A5060307050- Forest ecology and management
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Silkworms and Sericulture Research
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Heavy metals in environment
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Mizoram University
2019-2024
Defence Institute of High Altitude Research
2014
Forests affect regional climates, livelihoods and global cycles of water, carbon nitrogen. Anthropogenic activities climatic change forest health national growth. Therefore, developing effective management plans requires understanding the drivers The primary objective this study was to understand long-term effect abiotic factors on growth forests in region. This used Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data for vegetation indices like NDVI EVI NASA's Land Assimilation...
ABSTRACT Environmental pollution caused by urbanization, agricultural intensification, and industrialization has led to an increase in the disposal of toxic effluents aquatic environments. Most ecosystems world receive a variety metals (TMs) that exceed capacity water bodies absorb or recycle them, thereby threatening human life. Physicochemical remediation methods encounter problems because high cost, labor input, use chemicals with long residence times later add by‐products. However,...
In the last century, human activities were primary cause of air, water, and soil contamination. However, in twenty-first while pollutants like sulfur oxides (SOx) nitrogen (NOx) remain significant, microplastics (MPs) have emerged as a new global environmental concern. Microplastics are plastic fragments that less than 5 mm diameter. Their widespread distribution aquatic terrestrial ecosystems has adverse impacts on various ecological systems. The presence MPs been well documented diverse...
Sacred groves are among one of the best practices biodiversity conservation used by ethnic societies which deeply associated with religion and culture that significantly nurture nature. As these play a vital role in conserving socio-ecologically important species protect threatened flora fauna from extinction different ecological zones. In northeast India, sacred well connected society through religious beliefs population their myths. cover total > 40,000 hectares natural forest area five...
Land use change is among the most serious concern in northeast India because of widespread practiced shifting cultivation locally called “Jhum”. This practice involves slashing and burning plant biomass a piece forest land cropping for few years (ca. 1-2 years) followed by abandonment 5-30 to resume soil fertility. study assesses changes physico-chemical biochemical properties jhum wet dry seasons Mizoram, India. A significant decrease (e.g., 9-25%) (15-39%) current Jhum compared land. was...
This study delves into the multifaceted impact of climate change on soils subjected to shifting cultivation practices. Our findings reveal a complex interplay both beneficial and adverse effects physical, chemical, biological attributes soils. Moreover, exacerbates these detrimental impacts by inducing significant alterations in soil characteristics. Specifically, our underscores that practices, particularly those employing short fallow cycles, can pose considerable threat health when...
Present study was undertaken to determine loss of soil organic carbon, major and micronutrient status cold desert Ladakh region as a result unprecedented cloudburst in August 2010. Heavy rainfall (250 mm) within an hour leading flash floods resulted severe standing crops spreading over 1400 ha agriculture land besides destruction human, animal lives, infrastructures. In most the affected areas, top fertile completely washed away resulting depletion various micro nutrients essential for good...
The process of litter decomposition is fundamental to nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems across the globe and affected by abiotic biotic factors. We followed two local species as well a unified preparation both sub-tropical (STF) tropical (TF) forest. Mass loss concentrations nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) manganese (Mn) acid-unhydrolyzable residue (AUR) (‘lignin’) were over one-year period. found clearly different patterns types for...