Environmental Biology

Environmental Biology is designed to arrange diverse areas of environmental biology in a coherent manner. The subject matter, both as regards the arrangement of chapters as well as contents is designed to meet the requirements of the students in several Indian universities. The present book New Dimensions of Environmental Biology has been written especially to suit the need of undergraduate and post graduate students of the Indian Universities. This book consist of eight chapter namely Nature of Water, Solar Radiation and Natural Waters, Natural Waters in Motion, Dissolved Solids in Natural Waters, Relationships of Organisms and Environment , Waterborne Diseases, Nitrogen Cycle, The Carbon Cycle. All the chapters provide important information in an up-to-date fashion and in a readable and intelligible way. Overall, the readers will find the book interesting in the present context of environmental deterioration. In fact, it has been an endeavour to make a comprehensive compilation dealing with not only the basic aspects of environmental biology but also its applied parts. This book is an effort to summarize the basic concept and principles of the subject, to present the elementary factual information with which a person to be competent in the filed should be familiar, and to sow how these principles and facts may be applied in a practical way to the interests and welfare of man.