Vol. 8, Issue 3, Part A (2022)
Kolar River in the focus of physical habitat assessment with its catchment
Kolar River in the focus of physical habitat assessment with its catchment
Author(s)
Mushtaq Ahmad Ganie, Hilal Ahmad Bhat and Abhilasha Bhawsar
Abstract
The present survey was conducted to assess the habitat quality of Kolar River, which is one of the right bank tributaries of Narmada River. The various physical habitat parameters viz., epifaunal substrate, embeddedness, velocity/depth regime, sediment deposition, channel flow status, channel alterations, frequency of riffles (or bends), bank stability, bank vegetative protection and riparian vegetative zone width were analysed at different selected locations in order to evaluate the physical habitat conditions of the Kolar River. The present observations of the study area shows that some of the selected locations ranges from marginal to poor quality which represents strong alterations due to anthropogenic pressure whereas, some of the selected locations fall under optimal to suboptimal condition which represents less to moderate alterations due to minimum intervention of human beings.
How to cite this article:
Mushtaq Ahmad Ganie, Hilal Ahmad Bhat, Abhilasha Bhawsar. Kolar River in the focus of physical habitat assessment with its catchment. Int J Appl Res 2022;8(3):38-41.