Knowledge of temporal variations of Leaf Area Index (LAI) aids in understanding the climate-vegetation interaction of different vegetative systems. This information is amenable from high temporal remote sensing data. India has around 78.37 million hectare, accounting for 23.84% of the geographic area of the country under forest/tree cover. India has a diverse set of vegetation types ranging fro...

Original scientific paper Corine Satellite Detection in combination with GIS may analyse and show the quantitive and qualitive features of a forest belt. As a result, it gives 100 m resolution satellite recordings and may even show horizontal forest dispersness. In order to avoid exceptions and recording overlapping with digitalization, what is considered is a 100 m resolution, an identical pro...

Temperate and dry deciduous forest covers major portion of terrestrial ecosystem in India. The two forest types with different dominant tree species differ in litter quality and root exudates, thereby exerting species-specific impact on soil properties and microbial activity. This study aims to examine the influence of forest type or dominant tree species on soil physico-chemical properties and...

Global assessments have shown that future climate change is likely to significantly impact forest ecosystems. The present study makes an assessment of the impact of projected climate change on forest ecosystems in India. This assessment is based on climate projections of Regional Climate Model of the Hadley Centre (HadRM3) using the A2 (740 ppm CO2) and B2 (575 ppm CO2) scenarios of Special Rep...

Earth observation has been widely recognised as having considerable potential to aid an improved understanding of tropical forest biodiversity. However, studies that have explored the use of the multispectral response recorded by Earth observation satellites to infer climatically and edaphically determined floristically distinct tropical forest types have on the whole reported disappointing res...

Forest types are generally identified using vegetation or land-use types. However, classifications less frequently consider the actual forest attributes within each type. To address this in an objective way across different regions and to link with their climate, we aimed improve distribution of be more realistic useful for biodiversity preservation, management, ecological forestry research. Th...