The effects of climate change on hydrological regimes have become a priority area for water and catchment management strategies. The terrestrial hydrology driven by monsoon rainfall plays a crucial role in shaping the agriculture, surface and ground water scenario in India. Thus, it is imperative to assess the impact of the changing climatic scenario projected under various climate change scena...

Abstract Bangladesh is one of the largest flood-prone deltas GBM (Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna) basins, and recently, it categorized as 7th worst climate-affected country in world. Future climate change along with economic development, urbanization, increase population may worsen this situation manifolds. To cope future flood situations lessen probable losses, essential to develop maps major river...

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Background The research that informs this study was conducted in Chapra village, Kushtia District, Bangladesh, located about 20 km east of the Indian border. Chapra is located within the Ganges Dependent Area (GDA) in Bangladesh which, in turn, is located within the Ganges–Brahmaputra Basin (GBB), one of the largest river basins in the world by area and second only to the Amazon in terms of the...

Three species of Indian major carp (Labeo rohita,Catla catla,Cirrhinus mrigala) were collected from local fish market and fishing sites of river Brahmaputra for determining the nutritional value,seasonal variation of proximate composition and vitamin A content of these fishes.Results obtained show that there is no much significant seasonal variations in body composition of Indian major carp tho...

Ganges River dolphin, Platanista gangetica gangetica, is one of the three obligatory freshwater dolphins in the world and is distributed in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Sangu-Karnaphuli River systems in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. This species is facing considerable threats to its survival, and its population has dwindled from 4000 to 5000 in the early 1980s to 3500 in 2014 in the distri...

This paper deals with the morphological changes of the lower Brahmaputra-Jamuna River (BJR) in Bangladesh. Within few decades, the planform of the river has been changed abruptly by the combined effect of natural process and human interventions. Morphological features observing in this study were river planform, channel width, bankline migration and channel bed elevation. Eighteen sets of remot...

An investigation on the aquatic insect community of 10 selected sites of Deepor beel, the only Ramsar site of Assam situated on the southern side of River Brahmaputra was carried out during the month of March to November, 2013. During the study period aquatic insect community was represented by 31 species belonging to 18 families of 5 orders. Record of 17 species and 8 families of the order Hem...