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Papers by Bharat Gotame

Ecology and Evolution

Anthropogenic land‐use change continues to be predicated as a major driver of terrestrial biodive... more Anthropogenic land‐use change continues to be predicated as a major driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss for the rest of this century. It has been determined that the effect of climate change on wildlife population will accelerate the rate and process of decline of global vertebrate populations. We investigated wildlife composition, occupancy, and activity pattern along the larger climate resilient forests that serve as microrefugia for a wide range of species under the escalating climate change. We used camera trap survey covering 250 km2 of climate microrefugia in Dadeldhura hills in far western region of Nepal. We used 62 trapping locations accumulating 1800 trap nights taking 98,916 photographs in 62 days‐survey period during the summer season of 2020. We photographed 23 mammalian species with estimated species richness of 30 species (95% CI: 25–34) based on multi‐species occupancy model. We estimated overall species occupancy ψ(SE(ψ)) to be 0.87 (0.09) in climatic microrefug...

The Initiation, 2014

Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in mountains are one of the enormously valued ecosystem servic... more Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in mountains are one of the enormously valued ecosystem services due to their contribution to the livelihood of people. Pine resin is one of the viable NTFP in middle mountain of Nepal which is tapped from Pinus roxbhurghii tree and can be used in paints, varnishes, stimulant, anti-spasmodic, astringent, diuretic and anti-pathogenic and so on. This piece of work is an attempt to review the current status of pine resin collection enterprise in Nepalese Community Forests and its contribution to the livelihood of Community forest users in mid-hill region. Typically, existing legislations and guidelines have high potential to endure the sustainable livelihood promotion by resin tapping enterprise but the endeavors of revitalizing the financial benefit sharing and governance system is still far. The valued contribution of resin enterprise to sustainable livelihood of users is not impossible but it needs greater effort of all stakeholders. For example, p...

Nepal, a developing country has low per capita income and 2.8% economic growth rate. This simply ... more Nepal, a developing country has low per capita income and 2.8% economic growth rate. This simply implies higher marginal utility of income and lower willingness to pay for environmental improvements and amenities. Biodiversity has multiple benefits, but some economic obstacles like lack of appropriate market pricing, intangible nature of social benefit derived by conservation of biological resources, ownership issue, and conventional method of national income accounting, make some illusion to adopt market based biodiversity conservation approaches in developing country like Nepal. This literature review paper attempts to summarize the economic benefits of biodiversity, threats of biodiversity conservation in Nepal and some financial appraisal of biodiversity conservation of Nepal (in case of Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation & their some field offices). In Nepal, biodiversity conservation efforts have largely been centered on protection of natural resources withi...

Profi tability of harvesting uneven-aged tropical forest is a new topic of discussion in central ... more Profi tability of harvesting uneven-aged tropical forest is a new topic of discussion in central India. This study uses the lens of financial maturity to look at uneven-aged silvicultural practices based on Faustmann’s model. The objective of the study was to consider existing harvesting strategies and to seek possible silvicultural changes for greater income without impairing sustained yield. With an iterative process using the stand table projection method, this study concluded that it is possible to calculate the land expectation value (LEV) of natural uneven-aged forest in central India. LEVs of each forest division were found to be negative. However, sensitivity analysis showed that profi tability status could be improved with a lower interest rate. Species composition and harvesting proportions applied differently in four forest divisions were found to affect profi tability. Local forest practitioners in the study area can apply LEV-based economic analysis before adopting thei...

nepjol.info

There is no qualm over the fact that the world's biodiversity is being degraded.... more There is no qualm over the fact that the world's biodiversity is being degraded. There is a consensus on the fact that several species of birds, animals and plants are on the decline. Debate, in the conservation world, generally raises on what should be done to tackle the problem of ...

The Initiation, 2007

This Annual publication is an output of continuous and combined effort of students, academicians ... more This Annual publication is an output of continuous and combined effort of students, academicians and professionals. It is prepared to share the different findings and experiences gained through the different natural resource management practices and literature review to some extent.

