Prioritizing India's landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being

A Srivathsa, D Vasudev, T Nair, S Chakrabarti… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Biodiversity conservation and human well-being are tightly interlinked. Yet, mismatches in
the scale at which these two priority issues are planned and implemented have exacerbated …

Greening of India: forests or croplands?

J Kuttippurath, R Kashyap - Applied Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
There are substantial changes in global green cover owing to anthropogenic activities and
climate change. Here, we estimate the long-term changes in India's green cover, and its …

Browning of vegetation in efficient carbon sink regions of India during the past two decades is driven by climate change and anthropogenic intrusions

R Kashyap, J Kuttippurath, P Kumar - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of carbon cycle is a challenging task owing to the complexity and
heterogeneity of ecosystems. Carbon Use Efficiency (CUE) is a metric to define the ability of …

Quantifying temperature and precipitation change caused by land cover change: a case study of India using the WRF model

P Lal, A Shekhar, A Kumar - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The large-scale Land-Uses and Land-Cover Changes (LULCC) in India in the past several
decades is primarily driven by anthropogenic factors that influence the climate from regional …

Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia

FZ Maina, SV Kumar, C Albergel… - Communications Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract High-Mountain Asia exhibits one of the highest increases in vegetation greenness
on Earth, subsequently influencing the exchange of water and energy between the land …

Improved air quality leads to enhanced vegetation growth during the COVID–19 lockdown in India

R Kashyap, J Kuttippurath, VK Patel - Applied Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
The direct effect of pandemic induced lockdown (LD) on environment is widely explored, but
its secondary impacts remain largely unexplored. Therefore, we assess the response of …

Quantifying the impacts of opencast mining on vegetation dynamics over eastern India using the long-term Landsat-series satellite dataset

AK Ranjan, BR Parida, J Dash, AK Gorai - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Enhanced spatio-temporal and up-to-date information on vegetation dynamics at various
spatial scales are imperative in understanding the human, biosphere, and atmosphere …

[HTML][HTML] Trends of greening and browning in terrestrial vegetation in China from 2000 to 2020

K Yi, X Zhao, Z Zheng, D Zhao, Y Zeng - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Terrestrial vegetation condition is altering generally as a result of climate change and
anthropogenic activity during the past few decades. To reveal the impact of long-term …

Spatio-temporal characterization of landscape fire in relation to anthropogenic activity and climatic variability over the Western Himalaya, India

S Bar, BR Parida, G Roberts, AC Pandey… - GIScience & Remote …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The frequent occurrence of a forest fire can be detrimental to the functioning of ecologically
fragile regions such as the Western Himalaya. This study assesses the spatio-temporal …

Modeling and prediction of fire occurrences along an elevational gradient in Western Himalayas

S Bar, BR Parida, AC Pandey, BU Shankar, P Kumar… - Applied geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest fires are the result of complex interactions among human, geographic and weather
conditions. Climate change would alter the link between forest fire and the controlling …