Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts

Part I. Geospatial-based forest resources mapping, monitoring, and modeling 1. Recent development and future challenges of geospatial approaches for enhancing forest inventories Gouri Sankar Bhunia and Pravat Kumar Shit 2. Development of a WebGIS platform to generate biodiversity data using citizen science approach Sujoy Mudi, Sambhunath Roy, Pulakesh Das and S.K. Vazeed Pasha 3. Analyzing seasonal variation in the vegetation cover using NDVI and rainfall in the dry deciduous forest region of eastern India Shyamal Dutta, Sufia Rehman, Soumen Chatterjee and Haroon Sajjad 4. Forest health assessment using advanced geospatial technology in Buxa reserve forest, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, India Asish Saha, Manoranjan Ghosh, Subodh Chandra Pal 5. An appraisal of forest degradation and future scenario in the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh state (India) Soumen Bramha, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, S.R. Kamlesh and Pravat Kumar Shit 6. Vegetation biomass and carbon stock assessment using geospatial approach Anil Kumar Khaple, Guddappa M. Devagiri, Naveen Veerabhadraswamy, Sanjay Babu, Shashi Bhushan Mishra and Vilaskumar Patil 7. Organic carbon stock in the forest soils of Himalayas and other areas in India S.K. Gangopadhyay, T. Bhattacharyya, Tapan Kumar Mishra and S.K. Banerjee 8. Estimating aboveground stand carbon by combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite data: a case study from Turkey Sedat Keles, Alkan Günlü and Ïlker Ercanli 9. Tree biomass and carbon stocks of different landscape elements in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India V. Maheswarappa, R. Vasudeva, Ramakrishna Hegde, Guddappa M. Devagiri, Javaregowda, K.S. Channabasappa and Supriya Salimath 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 Debasis Ghosh, Manas Karmakar, Monali Banerjee and Mrinal Mandal 11. Above-ground biomass and carbon content in select bamboo species across humid and semiarid zones of Karnataka, India Sruthi Subbanna and Syam Viswanath 12. Accuracy assessment of forest mapping in MODIS land cover dataset using fuzzy set theory Maryam Naghdizadegan Jahromi, Mojtaba Naghdyzadegan Jahromi, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Shahrkh Zand-Parsa and Sajad Jamshidi 13. Quantifying forest cover changes in Koraput district, India using remote sensing and GIS Ch. Jyotiprava Dash, Partha Pratim Adhikary, M. Madhu and P.K. Mishra 14. Using Bayesian kriging and satellite images to estimate above-ground biomass of Zagros mountainous forests Somayeh Izadi, Hormoz Sohrabi 15. Estimation of forest ecosystem quality using GIS tool in Panchet forest division, West Bengal, India Mrinmay Mandal and Nilanjana Das ChattarjeePart II. Non-timber forest products for livelihoods and poverty alleviation 16. Do the collection and uses of NTFPs affect household well-being? Evidence from forest villages in eastern Himalaya Manoranjan Ghosh, Asish Saha, Subodh Chandra Pal and Somnath Ghosal 17. Non-timber forest produces (NTFPs) and livelihood security of people in West Bengal Debabrata Das, Pampi Ghosh and Atmaja Avirupa Das 18 NTFPs for socioeconomic security of rural households along the forest ecotone of Paschim Medinipur forest division, India Partha Pratim Adhikary, Pravat Kumar Shit and Gouri Sankar Bhunia 19. Extraction of timber and nontimber forest produce of Southwest Bengal: ecology versus economy Bindia Gupta, Punarbasu Chaudhuri and Tapan Kumar MishraPart III. Agroforestry and socio-economic issues for forest management 20. Soil and water conservation benefits of agroforestry R. Kaushal, D. Mandal, Pankaj Panwar, Rajkumar, Pawan Kumar and J.M.S. Tomar 21. Agroforestry and soil health: a mitigation process using AM fungal culture in West Bengal Pampi Ghosh, Debabrata Das and Atmaja Avirupa Das 22. Soil health status in coffee-based agroforestry systems in Western Ghats of Karnataka, India V. Maheswarappa, R. Vasudeva, Ramakrishna Hegde, Guddappa M. Devagiri, K.