Dinesha S.

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• B.Sc. (Forestry); M.Sc. & Ph.D. (Forestry)
• Assistant Professor (Forestry) at North Eastern Hill University

Agroforestry (AF) is a popular farming technique and a perfect scientific approach that can help to manage resources sustainably and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Using an agroforestry system (AFS) greatly increases Soil organic carbon (SOC), and in many cases, it also enhances farm diversity, microclimate, and many other factors. This hap...

Globally, population pressure, climate change, geopolitical tensions and inflation have pushed many countries into poverty, food and nutritional insecurity, forced displacement, etc. On the other hand, changing climate is causing unusual rainfall patterns, dry spells, and deterioration of quality of the crops, and outbreaks of insects and pests, ul...

In the changing climate scenario, sustainable and climate-resilient farming practices are crucial for ensuring food and nutritional security. One such practice is the agroforestry system, where the tree component under the agroforestry system modifies the microclimate, improves soil health, reduces soil erosion, increases water holding capacity, an...

Climate change is a global concern and soil organic carbon sequestration is a good strategy for mitigation. Carbon neutrality goals set by different countries still face a lot of challenges to minimize the carbon emission pathways. Soil carbon budgeting for progressing toward low-carbon development has multiple benefits besides addressing food secu...

Background and aims Biodiversity is the buzzword of the day when it comes to addressing environmental issues, and India’s Western Ghats are a goldmine of amazing beauty and biodiversity. Orchids, known as jewels of the plant kingdom, are “Keystone resources’’ that play a significant role in maintaining the forest canopies. The indigenous Kodava cul...

Plant invasion is the biggest challenge for ecologist that affects biodiversity and environmental health. Forecasting of invasive plant species, its identification, early detection and distribution mapping are necessary for making plan of actions against negative consequences of alien invasive species. An invasive plant affects biodiversity along w...

Forests are the lungs of the earth as they absorb an enormous amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that circulates in the atmosphere. Reducing deforestation, and increasing afforestation, and reforestation are crucial in this boiling climate. The majority of India's current biofuel production methods depend on the agricultural sector, which has a number...

Litter decomposition plays a pivotal role in the functioning of various ecosystems in the form of recycling nutrients. Comprehensive studies on nutrient cycling are a vital concern in the context of increasing anthropogenic imprints on biogeochemical cycles. Present study was conducted for one year (2017–2018) under 13 years old broad leaf mahogany...

Land use of the sub-Himalayan region is not that intensive like the intensively land-managed region of Punjab, India. Land resources of the sub-Himalayas must be managed effectively for sustainable development by preparing carbon inventories and data banks. Such macro-level studies have not been conducted yet in the present study area, and thus wer...

Currently, population pressure has created more demand for limited resources like land, water, and other resources. To fulfill the growing demand of food grains, it is necessary to use these limited resources scientifically and efficiently. On the other hand, changing climate is causing erratic rainfall, drought, flash flood and ultimately leads to...

“Anthropocene epoch” is an unofficial unit of geological time which resulted due to insignificant effects of human activities on the climate and ecosystems. Term resilience denotes the capacity to withstand adversity and recover quickly from difficult events such as climate change and ecological imbalance. In this climate change scenario, maintaini...

The government of India has been undertaking various programs for the socioeconomic upliftment of tribals for the improvements in various indicators related to food, health, literacy, livelihood. However, there is a large gap in the human development indices between the general and tribal populations. NTFPs are getting global recognition by providi...

Broad leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King, Family: Meliaceae) is one of the best-known and most valuable tropical timber. It is almost unique silviculturally and occupies important position in the rural economy of India as a commercial plantation crop. This present study is mainly focused on temporal discrepancy of foliar nutrients and retran...

Southern India (SI) is bestowed with several threatened and near threatened (TNT) underutilized edible fruit species (UEFS) that contributes to food and nutritional security, particularly to the indigenous people. Unfortunately, information related to these natural products is fragmentary and least researched. The PRISMA Protocol was used to conduc...

Land resources have been under tremendous anthropogenic pressure with the consequence of their degradation. It is therefore necessary that the land resources must be managed effectively for sustainable development. Different from the developed countries, carbon inventories and data bank to monitor carbon sequestration potential of different ecosyst...

Global warming, threats to humankind as driven by the emissions of different greenhouse gases (GHGs) including carbon dioxide (CO 2), is becoming a great concern to deal with the vagaries of climate. Plantation ecotypes with greater carbon(C) sink capability are leading among the potential abatement strategies for sequestration of terrestrial C. Th...

The Government of India is promoting natural farming (NF) which is evolved from our ancient heritage and traditional cultivation practices. Though NF has many advantages, it is facing several challenges like low yield in initial years, expecting high outputs from low cost of cultivation, lack of local cultivars and livestock, less availability of t...

Threatened and Near Threatened Underutilized Edible Fruit Species: A Systematic Review for Doubling Farmers’ Income & Diversifying Agroecology in Indian Gangetic Plain and Southern India

Elaeocarpus ganitrus Roxb. commonly identified as ‘rudraksha’, belonging to Elaeocarpaceae possess a great religious, spiritual and materialistic significance which is placed under the threatened category in the tropical wet evergreen forests of North East India. Because of its over-exploitation, poor germination, low viability rate and hard seed c...

Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz, (Dhawai) is a traditional medicinal shrub widely present in India and South East Asian countries. The natural population of this species is very sporadic because of its lesser germination in normal conditions and is now further declining alarmingly due to unscientific harvesting, which requires urgent conservation ac...

Parkia timoriana (DC) Merr., commonly known as the Tree Bean (Family: Fabaceae), is a versatile and underutilized legume tree species with significant ecological, economic, and cultural importance in NorthEastern Indian States, Bangladesh and several SouthEast Asian countries. This species is primarily distributed in evergreen rain forest, moist mi...

Vegetative propagation in Woodfordia fruticosa through shoot tip cuttings having 1-6 nodes with and without cutting aid (commercial growth hormone) was attempted in different seasons to analyze the effect of cutting aid, number of nodes and seasons on survival, rooting and growth of cuttings. Cuttings covered with transparent plastic cups after pla...

Woodfordia fruticosa (Dhawai) is an important medicinal gregarious woody shrub having potential for commercial cultivation due to its great demand in domestic and international markets. Usually, this multipurpose medicinal plant is sexually propagated which do not produce healthy and uniform seedlings due to tiny and micro-biotic nature of seed, lo...

TThe common method of propagation of Dhawai (Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz, through seeds have low germination and seedling survival under normal conditions due to heavy rainfall immediately after the seed maturity and microbiotic seed nature. Hence, an attempt on vegetative propagation through stem cuttings was made to observe the effect of diffe...

The present study focuses the litter fall production, pattern and nutrient dynamics under Swietenia macrophylla plantation in Terai region of West -1-1Bengal, India. The total litter production was 6920.2 kg ha yr and 8387 kg -1-1ha yr in 2016-17 and 2017-18 respectively. The increase in annual total litter production in 2017-18 was 17% higher than...