Study of Corelation of Plankton Diversity with Physico-Chemical Parameters of Kankaria Lake, Ahmedabad City

The present study was carried out on Kankaria lake. It is situated in Ahmadabad city, Gujarat State (India). The planktons were collected, counted and were identified by using the various method suggested by Prescott (1970), APHA (1995), Freshwater Zooplankton of India (Battish, 1992) and Fresh Water Biology (Edmondson, 1959). The planktons were counted by using Sedgwick Rafter Counting Cell method. Different classes such as cyanophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Bascillariophyceae, Copepoda, flagellate, Rotifera were identified during the study. Among all these classes the listed phytoplankton such as Anabena sp., Ankistrodesmus sp., Navicula sp., Nitzschia sp, and zooplankton such as Euglena sp., Rotifera sp. and Brachionus sp. were recorded as a dominant genera in Kankaria lake. The study was carried out monthly From the listed data the quality of water was concluded.