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Anusree A.S. (PhD student)

I study the Late Quaternary paleoecology of semi-arid regions in Peninsular India and Banni grasslands in Gujarat. Understanding the role of various drivers of ecosystem changes over several millennia is important in the context of present day scenarios of changing climatic, edaphic, grazing and fire regimes, to all of which these systems are sensitive. This is done based on the reconstruction of past vegetation, climate and fire events through studies of multiple proxies such as pollen, stable isotopes, charcoal etc. from sedimentary archives  after determining age of the sediment. Such an understanding will allow us to better understand the potential biological consequences of on-going global change, thereby contributing to future management plans for the ecosystem.

Funding

• This work is funded by Inlaks Ravi Sankaran Fellowship small grant project - 2012
• I have been selected for French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) Local doctoral scholarship (BL) 2012 to work on the project titled "Late Quaternary Evolution of Semi-arid Vegetation in Peninsular India" (September - October 2012).
• Got approval for a small research grant- Thakar Jaikrishna Indraji Research Fund (2013) to work on the Late Quaternary paleoecology of Banni Grassland, Gujarat, India.
• Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Scholarship for doctoral studies (2014 - 2016).

Posters and Talks

• Tracing the history of climatic and anthropogenic influence on the Banni Grassland, Kachchh, Gujarat - A multi proxy approach, Anusree, A.S., Ratnam J.and Sankaran M.- oral presentation at the Student's Conference on Conservation Science, 2013, Bangalore, India.
• Palynological methods for land-cover reconstruction in semi-arid peninsular India. Krishnamurthy, A., Prasad, S., Aravajy, S., Ponnuchamy R., Stephen A. and Anusree A.S. - presented a poster at the 4th PAGES (Past Global Changes) Open Science Meeting "The Past: A Compass for Future Earth", 2013, Goa, India.
• Mid to Late Holocene climatic history of rangelands from Spiti Valley, Trans-Himalayas. Suryaprakash, I., Anusree A.S., Nautiyal, C.M., Mishra, C. and Sankaran, M. -  presented a poster at the 4th PAGES (Past Global Changes) Open Science Meeting "The Past: A Compass for Future Earth", 2013, Goa, India.
• Tracing the history of climatic and human influence on the Trans-Himalayan rangelands - A multi proxy approach. Suryaprakash, I., Anusree A.S., Mishra, C. and Sankaran, M. - presented a poster at the IGBP-PAGES, The Biodiversity Institute, University of Oxford sponsored workshop on "Landscape planning for the future: using fossil records to map potential threats, opportunities and likely future developments for biodiveristy and ecosystem services", 2012, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
• Effect of restoration on tree diversity. Anusree A.S., Karunakaran, P.V. and Parthasarthy - presented a poster at the Student's Conference on Conservation Science, 2011, Bangalore.