Climate Change Impacts and Implications: An Indian Perspective

Kumar, Gajendra; Kumari, Rima; Kishore, Bodi Surya Pratap Chandra; Kumar, Amit; Khan, M. L.

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“…However, the rate of forest degradation in MP state is very high, leading to poor regeneration of important tree species, low forest productivity, and loss of biodiversity (Manhas et al, 2006). The impacts of anthropogenic disturbance may differ in different parts of a forest due to the varying degree of livelihood dependency of forest‐dwelling populations for livestock grazing, timber felling, extraction of fuelwood, fodder, and non‐timber forest products (NTFPs) (Hegde & Enters, 2000; Pattanayak et al, 2003), while its combination with natural disturbances (drought, flood, and wildfire) leads to alterations in the forest composition, structure (Kumari et al, 2019), and even landscape‐level vegetation patterns (Hart & Kleinman, 2018; Kumar & Saikia, 2020; Saikia et al, 2017), which can have substantial impacts on flora, fauna, soil, water, and microclimate (Kumar et al, 2020; Tilman & Lehman, 2001).…”

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Spatial pattern of tree diversity and impacts of ecological disturbances on forest structure in tropical deciduous forests of Central India

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Tropical forests are the most complex and diverse terrestrial ecosystems on earth, which are undergoing rapid fragmentation, degradation (Janzen, 1998), and deforestation posing an enormous threat to global biodiversity (Barlow et al., 2016;Hare et al., 1997). It covers only 7% of the earth's land surface with >50% of the known species that are disappearing at a rate of 0.8-2.0% year −1 (Sagar et al., 2003) with the global declining rate of 13.5 Mha of forests year −1 (Kobayashi, 2004). More than half of the forest tree species worldwide are being threatened with anthropogenic disturbances and environmental changes (ter Steege et al., 2015) of which ~7800 tree species are threatened with extinction (Oldfield et al., 1998).

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