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The Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences erstwhile Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, established in the year 1946, was an outcome of vision of Prof. Birbal Sahni, is an autonomous Institute under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, dedicated to both fundamental and applied aspects of plant fossil research. This world renowned center of excellence has been pursuing researches on Archaean to recent sequences. An integrated and multidisciplinary approach is practiced in BSIP to make Palaeosciences more relevant in the 21st century.

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Research Highlights

Shah SK, Berkelhammer M, Li Q, Mehrotra N, Thomte L, Shell R, Pandey U, Gaire NP, Kathayat G, Sinha A. 2023. Regional tree-ring oxygen isotope deduced summer monsoon drought variability for Kumaun-Gharwal Himalaya. Quaternary Science Review 301: 107927.

Joshi Priyanka, Phartiyal Binita* Joshi Mallickarjun, Agrawal Shailesh, Pankaj Baghel and Rajveer Sharma. 2023. Reconstruction of landscape and climate during last 7000 cal yr BP of the largest basin of the Ladakh Range, NW Indian Himalaya.

Agarwal S, Shukla SK*, Srivastava P, Sundriyal Y. 2023. Peat sequence diatoms from Kedarnath, Central Himalaya, used to reconstruct mid-late Holocene hydroclimatic conditions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 612, 111381

Pandey A, Tripathi S, Basumatary SK. 2022. Non-Pollen Palynomorphs from the Late-Holocene Sediments of Majuli Island, Assam (Indo-Burma Region): Implications to Palaeoenvironmental Studies. In: Phartiyal, B., Mohan, R., Chakraborty, S., Dutta, V., Gupta, A.K. (eds) Climate Change and Environmental Impacts: Past, Present, and Future Perspective. Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham

Tripathi S, Srivastava J, Garg A, Khan S, Farooqui A, Quamar MF, Thakur B, Ranhotra PS, Basumatary SK, Trivedi A, Pandey S, Anupama K, Prasad S, Reghu N. 2022. Surface pollen quantification and floristic survey at Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Azad (SCSA) Bird Sanctuary, Central Ganga Plain, India: a pilot study for the palaeoecological implications. Journal of Palaeosciences, 71(2), 159–176

Tripathi S, Thakur B, Sharma A, Phartiyal B, Basumatary SK, Ghosh R et al. 2023. Modern biotic and abiotic analogues from the surface soil of Ganga-Ghaghara-Gandak interfluves of the Central Ganga Plain (CGP), India: Implications for the palaeoecological reconstruction. Catena 224:106975

Ansari AH. 2023. Detection of organic matter on Mars, results from various Mars missions, challenges, and future strategy: A review. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 10:1075052

Thomte L, Shah SK, Mehrotra N, Saikia A, Bhagabati AK. 2023. Dendrochronology in the tropics using tree-rings of Pinus kesiya. Dendrochronologia 78: 126070

Shukla SK*, Crosta X, Ikehara M. 2023. Synergic role of frontal migration and silicic acid concentration in driving diatom productivity in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the past 350 ka. Marine Micropaleontology, 181, 102245

Bhattacharyya A, Dhyani R, Joshi R, Shekhar M, Kuniyal JC, Ranhotra PS, Singh SP. 2023. Is survival of Himalayan Cedar (Cedrus deodara) threatened? An evaluation based on predicted scenarios of its growth trend under future climate change. Science of The Total Environment. 882: 163630

Mehrotra N, Basavaiah N, Shah SK. 2023. Revisit the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in Proxy Records from Zemu Glacier Sediments, Eastern Himalaya: Vegetation and Climate Reconstruction. Quaternary 6(2): 32

Ansari AH, Singh VK, Kumar P, Sharma M, Sharma A, Patnaik S, Gundiga GP, Rahi IC, Ansari MA, Ramanathan A. Hydrogeochemistry, Geothermometry, and Sourcing of High Dissolved Boron, Tungsten, and Chlorine Concentrations in the Trans-Himalayan Hotsprings of Ladakh, India. Hydrology, 10(6):118.

Khan, H., Govil, P., Panchang, R., Agrawal, S., Kumar, P., Kumar, B. and Verma, D. 2023. Surface and thermocline ocean circulation intensity changes in the western Arabian Sea during ~172 kyr. Quaternary Science Reviews, 311, 108133.

Pandey U, Nakatsuka T, Mehrotra N, Zhen L, Kato Y, Sano M, Shah SK. 2023. Tree-rings stable isotope (δ18O and δ2H) based 368 years long term precipitation reconstruction of South Eastern Kashmir Himalaya. Science of the Total Environment 892: 164640

Choudhuri, A., Mandal, S., Bumby, A., Pillai, S.S.K., 2023. Glacial sedimentation in Northern Gondwana: insights from the Talchir Formation, Manendragarh, India. Geological Magazine

Chaddha, A.S., Sharma, A., Singh, N.K., Patel, D.K., Satyanaryana, G.N.V. 2023. Rock Varnish: Nature Shield, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Babushkina EA, Zhirnova DF, Belokopytova LV, Mehrotra N, Dergunov DR, Shah SK, Veganov EA. 2023. Conifer quantitative wood anatomy as proxy data: application in agricultural yield reconstruction. Trees

Negi, R.S., Singh, B.P., Bhargava, O.M. (2023): Integrated sedimentological and ichnological studies of the Cambrian of the Tidong Valley, Kinnaur, its correlation with Zanskar-Spiti regions, and reconstruction of the northern margin of Indian plate.– journal of N.jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh., 309(1):1-18.

