Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India

Soma Das Sarkar; Malay Naskar; Pranab Gogoi; Rohan Kumar Raman; Ranjan Kumar Manna; Srikanta Samanta; Bimal Prasanna Mohanty; Basanta Kumar Das

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221451

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Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India

Soma Das Sarkar ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: soma706@gmail.com

Affiliation Fishery Resource and Environment Management Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6115-9838

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Malay Naskar,

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fishery Resource and Environment Management Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Pranab Gogoi,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kolkata Centre of ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Rohan Kumar Raman,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Fishery Resource and Environment Management Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Ranjan Kumar Manna,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Riverine Ecology and Fisheries Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Srikanta Samanta,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fishery Resource and Environment Management Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Bimal Prasanna Mohanty,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fishery Resource and Environment Management Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Basanta Kumar Das

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Impact assessment of barge trafficking on phytoplankton abundance and Chl a concentration, in River Ganga, India

Soma Das Sarkar,
Malay Naskar,
Pranab Gogoi,
Rohan Kumar Raman,
Ranjan Kumar Manna,
Srikanta Samanta,
Bimal Prasanna Mohanty,
Basanta Kumar Das

Published: September 4, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221451

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