Dr. Soumit K. Behera

Senior Principal Scientist

Research Interests

Dr. Soumit K. Behera currently works at the Plant Ecology and Climate Change Science Division.  His group has been working in the field of forest biomass and productivity assessment, monitoring and modelling using field measurements. His group primary focusing on long-term studies for understanding carbon dynamics in tropical deciduous forests.

 

Dr. Behera is experienced in forest ecology, field measurements for biomass and productivity studies using silvicultural and sensor measurement techniques. As a leading team member, he has assessed, modelled and validated the biomass and productivity in three forest types in an Indian tropical deciduous forest. He has also generated inputs for 11 eco-physiological variables from in-situmeasurements to run Biome-BGC, a production efficiency model. He has standardized and established a new indirect method for LAI estimation in tropical deciduous forest, and formulated forest type-wise aboveground biomass equations using LAI as variable. He has served as a nodal Principal Investigator of an investigation entitled ‘Exploratory studies on climate change and adaptation of species complexes’ during 2008-2012, wherein long-term ecological observation plots were established in three forest communities at Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary in northern India, for understanding carbon dynamics in tropical deciduous forests.