Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Marine Faunal Communities, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013

This book provides insights into various aspects of marine faunal communities in India, which are extremely diverse due to the geomorphologic and climatic variations along the Indian coasts. Consisting of 30 chapters by experts in their respective fields, it is divided into two parts:

·       Part I: Tropical Marine Faunal Communities

·       Part II: Ecology and Conservation

Part I highlights the diversity and distribution of Foraminifera; sponges associated with seagrass; Polychaeta; Opisthobranchia; oysters; copepods; horseshoe and brachyuran crabs; echinoderms; ascidians; fishes; fish parasites; and sea mammals. Topics of Part II include the status and environmental parameters of benthos; the status of coral reefs; the invasion of snowflake coral; the recovery of bleached corals; the socioeconomics and management of dugong; marine biodiversity conservation and management in India; the assessment of the marine fauna of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act; and marine biodiversity protected areas in India.

This book will serve as a valuable reference work for marine scientists, as well as for environmental managers and policy makers.

Part I. Tropical marine faunal communities

1. The late Holocene foraminifera from Andaman Islands, Andaman Sea, Bay Of Bengal

C. Rajasekar

2. Distribution of live Planktonic and benthic foraminifera in the shelf off Port Blair and Hutbay, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India         P.M. Mohan, P. Dhivya and K. Narayanamurthy

3. Species composition and distribution of sponges (Phylum: Porifera) in the Seagrass ecosystem of Minicoy Atoll, Lakshadweep, India

M.P. Prabhakaran, N.G.K. Pillai, P.R. Jayachandran and S. Bijoy Nandan

4. Diversity and distribution of Polychaetes from Tamil Nadu Coast, India

G. Sivaleela and K. Venkataraman

5. Current Status of Indian Opisthobranch fauna

Vishal Bhave and Deepak Apte

6. Species diversity and abundance of Opisthobranch molluscs (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) in the coral reef environments of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

C.R. Sreeraj, C. Sivaperuman and C. Raghunathan

7. Macrofaunal assemblage of Oyster bed (Crassostrea madrasensis) in Vellar estuary

R. Rajasekaran, Olivia J. Fernando, V. Sekar and J. Suriya

8. Diversity and abundance of marine copepods in Muthupet mangrove waters, Southeast coast of India

P. Santhanam, N. Jeyaraj, J. Sivakumar, K. Jothiraj, T. Jayalakshmi, S. Ananth,  R. Nandakumar, A. Shenbaga Devi, B. Balaji Prasath and S. Dinesh Kumar

9. Assessment of the population status and threats to the Horseshoes along the northern East Coast of India

Basudev Tripathy, K. Sivakumar, Sajan John, Satyaranjan Behera, B. C. Choudhury

10. Diversity and distribution of marine brachyuran crab communities inhabiting West Coast of India

M.K. Dev Roy

11. Diversity and community structure of brachyuran crab in North Andaman

Kumaralingam, S., C. Sivaperuman and C. Raghunathan

12. Present status and distribution of echinoderms in Reef Communities of Nicobar Islands, India

Kaushik, S. and C. Raghunathan

13. Diversity and distribution of sea cucumber in Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve, India

C. Venkatraman, K. Venkataraman, Rajkumar Rajan, P. Padmanaban, S. Shreenivaasu, K. Paramasivam and C. Sivaperuma

14. Diversity of Ascidians from the Gulf of Mannar

V. K. Meenakshi and S. Senthamarai

15. Fish fauna of Andaman and Nicobar Islands - a review

P.T. Rajan and C.R. Sreeraj

16. Coastal marine fish fauna of East Coast of India

S.S. Mishra

17. Deep-sea fish distribution along the south-west region of Indian EEZ

S. Venu

18. Diversity and abundance of the marine fish parasite from Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu

K. Rakesh kumar, S. Parthasarathy and R. Rajaram

19. Diversity and distribution of reef fishes in Gulf of Mannar, India

Yogesh Kumar, S. Geetha and R. Sornaraj

20. Abundance of Olive ridleys at Odisha coast: sources of mortality and relative importance of fisheries impacts

Subrata K. Behera, Satyaranjan Behera, Sajan John, C.S Kar, K.Sivakumar, and B.C.Choudhury,

21. Sightings of marine mammals in Bay of Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands waters

P. Kannan and M. Rajagopalan

Part II. Ecology and conservation

22. Status of the benthos and its environmental parameters in Redskin Island, Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park (MGMNP), Andaman And Nicobar Islands  

P. Dhivya, P.M. Mohan and V. Sachithanandam

23. Present status of Coral reefs in India

Raghuraman, R., C. Raghunathan and K. Venkataraman

24. An invasion of Snowflake Coral Carijoa riisei (Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1860) in Indian Seas: Threats to Coral Reef Ecosystem

C. Raghunathan, K. Venkataraman, Ch. Satyanarayana and R. Rajkumar

25. Studies on the recovery of bleached corals in Andaman: Fishes as indicators of reef health

P. Krishnan, Grinson-George, Titus Immanuel, Bitopan-Malakar and A. Anand

26. Artisanal octopus fishery: Socio-economics and Management

Aditi Nair and Deepak Apte

27. Status and conservation of Dugong dugong in India: Strategies for species recovery

K. Sivakumar

28. Marine biodiversity conservation and management in India   

P. Nammalvar, V.S. Gowri and S. Satheesh

29. An assessment of marine fauna of Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 in curio trade in India - A market study

Sajan John, B.B. Praveen Kumar, K. Sivakumar and B.C. Choudhury

30. Coastal and Marine Protected Areas in India: Challenges and way forward

K. Sivakumar

An important contribution to the study of tropical marine ecosystems

A reference point for future research in the field

Richly illustrated

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras