Key Publications

Singh, S. K., D. N. Rao, M. Agrawal, J. Pandey and D. Narayan (1991). Air pollution tolerance index of plants. Journal of Environmental Management 32: 45 – 55. 

Pandey, J. and M. Agrawal (1992). Ozone: concentration variabilities in a seasonally dry tropical climate. Environment International 18: 515 – 520. 

Pandey, J. and M. Agrawal (1994). Evaluation of air pollution phytotoxicity in a seasonally dry tropical urban environment using three woody perennials. New Phytologist 126: 53 – 61. 

Pandey, J. and U. Pandey (2002). Cyanobacterial flora and the physicochemical environment of six tropical fresh water lakes of Udaipur. Journal of Environmental Science 14 (1): 54-62. 

Pandey, U. and J. Pandey (2002). Antibacterial properties of cyanobacteria: a cost effective and ecofriendly approach to control bacterial leaf spot disease of chilli. Current Science 82: 262-264. 

Pandey, U. and Pandey, J. (2008) Enhanced production of biomass, pigments and antioxidant capacity of a nutritionally important cyanobacterium Nostochopsis lobatus. Bioresource Technology 99: 4520 – 4523. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2007.08.034 (IF. 11.4)

Pandey, J. and Pandey, U. (2009). Accumulation of heavy metals in dietary vegetables and cultivated soil horizon in organic farming system in relation to atmospheric deposition in a seasonally dry tropical region of India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 148: 61 – 74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-007-0139-8 (IF. 2.9)

Pandey, J. and Pandey, U. (2009). Microbial processes at land – water interface and cross – domain causal relationships as influenced by atmospheric deposition of pollutants in three freshwater lakes in India.  Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management 14: 71 – 84.

Pandey, U and Pandey, J. (2013) Impact of DOC trends resulting from changing climatic extremes and atmospheric deposition chemistry on periphyton community of a freshwater tropical lake of India. Biogeochemistry 112: 537-553. 

Chakraborty, M., Sharma, C., J. Pandey, Gupta, P. K. (2013) Assessment of energy generation potentials of MSW in Delhi under different technological options. Energy Conversion and Management 75:249–255. 

Pandey, J., Pandey U., and Singh, A. V., (2014) Impact of changing atmospheric deposition chemistry on carbon and nutrient loading to Ganga River: integrating land–atmosphere–water components to uncover cross-domain carbon linkages. Biogeochemistry 119: 179- 198. 

Pandey U., Pandey J., Singh A.V. and Mishra A. (2017) Anthropogenic drivers shift diatom dominance-diversity relationships and transparent exopolymeric paticles (TEP) production in Ganga River: Implication for natural cleaning of river water. Current Science, 113: 959-964.

Pandey, J. and Yadav, A. (2017) Alternative alert system for Ganga River eutrophication using alkaline phosphatase as a level determinant. Ecological Indicators 82: 327–343. 

Jaiswal, D. and Pandey, J. (2019). An ecological response index for simultaneous prediction of eutrophication and metal pollution in large rivers. Water Research, 161: 423-438. 

Jaiswal, D. and Pandey, J. (2020). Benthic hypoxia in anthropogenically-impacted rivers provides positive feedback enhancing the level of bioavailable metals at sediment-water interface. Environmental Pollution, 258: 113643. 

Jaiswal, D., Pandey, U., Mishra, V. and Pandey, J., (2021). Integrating resilience with functional ecosystem measures: A novel paradigm for management decisions under multiple stressors interplay in freshwater ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 

Jaiswal, D. and Pandey, J. (2021). River ecosystem resilience risk index: A quantitative predictor of resilience and critical transitions in human-impacted large rivers. Environmental Pollution, 268: 11557.

Singh, M. Pandey., U. and Pandey, J. (2022). Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on water quality, microbial extracellular enzyme activity, and sediment-P release in the Ganga River, India. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 022-20243-9

Jaiswal, D., Naaz, N., Gupta, S., Madhav, K., and Pandey, J. (2023). Diurnal oscillation in dissolved oxygen at sediment-water interface fuels denitrification-driven N removal in Ganga River. Journal of Hydrology, 129301. 

Naaz, N., Pandey, J. (2024). Spatial distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in water and sediment in the Ganga River: Source diagnostics and health risk assessment on dietary exposure through a common carp fish Labeo rohita. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 

Naaz, N., Pandey, J. (2025). Human-driven eutrophy compounded by climate warming triggers ecosystem feedbacks to underscore the critical tipping point in the Ganga River, India. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 32, 13965–13981.