| Sanction Date: | 21-12-2018 | |||
| Project Category | SG | |||
| Year | 2018-2019 | |||
| Project Duration | 3 Years + 3 Months project extenstion | |||
| BTA : | BCM | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
West Himalaya |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: |
G.B. Pant 'National Institute of Himalayan Environment'(NIHE), Kosi-Katarmal, Almora |
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| Lead Proponent: | Dr. K. Chandra Sekar G.B. Pant 'National Institute of Himalayan Environment'(NIHE) Kosi-Katarmal, Almora Uttarakhand- |
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| Project Brief Description: | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) described the Himalayan Region as data-deficient in terms of climate monitoring (IPCC, 2007). Further, the paucity of long-term climate data in the region, and uncertainty of data quality has been underlined on account of compatibility mismatch of instrumentation and methodology (Negi et al., 2012). As elsewhere in the mountains, the alpine environments in the Himalaya are very rich and unique in plant diversity (Rawal and Dhar, 1997; Dhar, 2000) and represent one of the most sensitive ecosystems to global warming (Guisan and Theurllat, 2001). Number of studies from other mountain regions have provided evidences to establish that as a consequence of global warming, plant species and communities in high mountains are changing fast and moving upwards which may get eliminated if already at mountain summits (Theurillat and Guisan, 2001). This calls for an urgent attention of researchers in the region. Further, the urgency for Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) following standard methods in the region has recently been highlighted (Rawal et al., 2015). However, in absence of long term monitoring sites in alpine region, no such data sets or evidences are available for Himalayan alpines to assess the trends of vegetation changes due to changing climate (Chandra Sekar et al., 2017). Towards addressing this data gap in Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), especially in alpine areas, Long-term monitoring sites compatible with global protocol, i.e. GLORIA, first its kind in Indian Himalayan Region in Uttarakhand Himalaya has been established successfully (Chandra Sekar et al., 2017). However, there is a felt need for having multiple such sites to represent most of the alpine conditions of IHR. Detailed literature review and analysis of available datasets revealed that there are number of alpine areas which are untouched in view of assessing impacts on climate change on floristic diversity. In view of this, the proposal has been developed for addressing the gaps and strengthening long-term monitoring network in alpine regions. | |||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | The beneficiaries are the researchers and masters students through capacity building programmes (100 researchers / master students); research institutions; policy makers; porters, field assistants and guides; local people highly depends on alpine diversity for different services, like grazing, extraction of medicinal plants, etc. |
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| Activity Chart | Click Here | |||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 44,44,600.00 (Rupees: Forty Four Lakh Forty Four Thousand Six Hundred Only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
| To analyse the floristic diversity and its composition patterns along altitude range in different alpine landscapes of West Himalaya. | Database on Floristic diversity, Soil characteristics and microbial biomass patterns along the 3 Altitudinal transects | Establishment of one new GLORIA sites |
| To establish and strengthen Long-Term monitoring sites by using Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) protocol for analysing impacts of climate change. | Establishment of one new GLORIA sites and strengthening / analyzing data on two other sites established earlier | Database on Floristic diversity, Soil characteristics and microbial biomass generated (Nos.) |
| Change detection in comparison with earlier datasets of two landscapes | Develop change detection datasets of two landscape | |
| To investigate the change of plant diversity in relation to climate change in different alpine sites. | Number of capacity building Programme Organized (Nos.) | |
| To build plant assessment and taxonomic identification capacity of masters students and researchers. | No. of Reports/Research articles/manual/Policy documents prepared and published (Nos.) | |
| Capacity building programme on GLORIA protocol (target: 100 researchers/masters students) |
| S.No. | Name (Sanctioned) | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | 02 JPF | @ 16,000/- + HRA |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Use of Equipment/ Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | Geo- Precision soil data loggers and dongle (around 35 loggers and a dongle) | 11,00,000/- |
