River Health and Ecology in South Asia

Dr. Bidhan Chandra Patra is the Senior Professor of Zoology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He worked on Fisheries Science, Nutrition Biology and published more than 140 scientific research articles in several leading journals. Professor Patra having more than 30 years active, operational experiences in Research & Development sectors. He also successfully guided 36 numbers of Ph.D. scholars and completed 22 nos. of governmental sponsored research projects. At present, he is working on Fisheries Data Management, Nutrition biology, Computational Biology and advanced fields of molecular biology techniques. Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit is an Assistant Professor at the PG Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. He received his M.Sc & Ph.D. degrees in Geography from Vidyasagar University and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University. His research interests include applied geomorphology, soil erosion, groundwater, forest resources, wetland ecosystem, environmental contaminants & pollution, and natural resources mapping & modeling. He has published ten books (Springer-08, CRC Press-01 and Elsevier-01) and more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals.  He is currently the editor of the GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling (GGM) Book Series, Springer-Nature. Also, he is an active reviewer in more of 30 international journals. Dr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia received Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, India in 2015. His Ph.D. dissertation work focused on environmental control measures of infectious disease using Geospatial technology. His research interests include environmental modelling, risk assessment, natural resources mapping and modelling, data mining and information retrieval using Geospatial technology. Dr Bhunia is associate editor and on the editorial boards of threeinternational journal in Health GIS and Geosciences. Dr. Bhunia has published more than 60 articles in various journals in Scopus indexed. He is currently the editor of the GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling (GGM) Book Series, Springer-Nature.  Dr. Manojit Bhattacharya received his M.Sc and PhD in Zoology from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He served as National Post Doctorate Fellow (DST, Govt. of India) at   ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India (2017-2019). He also worked as Visiting Research Fellow at Institute for Skeletal Aging &Orthopedic Surgery, Hallym University, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea in the year 2014-2015. Dr. Bhattacharya holds 10 years of Research & Development experience in the fields of advanced Molecular biology and Computational biology, he published more than seventy numbers research article in reputed international journals.In 2019 he was selected as Junior Scientist of the Year by National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi. Currently, Dr. Bhattacharya working as Assistant Professor, P.G Dept of Zoology, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India.

• Chapter1. River Health and Ecology: Perspective View and Approach.- Chapter2. Arthropods: an important bioindicator to decipher the health of the water of South Asian Rivers.- Chapter3. Anthropogenic stress on river health: with special reference to Kangsabati river, West Bengal, India.- Chapter4. Role of modern biotechnology in the era of river water pollution.- Chapter5. Assessment of chitinolytic bacteria isolated from zooplankton of freshwater ecosystem.- Chapter6. Microplastics in freshwater riverine systems: brief profile, trophic level transfer and probable remediation.- Chapter7. Assessment of River Health through Water and Biological Characteristics.- Chapter8. Estimating Water Quality of the Sundarban Coastal Zone (India) using Landsat Series Satellite Data and Ground Observations.- Chapter9. Anthropogenic impacts on hydro-morphodynamic behaviour in the middle - lower course of Subarnarekha river, India.- Chapter10. Perturbation of the health of riverine ecosystem and its impact on the biogeochemical, ecological and molecular perspectives.- Chapter11. Assessment of habitat quality in quarried reach of alluvial river.- Chapter12. Physicochemical and microbial indicators for water quality assessment in an industrial catchment of river Damodar, India.- Chapter13. Assessment of heavy metal concentration in selected fish species in Subarnarekha River, India.- Chapter14. Assessment of water pollution and aquatic toxicity of the Churni River, India.- Chapter15. River corridor mapping and monitoring using Geospatial Technology.- Chapter16. Micro-plastic pollution in freshwater systems: A potential environmental threat.- Chapter17. Sand and Gravel Mining and its Consequences on Morphometry of Raidak-II River in Eastern Dooars, India.- Chapter18. Resuscitating the regional rivers: a crusade against cauvery crisis and coloured legislations.