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Vulnerability of Indian Central Himalayan Forests to Fire in a Warming Climate and a Participatory Preparedness Approach Based on Modern Tools
Subrat Sharma,Harshit Pant +1 more
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In this paper, the role of climate as a precursor to large-scale forest fires and the perception of village forest councils on the impact of forest fire and climate change is analyzed.Abstract:
Wildfires have been considered as part of the natural cycle, but the globe is witnessing them more often outside the natural cycle. In recent years, incidences of wild fire/forest fire are increasing globally, and also in India. The Himalayan region is not an exception, where wide inter-annual fluctuations occur in fire events, and a few of them lead to disasters resulting in immediate and cascading social and economic impacts and thus to vulnerability and exposure of Himalayan forests to current climate variability. Mountainous topography and insufficient state resources are a bottleneck to respond to fire disasters. This study analyses the role of climate as a precursor to large-scale forest fires, and the perception of village forest councils on the impact of forest fire and climate change. A framework has been proposed for integration of ground-based observation network and prevailing modern technologies as a mechanism to develop a fire potential index to reduce disturbances and for resource optimization in case of disastrous fires.read more
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Examining the effects of forest fire on terrestrial carbon emission and ecosystem production in India using remote sensing approaches.
Srikanta Sannigrahi,Francesco Pilla,Bidroha Basu,Arunima Sarkar Basu,Konika Sarkar,Suman Chakraborti,Pawan Kumar Joshi,Qi Zhang,Ying Wang,Sandeep Bhatt,Anand Bhatt,Shouvik Jha,Saskia Keesstra,Partha Sarathi Roy +13 more
TL;DR: The present approach appears to be promising and has a potential in quantifying the loss of ecosystem productivity due to forest fires and testing of remotely sensed fire maps for future research.
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Long-term ecological monitoring on forest ecosystems in Indian Himalayan Region: Criteria and indicator approach
TL;DR: First of its kind attempt have been made to develop long-term ecological monitoring protocol along with suitable criteria and indicators for the Indian Himalaya, and demonstrate it through documenting base line data of established LTEM plots in diverse forest types in the Indian western Himalaya.
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Patterns and driving factors of biomass carbon and soil organic carbon stock in the Indian Himalayan region.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the importance of various environmental variables in predicting carbon stock in biomass and soils of the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) and found that the relationship between environmental variables (altitude, latitude, precipitation, and temperature) and carbon stock was not significantly correlated.
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Predictive modeling of forest fire using geospatial tools and strategic allocation of resources: eForestFire
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a GIS integrated mapping of direct and indirect factors, leading to a predictive model to identify settlements/villages for the strategic allocation of resources towards damage mitigation and control.
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Designing a Model to Display the Relation between Social Vulnerability and Anthropogenic Risk of Wildfires in Galicia, Spain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between wildfire events and the socioeconomic variables that characterize the Galician municipalities affected by forest fires, including population structure, density, livestock farms, education, among others.
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