학술논문

Indicators of changing ecosystems: aquatic bird mass mortality in Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, India.
Document Type
Article
Source
Current Science (00113891). 8/10/2020, Vol. 119 Issue 3, p421-423. 3p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Graph.
Subject
*BIRD mortality
*SALT lakes
*SCIENTIFIC knowledge
*SCIENTIFIC apparatus & instruments
*WATER birds
*GUINEAFOWL
*MIGRATORY birds
Language
ISSN
0011-3891
Abstract
The article focuses on indicators of changing ecosystems being aquatic bird mass mortality in Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, India. Topics include India being a part of the Central Asia Flyway in which migratory aquatic birds come to Rajasthan and Gujarat, the two states have a wide range of protected areas including important bird areas (IBAs) and bird sanctuaries, and the paralytic disease has caused by the botulinum neurotoxin (BoNt) of the Clostridium botulinum.