Mukesh Kumar

About

My current research work comparing the disparate impacts of Oak and Chir pine tree species on their local hydrological and hydroclimatic regimes in the west-centra Himalaya.

Employment

• Jawaharlal Nehru University CSIR Research Associate
  2024 - Present
• National Institute of Science Education and Research Research Associate
  2022 - 2024
• Jawaharlal Nehru University
  2014 - 2021

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (10)

• Comparative Transpiration Responses of Chir Pine and Banj Oak Forests in the West-Central Himalaya: Evaluation with Evapotranspiration and Hydrometeorological measurements
  2026 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-1072
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• People’s Perception and Awareness towards Plant Invasion, Its Impacts on Forest Ecosystem Services and Livelihood: A Tale of Central Himalayas
  Environmental Management 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-024-01935-z
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• Effect of invasive alien plant species on chir pine forest understory vegetation composition, diversity and soil properties in the central Himalaya, India
  2023 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-1623
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• Recovery of soil microbial biomass, stoichiometry, and herb‐layer diversity with chronosequence of farmland land abandonment in the central Himalayas, India
  Restoration Ecology 2023 DOI: 10.1111/rec.13782
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• Seasonal dynamics of soil and microbial respiration in the banj oak and chir pine forest of the central Himalaya, India
  Applied Soil Ecology 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2022.104740
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• Allelopathy effects of invasive alien Ageratina adenophora on native shrub species of chir pine forest in the central Himalaya, India
  Journal of Forest Research 2022 DOI: 10.1080/13416979.2021.2002505
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• Invasion of Lantana camara and Ageratina adenophora alters the soil physico-chemical characteristics and microbial biomass of chir pine forests in the central Himalaya, India
  CATENA 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2021.105624
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• Fine root production and nutrient dynamics in relation to stand characteristics of chir pine mixed banj oak forests in central Himalaya
  Flora 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2021.151808
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• Functional traits, growth patterns, and litter dynamics of invasive alien and co-occurring native shrub species of chir pine forest in the central Himalaya, India
  Plant Ecology 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s11258-021-01140-6
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• Lantana camara and Ageratina adenophora invasion alter the understory species composition and diversity of chir pine forest in central Himalaya, India
  Acta Oecologica 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2020.103642
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