• Dr. Muslim Ahmad Shah
• Dr. Vipin Vyas

River plants tend to be associated with particular nutrient concentrations (Holmes and Newbold 1984). In streams where there is an inflow of polluted water from different sources (Natural as well as Anthropogenic) and this polluted water is some time enough intense to destroy the vegetation balance and diversification. Excessive nutrients should be prevented from getting into the water as they will stimulate rapid plant growth which leads to the death of the water body. Besides, aquatic macrophytes are essential to natural water bodies, such as rivers, lakes and ponds, and contribute to the overall health of the water-based ecosystems. Macrophytes are unchangeable biological filters and they carry out purification of the water bodies by accumulating dissolved metals and toxins in their tissues.

River Narmada, Aquatic, Macrophyte, Water quality, Anthropogenic, vegetation, Ecosystem.

"Macrophytic diversity measurements, A case study of 30 kms stretch of Narmada river in central India.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 12, page no.588-595, December-2015, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A85.pdf

"Macrophytic diversity measurements, A case study of 30 kms stretch of Narmada river in central India.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 12, page no. pp588-595, December-2015, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A85.pdf