The presence of the West African manatee, Trichechus senegalensis in a semi-wild holding facility Little Stream Farm, Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, presented an opportunity to study directly, aspects their biology, which hitherto were little known. This was conducted identify plant food preferences and feeding behaviour as reflection what may approximate activities wild. selected plant...

Invasive floating aquatic vegetation negatively impacts wetland ecosystems and mapping this through space time can aid in designing assessing effective control strategies. Current remote sensing methods for at the genus level relies on airborne imaging spectroscopy, resulting temporal gaps because routine hyperspectral satellite coverage is not yet available. Here we achieved species discrimina...

Loktak Lake is the largest fresh water lake in North East India. The situated at Moirang Bishnupur District, Manipur about 48 km to South from Imphal city. This extends 287 km2. has an indispensable relationship with people of state since time immemorial socio- cultural and economic viewpoints. Many edible plants are available around Lake. food which not commonly market those utilized as throug...

Mass development of macrophytes in freshwater ecosystems is today considered a worldwide problem and substantial resources are spent on macrophyte removal each year. By removing the dominant primary producer, however, this management practice radically changes ecosystem overnight. Here, we studied short-term effects mass free-floating (Pontederia crassipes), submerged (Elodea nuttallii) emergen...