Indian Brahmaputra valley offers significant potential for cultivation of rubber trees under changed climate

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Indian Brahmaputra valley offers significant potential for cultivation of rubber trees under changed climate [1]

In a warming world, species distribution models have become a useful tool for predicting plausible shifts of a species occurrence enforced by climate change. Using maximum entropy (Mexent) model, we analysed present and future distribution patterns of rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) in two distinct bio-greographical regions of India: the Western Ghats having a good distribution of rubber plantations at present and the Brahmaputra Valley, where rubber trees are recently being cultivated.

Publication Date:

10/08/2014

Author(s): Debabrata Ray [2], M. D. Behera [3], James Jacob [4]

Source: Current Science [5]

Vol:

107

Issue:

3

pp:

461-469

Tags:

Rubber [6], Climate Change [7], Brahmaputra Valley [8], Western Ghats [9], Tripura [10], Assam [11], Meghalaya [12], Mizoram [13], Manipur [14], Nagaland [15], Arunachal [16], Kerala [17], Tamil Nadu [18], Karnataka [19], Maharashtra [20], Rainfall Pattern [21], Agriculture [22]

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