A baseline study of temporal and spatial variations of physico-chemical variables in Vellar estuary Parangipettai southeast of India-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A baseline study of temporal and spatial variations of physico-chemical variables in Vellar estuary Parangipettai southeast of India

Published:2023-12-11 Issue:0 Volume:0 Page:
ISSN:0942-9352
Container-title:Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
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Author:

Govindaraj Suthagar¹,Ayyapan Saravanakumar¹,Durai Poornima¹,Kandasamy Priyanka¹,Guganathan Loganathan²,Santhamoorthy Madhappan³,Murugan Anbazhagan⁴,Suthakaran Selvakumar⁵,Sathiyamurthy Subbarayan⁶,Ayyar Manikandan⁷⁸

Affiliation:

1. Centre of Advanced Studies in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences , Annamalai University , Parangipettai 608502 , Tamil Nadu , India

2. Department of Physics, Saveetha school of Engineering, Saveetha Insitute of Medical and Technical science (SIMATS) , Thandalam , Chennai-602105 , India

3. School of Chemical Engineering , Yeungnam University , Gyeongsan , 38544 , Republic of Korea

4. Department of Science and Humanities , Karpagam College of Engineering , Coimbatore 641032 , Tamil Nadu , India

5. Department of Physics , Karpagam Institute of Technology (KIT) , Coimbatore 641105 , Tamil Nadu , India

6. Department of Automobile Engineering , Easwari Engineering College , Chennai 600089 , Tamil Nadu , India

7. Department of Chemistry , Karpagam Academy of Higher Education , Coimbatore 641021 , Tamil Nadu , India

8. Centre for Material Chemistry , Karpagam Academy of Higher Education , Coimbatore 641021 , Tamil Nadu , India

Abstract

Abstract The Vellar estuary are predominated by mudflats and having dense mangrove vegetation, these mangrove act as major nursery ground feeding for a various marine animal like fin and shellfishes. The current study is an effort to gather baseline study data for the area near the Vellar estuary mangroves. Since, Temperature, Nitrate, pH, Salinity, Ammonia, Inorganic phosphate, Dissolved Oxygen and Silicate is a key factor affecting chemical and biological water reactions, as well as controlling photosynthesis in coastal regions and influencing temperatures in swamp, flora and fauna in the estuary. Therefore, unique seasonal variation was observed in the present study. The increasing trend in nutrients levels are observed in summer to monsoon and low in summer seasons. These oscillations of hydrological parameters support primary production in this Vellar estuary.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zpch-2023-0374/pdf

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