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Ecosystem carbon budgeting under Swietenia macrophylla King plantation in sub humid foothills of Eastern Himalayans of India
Global warming, threats to humankind as driven by the emissions of different greenhouse gases (GHGs) including carbon dioxide (CO2), is becoming a great concern to deal with the vagaries of climate. Plantation ec...
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Enabling Credential Immutability of Academic Documents Using Blockchain
The creation of a blockchain website for student certificate verification is a project designed to answer rising concerns about the legitimacy and security of academic credentials. This project intends to esta...
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Functionality of the temperate forests in the Western Himalaya with changing climate
Climate change may potentially affect the biodiversity and functionality of forests globally. An understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and forest ecosystem functioning can be attained by evalu...
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A socio-ecological and geospatial approach for evaluation of ecosystem services to communities of the Eastern Himalayan Region, India
Mountains are one of the most ecological functional areas and provide wide range of ecosystem services (ESs) to the adjoining people. However, the mountainous ESs are highly vulnerable due to land use and land...
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Open AccessFlood resilience assessment from the perspective of urban (in)formality in Surat, India: Implications for sustainable development
Urbanization has resulted in increasing the pace of informality, specifically in develo** countries like India. Informality is taking place at locations that are exposed to various hazards, and therefore, re...
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Environmental management: a country-level evaluation of atmospheric particulate matter removal by the forests of India
Particulate matter (PM) is a critical air pollutant, responsible for an array of ailments leading to premature mortality worldwide. Nature-based solutions for mitigation of PM and especially role of forests in...
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Influence of slope position and aspect on the vegetation attributes and tree-water relations in forests of the central Himalayas
While the need for understanding the effects of topographical factors on forest structure and function is well recognized, comprehensive studies are scarce. This study evaluates the effect of slope aspect and ...
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Simulating Quantum Principles: Qiskit Versus Cirq
Quantum computing is a computing paradigm for addressing computer issues of classical systems by harnessing all the possibilities given by quantum physics concepts. In these computers, information is represent...
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Evolutionary Analysis: Classical Bits to Quantum Qubits
Quantum computing has evolved from traditional classical computing due to the integration of multiple scientific domains. Quantum physics and quantum mechanics to name a few. Classical computers worked on a 1 ...
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Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services of the Agroforestry Systems of the Himalayan Region: An Overview
Natural ecosystems of the Himalayas such as forests, grassland, and agriculture provide innumerable services to humans. Due to the degradation of natural ecosystems and population pressure, the importance of a...
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Survey of Open-Source Tools/Industry Tools to Develop Quantum Software
Quantum computing is an advanced-level computing paradigm based on the fundamental principles on which nature operates, i.e. quantum mechanics and its ability to perform complex computations and high potential...
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Quantum Machine Learning in Prediction of Breast Cancer
Machine learning (ML) is the most promising subset of artificial intelligence. Quantum computing is prevalent for fast problem-solving approaches. The complex problems are classified and solved using huge mult...
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Exploring nexus between ecosystem services and livelihood dependency for sustainable ecosystem management in lower Gangetic plains, Eastern India
The flows of ecosystem services (ESs) from ecological patches (EPs) are being severely challenged due to global change. However, the evaluation of nexus between tribal society and ecological units with focus o...
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Nexus between indigenous ecological knowledge and ecosystem services: a socio-ecological analysis for sustainable ecosystem management
The well-being of the human society cannot be ensured and sustainable unless the flow of Ecosystem Services (ESs) would be matching with their consistent demand. The consistent flow of ESs required sustainable...
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Fuelwood and fodder consumption patterns among agroforestry-practicing smallholder farmers of the lower Himalayas, India
Trees are important as a source of fuelwood and fodder for rural populations in the Himalayas. This paper analysed the fuelwood and fodder consumption patterns of rural households in 16 villages in Alaknanda V...
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Assessing Potential Habitat Suitability for Panthera tigris Using Multiple Grain Size and Different Ensemble Methods in Maximum Entropy Modeling
Habitat suitability is a foremost task in conserving wildlife and ecosystem. Rapid decline in wildlife and threat to their habitat due to unprecedented anthropocentric development and fragmentation of animal’s...
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Open AccessAssessment of leaf morphological, physiological, chemical and stoichiometry functional traits for understanding the functioning of Himalayan temperate forest ecosystem
Leaf functional traits support plant survival and growth in different stress and disturbed conditions and respond according to leaf habit. The present study examined 13 leaf traits (3 morphological, 3 chemical...
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Open AccessThe role of information infrastructure for climate change adaptation in the socio-ecological system of the Central Himalaya: availability, utility, and gaps
The present study intends to understand and disclose the role of information infrastructure in climate change adaptation and its underlying barriers in the communities of socio-ecological system (SES) in the C...
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Vertical root distribution in Himalayan trees: about half of roots occur below 30 cm, the generally sampled depth
Almost nothing is known about the vertical root distribution for Himalayan forest trees. By providing an analysis of vertical distribution of root density of ten important central Himalayan tree species (two e...
