Biodiversity management of India

Challeges of wild life reserves of India

Threat to bio-diversity of sanctuaries and national parks due to management and fund allocation challenges.

Poaching, lack of genetic diversity, diseases.

Impact of civil conflict, poverty and food insecurity of adjoining population and result of fencing.

Roadways, tourism and mining.

Challenges to contiguity and area covered by Indian sanctuaries.Forest fires

Soil erosion,grazing

Rainfall, flood

Pollution

Google scholar or other relavant search engine

( https://scholar.google.com )

Do extensive search of desired topic (Use appropriate key words)

Download the desired research paper or research article

Read the paper

Cite the relevant papers

Put the data in excel sheet

Put the data in excel sheet

Go to google scholar

Download the desired articles

Extract the data from articles and cite the papers.

Do extensive search of desired topic

Issues of concernRight data

Right statistics

Right analysis

Right visualization

Let us start with the first step

Following are snapshots of project tiger excel sheet, as example.

Contact for papers: Naveen Tripathi.

Roadmap and deadlines

Come up with list of parameters and have a discussion with Naveen on June 9th

Take your assigned number of sanctuaries on June 12th and complete the literature search, review and data extraction by July 20th. Report of progress expected every 3rd day without fail.

Either pick up a new project with us or work on statistics, analysis and visualization of this data.

Paper writing and submission August 15th.

If you are interested in data analysis and visualization please see presentation on that and start exploring

the web-links in the presentation.