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INTRODUCTION Biodiversity is continually transferred by a changing climate. Conditions change across the face of the planet, sometimes slowly, sometimes in larger increments leading to rearrangements of biological associations. But, now a new type of climate change, brought about by human activities is being added to this natural variability, threatening to accelerate the loss of biodiversity already under way due to other human stressors. The carbon cycle and the water cycle, argua- bly the two most important large-scale processes for life on Earth, both depend on biodiversity at genetic, species, and ecosystem levels and can yield feedbacks to climate change. Maintaining and restoring healthy ecosystems plays a key role in adapting to and mitigating climate change through biodiversity conservation, sus- tainable use and sustainable land management and yields multiple environmental, economic and social benefits. Ecosystems provide a wide range of provisioning (e.g. food and fibre), regulating (e.g. climate change and floods), cultural (e.g. flagship species and aesthetic tourism) and supporting (e.g. soil formation) services, critical to human well-being including human health, livelihoods, nutritious food, security and social cohesion. Climate change is a rapidly increasing stress on ecosystems and can exacerbate the effects of other stresses, including from habitat fragmentation, loss and conversion, over-exploitation, invasive alien species and pollution. Human- induced climate change could shift the net natural carbon cycle towards annual net emissions from terrestrial sinks and weaken ocean sinks through temperature rises and CO2 concentrations, thus further accelerating climate change. Functional diversity can explain and predict the impact of organisms on ecosystems and thereby provide a mechanistic link between the two. Critical points in developing predictive measures of functional diversity are the choice of functional traits with which organisms are distinguished, how the diversity of that trait information is summarized into a measure of functional diversity, and that the measures of functional diversity are validated through quantitative analyses and experimental tests. Global modelling has been useful in obtaining an overview of possible gross changes in growth form and vegetation distributions. Yet, conser- vation planning requires information about species range shifts at specific sites and within specific regions. Accordingly, more detailed regional modelling of biotic changes is of fundamental importance in understanding the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Remote sensing (RS) taking images or other measurements of Earth from above provides a unique perspective on what is happening on the Earth and thus plays a special role in biodiversity and conservation applications. RS also provides a variety of information that facilitates estimating species distributions, and is an essential input into models that estimate overall biodiversity and how it is changing. The new Strategic Plan for Biodiversity contains a coherent overarch- ing framework to assess progress toward twenty ambitious, but achievable tar- gets, collectively known as the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Target 15 seeks to relate biodiversity and climate change in both directions and can benefit from the observations conducted by the climate change community. At its 11th Conference of the Parties (COP-11) in Hyderabad, India in October 2012, the CBD adopted an indicator framework for the Biodiversity Strategic Plan and notably for the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. OBJECTIVES - To enhance understanding relationship between biodiversity, climate change and other pressures. - To improve understanding of the local and regional scale impacts of climate on biodiversity. - To develop methodologies, criteria and indicators to assess the impacts of climate change mitigation and adaptation activities on biodiversity and other aspects of sustainable development. -To identify biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of activities and policies that future mitigating climate change effects, especially in India. BDCC -2018, IIT Kharagpur BDCC-2010 Discussion during Lunch Participants presence Cultural programme Inaugural ceremony Presentation Competition for Young scientist award BDCC-2018 [email protected] BDCC-2018 [email protected] Welcome to IIT Kharagpur BDCC-2018 [email protected] BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE BDCC 2018 (24 th – 27 th February 2018) Commemorating the UN’s Decade on Biodiversity Internaonal Workshop on MEMORIES OF BDCC-2010 KEY QUESTIONS: Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur THEMES/TECHNICAL SESSIONS I. Climate Change and Functional Biodiversity II. Biodiversity and Geomatic Tools III. Himalayan Biodiversity IV. Ecology, Environment and Biodiversity V. Biodiversity and Biotechnology VI. Food Security, Adaptation and Mitigation 1. How can we better understand feedback mechanism between climate change and biodiversity? 2. How a predicted warming world discourage biodiversity? 3. Is spatial biodiversity special? -Geomatics perspective! 4. Do temperature modulate the Himalayan biodiversity pattern? 5. Are there examples whereby biodiversity conservation strategies might exacerbate climate change? BDCC-2018 [email protected]
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INTRODUCTION
Biodiversity is continually transferred by a changing climate. Conditions
change across the face of the planet, sometimes slowly, sometimes in larger
increments leading to rearrangements of biological associations. But, now a new
type of climate change, brought about by human activities is being added to this
natural variability, threatening to accelerate the loss of biodiversity already under
way due to other human stressors. The carbon cycle and the water cycle, argua-
bly the two most important large-scale processes for life on Earth, both depend on
biodiversity at genetic, species, and ecosystem levels and can yield feedbacks to
climate change. Maintaining and restoring healthy ecosystems plays a key role in
adapting to and mitigating climate change through biodiversity conservation, sus-
tainable use and sustainable land management and yields multiple environmental,
economic and social benefits.
