A5034022187- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Nature Conservation Foundation
2024
Krea University
2023
National Centre for Biological Sciences
2018-2020
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
2018-2020
Abstract Long-term ecological monitoring (LTEM) is crucial for understanding processes and responses to environmental change, informing management of natural resources, biodiversity conservation. Systematic LTEM efforts began in India the mid-1900s, but there a lack comprehensive synthesis country. Here, we use wide-ranging questionnaire survey ecologists coupled with published literature on synthesise their thematic geographical spread, types data being collected, identify key challenges...
Abstract Plant phenology is the study of timing and extent leaf, flower, fruit production. Phenology data are used to drivers cyclicity seasonality plant life-history stages, interactions with organisms such as pollinators, effects global change factors. Indices phenological events, proportion individuals in a particular phenophase, seasonality, synchrony have often been summarise data. However, these indices specific utilities limitations may be sensitive sampling methodology, making...
Soil respiration, a major source of atmospheric carbon (C), can feed into climate warming, which in turn amplify soil CO 2 efflux by affecting root, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) and other heterotrophic respiration. Although tropical ecosystems contribute >60% the global efflux, there is currently dearth data on respiration responses to temperature rise. We set up simulated warming partitioning experiment montane grasslands Western Ghats southern India, (a) evaluate (b) assess...
Abstract Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) symbioses with plants can be influenced by top-down forces such as grazing, and also bottom-up soil resource availability, both of which are being altered anthropogenic global change drivers. While the influence each these factors on AMF has been widely studied, explicit tests relative strengths versus influences ubiquitous plant root few. We studied colonization responses four species graminoids (3 grasses Elymus longae-aristatus , Leymus...