BACKGROUND Reducing carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) is of central importance to combat climate change. Foremost among the challenges is quantifying nation's carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation, which requires information on forest carbon storage. Here we estimated carbon storage in India's forest biomass for the years 2003, 2005 and 2007 and the net f...

Prior to the current era of digital geomorphological mapping, global and regional-scale land surface characterization was advanced by qualitative interpretations that relied on human visualization aided disciplinary knowledge geophysical processes combined with extensive field study. In early twentieth century, Fenneman proposed devise systematic physiographic divisions United States in 1916 pr...

Natural and anthropogenic causes jointly lead to land degradation eventually desertification, which occurs in arid, semiarid, dry subhumid areas. Furthermore, extended drought periods may cause soil exposure erosion, and, finally, desertification. Several climatic, geological, hydrological, physiographic, biological, as well human factors contribute This paper presents a methodological procedur...