Ecosystems provide a wide range of provisioning (e.g. food and fibre),
regulating (e.g. climate change and floods), cultural (e.g. flagship species and
aesthetic tourism) and supporting (e.g. soil formation) services, critical to human
well-being including human health, livelihoods, nutritious food, security and social
cohesion. Climate change is a rapidly increasing stress on ecosystems and can
exacerbate the effects of other stresses, including from habitat fragmentation, loss
and conversion, over-exploitation, invasive alien species and pollution. Human-
induced climate change could shift the net natural carbon cycle towards annual
net emissions from terrestrial sinks and weaken ocean sinks through temperature
rises and CO2 concentrations, thus further accelerating climate change.
Functional diversity can explain and predict the impact of organisms on
ecosystems and thereby provide a mechanistic link between the two. Critical
points in developing predictive measures of functional diversity are the choice of
functional traits with which organisms are distinguished, how the diversity of that
trait information is summarized into a measure of functional diversity, and that the
measures of functional diversity are validated through quantitative analyses and
experimental tests. Global modelling has been useful in obtaining an overview of
possible gross changes in growth form and vegetation distributions. Yet, conser-
vation planning requires information about species range shifts at specific sites
and within specific regions. Accordingly, more detailed regional modelling of biotic
changes is of fundamental importance in understanding the impacts of climate
change on biodiversity.
Remote sensing (RS) taking images or other measurements of Earth
from above provides a unique perspective on what is happening on the Earth and
thus plays a special role in biodiversity and conservation applications. RS also
provides a variety of information that facilitates estimating species distributions,
and is an essential input into models that estimate overall biodiversity and how it
is changing.
The new Strategic Plan for Biodiversity contains a coherent overarch-
ing framework to assess progress toward twenty ambitious, but achievable tar-
gets, collectively known as the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Target 15 seeks to
relate biodiversity and climate change in both directions and can benefit from the
observations conducted by the climate change community. At its 11th Conference
of the Parties (COP-11) in Hyderabad, India in October 2012, the CBD adopted
an indicator framework for the Biodiversity Strategic Plan and notably for the Aichi
Biodiversity Targets.
OBJECTIVES
- To enhance understanding relationship between biodiversity, climate change and other pressures. - To improve understanding of the local and regional scale impacts of climate on biodiversity. - To develop methodologies, criteria and indicators to assess the impacts of climate change mitigation and adaptation activities on biodiversity and other aspects of sustainable development. -To identify biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of activities and policies that future mitigating climate change effects, especially in India.
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Discussion during Lunch
Participants presence
Cultural programme
Inaugural ceremony
Presentation
Competition for Young scientist award
BDCC-2018 [email protected] BDCC-2018 [email protected]
Welcome to IIT Kharagpur
BDCC-2018 [email protected]
BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
BDCC 2018 (24th – 27th February 2018)
Commemorating the UN’s Decade on Biodiversity
International Workshop on
MEMORIES OF BDCC-2010
KEY QUESTIONS:
Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
THEMES/TECHNICAL SESSIONS
I. Climate Change and Functional Biodiversity
II. Biodiversity and Geomatic Tools
III. Himalayan Biodiversity
IV. Ecology, Environment and Biodiversity
V. Biodiversity and Biotechnology
VI. Food Security, Adaptation and Mitigation
1. How can we better understand feedback mechanism between
climate change and biodiversity?
2. How a predicted warming world discourage biodiversity?
3. Is spatial biodiversity special? -Geomatics perspective!
4. Do temperature modulate the Himalayan biodiversity pattern?
5. Are there examples whereby biodiversity conservation strategies
might exacerbate climate change?
