect was found significant at Barrackpore (p <0.01), Triveni (p <0.01), Balagarh (p <0.01) and Lalbag (p <0.01) where as it was insignificant at Baranagar and Nabadweep, which may be due to continuous and existing boat trafficking at Baranagar and Nabadweep. Two way ANOVA computed using ‘barge movement’ and sampling stations showed significant (p<0.01) effect on magnitude of Chl a concentrations in the sampling locations. Thus, the ‘barge movement’ influenced phytoplankton abundance and biomass, it had a detrimental effect on phytoplankton cell architecture also. The data set of this work serves as foundation information to understand the ecological implications augmented barge induced environmental disturbances in waterways. This is the first such study which depicts the impact of ‘barge movement’ on aquatic food chain linkages in Bhagirathi- Hooghly river. Public Library of Science 2019-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6726143/ /pubmed/31483812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221451 Text en © 2019 Das Sarkar et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Manna, Ranjan Kumar
Samanta, Srikanta
Mohanty, Bimal Prasanna
Das, Basanta Kumar
Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India
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title_full Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India
title_fullStr Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India
title_full_unstemmed Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India
title_short Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India
title_sort impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and chl a concentration, in river ganga, india
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6726143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31483812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221451
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