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Methodologies for the Assessment of River Ecosystem in Southern West Bengal, India

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Southern eco-regions of the state West Bengal (Lat. 22.0°–23.3° N; Long. 86.0°–88.3°E), India, is a mosaic of different landscape types, endowed with undulating lateritic terrain with macro and micro gullies. The rate of infiltration is very high on the lateritic upland with dense vegetation cover. However, the upland surface composed of lateritic hard crust with jointed structures and granular materials is endowed with only sparse vegetation because of massive deforestation. Occasionally, the seepage waters from the vegetated uplands can generate a stream flow along the valley fill surface. Four major different aspects of riverine environment are required to be studied in order to gain a complete and holistic knowledge of the ecodynamics of river ecosystem in any area like Southern West Bengal, India.

These studies include long-term recording of physicochemical properties in respect of ongoing threats on river, existing status of biodiversity, and trophic interactions with an eye to compare the present research information with the past in order to understand the trend of ecological changes. Besides, all-round geomorphological and hydro-geological assessment processes have been given due importance for the dynamics and potentiality of riverine flows highlighting their connectivities to the ecosystems in order to devise conservation strategies giving due importance to people’s participation. In order to achieve these goals, well-designed eco-monitoring of rivers of different parts of the world have to be conducted to generate baseline information which are to be subjected to existing statistical tools for achieving quantitative definite results. These results pertaining to the status of river environment are to be scientifically processed to arrive at proper decision so that the deteriorating trend of riverine environment may be arrested, restored, and environmentally managed in a sustainable manner and the benefits out of ecological services from the river may be utilized by the local peoples.

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