BDCC-2018 [email protected]
Location:
Kharagpur is known world over for two landmarks. One, the third longest railway plat-form, and the other, the Indian Institute of Technology, more commonly known as lIT. Situated about 120 km west of Kolkata, Kharagpur can be reached in about 2 hours by train from Howrah railway station of Kolkata or 3 hours by car from Kolkata Airport. Kharagpur is also connected by direct train services to most major cities of the country. The Institute is about 10 minutes drive (5 km) from the Kharagpur railway station. Private taxi, auto or cycle-rickshaw can be hired to reach the Institute.
Facilities within campus All the Guest houses have regular catering facilities. Other eating places also provide excellent food facilities. Some joints located within the Institute premises serve tea, coffee, soft drinks and light snacks. Three banks are located inside the Campus. State Bank of India, Syndicate Bank and Punjab National Bank.
Weather Winter (October to February) is moderate and pleasant (10 to 25 C) in Kharagpur. Sum-mer (March to June) is hot (25 to 40 C) and sometimes humid. Rains are normally con-fined to the months of June to September.
For more information: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/
24.02.2018 1400 hrs Registration 1400-1600 hrs Tutorial -I (Species distribution modelling ) 1600-1800 hrs Tutorial -II (Eco-physiological measurements) 1900-2200 hrs Interactions & Kick off Dinner
25.02.2018 0800 hrs Inauguration 0930-1130 hrs Technical -I (Session Keynote, roundtable presentation) 1200-1300 hrs Poster Session-I (Judgment for award) 1300-1430 hrs ****Lunch Break**** 1430-1630 hrs Technical -II (Session Keynote, roundtable presentation) 1700-1800 hrs Poster Session-II (Judgment for award) 1800-2000 hrs Cultural Program 2000-2200 hrs ****Dinner****
26.02.2018 0830 -1030 hrs Technical -III (Session Keynote, roundtable presentation) 1100 -1300 hrs Technical -IV (Session Keynote, roundtable presentation) 1300 -1430 hrs ****Lunch Break**** (Award Announcement) 1430 -1630 hrs Technical -V (Session Keynote, roundtable presentations) 1630- 1730 hrs Campus Visit (Museum) 1800-2000 hrs Networking/Journal special issues meeting
2000-2200 hrs ****Dinner****
27.02.2018 0800 -1000 hrs Technical –VI (Session Keynote, roundtable presentation) 1000 –1030 hrs Valedictory Session 1030 hrs onwards Visit to Cultural Heritage site
Best Oral & Poster Award Contest:
1st Prize (Rs. 5000/-), 2nd Prize (Rs. 3000/-) & 3rd Prize (Rs. 2000/-)
Registration: For Scientists/officials from academia/others: Rs. 5000/- (Including Food; excluding accommodation) For Students: (*approval certificate required) Rs. 3000/- Accommodation*: (in IIT Guest House, Limited) Double Room with double occupancy: Rs. 1200/- per day Double Room with single occupancy: Rs. 800/- per day Single Room with single occupancy: Rs. 300/- per day Hostel Accommodation for Students: Rs. 150/- per day
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline (Up to 500-Words in MS Word format) 30th January 2018 Abstract Acceptance Intimation 05th February 2018 Full paper Submission Deadline (on intimation only) (Up to 5000-Words in MS Word format) 10th March 2018 Publication in Peer reviewed International Journal: Selected papers shall be published in five Peer-reviewed International Journals. Application Procedure: Send Your Abstract Title, Key wards; at 12 Times New Roman Font, (with affiliations) to [email protected] and *Students need (i) to send/carry a certificate from their authority of University/ Institute or copy of Valid ID card and (ii) to specifically mention if their paper to be consid-ered for ‘Student’s award contest’. (iii) May apply for either tutorial –I or II. *Registration Fee: DD in favour of ‘CEP–STC, IIT Kharagpur’ (or) Electronic transfer to Name: CEP–STC, Savings A/C No:95562200002955, IFSC: SYNB0009556 & inform with proof of details of electronic pay-ment.
