Publications

Published Articles:

1. Roy, B., Theide, R., Thomas, S.,.., Elling, F, 2025 Bacterial branched GDGTs in soil record optimum growth conditions: A global and regional perspective from altitudinal transects, Global and Planetary Change, p.105101.

2. Roy, B., Kharpuli, T., Baidya, D., and Sanyal, P., 2025. Distribution and stability of lipid biomolecules across different soil size fractions across terrestrial ecosystems. JGR: Biogeosciences 130(4), p.e2024JG008424.

3. Roy, B., Singh, A., Tiwari. M., 2025. Tracing macroalgal-induced changes in carbon dynamics of high-Arctic fjords using biomarker fingerprinting.  JGR: Ocean, 130(4), p.e2024JC021900.

4. Singh, A., Jain, A., Singh, R., Singh, K.S., Roy, B., Tiwari, M., David, T.D. and Jagtap, A., 2024. Tracing marine and terrestrial biochemical signatures of particulate organic matter in an Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden). Marine Chemistry, p.104468.

5. Ghosh,, S., Roy, B., and Sanyal, P.,The Late Neogene distribution of C3-C4 plants in the Himalayan foreland basin: Insight from the 13C values and sedimentological architecture of the Siwaliks, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 549(1), pp.SP549-2023. .

6. Sanyal, P, Adhyay, P, Roy, B…….. Geologic History of Plants and Climate in India. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2024, Vol-52 

7. Roy, B., Baidya, D., Jain, V., 2023 Hydrogeomorphic response of charcoals during river transits and its impact on the carbon cycle (JGR: Earth Surface, p.e2023JF007133 )

8. Mukhopadhyay, S., Roy, B., Sangode, S.J., Jaiswal, M.K. and Dutta, S., 2023. Late Quaternary sediments from Barakar-Damodar Basin, Eastern India include the 74 ka Toba ash and a 17 ka microlith toolkit. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences:X, p.100135.

9. Roy, B., andSanyal, P., 2022, Isotopic and molecular distribution of leaf-wax in plant-soil system of the Gangetic floodplain and its implication for paleorecords(Quaternary International, 607, pp.89-99).

10. Roy, B., Roy, S., Goyal, K., Ghosh, S. and Sanyal, P., 2021. Biomarker and carbon isotopic evidence of marine incursions in the Himalayan Foreland Basin during its overfilled stage. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, p.e2020PA004083.

11. Ghosh,,S., Bera, M.K., Roy, B., andSanyal, P., 2021 Revisiting the diachronous transition of C3 to C4 plants in the Himalayan foreland and other parts of the globe: A sedimentological perspective, Sedimentology.68, p. 2473-2499

12. Roy, B., Ghosh, S. and Sanyal, P., 2020. Morpho-tectonic control on the distribution of C3-C4 plants in the central Himalayan Siwaliks during Late Plio-Pleistocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 535, p.116119.

13. Roy, B., Ghosh, S. and Sanyal, P., 2020. Impact of monsoon, vegetation, and landscape on pedogenesis: A case study using organic and inorganic tracers from the Himalayan foreland sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p.109854.

14. Roy, B.,Patra, S. and Sanyal, P., 2020. The carbon isotopic composition of occluded carbon in phytoliths: A comparative study of phytolith extraction methods. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 281, p.104280.

Under Review and Submission

2. Mukhopadhyay, S., Roy, B.,  et al. Climatic and sedimentation shifts during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene at Barakar Paleolithic site, Western Lower Ganga Basin: Impacts on vegetation and Human adaptations (Under revision: Quarternery Science Reviews)