Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

STUDIES ON INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON SEA- WEEDS FROM SOUTH EAST COAST OF INDIA

A. Yogamoorthi

Abstract

EConomically important ceasseeds occurring in three different hiotopes vu r marine tinter tidal). Backwaters Jrai I ctuarr ha.c hccn studicd for their distribution and abundance in relation to various physical economical parJrnetcr% Two typci of substrata preference have been obsersed among the scawccds vi, Steno ancryic and I to 4ncrylc Spcarman rank cocfficicnt analyses were done to find out the correlation among thc physico-chemical factors and seaweed abundance