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You can find Press coverage, articles, and interviews of our cofounders' contribution to Biodiversity, Ecology, and Climate Change. 

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We are pleased to present a technology developed for the first time in India that helps calculate species-specific carbon sequestration done by trees. Our technology can be used by individual researchers, large landscape owners, corporates and landscape planners. 

Our innovation of apps and dashboards for Carbon Sequestration Calculation for Trees.

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Our discovery of the rare plateau types featured in Times of India, Click here to see the full coverage 

Our discovery of the rare plateau types featured in The Indian Express,  Click here to see the full coverage 

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Our discovery of the rare plateau types featured in The Indian Express,  Click here to see the full coverage 

Our research about the water chemistry of Rock pools on the Western Ghats of India was featured in Daily Sakal. 
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Our research about the vegetation of Rock pools on the Western Ghats of India was featured in Daily Sakal. 
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Our research about endemic plants of the Western Ghats of India was featured in Maharashtra Times. 
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Our discovery of the rare plateau types featured in The Indian Express,  Click here to see the full coverage

Radio Interview and podcast covered by Climate Council, USA Pacific Radio  Click here to see the full coverage

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Books On Shelf

Our Scientific Peer-Reviewed Publications:

  • Shetti, R., Boonen, K., Smiljanić, M., Tejnecký, V., Drábek, O., & Lehejček, J. (2024). Do trees respond to pollution? A network study of the impact of pollution on spruce growth from Europe. Environmental Pollution, 350, 124012.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124012

  • ​Kašpar J, Tumajer J Altman J, Altmanová N, Čada V, Čihák T, Doležal J, Fibich P, Janda,  P, Kaczka R, Kolář T, Lehejček J, Mašek J, Hellebrandová K N, Rybníček M, Rydval M, Shetti R, Svoboda M, Šenfeldr M, Šamonil P, Vašíčková I, Vejpustková M, Treml V

    Major Tree species from Central European Forests differ in their proportion of positive, negative and non-stationary growth trends (2024) Global Change Biology 30 (1)
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17146

     

  • Jevšenak J, Klisz M, Mašek J, Čada V, Janda P,  Svoboda M, Vostarek O, Treml V, ..., Shetti R, Bošeľa M, Copini P, ... Oštir K, Rammig A,  Buras A, Incorporating high-resolution climate, remote sensing and topographic data to map annual forest growth in central and eastern Europe (2024)  Science of the Total Environment
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169692

  • Shetti R, Zacharova J, Lehejček J (2023),. Do trees on the agrarian stone walls respond to contemporary climate warming [Under review] European Journal of Forest Research 
     

  • Tumajer J, Buras A, Camarero J J, Carrer M, Shetti R, Wilmking M, Altman J, Sangüesa-Barreda G, Lehejček J Growing faster, longer or both? Modeling plastic response of Juniperus communis growth phenology to climate change  (2021) - Global Ecology and Biogeography DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13377

     

  • Thomas, H.J.D., Bjorkman, A.D., Myers-Smith, I.H. ..Shetti R ..et al. Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome. Nat Commun 11, 1351 (2020). - Nature Communications DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15014-4

 

  • Wilmking M, van der Maten-Theunissen, van der Maten E, Scharnweber T, Buras A, Biermann C, Gurskaya M, Hallinger M, Lange J, Shetti R, Smilijanic M, Trouillier M. (2020) Global assessment of relationships between climate and tree growth- Global Change Biology
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15057

     

  • Bjorkmann A, Mayers-Smith I, Elmendorf S, Normand S, Thomas H, Alexander A, AnadonRossell A, ... Shetti R et al  (2018) – Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the Tundra Biome-  Global Ecology and Biogeography  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12821

  • Bjorkmann A, Mayers-Smith I, Elmendorf S, Normand S, Thomas H, Alexander A, AnadonRossell A, ... Shetti R et al (2018) –Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome - Nature
    DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0563-7  

     

  • Wilmking M, Buras A, Lehejček  J, Lange J, Shetti R, van der Maten E (2018) Influence of larval outbreaks on the climate reconstruction potential of an Arctic shrub – Dendrochronologia
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.02.010

