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Brachyuran Crabs as a Biomonitoring tool: A Conceptual Framework for Chemical Pollution Assessment

Author Affiliations

  • 1 Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Lab, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara- 390002, Gujarat, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Environment Sci., Volume 3, Issue (1), Pages 49-57, January,22 (2014)

Abstract

Marine ecosystem is very complex in terms of biological and ecological structure and marine organisms are integral part of this structure. In the recent era marine ecosystem has become largest dumping site for effluents of industries and it is creating serious problems at ecosystem level. So the understanding of different direct and indirect sources of pollution and its effect on marine organism population and ecosystem have got lot of ecological importance for conservation. Brachyuran crabs are highly diverse organisms comprising 700 genera and 5000 species. Crabs play important role in the maintenance of ecosystem and also in the marine food web demonstrating prey- predator relationship. The present study provides a protocol or framework to find out the effect of pollution on marine ecosystem using brachyuran crab as a bio indicator species. The present framework was divided into two different aspects viz ecological assessment and toxicological assessment and different methods have been suggested to assess the effect of pollution on brachyuran crabs for both aspects. To check the effectiveness of the framework, pilot study has been done and the results revealed that pollutants do affect different levels of ecosystem and the effect can be traced using brachyuran crab as a bioindicator species.

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