India’s contribution to mitigating the impacts of climate change through vegetation management

Tropical Ecology - Tập 61 - Trang 168-171 - 2020
J. Dash1, M. D. Behera2, C. Jeganathan3, C. S. Jha4, S. Sharma5, R. Lucas6, A. A. Khuroo7, A. Harris8, P. M. Atkinson1,9, D. S. Boyd10, C. P. Singh11, M. P. Kale12, P. Kumar13, Soumit K. Behera14, V. S. Chitale2,15, S. Jayakumar16, L. K. Sharma3,17, A. C. Pandey3,18, K. Avishek3, P. C. Pandey2,19, S. N. Mohapatra20, S. K. Varshney21
1Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
2Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Khargpur, Khargpur, India
3Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India
4Forestry and Ecology Group, National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO, Hyderabad, India
5G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (MOEF&CC), Kosi-Almora, India
6Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
7Centre for Biodiversity and Taxonomy (CBT), Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India
8School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
9Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
10School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
11Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India
12Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India
13Sikkim State Forest Department (MOEF), Gangtok, India
14National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR), Lucknow, India
15International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
16Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
17Department of Environmental Science, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India
18School of Natural Resources and Management, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India
19School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India
20School of Studies in Earth Science, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India
21Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India

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The changes in natural ecosystems provide opportunity to increase vegetation carbon sink capacity and thereby contribute to mitigation of climate change impacts. The Indian tropics and the large ecological variation within the country afford the advantage of diverse niches and offer opportunities to reveal the role of biotic factors at different levels of organization from populations to ecosystems. The last 4 decades of research and development in the Indian space science community has been primarily application driven in response to the government space programme for national development. The expenditure in R&D over next 5 year suggest that scientific research is higher on the country's agenda. The Indo-UK Terrestrial Carbon Group (IUTCG) comprising both Indian and UK scientists, funded jointly by the Department of Science and Technology, India and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills organised a workshop to explore ways in which Earth observation data can be effectively utilised in mitigating the impacts of climate change through vegetation management. Effective integration of field observations, collected through various monitoring networks, and satellite sensor data has been proposed to provide country-wide monitoring.

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Tropical Ecology

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