Nick A. Chappell

Preventing floods through grassland conservation

This study found that replacing natural grasslands and forests by exotic species increased the likelihood of flooding during extreme rainfall events in the Nilgiris.

Rajat Ramakant Nayak

Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Srinivas Vaidyanathan

Ravinder Singh Bhalla

Posted on 21 Jan, 2023 02:54 PM

Erratic rainfall patterns and the risk of floods in mountain landscapes

Grasslands interspersed with pockets of montane Shola forests in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu (Image Source: Anand Osuri via Wikimedia Commons)

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