Author(s)

Medagam Thirupathi Reddy^1*, Natarajan Sivaraj², Venkateswaran Kamala², Someswara Rao Pandravada², Neelam Sunil², Nilamani Dikshit³

¹Vegetable Research Station, Sri Konda Laxman Telangana State Horticultural University, Hyderabad, India.
²National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Hyderabad, India.
³National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Dr. PDKV Campus, Akola, India.

A landscape is a mosaic of natural and/or artificial communities and wa-terbodies and may contain several distinct ecosystems. Human life depends on many services delivered by the water-based aquatic and land-based terrestrial ecosystems. A wide variety of aquatic ecosystems exist and alt-hough they represent a low percentage of the Earth’s surface, their roles and functions make them crucial. Aquatic ecosystems especially inland aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing numerous economic and societal benefits to humans. Understanding diversity of aquatic ecosystems within landscape is a fundamental goal of both basic and applied ecological research. This study recognizes, defines, classifies, characterizes and compares for the first time the aquatic resources vis-à-vis aquatic ecosystems in the landscape of Adilabad District, Telangana, “Deccan Region”, India, which was selected as the study area.

Artificial Aquatic Ecosystems, Ecosystem Classification, Ecosystem Comparisons, Ecosystem Description, Freshwater Ecosystems, Hydrogeomorphic Classification, Inland Waters, Lentic Ecosystems, Lotic Ecosystems, Natural Aquatic Ecosystems, Wetland Ecosystems

Reddy, M. , Sivaraj, N. , Kamala, V. , Pandravada, S. , Sunil, N. and Dikshit, N. (2018) Classification, Characterization and Comparison of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Landscape of Adilabad District, Telangana, Deccan Region, India. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-49. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104459.