Limnological status of freshwater bodies of Goa

The study of temporal and spatial distribution of zooplankton in relation to various physico-chemical factors forms an important aspect of the freshwater ecology aimed at understanding life in water. The populations of zooplankton are subjected to extreme fluctuations, the causes of which have not been adequately understood. Though a good deal of information is available on the distribution of plankton, no comprehensive study seems to have been carried out earlier, to understand correlation between zooplanktonic populations and the abiotic factors. An objective evaluation of the relationship of the population and the ambient conditions can however be made using the statistical tools. Apart from the above there are no comparative studies on physical, chemical and biological components of freshwater bodies into distinctly visible agro-climatically different environmental conditions. The present work not only deals with the studies of a few freshwater bodies in the states of Goa andprovides a comparison and contrasting study with regard to altitude, geographical locations and similar other variations.