Choudhuri, A., El Albani, A., Mandal, S., Sarkar, S., 2023. Biotic vs abiotic origin of unusual features from Mesoproterozoic of Vindhyan Supergroup, India. Annales de Paléontologie, 109, 1-12

Tiwari P, Srivastava P, Thakur B. 2023. Diatom response in different climatic zones from west coast of India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India. 1–15

A.H. Ansari, S.K. Pandey*, Shamim Ahmad, Mukund Sharma, Pawan Govil, Amritpal Singh Chaddha, Anupam Sharma (2023d). High primary productivity in an Ediacaran shallow marine basin influenced by strong seasonal to perennial upwelling. Geological Magazine

Tripathi, S., & Pandey, A. (2023). Palynological response deduced through spatially distinct surface samples to reconstruct palaeoecology and palaeoclimate of the Barak Valley, Assam (Indo-Burma region), northeast India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India (December issue)

Singh AK, Shah SK, Pandey U, Deeksha, Thomte L, Rahman TW, Mehrotra N, Singh DS, Kotlia BS. 2023. Vegetation Index (NDVI) reconstruction from western Himalaya through dendrochronological analysis of Cedrus deodara. Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Gupta, S., Saxena, A., Shabbar, H., Murthy, S., Singh, K. J., & Bali, R. (2023). First record of late Devonian-early Carboniferous palynoflora from the Lipak Formation, Spiti Basin, Tethyan Himalaya, India, and their biostratigraphic implications. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 68(1), 22-41.

Quamar MF, Banerji US, Thakur B, Kar R. 2024. Hydroclimatic changes in the Core Monsoon Zone of India since the Last Glacial Maximum: an overview of the palynological data and correlation with the marine and continental records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 633, 111844

Murthy, S., Saxena, A., Khnagar, R., Pillai, S.S.K., Uhl, D., Singh, V.P., Gupta, S., & Borkar, N., (2023). Palynofloristics and wildfire evidence from the Permian deposits of the Satpura Gondwana Basin, India: A multiproxy approach. Historical Biology, 1-22.

Basumatary, S. K., van Asperen, E. N., McDonald, H. G., Tripathi, Swati, & Gogoi, R. (2023). Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph depositional patterns in Kaziranga National Park, India: Implications for palaeoecology and palaeoherbivory analysis. The Holocene

Pillai, S.S.K.,Manoj, M.C., Mathew, R.P., Murthy, S., Sharma, A., Sahoo, M., Saxena, A., Pradhan, S., and Kumar, S. (2023). Lower Permian Gondwana sequence of Rajhara (Daltonganj Coalfield), Damodar Basin, India: Floristic and geochemical records and their implications on marine ingressions and depositional environment. Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Prasad N, Quamar MF. 2023. Modern pollen-vegetation relationship from the Mahasamund District (Chhattisgarh), central India: implications in palaeoecological reconstruction. Grana

Farooqui S, Quamar MF, Farooqui A, Agnihotri R & Khan S 2023. Palyno–morphological and isotopic characterization of monofloral and multifloral honeys from Lucknow, India. Journal of Palaeosciences 72(2): 91–118.

Shekhar M, Sharma A, Pandey P, Sharma A, & Dimri AP. (2024). Assessing the past and future dynamics of the Asian summer monsoon: Insights from palaeomonsoon synthesis and CMIP6 data. Global Environmental Change Advances, 2, 100004

Mohanty RB*, Mishra AK, Mishra K, Yadav AK, Quamar MF, Barua IC, Kar R*. 2024. Early onset of aridity in the past millennium: insights from vegetation dynamics and climate change in the alpine, cold-desert region of Trans Himalaya, India. PLOS ONE 19(1): e0295785

Sarkar, S., Singh, Y.P., Verma, P. 2024. Paleoecological and paleobiogeographic implications of a seagrass-indicating foralgal skeletal assemblage: Retracing the Burdigalian Quilon Limestone (Kerala Basin, SW India). Marine Micropaleontology 187, 102330.

Govind, N., Sahoo, M., Pillai, S.S.K., Sahu, S.K . 2024 IPSD: e-repository of Permian seeds from Indian Lower Gondwana. Acta Palaeobotanica 2023; 63(2): 151-161

Tomar N, Roy I, Shri S, Chinthala BD, Shekhar M, Srivastava A, Ranhotra PS, Singh CP, and Bhattacharyya, A. 2024. Modern pollen dispersal in relation to present vegetation distribution and land use in the Baspa valley, Kinnaur, western Himalayas. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(2).194

Chaddha, A.S.* , Sharma, A.* , Singh, N.K., Shamsad, A., Banerjee, M., 2024, Biotic-abiotic mingle in rock varnish formation: A new perspective, Chemical Geology, 648: 121961

Mandal S, Singh A, Banerjee S, Uddandam P, and Negi RS. Linking the impact of seismicity on palaeogeographic evolution and sedimentary architecture: A case study from Middle Jurassic succession of Spiti Himalaya. Geological Magazine

Pooja Tiwari*, Purnima Srivastava, Biswajeet Thakur*. 2024. Palynofacies and sediment texture response from sub-tropical mixed sub-urban to urban floodplains of the Gomati River, Lucknow, India. International Journal of Sediment Research

Aggarwal, N. and Goswami, S. (26 Feb 2024): Tectonic inferences from palynology of Permian sequences of the Godavari Coalfield, southern India, Palynology

Joshi, H. and Aggarwal, N., 2024. Palynology of the Upper Gondwana deposits from the Chintalapudi Sub-basin, South India: Insights into age and palaeodepositional settings. Cretaceous Research, 154, 105734

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