Meiobenthos of Chilka Lake (Lagoon)

Chilka Lake which undergoes wide changes of salinity annually is best suited to study the physico-chemical and biological characteristics of water in relation to the prevailing seasonal water quality fluctuations. During the year 2004,the Ministry Of Earth Sciences, Government of India has identified Chilka Lagoon as a Model to provide a good database and initiated a project “ Modelling on Chilka Lake: An Ecosystem approach The present book addressed among other things issues concerning meiobenthic communities and their response to environmental factors, determining the species abundance patterns and community structure; and finally the nematode diversity and response to environmental gradients and taxonomic distinctness diversity, canonical correspondence analysis paradigms some of which algorithms are presented first time on nematode species from the Indian sub continent.