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Abundance of hydradephagan beetles from the lakes of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India

G. Senthil Kumar, P. Kalaimagal, J. IssaqueMadani and J. Sugumaran

Year : 2017 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 333-337

doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1312699

Received on: 11/08/2017

Revised on: 11/28/2017

Accepted on: 11/29/2017

Published on: 12/06/2017

  • G. Senthil Kumar, P. Kalaimagal, J. IssaqueMadani and J. Sugumaran ( 2017).

    Abundance of hydradephagan beetles from the lakes of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India

    . International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences, 2( 6), 333-337.

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Abstract

Abundance of Hydradephagan beetles in relation to site vegetation variability was studied from hundred water bodies of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India. Protected sites with reduced slope, reduced wave exposure and increased vegetation affects the lake littoral invertebrates. The exposed sites without vegetation probably offer an excellent hunting ground for the various predators, because of this fact; some of the species are totally absent in the exposed ponds. The results are treated with Spearmen’s rank correlations.

Keywords

Hydradephaga, Site vegetation, Abundance, Kancheepuram.