Video of PhD student Amrita Neelakantan’s research in central India
Check out this video and blog on PhD student Amrita Neelakantan’s research on resettlement of people from Kanha Tiger Reserve in Central India
Meghna Agarwala paper on biogas and forest regeneration
Meghna Agarwala publishes paper on forest regeneration associated with biogas program in southern India
Naomi Schwartz paper on secondary forest
Naomi Schwartz publishes a paper on dynamics of forest regrowth in Peru. Important implications for carbon sequestration in forests.
Central India Landscape Symposium
Lab members organize Central India Landscape Symposium at Pench Tiger Reserve, Dec 14-17, 2016
Wellcome Trust grant to Nandini Velho
Post-doc Nandini Velho is collaborator on a project selected by the Wellcome Trust for funding titled “Towards health equity: understanding and improving health of forest-dwelling tribal communities in southern India”
How much water to close yield gaps?
Post doc Kyle Davis published a paper on water limits to closing yield gaps
Highly cited researcher
Ruth DeFries is named as 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher along with 200 scientists in environment/ecology category and 3500 scientists worldwide
Is RSPO effective in reducing fires?
Megan Cattau publishes paper asking if fires are reduced on concessions certified by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil
Paper on forests of Central India
Meghna Agarwala’s paper on species composition of forests of Central India highlights effects of human use
Health impacts of haze in Southeast Asia
Miriam Marlier and Ruth DeFries co-author paper on health impact of fires in Southeast Asia. The paper received widespread press coverage the New York Times and the Guardian among other outlets.