Contact Information: M.D Behera, Organizing Secretary
BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP CORAL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Tel. 91-3222-28 1802/2207, FAX- 91-3222-255303
M. Rajeevan (MoES, New Delhi)
P.P. Chakrabarti (IIT Kharagpur)
A.S. Kiran Kumar (ISRO, DOS, Bengaluru)
Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/CL Patrons
Advisors
Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) at Indian Institute of Technol-ogy, Kharagpur was established on 16th March, 2005.
Organizing Committee
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
SAM Lab Team
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Spatial Analysis and Modelling Laboratory (SAM Lab)
(http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/CL/faculty/cl-mdbehera)
The important mission of the centre is to identify and address the challenges of the Earth Systems Science and Technology
VISION:
To impart quality Education in Earth System Science & Technology to meet the national requirement .
Advance research and technology development on multi-disciplinary aspects of Environmental & Climate Sciences and Land-Ocean related subjects
To become a hub in the Global network. Keep the policymakers and industries abreast of technological & scientific advancements in the field and its relevance to emerging issues. At present, the Centre is offering two year post-graduate pro-gramme Master of Technology, in Earth System Science and Technology and PhD program.
Spatial Analysis and Modelling (CORAL) is pioneering new approaches for addressing ecological problems at multiple approaches.
Maiden grid level database on plant diversity of India
Plant diversity and distribution analysis
Relation between productivity and biodiversity
Forest resilience in India and the Himalayan region
Gradient pattern analysis of plant biodiversity data-base
Plant dispersal as a proxy to explain Island biogeog-raphy
Ecological, land use and hydrological modelling
Akhilesh Gupta, DST, New Delhi Renu Swarup, DBT, New Delhi YVN Krishnamurthy, NRSC, Hyderabad PG Diwakar, ISRO, Bengaluru R Tuli, Punjab Uni., Chandigarh SK Barik, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow AK Raha, Kolkata, West Bengal S Tripathy, Forest Dept., Odisha VK Sinha, Forest Dept., UP AK Gupta, Forest Dept., Tripura A Mohanty, MoEF&CC, New Delhi CS Jha, NRSC, Hyderabad C Biradar, ICARDA, Egypt S Tripathy, IIT Kharagpur PC Pandey, IIT Kharagpur
PS Roy, UoH, Hyderabad E Sharma, ICIMOD, Nepal B Koch, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany AK Skidmore, Univ. of Twente S Running, Univ. of Montana, USA B Meenakumari, NBA, Chennai KN Ganeshaiah, UAS, Bengaluru H Nagendra, Azim Premji Univ., Bengaluru Rajkumar, SAC, Ahmadabad PLN Raju, NESAC, Shillong SPS Kushwaha, IIRS, Dehradun UC Mohanty, IIT Bhubaneswar G Amarnath, IWMI, Sri Lanka SK Srivastava, IIRS, Dehradun SK Barai, IIT Kharagpur
Chairman - ANV Satyanarayana, Head, CORAL, IIT Kharagpur
S Matin, Teagasc, Ireland D Ray, RRII, Tripura ML Khan, Sagar Univ., M.P S Jayakumar, Pondicherry Univ. G Talukdar, WII, Dehradun A Mishra, Khallikote Univ., Berhampur C Sudhakar Reddy, NRSC, Hyderabad H Padalia, IIRS, Dehradun CP Singh, SAC, Ahmadabad VM Chowdary, RRSC, Delhi D Swain, IIT Bhubaneswar PK Srivastava, BHU, Varanasi NK Dhal, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar HS Suresh, CES, IISc, Bengaluru Uma Sankar, NEHU, Shillong K Sarma, IPU, New Delhi
VS Chitale, ICIMOD, Nepal SK Behera, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow N Sharma, State RS Centre, Sikkim S Sharma, GBPNIHESD, Almora A Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur C Shaji, IIT Kharagpur K Jayanarayan, IIT Kharagpur G Srinivasa Rao, RRSC, Kolkata TP Singh, Symbiosis, Pune M Kale, C-DAC, Pune A Khuroo, Kashmir Univ., Srinagar A Roy, IIRS, Dehradun A Mitra, Calcutta University J Krishnaswamy, ATREE, Bengaluru S Nandy, IIRS, Dehradun SR Joshi, NEHU, Shillong
Organizing Secretary
Secretary : MD Behera Jt. Secretary : MK Dash Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Contact: +91 -3222-281802/3 Contact: +91 -3222 -281824/5
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