Natural regeneration is increasingly central to forest restoration because it can rebuild vegetation without the costs and ecological simplification associated with universal tree planting. Its success, however, depends on more than the presence of remnant vegetation or favourabl...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91128
Ahmedabad District, situated in the middle reaches of the semi-arid Sabarmati Basin, has undergone rapid urbanisation, groundwater over-abstraction, and changes in cropping intensity over the past two decades. Quantifying how these transformations have altered evapotranspiration...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91124
Carbon sequestration is fundamental to climate-change mitigation because terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems store carbon in vegetation, biomass, soils, and the Earth’s crust. Reliable estimation of carbon stocks and their temporal and spatial changes is essential for the formulat...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91125
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is an increasingly widespread component of light pollution that alters natural light–dark conditions in aquatic environments. This review synthesises current knowledge on the sources and underwater propagation of ALAN, the factors influencing its...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91126
Drought is a complex and recurring hydroclimatic hazard that affects agricultural production, water resources, ecosystems and socioeconomic development. Effective drought assessment requires approaches capable of capturing its spatial and temporal variability and its multiple dim...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91123
Climate change is altering the environmental conditions that regulate phytopathogen survival, reproduction, dispersal, infection and interactions with host plants and vectors. This review examines climate change as a driver of variability in phytopathogens, with emphasis on chang...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91121
The sedimentary strata of the lithosphere are constantly changing under the influence of tectonic deformations, lithogenic processes, and fluid movement. The study of secondary processes in the upper layers of the lithosphere is possible in natural outcrops or man-made engineerin...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91119
Tropical land systems are exposed to an unusually dense combination of hazards, including cyclones, extreme rainfall, riverine and coastal flooding, prolonged dry spells, wildfire, mass movement, salinisation and land subsidence. These hazards rarely act in isolation, and their c...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91120
Rainfall variability and drought occurrence are major challenges affecting agricultural productivity and water resource management in the semi-arid regions of India. The present study was undertaken to analyse long-term rainfall variability, rainfall anomalies, drought characteri...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91118
The present study assessed the floristic composition, phytosociological structure, diversity and conservation status of riparian vegetation along the Arpa River in Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh, India during 2024–25 and 2025–26. The study was conducted along the selected river...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2026/v30i91117