LEMoN Plotters 2025
A meeting for reflecting on the past and looking in the future of Ecosystem Monitoring in India
The LEMoN Plotters 2025, hosted at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, was organized to commemorate the decade of LEMoN's inception. The event served as a vibrant platform for team members to reflect on field experiences, discuss data collection standards, share analytical approaches, and co-develop strategies for the future of the network. This annual network meeting brought together over twenty researchers, field technicians and scientists from the BEER Lab at NCBS and the Nature Conservation Foundation.
Poster of LEMoN Plotters 2025
The meeting began with participants sharing updates and key outputs from their plots, offering a rich overview of the ecological diversity and research efforts across the network. the meeting touched upon a diverse array of topics, ranging from data versioning and open science practices to hands-on workshops on interpreting gas exchange data and analyzing tree demographic patterns. The event also allowed LEMoN members to candidly share challenges, tips, ticks and stories from their field sites, helping build a stronger, more cohesive network. The final day also featured a practical demonstration of Environmental Gas Monitoring (EGM), conducted with the support from Nutech International - equipping participants with confidence in using and troubleshooting the equipment. The three-day event closed with a thoughtful look ahead at the network's shared goals, followed by a gala dinner that celebrated the spirit of camaraderie and collaboration.
LEMoN Plotters 2025 Participants
NCBS-Oxford Meet 2014
A conference on Ecosystems Monitoring and Forest Census Research in South India
Climate change has emerged as the primary ecological challenge of our times. Globally, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are increasing and temperatures are rising. Against this backdrop, earth’s tropical forests, which take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and fix it into the biosphere, are her single largest buffer against runaway global warming. Documenting and predicting the responses of tropical forest ecosystems to changing climates is an urgent and important area of research globally. This workshop and mini-conference at NCBS, held in collaboration with the Ecosystem Laboratory at the University of Oxford and the RAINFOR-GEM network, brought together forest ecologists working in different tropical regions of the world, including India, to discuss
a. methodologies for forest dynamics assessments, and
b. ways in which different groups in India can synergize their efforts with each other and with those across the globe.
a. methodologies for forest dynamics assessments, and
b. ways in which different groups in India can synergize their efforts with each other and with those across the globe.
Poster of NCBS-Oxford Meet 2014
Around sixty participants including students, researchers and eminent scientists from several Indian institutes/organizations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom and University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka attended the two day workshop-cum-conference. Day one comprised the workshop component during which participants were introduced to several plot establishment and monitoring protocols. On day two participants learnt about current research and future directions in forest dynamics from scientists and students from several esteemed academic institutes and organizations through a series of oral presentations. The conference concluded with an interactive session where ideas on how different groups hitherto working independently in India on forest dynamics could synergize their efforts and work towards a productive collaboration in the future.
NCBS-Oxford Meet 2014 Participants
The meet was made possible through a UGC-UKIERI project grant received as part of a UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership between NCBS and University of Oxford.
A meeting report is published in Current Science and covered by The Hindu.
A meeting report is published in Current Science and covered by The Hindu.
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