Jagruti Rathod

Navrachana University · School of Science

Banni Grass land was one of the largest grasslands of arid systems in India. The region shows extreme climatic conditions with summer temperature hovering around 45° C to 50° C temperature and winter temperature dropping to 2 to 3 ° C and annual rainfall is only 2-3 cm. This type of climatic regime supports specific grasses and other vegetation tha...

Birds were surveyed in and around 9 different terrestrial habitats in Vadodara city in the semi-arid zone of Gujarat, India for two years (2005-2007). The habitats were mainly divided in to 3 categories disturbed, moderately disturbed and undisturbed. The density and diversity indices like species richness, Shannon-Weiner diversity index, evenness...

Food and shelter are the two basic necessities for all the living organisms. Urbanization modifies the habitat with change in its vegetation structure and availability of unpredictable anthropogenic food. Several species of birds adapt to these modified habitats while others leave the habitat and become extinct. Birds were surveyed in and around 12...

To record butterfly species and its nectar plants of few butterfly species, systematic field survey was conducted by observation at Natural mango forest patch of Piplaidevi forest range, Dangs during January 2015 to December 2016. A total 30 species of butterflies were recorded from Piplaidevi forest range out of 32 species Nymphalidae, were the mo...

Introduction High fluoride concentration in groundwater can result in endemic fluorosis and is a major public health problem in India. Aim To know the association between prevalence of dental fluorosis and dental caries and fluoride level in the water in urban Vadodara. Methodology An analytical ecological cross-sectional study was conducted in 4...

Background : Reverse Osmosis (RO) system causes demineralization of water which leads to various health problems. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the association between RO water and heart diseases, back pain and joint pain. Material and Methods : At urban Vadodara city a cross sectional study was carried out with 2609 participants am...

Water safety planning in India: Assessment of water quality in urban Vadodora

The Golden Eagle was reported for three consecutive years (2019, 2020, and 2021) from the Banni Grasslands of Gujarat. In the present report, we discussed its sightings and historical and current distribution in western India and parts of Pakistan.

Aims The present study was conducted to assess the gastrointestinal health effects and other health effects due to consumption of drinking water, to analyze the water quality parameters (bacteriological and free residual chlorine), and to find out the methods of purification of water at household level and hand washing technique among people in urb...

Three bottom feeder species, Mugil curema, Boleopthalmus dussumieri, and Scylla serrata collected from five different estuaries of South Gujarat, India were studied to determine the concentration of Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, and Hg. Results indicated species-specific bio-accumulation which significantly varied between the stations. The heavy metal concentrat...

Presentation about Community base Restoration of wetland at Vadodara City of Gujarat State. Find out the indicator species of birds. Apart from the avifaunal diversity, proper status of the wetlands was documented. The quantum of human interventions both positive and negative was assessed to help formulate of management strategies. The paper prese...

Sacred natural sites (often regarded as sacred groves) are the confluence of nature and traditional belief systems of the local people. Chhattisgarh being a tribal dominated state comprises of many such sites with different myths, beliefs and taboos. This paper deals with four such sacred sites and their associated traditional beliefs in three vill...

During present study, we conducted literature review and communicated with fisherman folk to explore historical distribution of species and conducted primary field survey to identify present distribution.The literature review revealed that otter had scattered distribution at eleven sites from central, south and north Gujarat. Present study confirme...

Three species of otter are found in India, out of them only smooth coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata is reported in Gujarat. An extensive literature review was carried out to understand the historical distributions of species, to record current distribution and status; some potential sites and habitat were identified through detail survey. Avail...

Three species of otter are found in India, only smooth coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata is reported in Gujarat. L. perspicillata is known to be one of the least studied species and has been assessed as ‘Vulnerable’ by IUCN and listed in Appendix II of CITES. Past records indicate the occurrence of species in few pockets of Gujarat. This study i...

