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Australia
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

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69
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20047
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1429
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118

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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Lalit Kumar is affiliated with the University of New England in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on various subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Soil Science.

Their work covers a wide range of main topics, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Lalit Kumar has several recent publications that reflect the diverse areas of their research:

  • "Climate change and variability in Kenya: a review of impacts on agriculture and food security," 2020, Environment Development and Sustainability
  • "Mapping of land-use/land-cover changes and its dynamics in Awash River Basin using remote sensing and GIS," 2020, Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment
  • "Invasive weed species' threats to global biodiversity: Future scenarios of changes in the number of invasive species in a changing climate," 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • "Perception of farmers on climate change and its impacts on agriculture across various altitudinal zones of Bhutan Himalayas," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  • "Projected shifts in the distribution range of Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in the Hindu Kush Himalaya due to climate change," 2021, Ecological Informatics

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecological Informatics
  • Sustainability
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment
  • Remote Sensing

Lalit Kumar collaborates with several frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Sujith S. Ratnayake
  • Benjamin Kipkemboi Kogo
  • Champika S. Kariyawasam
  • Md Kamrul Hasan
  • Michael Reid

In addition to journal articles, Lalit Kumar has contributed to book publications. Notably, they have a book titled Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific, published in 2020 by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF FIRE AND HERBIVORY ON THE STABILITY OF SAVANNA ECOSYSTEMS

    Frank van Langevelde;Claudius A.D.M. van de Vijver;Claudius A.D.M. van de Vijver;Lalit Kumar;Lalit Kumar;Johan van de Koppel

  • Self-organization of vegetation in arid ecosystems

    M Rietkerk;MC Boerlijst;F van Langevelde;R HilleRisLambers

  • Modelling topographic variation in solar radiation in a GIS environment

    Lalit Kumar;Andrew K. Skidmore;Edmund Knowles

  • Comparative assessment of the measures of thematic classification accuracy

    Canran Liu;Paul Frazier;Lalit Kumar

  • A review of data assimilation of remote sensing and crop models

    Xiuliang Jin;Lalit Kumar;Zhenhai Li;Haikuan Feng

  • Soil Salinity Mapping and Monitoring in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions Using Remote Sensing Technology: A Review

    Amal Allbed;Lalit Kumar

  • Assessing soil salinity using soil salinity and vegetation indices derived from IKONOS high-spatial resolution imageries: Applications in a date palm dominated region

    Amal Allbed;Lalit Kumar;Yousef Y. Aldakheel

  • Climate change and variability in Kenya: a review of impacts on agriculture and food security

    Benjamin Kipkemboi Kogo;Lalit Kumar;Richard Koech

  • Imaging Spectrometry and Vegetation Science

    Lalit Kumar;Karin Schmidt;Steve Dury;Andrew Skidmore

  • A comparison of absolute performance of different correlative and mechanistic species distribution models in an independent area

    Farzin Shabani;Lalit Kumar;Mohsen Ahmadi

  • Land Degradation by Soil Erosion in Nepal: A Review

    Devraj Chalise;Lalit Kumar;Paul Kristiansen

  • Remote Sensing of Above-Ground Biomass

    Lalit Kumar;Onisimo Mutanga

  • Monitoring the coastline change of Hatiya Island in Bangladesh using remote sensing techniques

    Manoj Kumer Ghosh;Lalit Kumar;Chandan Roy

  • Spatial heterogeneity and irreversible vegetation change in semiarid grazing systems

    Johan van de Koppel;Max Rietkerk;Frank van Langevelde;Frank van Langevelde;Lalit Kumar;Lalit Kumar

  • Review of the use of remote sensing for biomass estimation to support renewable energy generation

    Lalit Kumar;Priyakant Sinha;Subhashni Taylor;Abdullah F. Alqurashi

  • Global alterations in areas of suitability for maize production from climate change and using a mechanistic species distribution model (CLIMEX).

    Nadiezhda Yakovleva Zitz Ramirez-Cabral;Lalit Kumar;Farzin Shabani

  • Mapping and Modelling Spatial Variation in Soil Salinity in the Al Hassa Oasis Based on Remote Sensing Indicators and Regression Techniques

    Amal Allbed;Lalit Kumar;Priyakant Sinha

  • Invasive alien plant species dynamics in the Himalayan region under climate change.

    Pramod Lamsal;Lalit Kumar;Achyut Aryal;Kishor Atreya

  • Estimating tropical pasture quality at canopy level using band depth analysis with continuum removal in the visible domain

    O. Mutanga;A.K. Skidmore;L. Kumar;J.G. Ferwerda

  • Sustainable livelihoods through conservation of wetland resources: a case of economic benefits from Ghodaghodi Lake, western Nepal

    Pramod Lamsal;Krishna Prasad Pant;Lalit Kumar;Kishor Atreya

  • Mapping Coastal Vegetation Using an Expert System and Hyperspectral Imagery

    K.S. Schmidt;A.K. Skidmore;E.H. Kloosterman;H.H. van Oosten

Frequent Co-Authors

Raif S. Geha
Raif S. Geha Boston Children's Hospital
Nick Reid
Nick Reid University of New England
Andrew K. Skidmore
Andrew K. Skidmore University of Twente
Onisimo Mutanga
Onisimo Mutanga University of KwaZulu-Natal
Max Rietkerk
Max Rietkerk Utrecht University
Frank van Langevelde
Frank van Langevelde Wageningen University & Research
Herbert H. T. Prins
Herbert H. T. Prins Wageningen University & Research
Pedram Ghamisi
Pedram Ghamisi Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Leo Stroosnijder
Leo Stroosnijder Wageningen University & Research
Hans C. Oettgen
Hans C. Oettgen Boston Children's Hospital

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