Sustenance of Himalayan springs in an emerging water crisis
Ruchi Verma and Priyanka Jamwal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | January 12, 2022 Springs are a significant source of high quality and perennial freshwater supply for remote communities and sustain rich biodiversity and ecosystems in the Himalayas. About 60–70% of the Himalayan population directly depends on springs to meet their domestic and livelihood needs. Despite that, […]
Characterization and Evaluation of Metarhizium spp. (Metsch.) Sorokin Isolates for Their Temperature Tolerance
Viswakethu Velavan, Rajendran Dhanapal, Govindaraju Ramkumar, Sengodan Karthi, Sengottayan Senthil-Nathan, Osmund A Ndomba, Eliningaya J Kweka J Fungi (Basel) | January 10, 2022
Forbidden fruits? Ecosystem services from seed dispersal by fruit bats in the context of latent zoonotic risk
Kadambari Deshpande, Abi T. Vanak, M. Soubadra Devy, Jagdish Krishnaswamy Oikos | 03 January 2022 Old world fruit bats are important seed dispersers of forest plants as well as of commercial fruit crops. Bats scatter seeds across landscapes and also aggregate (clump) seeds under feeding and roosting trees. In agroforestry landscapes, bat frugivory and seed dispersal can result […]
Satellite Evidence on the Trade-offs of the Food-water–air Quality Nexus Over the Breadbasket of India
Mrinal Singha a, Jinwei Dong a, Quansheng Ge a, Graciela Metternicht b, Sangeeta Sarmah a, Geli Zhang c, Russell Doughty d, Sharachchandra Lele e, Chandrashekhar Biradar f, Sha Zhou g, Xiangming Xiao h Global Environmental Change | November 2021 Access to food, water, and good air quality is indispensable for human life, as reflected in […]
Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2021: a Horizon Scan
Maria A. Martin [Opens in a new window] , Olga Alcaraz Sendra , Ana Bastos , Nico Bauer , Christoph Bertram , Thorsten Blenckner , Kathryn Bowen , Paulo M. Brando , Tanya Brodie Rudolph , Milena Büchs , Mercedes Bustamante , Deliang Chen [Opens in a new window] , Helen Cleugh , Purnamita Dasgupta […]
Habitat specificity drives differences in space-use patterns of multiple mesocarnivores in an agroecosystem
A. Katna, A. Kulkarni, M. Thaker, A. T. Vanak Journal of Zoology | September 30, 2021 Space-use patterns of animals are a fundamental measure of resource requirements and constraints. In some human-modified landscapes, especially agroecosystems that depend on both rainfall and irrigation, drivers that influence animal space use can show unexpected spatial and temporal patterns due to anthropogenic […]
Testing the efficacy of hyperspectral (AVIRIS-NG), multispectral (Sentinel-2) and radar (Sentinel-1) remote sensing images to detect native and invasive non-native trees
M. Arasumani, Aditya Singh, Milind Bunyan & V. V. Robin Biological Invasions | April 27, 2021 Invasive alien species threaten tropical grasslands and native biodiversity across the globe, including in the natural mosaic of native grasslands and forests in the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats. Here, grasslands have been lost to exotic tree […]
Biodiversity and the Challenge of Pluralism
Unai Pascual, William M. Adams, Sandra Díaz, Sharachchandra Lele, Georgina M. Mace & Esther Turnhout Nature Sustainability | March 25, 2021 The lack of progress in reversing the declining global trend in biodiversity is partly due to a mismatch between how living nature is conceived and valued by the conservation movement on the one hand, […]
Opportunities and Challenges in Using Remote Sensing for Invasive Tree Species Management, and in the Identification of Restoration Sites in Tropical Montane Grasslands
M. Arasumani , Milind Bunyan , V.V. Robin Journal of Environmental Management | February 15, 2021 Tropical montane grasslands (TMG) support biodiverse and endemic taxa and provide vital ecosystem services to downstream communities. Nevertheless, invasive alien tree species across the world have threatened tropical grasslands and grassland endemic species. In India, TMG in the Shola […]
Water Conservation and Religious Organisations
Sachin Tiwale Economic and Political Weekly | June 2020 In response to Srirupa Bhattacharya’s article “Groundwater, Gurus, and Governmentality: Seva in the Neo-liberal Development Regime in India” (EPW, 10 August 2019), this article raises a few important questions on the modalities of the implementation and, consequently, the actual impacts of the water conservation projects run […]