A great number of birds are killed each year through electrocutions and collisions with power lines and windmills globally. Windmills and associated power lines located near some important wetlands (Important Bird Area) of Porbandar taluka, Gujarat state is surveyed from May 2016 to January 2017. During present study, total 111 species of birds bel...

Riparian zone is the area adjoining the river and includes the river bank. This zone has high relevance and plays an important role in the river ecosystem. The present study was undertaken to understand the distribution of the avian diversity along the riparian zone and related the same with the landscape. The study was undertaken in river Vishwami...

There are 1,561 villages in Vadodara district and usually each village has at least one pond. Ankodiya is one of the traditional villages of this district in Vadodara taluka. Our baseline study using point count method revealed that Ankodiya village pond supports several species of resident and migratory birds and other fauna. A total of 50 species...

Riparian zone is the area adjoining the river and includes the river bank. This zone has high relevance and plays an important role in the river ecosystem. The present study was undertaken to understand the distribution of the avian diversity along the riparian zone and related the same with the landscape. The study was undertaken in river Vishwami...

Availability of fresh water is a challenge in the current world and with increase in pollution, erratic climatic conditions has worsened the situation. Gujarat being a semi arid state of India has fresh water resources in form of rivers, ponds, lakes, that is in pressure due to industrialization and urbanizations. To understand the level of water d...

Abstract Wetlands are transitional zone between land and aquatic habitat. It provides habitat for flora and fauna. Amongst fauna birds are the one of the significant indicators of the health of ecosystem as they r cause by primary causes. Alwa and Limda village pond situated at out skirts of the Vadodara city and Limda by university and industrial...

Wetland is one of the most important ecosystems of the world. They have great potential for biomass production and capable for harvesting rich and diverse flora and fauna. The urbanization, industrialization and other developments lead to change in water quality of ponds. The present study was carried out to analyze the physicochemical parameters,...

The habitat is important for any living organisms in terms of food and shelter that it provides. To understand the impact of anthropogenic pressure on the feeding guilds of the birds, one year survey was conducted in coastal talukas of Jamnagar district. A total of 79 bird species was reported during the study period. The dominant feeding guild was...

Birds are ecologically very important for any ecosystem and act as bio-indicator of the system. The present study deals with the avifaunal diversity of the Mini River of Vadodara district of Gujarat State. The river passes through both undisturbed and industrial estates. A total of 51 bird species was reported from entire stretch of the river. Most...

Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) is one of the vulnerable species of Central Asia. The bird is known to migrate for wintering every year in Africa and South East Asia. In India the bird winters in the arid regions of western part of the country. The present paper present the spatial trend recorded in the wintering flocks of the birds from 2005...

Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) is one of the vulnerable species of Central Asia. The bird is known to migrate for wintering every year in Africa and South East Asia. In India the bird winters in the arid regions of western part of the country. The present paper present the spatial trend recorded in the wintering flocks of the birds from 2005...

Gujarat has 1600 km long coastline with good number of wetlands and coastal areas that support good number of local as well as migratory species of birds. Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa, Family: Scolopacidae) wide spread winter visitor in India (Grimmet et al, 2001). This species is highly gregarious and migrates on a broad front, making long-d...

The key physical and chemical parameters of one of the major habitats for birds -the wetlands are known to influence congregation of migratory and resident species of birds. The present study deals with the interactions between these abiotic factors and bird diversity of one such pond in semiarid zone of Gujarat, India. The pond was visited twice i...

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Birds are known to be useful biological indicators of health of an ecosystem as they respond to secondary changes resulting from primary causes. Because of their high mobility birds react very rapidly to any change in their habitat. Urban development is one such change which often affects the population and diversity of terrestrial as well as water...

Birds are known to be useful biological indicators of health of an ecosystem as they respond to secondary changes resulting from primary causes. Because of their high mobility birds react very rapidly to any change in their habitat. Urban development is one such change which often affects the population and diversity of terrestrial as well as water...