Invasion compounds an ecosystem-wide loss to afforestation in the tropical grasslands of the Shola Sky Islands
M. Arasumani, Danish Khan, C.K. Vishnudas, M. Muthukumar, Milind Bunyan, V.V. Robin Biological Conservation | February 15, 2019 Tropical montane habitats, including the Shola Sky Islands in the Western Ghats, host several threatened taxa of which, the global distributions are restricted to these mountain-tops. The rapidly increasing human footprint and the spread of invasive alien plants […]
Not seeing the grass for the trees: Timber plantations and agriculture shrink tropical montane grassland by two-thirds over four decades in the Palani Hills, a Western Ghats Sky Island
M. Arasumani,Danish Khan,Arundhati Das,Ian Lockwood,Robert Stewart,Ravi A. Kiran,M. Muthukumar,Milind Bunyan ,V. V. Robin PLoS ONE | January 10, 2018 Tropical montane habitats, grasslands, in particular, merit urgent conservation attention owing to the disproportionate levels of endemic biodiversity they harbour, the ecosystem services they provide, and the fact that they are among the most threatened habitats […]
Topographic and Bioclimatic Determinants of the Occurrence of Forest and Grassland in Tropical Montane Forest-Grassland Mosaics of the Western Ghats, India
Arundhati Das ,Harini Nagendra,Madhur Anand,Milind Bunyan PLoS ONE | June 29, 2015 The objective of this analysis was to identify topographic and bioclimatic factors that predict occurrence of forest and grassland patches within tropical montane forest-grassland mosaics. We further investigated whether interactions between topography and bioclimate are important in determining vegetation pattern, and assessed the […]
