Studies on Zooplanktons of fresh water reservoir at Lony Dam Theonther Rewa (M.P.)

Abstract

The information contributed by this investigation will be highly significant and useful in order to create a general awareness in the people to prevent further water pollution and improve aquaculture and other uses of such valuable water sources in the near future. The quantative analyses of zooplankton has revealed the fact that rotifers, protozoan, cladoceran  and copepode were the major components of its total bulk in lony dam the maximum abundance of total zooplankton was appeared in summer month and its minimum was noted in early monsoon months. The values of number of zooplankton species indicating the pattern of bio diversity have exhibited a different dominating trend of its major subgroups as given rotifera > protozoa>cladocera>copepoda. The lony dam had moderate biodiversity of total zooplankton with 29 species belonging to four taxonomic group out of 29 species 6 belonged to protozoa, 11 to rotifera, 8 to cladocera and 4 to copepod. Rotiferan species have show a high magnitude of bio diversity in comparative to other zooplankton subgroups.