The evolution of forest restoration in India: The journey from precolonial to India's 75th year of Independence

A Roy, F Fleischman - Land Degradation & Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the history of forest restoration in India. While contemporary literature
often emphasizes the novelty of forest restoration programmes as exemplified in large‐scale …

Map** phenological functional types (PhFT) in the Indian Eastern Himalayas using machine learning algorithm in Google Earth Engine

M Kumar, SN Phukon, AC Paygude, K Tyagi… - Computers & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phenological studies involve capturing information on dates of recurrent and seasonal
biological events in plants and animals. In plants, phenological events of leaf flushing, full …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of machine learning methods for map** the stand characteristics of temperate forests using multi-spectral sentinel-2 data

K Ahmadi, B Kalantar, V Saeidi, EKG Harandi… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The estimation and map** of forest stand characteristics are vital because this information
is necessary for sustainable forest management. The present study considers the use of a …

Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.): biology, utilisation, and conservation practices

AN Arunkumar, RR Warrier, MM Kher… - Trees, 2022 - Springer
Key message Fortified forest management strategies, coupled with in situ and ex situ
conservation strategies, are needed for long-term conservation of rare, valuably important …

The role of communities in sustainable land and forest management

M Kumar, SN Phukon, H Singh - Forest resources resilience and conflicts, 2021 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing human population puts tremendous pressure on the natural resources,
eventually causing depletion and degradation of available natural resources. Available land …

An indicator based approach for assessing the vulnerability of riparian ecosystem under the influence of urbanization in the Indian Himalayan city, Dehradun

OS Olokeogun, M Kumar - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Riparian ecosystems are critical biological habitat that needs to be preserved. These
systems face multiple stresses of altered water regime, increased human interference and …

A multinomial logistic model-based land use and land cover classification for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation nations using Moderate …

RK Singh, VSP Sinha, PK Joshi, M Kumar - Environment, Development …, 2021 - Springer
The land-use and land-cover (LULC) map** is crucial for the management and planning
of a nation. The land use and land cover are the two separate terminologies often used …

Assessing biodiversity and productivity over a small-scale gradient in the protected forests of Indian Western Himalayas

SM Haq, ES Calixto, M Kumar - Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Biodiversity and productivity are the two most important attributes linked to the functioning of
forest ecosystems. Understanding how diversity and productivity of a forest ecosystem …

Making network governance work in forest land-use policy in the local government

S Roengtam, A Agustiyara, A Nurmandi - Sage Open, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Focusing on Indonesia's Riau Province, this study examines the complexities of managing
networks for forest governance, and how local governments should adopt and enforce …

Subnational assessment of threats to Indian biodiversity and habitat restoration opportunities

A Chaudhary, L Mair, BBN Strassburg… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The active involvement of subnational authorities, cities and local governments has been
identified as one of the enabling conditions to implement the Convention on Biological …