Artificial wetlands such as coastal saltpans have replaced a number of natural habitats worldwide and may accommodated specific waterbird populations in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway (EAAF). The role EAAF foraging grounds for shorebirds is widely recognized, although their breeding waterbirds very limited contradictory. Nanpu northern Bohai Bay, China, are one largest saltpan complexes wor...

Saltpans extraction is vital for coastal resource utilization and production management. However, it challenging to extract saltpans, even by visual inspection, because of their spatial spectral similarities with aquaculture ponds. are composed crystallization evaporation From the whole images, existing saltpans algorithms could only part i.e., Meanwhile, ponds not be efficiently extracted anal...

Though intensive research has been channeled towards the biotechnological applications of halophiles and other extremophilic microbes, these studies have not been, by any means, exhaustive. Saline environments still offer a vast diversity of microbes with potential to produce an array of natural products which can only be unlocked by concerted research efforts. In this study, a combination of c...

We report the 4.86-Mb draft genome sequence of Bacillus okhensis strain Kh10-101T, a halo-alkali tolerant rod shaped bacterium isolated from a salt pan near port of Okha, India. This bacterium is a potential model to study the molecular response of bacteria to salt as well as alkaline stress, as it thrives under both high salt and high pH conditions. The draft genome consist of 4,865,284 bp wit...

Recent advances in culture-independent studies of microbes had proved to be more reliable and efficient than the conventional ones. The isolation of good quality and quantity of total community DNA are one of the major hurdles in this endeavour. Shearing of DNA during the extraction process and the co-extraction of inhibitory compounds reduce the quality of the isolated nucleic acids making it ...

Assessing and modeling the changes in land use cover (LULC) patterns associated ecosystem service values (ESV) has become an important global agenda for formulating sustainable management policies. Taking coastal region of Bangladesh (CRB) as a case study, we utilized remote sensing GIS techniques to analyze Landsat data 1999 2019 estimate effect LULC on ESVs. The classification, ESV quantifica...

Abstract. Hypersaline tidal flats (HTFs) are coastal ecosystems with freshwater deficits often occurring in arid or semi-arid regions near mangrove supratidal zones no major fluvial contributions. Here, we estimate that organic carbon (OC), total nitrogen (TN) and phosphorus (TP) were buried at rates averaging 21 (±6), 1.7 (±0.3) 1.4 gm-2yr-1, respectively, during the previous century three con...

Pan Masala (PM) chewing is very dangerous for health but it is becoming very popular day by day. PM is a dried powdered mixture containing ingredients like areca nut, catechu, lime, cardamom and flavouring agents. It is consumed abundantly by Indians and is also exported to Western countries. A cytogenetic study to assess the micronucleus (MN), sister chromatid exchange (SCE) levels and chromos...

Microbial life can be found over a wide range of extreme conditions like high salinity, pH, temperature, pressure, light intensity, oxygen and nutrients. Halotolerant or halophilic microorganisms, are able to live in saline environments, offer potential applications in various fields of Biotechnology. The halotolerant or halophilic microorganisms are important for maintenance of soil condition ...