Evolution of Indian Dry Woodlands
Evolution of Indian Dry Woodlands
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Forests cover 29% of India's landmass and act as an important terrestrial carbon pool, habitat for several endangered and endemic flora and fauna, and support the livelihood of millions of people across the country.
Members of BEER Lab have been working across different forest biomes of India to track their evolutionary history, understand their distribution patterns and community composition, and asses their responses to global climate change scenarios.
Ongoing Projects
Tracking evolutionary history of dry forests and predicting their future
Tracking evolutionary history of dry forests and predicting their future
We are tracking evolutionary history of Indian forests using woody plants as a model system and predicting their future under climate change scenarios.
Paleobiogeography and diversification history of tropical angiosperms
Paleobiogeography and diversification history of tropical angiosperms
We are integrating fossil pollen morphology with molecular phylogenies to reconstruct evolutionary histories of tropical angiosperms and assess their range shifts driven by deep-time plate tectonics and climate change.
Woody plant diversity across
dry biomes of Indian
subcontinent
Woody plant diversity across
dry biomes of Indian
subcontinent
We are characterizing taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of dry-adapted plant species across multiple biomes in peninsular India.
People Associated
Mahesh Sankaran
Jayshree Ratnam
Kaikho Liriina
Mahi Bansal
Liriina, K., Mahapatra, B.B., Gopal, A., Madhyastha, A., Ratnam, J. & Sankaran, M. Distribution patterns of two widespread, co-dominant savanna tree species of the Indian subcontinent under current and future climates. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.13.664606
Mishra, S., Bansal, M., Prasad, V., Singh, V. P., Murthy, S., Parmar, S., Utescher, T. & Khangar, R. (2024). Did the Deccan Volcanism impact the Indian flora during the Maastrichtian? Earth-Science Reviews. 258, 104950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104950.
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