Kanchan Puri

Functional Role of Elephants in Maintaining Forest Ecosystem and Biodiversity: Lessons from Northwestern Elephant Range in India

Kanchan Puri, Vishant Yadav & Ritesh Joshi · Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology · 2019

This article focuses on the functional role of Asian elephant in maintaining forest ecosystem and biodiversity. Elephant performs different activities in forest which greatly influence ecosystem processes, plant communities and trophic structure of the community. Elephants have c...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajee/2019/v9i230091

A Geospatial Study to Assess the Land Use Land Cover of Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, India

Gopala Areendran, Kanchan Puri, Krishna Raj, Sraboni Mazumdar & Ritesh Joshi · Asian Journal of Geographical Research · 2018

There is inadequate knowledge of the natural resources in the remote inaccessible protected areas of North East Region (NER) of India. Arunachal Pradesh, which is one of the state in NER is extremely rich in biodiversity and forms a part of the biodiversity hotspots in the Easter...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajgr/2018/v1i229603