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A baseline study of temporal and spatial variations of physico-chemical variables in Vellar estuary Parangipettai southeast of India

  • Suthagar Govindaraj EMAIL logo , Saravanakumar Ayyapan EMAIL logo , Poornima Durai , Priyanka Kandasamy , Loganathan Guganathan , Madhappan Santhamoorthy , Anbazhagan Murugan , Selvakumar Suthakaran , Subbarayan Sathiyamurthy and Manikandan Ayyar
Published/Copyright: December 11, 2023
Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
From the journal Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie Volume 238 Issue 2

Abstract

The Vellar estuary are predominated by mudflats and having dense mangrove vegetation, these mangrove act as major nursery ground feeding for a various marine animal like fin and shellfishes. The current study is an effort to gather baseline study data for the area near the Vellar estuary mangroves. Since, Temperature, Nitrate, pH, Salinity, Ammonia, Inorganic phosphate, Dissolved Oxygen and Silicate is a key factor affecting chemical and biological water reactions, as well as controlling photosynthesis in coastal regions and influencing temperatures in swamp, flora and fauna in the estuary. Therefore, unique seasonal variation was observed in the present study. The increasing trend in nutrients levels are observed in summer to monsoon and low in summer seasons. These oscillations of hydrological parameters support primary production in this Vellar estuary.

Keywords: Vellar estuary; nitrate; hydrological parameters; salinity; primary production
Corresponding authors: Suthagar Govindaraj and Saravanakumar Ayyapan, Centre of Advanced Studies in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Parangipettai 608502, Tamil Nadu, India, E-mail: (S. Govindaraj), (S. Ayyapan)

Suthagar Govindaraj, SaravanakumarAyyapan and Madhappan Santhamoorthy are equally contributed

Acknowledgment

The Dean and Director of the CAS in Marine Biology, the Faculty of Marine Sciences, and the administrators of Annamalai University are to be thanked for providing the facilities, as are the authors. We would like to thank the funding source and the Space application center for their financial support.

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Author contributions: G. Suthagar: Investigation, Methodology, Writing, plot -original draft. A. Saravanakumar: Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Funding acquisition and Conceptualization. Poornima, A. Murugan, Manikandan Ayyar, S. Sathiyamurthy: review, editing and review writing, Priyanka, S. Suthakaran: Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing. L. Guganathan: review. M. Santhamoorthy: Writing – review & editing.

  3. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

  4. Research funding: None declared.

  5. Data availability: Not applicable.

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Received: 2023-10-04
Accepted: 2023-11-13
Published Online: 2023-12-11
Published in Print: 2024-02-26

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Keywords for this article
Vellar estuary; nitrate; hydrological parameters; salinity; primary production

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