A5055118653- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Columbia University
2020-2023
Nature Conservation Foundation
2023
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
2022
National Centre for Biological Sciences
2022
Abstract Although 41% of the global urban population lives in smaller cities, nature and trajectories nature, ecosystem services human-nature connections centers is relatively unknown. While megacities developed countries move towards biophilic planning participatory decision making, basic information on tree communities their perceived a bottleneck achieving these goals such small centers. Through combination field measurements (258 transects, 931 trees) semi-structured interviews (497...
Changes in biodiversity can severely affect ecosystem functioning, but the impacts of species loss on an ecosystem's ability to sustain multiple functions remain unclear. When considering individual functions, depend correlations between functional contributions and their extinction probabilities. functions. However, how probabilities determine impact multifunctionality (MF) is not well understood. Here, we use simulations examine influence among diversity-MF relationship. In contrast with...
Abstract Mammalian herbivores have large‐scale impacts on vegetation, altering structure, and species composition, especially in tropical grasslands savannas. However, there is limited understanding of the potential mammalian wet forests, where they are typically less abundant. We investigated effects an introduced herbivore chital ( Axis axis ) vegetation composition leaf functional traits evergreen forests Andaman Islands, India. Across seven islands, representing a gradient densities,...
Abstract Plant diversity has a positive influence on the number of ecosystem functions maintained simultaneously by community, or multifunctionality. While presence multiple trophic levels beyond plants, complexity, affects individual functions, effect complexity diversity–multifunctionality relationship is less well known. To address this issue, we tested whether independent simultaneous manipulation both plant and impacted multifunctionality using mesocosm experiment from Cedar Creek,...
A bstract Tropical tree reproductive phenology is sensitive to changing climate, but inter-individual and interannual variability at the regional scale poorly understood. While large-scale long-term datasets of environmental variables are available, needs be measured in-site, limiting spatiotemporal scales data. We leveraged a unique dataset assembled by SeasonWatch, citizen-science monitoring programme in India assess correlates flowering three ubiquitous economically important species -...
A bstract Global analyses of tree diversity and function are strongly biased geographically, with poor representation from forests the Indian subcontinent. Even though data India - representing two-thirds subcontinent spanning a wide range tree-based biomes exists, barrier to syntheses is absence accessible standardised data. Further, increasing human footprint across ecosystems, landscapes, their long history human-nature interactions key link understand future tropical forested landscapes....
Abstract Higher levels of diversity within trophic are necessary to sustain multiple ecosystem functions, but this diversity-multifunctionality relationship peaks at intermediate percent-function thresholds. The presence levels, or complexity, affects multifunctionality its effect on the has not been experimentally tested. To test sensitivity we simultaneously manipulated plant and complexity in a multifactorial tall-grass prairie mesocosm experiment Cedar Creek, Minnesota, USA. Trophic...
Abstract Tree biodiversity has the potential to ensure consistency in functioning of forest ecosystems, not just over space, but long-timescales by maintaining composition through recruitment. However, for continued buffering face global environmental change, sensitivity biodiversity-ecosystem relationships heterogeneous environments needs be understood. Seedling recruitment carbon-rich tropical forests is a result biotic and abiotic drivers their combined outcomes at community-level remain...
Abstract The role of urban street trees has been extensively studied in large metropolises, where they contribute significantly to faunal habitat, provide critical ecosystem services residents and human well-being. On the other hand, rapidly urbanizing cities India have poorly studied, despite multiple types irreplaceable losses related tree cover. However, being early their urbanization history, these centers also represent opportunity for sustainability with potentially high remnant...