Aboveground biomass and carbon stock assessment in the Eastern Himalaya foothills along the Indo-Bhutan border

Sharma, Kiran; Saikia, Anup; Thapa, Pankaj; Chetri, Bimal K.

doi:10.1080/00049182.2022.2092992

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“…Undisturbed tropical forests provide numerous benefits, ranging from being carbon sinks to fulfilling several social, economic and ecological functions (Rashid, Bhat, and Romshoo 2017;Sharma et al 2022). They are, however, unfortunately being destroyed and degraded at unsustainable rates emanating from agricultural extensification and/or urbanisation expansion (Doyle, Beach, and Luzzadder-Beach 2021).…”

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“…Forests have been converted to land used for other purposes for a very long period of time. Agricultural expansion, wood extraction for domestic fuel usage particularly in rural areas adversely affects the biomass (Sharma et al 2022), and expansion of infrastructural facilities (Ahmed et al 2022) are drivers of forest loss and degradation. North east India is a biodiversity hotspot and has several important protected areas (PAs) such as wildlife sanctuaries and national parks within it.…”

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Trajectories of forest cover change in Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary (India) between 2000 and 2020 using Landsat imagery

Basumatary¹

2022

Auc Geographica

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Forest cover changes in the Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary, in the north eastern Indian state of Assam between 2000 and 2020 were assessed using Landsat 5 TM (2000 and 2010) and Landsat 8 OLI (2020) satellite data. The objective of the study was to examine the temporal variations, if any, of forest cover in the Sanctuary. The satellite images of 2000, 2010 and 2020 were classified using supervised classification into three different categories viz: dense forest, open forest, and barren land. Based on a maximum likelihood classifier and using standard accuracy assessments, the results indicated that the area covered by barren land and open forest increased between 2000 and 2010 but decreased between 2010 and 2020. Similarly, dense forest had decreased by 22.32% between 2000 and 2010 but increased by 15.19% between 2010 and 2020. These changes occurred reflecting the positive results emanating from conservation policies and afforestation efforts by the primary stakeholder, the state forest department, in recent years. Such efforts were linked to the enhanced institutional status of the protected area, which had been upgraded from a Reserved Forest in 1966 to that of a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1994.

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confidence: 99%