Open AccessVegetation Assessment of Inland Wetland of Central Gujarat ( Pariej Irrigation Reservoirs )
Author(s) -
Jaivin Patel,
Rupesh Maurya,
Hitesh Solanki,
Bharat Maitreya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of scientific research in science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2395-602X
pISSN - 2395-6011
DOI - 10.32628/ijsrst218243
Subject(s) - wetland , swamp , marsh , estuary , environmental science , salt marsh , brackish marsh , ecosystem , mangrove , vegetation (pathology) , hydrology (agriculture) , floodplain , ecology , geography , geology , medicine , geotechnical engineering , pathology , biology
Wetlands are one of the most productive and fertile ecosystems on earth. Those wetlands which are located in the transitional zone between permanently aquatic and terrestrial (upland) ecosystems have properties common to land and water both. Gujarat has a variety coastal and inland wetland systems. The inland wetlands include floodplains, freshwater ponds and lakes, rivers, irrigation reservoirs, marshes and waterlogged areas while the coastal wetlands include salt marshes and salt-pans, creeks, mudflats, estuaries, mangrove swamps and coral reefs. Many of these wetlands have potential to get designation of international significance due to their high diversity/population and/or other criteria. Pariej is one of the eight wetlands in Gujarat that has been declared by the Central Government as wetland of national importance. The purpose of the present study is to observe the flora of the pariej wetland and to determine the changes by each season. In a wetland ecosystem these biotic factors are mostly dependent on the season and hydrology. Thus wetland being an integrated system is affected by the changes in the physical as well as chemical parameters of hydrosphere at the catchment scale.