With the help of locals and armed with a field guide to regional flora, they scoured the coast and identified 85 patches of tropical dry evergreen forest in sacred groves, government-protected ...

HYDERABAD: A mix of stable tropical forests and ancient climate changes led to peninsular India's unique biodiversity over millions of years, according to a study by researchers at the CSIR-Centre ...

Dr Jahnavi Joshi’s team at CCMB Hyderabad undertook the study of diversity of animal and plants species in peninsular India, which is a tropical region extending southwards from the Aravalli ...

Sudhansu Sekhar Dash, Samiran Panday, Dinesh Singh Rawat, Vikas Kumar, Subhajit Lahiri, Bipin Kumar Sinha, Paramjit Singh, Quantitative assessment of vegetation layers in tropical evergreen forests of ...

Changes in woody species composition, abundance and forest stand structure were investigated in three sites of tropical wet evergreen forest around Sengaltheri in Kalakad–Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, ...

However, due to rapid regeneration capacity, the tropical evergreen forest recovered gradually with the return of previous conditions,” said Verma.

Primary forest loss due to fires was around 950 hectares last year compared to 368 hectares in 2023, a 158% rise. India lost 22,958 hectares of primary forests compared to 21,672 hectares in 2023.

Last year saw a global loss of 3.8 million hectares (14,286 square miles) of tropical forest, according to the University of Maryland’s 2021 tree-cover loss data published by the World Resources ...

HYDERABAD: A mix of stable tropical forests and ancient climate ... aridification and monsoon seasonality in Peninsular India with a major expansion of grasses, leading to shrinkage of evergreen ...