Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts

Part I. Geospatial-based forest resources mapping, monitoring, and modeling <br>1. Recent development and future challenges of geospatial approaches for enhancing forest inventories <br>Gouri Sankar Bhunia and Pravat Kumar Shit <br>2. Development of a WebGIS platform to generate biodiversity data using citizen science approach <br>Sujoy Mudi, Sambhunath Roy, Pulakesh Das and S.K. Vazeed Pasha <br>3. Analyzing seasonal variation in the vegetation cover using NDVI and rainfall in the dry deciduous forest region of eastern India <br>Shyamal Dutta, Sufia Rehman, Soumen Chatterjee and Haroon Sajjad <br>4. Forest health assessment using advanced geospatial technology in Buxa reserve forest, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, India <br>Asish Saha, Manoranjan Ghosh, Subodh Chandra Pal <br>5. An appraisal of forest degradation and future scenario in the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh state (India) <br>Soumen Bramha, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, S.R. Kamlesh and Pravat Kumar Shit <br>6. Vegetation biomass and carbon stock assessment using geospatial approach <br>Anil Kumar Khaple, Guddappa M. Devagiri, Naveen Veerabhadraswamy, Sanjay Babu, Shashi Bhushan Mishra and Vilaskumar Patil <br>7. Organic carbon stock in the forest soils of Himalayas and other areas in India <br>S.K. Gangopadhyay, T. Bhattacharyya, Tapan Kumar Mishra and S.K. Banerjee <br>8. Estimating aboveground stand carbon by combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite data: a case study from Turkey <br>Sedat Keles, Alkan Günlü and Ïlker Ercanli <br>9. Tree biomass and carbon stocks of different landscape elements in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India <br>V. Maheswarappa, R. Vasudeva, Ramakrishna Hegde, Guddappa M. Devagiri, Javaregowda, K.S. Channabasappa and Supriya Salimath <br>10. Application of geospatial technology and plant diversity indices to assess the temporal change of forest covers across the Ajodhya Hills of West Bengal, India <br>Debasis Ghosh, Manas Karmakar, Monali Banerjee and Mrinal Mandal <br>11. Above-ground biomass and carbon content in select bamboo species across humid and semiarid zones of Karnataka, India <br>Sruthi Subbanna and Syam Viswanath <br>12. Accuracy assessment of forest mapping in MODIS land cover dataset using fuzzy set theory <br>Maryam Naghdizadegan Jahromi, Mojtaba Naghdyzadegan Jahromi, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Shahrkh Zand-Parsa and Sajad Jamshidi <br>13. Quantifying forest cover changes in Koraput district, India using remote sensing and GIS <br>Ch. Jyotiprava Dash, Partha Pratim Adhikary, M. Madhu and P.K. Mishra <br>14. Using Bayesian kriging and satellite images to estimate above-ground biomass of Zagros mountainous forests <br>Somayeh Izadi, Hormoz Sohrabi <br>15. Estimation of forest ecosystem quality using GIS tool in Panchet forest division, West Bengal, India <br>Mrinmay Mandal and Nilanjana Das Chattarjee<br><br>Part II. Non-timber forest products for livelihoods and poverty alleviation <br>16. Do the collection and uses of NTFPs affect household well-being? Evidence from forest villages in eastern Himalaya <br>Manoranjan Ghosh, Asish Saha, Subodh Chandra Pal and Somnath Ghosal <br>17. Non-timber forest produces (NTFPs) and livelihood security of people in West Bengal <br>Debabrata Das, Pampi Ghosh and Atmaja Avirupa Das <br>18 NTFPs for socioeconomic security of rural households along the forest ecotone of Paschim Medinipur forest division, India <br>Partha Pratim Adhikary, Pravat Kumar Shit and Gouri Sankar Bhunia <br>19. Extraction of timber and nontimber forest produce of Southwest Bengal: ecology versus economy <br>Bindia Gupta, Punarbasu Chaudhuri and Tapan Kumar Mishra<br><br>Part III. Agroforestry and socio-economic issues for forest management <br>20. Soil and water conservation benefits of agroforestry <br>R. Kaushal, D. Mandal, Pankaj Panwar, Rajkumar, Pawan Kumar and J.M.S. Tomar <br>21. Agroforestry and soil health: a mitigation process using AM fungal culture in West Bengal <br>Pampi Ghosh, Debabrata Das and Atmaja Avirupa Das <br>22. Soil health status in coffee-based agroforestry systems in Western Ghats of Karnataka, India <br>V. Maheswarappa, R. Vasudeva, Ramakrishna Hegde, Guddappa M. Devagiri, K.S. Channabasappa and Anil Kumar Khaple <br>23. Trees on farm lands: an underexploited source to achieve nutritional security in India <br>Supriya K. Salimath, Manasa P.A. Clara, K.M. Nanaya, Ramakrishna Hegde and V. Maheswarappa <br>24. The role of communities in sustainable land and forest management <br>Manoj Kumar, Sweta Nisha Phukon, Hukum Singh<br><br>Part IV. Conflicts on forest resources and way to mitigation <br>25. Forests’ management for sustainable livelihoods in the Himalaya: a review of existing literature <br>Vishwambhar Prasad Sati <br>26. Assessing habitat suitability of leopards (Panthera pardus) in unprotected scrublands of Bera, Rajasthan, India <br>Varun Dutta Gupta, G. Areendran, Krishna Raj, Swagata Ghosh, Shyamal Dutta and Mehebub Sahana <br>27. Effects of Sonajhuri (Acacia auriculiformis) plantation on soil health in Purulia district, West Bengal, India <br>Manoj Kumar Mahato, Narayan Chandra Jana <br>28. Trees and forest conservation-cum-afforestation to cope with climate uncertainties <br>Anand Verdhen <br>29. Deforestation and its impact on sediment flux and channel morphodynamics of the Brahmani river basin, India <br>Aznarul Islam, Balai Chandra Das, Sadik Mahammad, Palash Ghosh, Suman Deb Barman and Biplab Sarkar <br>30. Geospatial environmental modeling of forest declining trend in Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot region <br>Meelan Chamling, Biswajit Bera and Sudipa Sarkar <br>31. Assessment of ecosystem services values in response to land use/land cover change in tropical forest <br>Soumen Bisui, Sambhunath Roy, Debashish Sengupta, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Pravat Kumar Shit