The Initiation, 2009

There are ample of evidences to prove the impacts of Climate Change and will be with us for a lon... more There are ample of evidences to prove the impacts of Climate Change and will be with us for a long time to come. It will have significant impact on natural systems so that most of the habitat of living organism is directly influenced moreover the human being (which is heterotrophic in nature) and their roles to sustain the development and earth at summary are being vulnerable. This literature review article tries to summarize some climate change scenario and its increasing impact over the livelihood assets and their direct/indirect influence to development fronts. Nepal a developing country having more than 70% of mountainous regions with agriculture based economy is more susceptible to climate change impacts. Planning of development activities remarked with increasing trend of climate change impact with pivotal theme should make the development more sustainable and long living. Existing initiatives to make adaptation options are insufficient to halt the expected danger and redesigning the module of development is urgent in Nepal. On adaptation and vulnerability, a continuing effort must take place to exchange experiences and look for emerging best practices and frameworks. The urgency of the issue requires planners, policy makers, evaluators, practitioners and researchers to become involved in designing and in empowering communities and government as well. xfdL;F u clxn] hnjfo' kl/jt{ gsf c;/ w] /} g} 5g\ / kl//xg] 5g\ eGg] s' /fsf] k| df0fx? 5g\ . h;sf pNn] Vo k| efj k| fs[ lts ;| f] t clg k| s[ ltdf /x] sf hLjhGt' x?sf] jf;:yfg / dflg; :jo+ df kg] { x' gfn] k[ YjLsf ;| f] t tyf ;fwgx?sf] lbuf] pkof] u tyf ljsf;df vt/f pTkGg eO{ /x] sf] 5 . o; n] vn] ;d] 6\ g vf] h] sf] kIf rflx+ ljBdfg hnjfo' kl/jt{ gsf] ?k tyf o;sf a9\ bf] k| efjn] k| ToIf ck| ToIf ?kdf lhljsf] kfh{ g / ljsf;sf ultdf kf/] sf] c;/ xf] . g] kfn ljsf;f] Gd' v tyf &) k| ltzt eGbf al9 lxdfnL e" -efun] jg] sf] d' n' s xf] hxfF sf] cy{ tGq s[ lifdf cfwfl/t 5 . To;} n] ubf{ g] kfn hnjfo' kl/jt{ gsf k[ i7e" lddf ;+ s6pGd' v b] zdf kb{ 5 . lhljsf] kfh{ gsf] lbuf] pkfo ckgfpg ljsf;sf of] hgfx? to ubf{ cj hnjfo' kl/jt{ g / o;sf eflj k| efjx?nfO{ dWogh/ ug' { kg] { x' G5 . xfn EfO{ /x] sf cg' s' ntfsf pkfox? ;+ s6 ;dfwfgfy{ ckof{ Kt 5g\ . To;} n] ljsf;sf sfo{ qmdx? ablnbf] kl/jt{ gnfO{ dWogh/ ub} { k| fKt cg' ej / pTs[ i6 sfo{ x?sf] cfwf/df to ug{ sf] nflu of] hgfljb\ , gLltlgdf{ tfx?, cg' ;Gwfgstf{ x? sfof{ Gjog tyf d' Nof+ sgstf{ x?sf] ljj] slzn ;xeflutf ;d' bfo tyf ;/sf/L :t/df ul/g' h?/L b] lvG5 .

