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The influence of ionic composition on the water chemistry and thereby on aquatic flora was investigated. Two major wetlands of North India were taken for the study. Quality parameters of the lakes showed the enrichment of the water especially in the month of September with higher values of P and BOD in almost all of the lakes viz., LSJ, LCH, LSN, and LHT as <5.0, 9.0, 1.0, 1.7 and <7.3, 6.0, 6.3, and 4.0, respectively. Statistically correlated values of the ions in the water quality showed an effect of one on another. An attempt has also been made to investigate if ionic constituent is one of the major causes affecting the aquatic floral diversity.
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The work was sponsored & supported by National Botanical Research Institute Lucknow. Special thanks are due to Dr. H. M. Behl for providing the best of the lab facilities. We acknowledge the reviewers for their suggestions in the making the work presentable.
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Khan, S.A., Srivastava, J. Interaction of ions in water affects water quality of freshwater lake: a case study of major lakes of North India. Environmentalist 28, 217–221 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9130-8
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