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"Khan ML" Authored Publications:

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1 Ecosystem-level carbon storage and its links to diversity, structural and environmental drivers in tropical forests of Western Ghats, India. Kothandaraman S, Dar JA, Sundarapandian S, Dayanandan S, Khan ML 32778785
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2 The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment. Lal P, Kumar A, Kumar S, Kumari S, Saikia P, Dayanandan A, Adhikari D, Khan ML 32408041
BIOLOGY
3 Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia. Zohner CM, Mo L, Renner SS, Svenning JC, Vitasse Y, Benito BM, Ordonez A, Baumgarten F, Bastin JF, Sebald V, Reich PB, Liang J, Nabuurs GJ, de-Miguel S, Alberti G, Antón-Fernández C, Balazy R, Brändli UB, Chen HYH, Chisholm C, Cienciala E, Dayanandan S, Fayle TM, Frizzera L, Gianelle D, Jagodzinski AM, Jaroszewicz B, Jucker T, Kepfer-Rojas S, Khan ML, Kim HS, Korjus H, Johannsen VK, Laarmann D, Lang M, Zawila-Niedzwiecki T, Niklaus PA, Paquette A, Pretzsch H, Saikia P, Schall P, Šeben V, Svoboda M, Tikhonova E, Viana H, Zhang C, Zhao X, Crowther TW 32393624
BIOLOGY
4 Genetic structure and diversity of indigenous rice (Oryza sativa) varieties in the Eastern Himalayan region of Northeast India. Choudhury B, Khan ML, Dayanandan S 23741655
BIOLOGY
5 Functional androdioecy in critically endangered Gymnocladus assamicus (Leguminosae) in the Eastern Himalayan Region of Northeast India. Choudhury BI, Khan ML, Dayanandan S 24586267
BIOLOGY
6 Patterns of nucleotide diversity and phenotypes of two domestication related genes (OsC1 and Wx) in indigenous rice varieties in Northeast India. Choudhury BI, Khan ML, Dayanandan S 24935343
BIOLOGY
7 Genetic relatedness among indigenous rice varieties in the Eastern Himalayan region based on nucleotide sequences of the Waxy gene. Choudhury BI, Khan ML, Dayanandan S 25547027
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Title:The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment.
Authors:Lal P,  Kumar A,  Kumar S,  Kumari S,  Saikia P,  Dayanandan A,  Adhikari D,  Khan ML
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32408041?dopt=Abstract
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139297
Publication:The Science of the total environment
Keywords:Absolute humidity;  Air pollution;  COVID-19 hazard;  Temperature; 
PMID:32408041 Category:Sci Total Environ Date Added:2020-05-15
Dept Affiliation: BIOLOGY
1 Department of Geoinformatics, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe-835205 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
2 Department of Geoinformatics, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe-835205 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India; International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), South Asia. Electronic address: amit.kumar@cuj.ac.in.
3 Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe-835205 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India; International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), South Asia. Electronic address: purabi.saikia@cuj.ac.in.
4 Department of Biology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada.
5 Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, Meghalaya, India.
6 Department of Botany, Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh 470003, India; International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), South Asia.

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The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment.

Sci Total Environ. 2020 May 08;732:139297

Authors: Lal P, Kumar A, Kumar S, Kumari S, Saikia P, Dayanandan A, Adhikari D, Khan ML

Abstract

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 has caused tremendous suffering and huge economic losses. We hypothesized that extreme measures of partial-to-total shutdown might have influenced the quality of the global environment because of decreased emissions of atmospheric pollutants. We tested this hypothesis using satellite imagery, climatic datasets (temperature, and absolute humidity), and COVID-19 cases available in the public domain. While the majority of the cases were recorded from Western countries, where mortality rates were strongly positively correlated with age, the number of cases in tropical regions was relatively lower than European and North American regions, possibly attributed to faster human-to-human transmission. There was a substantial reduction in the level of nitrogen dioxide (NO2: 0.00002 mol m-2), a low reduction in CO (<0.03 mol m-2), and a low-to-moderate reduction in Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD: ~0.1-0.2) in the major hotspots of COVID-19 outbreak during February-March 2020, which may be attributed to the mass lockdowns. Our study projects an increasing coverage of high COVID-19 hazard at absolute humidity levels ranging from 4 to 9 g m-3 across a large part of the globe during April-July 2020 due to a high prospective meteorological suitability for COVID-19 spread. Our findings suggest that there is ample scope for restoring the global environment from the ill-effects of anthropogenic activities through temporary shutdown measures.

PMID: 32408041 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]




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