The Initiation, 2007

... Smriti Shrestha Bharat Sharma Bishnu Adhikari Durga Jethara Ganga Bhandari Kapil Dahal Mahend... more ... Smriti Shrestha Bharat Sharma Bishnu Adhikari Durga Jethara Ganga Bhandari Kapil Dahal Mahendra Singh Dhoni Padam Chapagain Rajan Paudel Rishi SharmaSandeep Sharma Suraj Upadhyaya The Initiation 2007 150

Ecology and Evolution

Anthropogenic land‐use change continues to be predicated as a major driver of terrestrial biodive... more Anthropogenic land‐use change continues to be predicated as a major driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss for the rest of this century. It has been determined that the effect of climate change on wildlife population will accelerate the rate and process of decline of global vertebrate populations. We investigated wildlife composition, occupancy, and activity pattern along the larger climate resilient forests that serve as microrefugia for a wide range of species under the escalating climate change. We used camera trap survey covering 250 km2 of climate microrefugia in Dadeldhura hills in far western region of Nepal. We used 62 trapping locations accumulating 1800 trap nights taking 98,916 photographs in 62 days‐survey period during the summer season of 2020. We photographed 23 mammalian species with estimated species richness of 30 species (95% CI: 25–34) based on multi‐species occupancy model. We estimated overall species occupancy ψ(SE(ψ)) to be 0.87 (0.09) in climatic microrefug...

The Initiation, 2014

Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in mountains are one of the enormously valued ecosystem servic... more Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in mountains are one of the enormously valued ecosystem services due to their contribution to the livelihood of people. Pine resin is one of the viable NTFP in middle mountain of Nepal which is tapped from Pinus roxbhurghii tree and can be used in paints, varnishes, stimulant, anti-spasmodic, astringent, diuretic and anti-pathogenic and so on. This piece of work is an attempt to review the current status of pine resin collection enterprise in Nepalese Community Forests and its contribution to the livelihood of Community forest users in mid-hill region. Typically, existing legislations and guidelines have high potential to endure the sustainable livelihood promotion by resin tapping enterprise but the endeavors of revitalizing the financial benefit sharing and governance system is still far. The valued contribution of resin enterprise to sustainable livelihood of users is not impossible but it needs greater effort of all stakeholders. For example, p...

Nepal, a developing country has low per capita income and 2.8% economic growth rate. This simply ... more Nepal, a developing country has low per capita income and 2.8% economic growth rate. This simply implies higher marginal utility of income and lower willingness to pay for environmental improvements and amenities. Biodiversity has multiple benefits, but some economic obstacles like lack of appropriate market pricing, intangible nature of social benefit derived by conservation of biological resources, ownership issue, and conventional method of national income accounting, make some illusion to adopt market based biodiversity conservation approaches in developing country like Nepal. This literature review paper attempts to summarize the economic benefits of biodiversity, threats of biodiversity conservation in Nepal and some financial appraisal of biodiversity conservation of Nepal (in case of Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation & their some field offices). In Nepal, biodiversity conservation efforts have largely been centered on protection of natural resources withi...

Profi tability of harvesting uneven-aged tropical forest is a new topic of discussion in central ... more Profi tability of harvesting uneven-aged tropical forest is a new topic of discussion in central India. This study uses the lens of financial maturity to look at uneven-aged silvicultural practices based on Faustmann’s model. The objective of the study was to consider existing harvesting strategies and to seek possible silvicultural changes for greater income without impairing sustained yield. With an iterative process using the stand table projection method, this study concluded that it is possible to calculate the land expectation value (LEV) of natural uneven-aged forest in central India. LEVs of each forest division were found to be negative. However, sensitivity analysis showed that profi tability status could be improved with a lower interest rate. Species composition and harvesting proportions applied differently in four forest divisions were found to affect profi tability. Local forest practitioners in the study area can apply LEV-based economic analysis before adopting thei...

nepjol.info

There is no qualm over the fact that the world's biodiversity is being degraded.... more There is no qualm over the fact that the world's biodiversity is being degraded. There is a consensus on the fact that several species of birds, animals and plants are on the decline. Debate, in the conservation world, generally raises on what should be done to tackle the problem of ...

The Initiation, 2007

This Annual publication is an output of continuous and combined effort of students, academicians ... more This Annual publication is an output of continuous and combined effort of students, academicians and professionals. It is prepared to share the different findings and experiences gained through the different natural resource management practices and literature review to some extent.