     

  • Shetti R, Smiljanic M, Buras A, Hallinger M, Grigoriev A, Wilmking M (2018) Does sex matter?   Gender specificity and its influence on site-chronologies in dioecious shrub Juniperus sp. – Dendrochronologia
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.03.006

     

  • Shetti R, Smiljanic M, Buras A, Wilmking M (2018) Climate sensitivity is affected by growth differentiation along the length of Juniperus communis L. shrub stems in the Ural Mountains.– Dendrochronologia
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.02.006 

     

  • Pellizzari E, Camarero J, Gazol Granda E, Shetti R, Wilmking M, Moiseev P, Pividori M, Carrer M (2017)  Diverging shrub and tree growth from the Polar to the Mediterranean biomes across European continent.  Global Change Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13577
     

  • Smrithy V., Kulkarni A., Shigwan B., Porembski S., Datar M.N. (2023) Desiccation- tolerant vascular plants from Western Ghats, India: review, updated checklist, future prospects and new insights. Nordic Journal of Botany.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.03939 

     

  • Kulkarni A., Shigwan B.K., Vijayan S., Watve A., Shetti R. & Datar M.N. (2022). First Record and Floristic Inventory of a Rare Low-Level Basalt Mesa in the Western Ghats of India. National Academy Science Letters,
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40009-022-01188-6

     

  • Kulkarni A., Shigwan B.K., Vijayan S., Watve A., Karthick B. & Datar M.N. (2022). Indian Subtropical Rock Outcrops: Review of flowering plant Diversity, Adaptations, Floristic Composition and Endemism. Tropical Ecology,
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-022-00283-5

     

  • Kulkarni A., Vijayan S., Shigwan B.K., Padhye S., Dahanukar N. & Datar M.N. Environmental determinants of aquatic vegetation in rock pools of northern Western Ghats, India. Fundamental and Applied Limnology
    DOI https://doi.org/10.1127/fal/2022/1429

     

  • Kulkarni A., Roy S., Yogeshwaran M., Shigwan B., Vijayan S., Kshirsagar P., Datar M. N., & Karthick B. (2022). Vanishing waters: water chemistry of temporary rock pools of the Western Ghats, India. Water Practice and Technology, 17(1), 234-245.
     

  • Kulkarni A., Shetti R., Shigwan B. K., Vijayan S., & Datar M. N. (2021). What determines vegetation on rock outcrops of the Western Ghats: the macro-environment or lithotype? Folia Geobotanica, 56(2), 149-165.
     

  • Rahim S. A., Kodandaramaiah U., Kulkarni A., & Barua D. (2021). Striking between-population floral divergences in a habitat-specialized plant. PloS one, 16(6), e0253038.
     

  • Shigwan B. K., Kulkarni A., Vijayan S., Choudhary R. K., & Datar M. N. (2020). An assessment of the local endemism of flowering plants in the northern Western Ghats and Konkan regions of India: checklist, habitat characteristics, distribution, and conservation. Phytotaxa, 440(1), 25-54.
     

  • Kulkarni A. & B. Karthick (2018). Book review on "Island in flux" Current Science, 115(11): 2163-2164
     

  • Kulkarni A., Upadhye A., Dahanukar N., & Datar M.N., (2018). Floristic uniqueness and effect of degradation on diversity: A case study from sacred groves from northern western ghats. Tropical Ecology, 59(1), 119-127.
     

  • Kulkarni M. R., Padhye S., Vanjare A. I., Jakhalekar S. S., Shinde Y. S., Pari- patyadar S. V., ... & Kulkarni A. S. (2015). Documenting the fauna of a small temporary pond from Pune, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7(6), 7196-7210.
     

  • Kulkarni A., Datar M. N., Awasarkar U., & Upadhye A. (2014). Northernmost distribution of five tree species to the Western Ghats from the sacred groves of Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 6(8), 6093- 6100.
     

  • Kulkarni A.S. & K.A. Subramanian (2013). Habitat and Seasonal Distribution of Odonata (Insecta) of Mula and Mutha River Basins, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(7): 4084–4095.

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