Books

 Abbasi S.A., Abbasi N. and Soni R. 1998. Heavy metals in the environment. Mittal Publications, A-110, Mohan Garden, New Delhi.
 Alfred J. R. B., Kumar A., Tak P. C and Sati J. P. 2002. Waterbirds of Northern India, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No. 190: i-xxiv, 1-227. Director, ZSI, Kolkata.
 Ali S. 1945. Birds of Kutch. Oxford University Press. Bombay.
 Ali S. 1949. Indian hill birds. Oxford University Press. Madras. (Reprinted 1979).
 Ali S. 1962. Birds of Sikkim. Oxford University Press. Bombay.
 Ali S. 1969. Birds of Kerala. Oxford University Press. Madras.
 Ali S. 1997. Field guide to the birds of Eastern Himalayas.. Oxford University Press. Delhi.
 Ali S. 2002. The book of Indian birds. 13th edition. Bombay Natural History Society. Mumbai.
 Ali S. and Ripley S.D. 1983. Compact handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
 Ali S and Ripley S. D. 2001. Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan, together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. 10 vols. Oxford University Press. New Delhi.
 Baldassare G.A. and Bolen E.G. 1994. Waterfowl ecology and management. John Wiley, New York.
 Bates R. S. P. and Lowther, E. H. N. (1952). Breeding birds of Kashmir. Oxford University Press. Delhi. (Reprinted 1991).
 BirdLife International. 2001. Threatened birds of Asia. BirdLife International, Cambridge.
 Choudhury B.C., Bhupathy S. and Hanfee F. 2000. Status information on the tortoises and freshwater turtles of India. In: van Dijk, P.P., Stuart B.L. and A.G.J. Rhodin (Eds.). Asian turtle trade: Proceedings of a workshop on conservation and trade of freshwater turtles and tortoises in Asia. Chelonian Conservation Monograph 2: pp.86-94. Chelonian Research Foundation, USA.
 Collar N. J., Crosby M. J. and Sttaterfield. 1994. Birds to watch 2 - The world list of threatened birds. BirdLife International, Cambridge.
 Cook C.D.K . 1996. Aquatic and wetland plants of India. Oxford University Press, Delhi.
 Grimmet R., Inskipp C and Inskipp T. 1998. Birds of the Indian subcontinent. Christopher Helm. London.
 Harrisopn J. (1999). A field guide to the birds of Sri Lanka. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
 Inskipp, C and Inskipp, T. (1985). A field guide to the birds of Nepal. Croom Helm. London.
 Jarvis P.J. 1994. Environmental changes. In: Furness, R. W. and Green Wood, J.J.D. (Eds.). Birds as monitors of environmental change. Chapman and Hall, London. pp.42-77.
 Jayakumar R. 2001. Levels of heavy metal in select commercial fishes of Coimbatore. M.Phil. thesis, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. (unpublished).
 Jayaram, K.C. 1999. Fresh water fishes of the Indian region. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.
 Jayson E. A .2002. Avifauna in the wetlands of Kerala. In: Jayakumar, M., Kamalakshan, K., Premachandran, P.N. and Kumar, B.A. (Eds.) . Wetland conservation and management in Kerala. STEC, Sastra Bhavan, Pattom, Trivandrum.
 Kazmierczak K. (2000). A filed guide to the birds of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Om Book Service. New Delhi.
 Laws A.E. 1981. Aquatic pollution. John Wiley, New York.
 Menon, A.G.K. 1999. Checklist- Freshwater fishes of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.
 Meyer de Schauensee R. 1984. The birds of China. Smithsonian Institution. Washington D. C.
 Mitsch, W.J. and Gosselink, J.G. 1993. Wetlands. 2nd Ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold, NewYork.
 Mundkur, T. and Taylor. 1993. Asian waterfowl census 1993. AWB, Kuala Lumpur ,Malaysia and IWRB, Slimbridge, U.K.
 Muralidharan, S. 1995. Heavy metal contamination in and around the aquatic environs of Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur. Ph.D., thesis, University of Rajasthan. (unpublished).
 Parikh, J. and Datye, H. 2002. Sustainable management of wetlands : biodiversity and beyond. SAGE Publications , New Delhi.
 Parikh, J., Datye, H. and RaghuRam, T.L. 2002. Developing a national wetland strategy. In: Parikh,J. and Datye, J. (Eds.). Sustainable management of wetlands : biodiversity and beyond. SAGE Publications, New Delhi.
 Prasad, S.N., Tiwari, A. K., Kumar, A., Kaushik, P., Vijayan, L., Muralidharan, S. and Vijayan, V. S. 2004. Inland wetlands of India - A Conservation Atlas. SACON, Coimbatore.  
 Ripley S. D. 1982. A synopsis of the birds of India and Pakistan. (1982). Oxford University Press/Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay.
 Roberts T. J. 1991-92. The birds of Pakistan. 2 vols. Oxford University Press. Karachi.
 Robson C. 2000. A field guide to the birds of South-East Asia. New Holland. London.
 Rose, P.M. and Scott, D.A. 1994. Waterfowl population estimates. International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau. IWRB special publication 29. Slimbridge, UK.
 Scott, A.D.A., 1989. A directory of Asian wetlands. IUCN, Switzerland.
 Singh, S. and Taneja .B. 2000. Prioritization for biodiversity conservation: values and criteria. Vol. 1. In: Singh, S., Sastry, A.R.K., Mehta, R. and Uppal, R.V. (Eds.). Setting biodiversity conservation priorities for India. WWF- India.
 Singh, S., Sastry, A.R.K., Mehta, R. and Uppal, R.V. (Eds.). 2000. Setting biodiversity conservation priorities for India. Vol 1 and 2. WWF- India.
 Spellerberg, I.F. 1992. Evaluation and assessments for conservation. Chapman and Hall, London.
 Srivastava, S.K. 2003a. Floristic composition of Pong dam sanctuary, Himachal Pradesh. Phytotaxonomy 3: 156-160, Goa University.
 Talwar, P.K. and Jhingran, A.K. 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Vols. 1 and 2. Oxford IBH Publishing co. New Delhi.
 Trisal C. L. and Manihar, Th. (2004). The atlas of Loktak Lake. Wetlands International; and Loktak Developmental Authority. New Delhi.  
 Veerakumar N. 2002. Accumulation of heavy metals in select species of fishes in the district Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. M.Sc dissertation. Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. (Unpublished).
 Vijayan L. 1995. Management of wetland for the resident waterfowl. pp.121-131 In: B.Gopal (Ed.). Handbook of wetland management. WWF-India, New Delhi.
 Vijayan V.S., Prasad S.N., Vijayan L. and Muralidharan S. 2004. Inland Wetlands of India-Conservation Priorities. Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore. pp. xxiv + 532  
 Vijayan V. S. and Vijayan, L. 2002. Salient features of the ecosystem of the Keoladeo National Park. In: Parikh J. and Datye, H. (Eds.). Sustainable management of wetlands: biodiversity and beyond. Sage Publishers, New Delhi.
 Vishwanath W. 2002. Fishes of North East India: A field guide to species identification. Agricultural Technology Project, Department of Life Sciences, Manipur University.
 WCED. World Commission on Environment and Development. 1987.
 Weller, M.W. 1999. Wetland birds: habitat resources and conservation implication. Cambridge University Press.
 Woodcock M. 1980. Collins Hand guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent. 2nd edition. Collins. London.
 World Development Report. 1994. World development indicators. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.