The Initiation, 2009

There are ample of evidences to prove the impacts of Climate Change and will be with us for a lon... more There are ample of evidences to prove the impacts of Climate Change and will be with us for a long time to come. It will have significant impact on natural systems so that most of the habitat of living organism is directly influenced moreover the human being (which is heterotrophic in nature) and their roles to sustain the development and earth at summary are being vulnerable. This literature review article tries to summarize some climate change scenario and its increasing impact over the livelihood assets and their direct/indirect influence to development fronts. Nepal a developing country having more than 70% of mountainous regions with agriculture based economy is more susceptible to climate change impacts. Planning of development activities remarked with increasing trend of climate change impact with pivotal theme should make the development more sustainable and long living. Existing initiatives to make adaptation options are insufficient to halt the expected danger and redesigning the module of development is urgent in Nepal. On adaptation and vulnerability, a continuing effort must take place to exchange experiences and look for emerging best practices and frameworks. The urgency of the issue requires planners, policy makers, evaluators, practitioners and researchers to become involved in designing and in empowering communities and government as well. xfdL;F u clxn] hnjfo' kl/jt{ gsf c;/ w] /} g} 5g\ / kl//xg] 5g\ eGg] s' /fsf] k| df0fx? 5g\ . h;sf pNn] Vo k| efj k| fs[ lts ;| f] t clg k| s[ ltdf /x] sf hLjhGt' x?sf] jf;:yfg / dflg; :jo+ df kg] { x' gfn] k[ YjLsf ;| f] t tyf ;fwgx?sf] lbuf] pkof] u tyf ljsf;df vt/f pTkGg eO{ /x] sf] 5 . o; n] vn] ;d] 6\ g vf] h] sf] kIf rflx+ ljBdfg hnjfo' kl/jt{ gsf] ?k tyf o;sf a9\ bf] k| efjn] k| ToIf ck| ToIf ?kdf lhljsf] kfh{ g / ljsf;sf ultdf kf/] sf] c;/ xf] . g] kfn ljsf;f] Gd' v tyf &) k| ltzt eGbf al9 lxdfnL e" -efun] jg] sf] d' n' s xf] hxfF sf] cy{ tGq s[ lifdf cfwfl/t 5 . To;} n] ubf{ g] kfn hnjfo' kl/jt{ gsf k[ i7e" lddf ;+ s6pGd' v b] zdf kb{ 5 . lhljsf] kfh{ gsf] lbuf] pkfo ckgfpg ljsf;sf of] hgfx? to ubf{ cj hnjfo' kl/jt{ g / o;sf eflj k| efjx?nfO{ dWogh/ ug' { kg] { x' G5 . xfn EfO{ /x] sf cg' s' ntfsf pkfox? ;+ s6 ;dfwfgfy{ ckof{ Kt 5g\ . To;} n] ljsf;sf sfo{ qmdx? ablnbf] kl/jt{ gnfO{ dWogh/ ub} { k| fKt cg' ej / pTs[ i6 sfo{ x?sf] cfwf/df to ug{ sf] nflu of] hgfljb\ , gLltlgdf{ tfx?, cg' ;Gwfgstf{ x? sfof{ Gjog tyf d' Nof+ sgstf{ x?sf] ljj] slzn ;xeflutf ;d' bfo tyf ;/sf/L :t/df ul/g' h?/L b] lvG5 .

The Initiation, 2007

... Smriti Shrestha Bharat Sharma Bishnu Adhikari Durga Jethara Ganga Bhandari Kapil Dahal Mahend... more ... Smriti Shrestha Bharat Sharma Bishnu Adhikari Durga Jethara Ganga Bhandari Kapil Dahal Mahendra Singh Dhoni Padam Chapagain Rajan Paudel Rishi SharmaSandeep Sharma Suraj Upadhyaya The Initiation 2007 150