The book entitled "Freshwater Reservoir" is an outcome of the research and teaching experience of the author to make their sincere afford to make the subject simple for the reader. I hope that the book will be useful to the reader. The book contains the freshwater aquatic ecosystem. The aquatic environments host a rich variety of organisms and are a wonder to behold through a microscope. In aquatic environments such as ponds, lakes, rivers and oceans innumerable living beings have unicellular organism's home. We will consider mainly the freshwater environment, and in particular stagnant...

The coastal belt (20 km) passes through two districts, Junagadh and Amreli and 13 talukas. Out of the total fish production 645 tonnes 62 per cent production was reported from the fishing centers of Junagadh. There are two developed fishing harbors with allied shore facility at Veraval and Mangrol and one more is added at Porbandar. Therefore Gujarats fishing ground is extensive. The main purpose of the present study is to prepare a baseline database and a checklist of the fish fauna of Madhavpur coastal area, Porbandar, Saurashra region. The main purpose of the present study is to...

Among all the insects, Moths also play important role as herbivores during the larval stage, as pollinators and parasitoids throughout their life cycle. The present study was conducted on moth species of Lepidoptera in the Mitana village of Morbi district, Gujarat. In this study a total of 24 species of Moth (Lepidoptera) are belonging to 21 genera and 8 families (such as Sphingidae, Geometridae, Noctuidae, Erebidae, Arctiidae, Arctiini, Crambidae and Saturniidae) were observed in three different habitat of Farm (Site - 1), Dam (Site - 2) and Village locality (Site - 3). The Noctuidae family...