Abstract
Planktons are minute organisms and essential links in food chain in aquatic system. Plankton is most importance in the freshwater ecosystem as these are the main source of energy and having a very high nutritive value .The present study is going to centralize on kshipra river, Ujjain (M.P.) in year 2014. The plankton were collected, counted and identified by using the method suggested by APHA and Prescott. The study among all these phytoplankton Bacillariophyceae was recorded as a dominant class in Kshipra River.
Highlights
Rivers are the major sources of drinking water, besides their usages in agriculture, washing etc
Keeping in view the day-to-day activities on and around the river the role of changing water condition in determining the abundance and succession of phytoplankton in a set of sample collected in Triveni Station, Kshipra River
Chlorophyceae was represented by its 7 species-Oedogonium sps, Microspora sps, Phyllobium sps, Spirogyra sps, Ulothrix sps, Volvox sps, and Zygnema sps
Summary
Rivers are the major sources of drinking water, besides their usages in agriculture, washing etc. Water pollution in India has come to a critical point. Industrial waste and other household waste are directly discharge into river. Major constituent of aquatic organisms is the plankton –the Zooplankton and Phytoplankton. Plankton population and their distribution are greatly affected by physical and chemical properties of water (Sharma and Diwan, 1997). Rivers play a major role in assimilating or carrying industrial and municipal waste water, manure discharge and runoff which are responsible for river pollution (Toman, 2009,Suthar et al, 2010).They can be listed and used as pollution indicators (Telkhade et al 2008)
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