Research Paper Publications (Journal):

1.Sarma, K....Saikia, A.,Tanti, B.(2024)Impact of climate change on potential distribution and altitudinal shift of critically endangered Amentotaxusassamica D.K. Ferguson in Arunachal Pradesh Himalaya, India. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 155(1),261–271.

2. Pawe, C.K., Saikia, A.(2024).Simulating urban land use change trajectories in Guwahati city, India. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 21(4),4385–4404.

3. Bhuyan, M.J., Deka, N., Saikia, A.(2024).From perception to action: Participatory water risk assessment in Nagaon District of Assam, India, Environmental Science and Policy, 160, 103862.

4. Debnath, J., Debbarma, J., Debnath, A., ... Sahariah, D., Saikia, A. (2024). Flood susceptibility assessment of the Agartala Urban Watershed, India, using Machine Learning Algorithm, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196 (2), 110.

5. Thomte, L., Shah, S.K....Saikia, A.(2023).Dendrochronology in the tropics using tree-rings of Pinus kesiya. Dendrochronologia, 78, 126070

6. Ahmed, R., Saikia, A.(2022). Pandora’s Box: A spatiotemporal assessment of elephant-train casualties in Assam, India. PLoS ONE, 17(7 July), e0271416

7. Ahmed, R., Saikia, A., Robeson, S.M. (2022). Tracks of Death: Elephant Casualties along the Habaipur–Diphu Railway in Assam, India. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.112 (6) 1553–1575.

8. Thomte, L., .....Saikia, A. (2022) Influence of climate on multiple tree-ring parameters of Pinus kesiya from Manipur, Northeast India. Dendrochronologia,  71, 125906

9. Sharma, K., Saikia, A., Thapa, P., Chettry, B.K.(2022).  Aboveground biomass and carbon stock assessment in the Eastern Himalaya foothills along the Indo-Bhutan border. Australian Geographer, 53(3), 241–264.

10. Pawe, C.K., Saikia, A. (2022) These hills called home: quantifying urban forest dynamics in the hills of the Guwahati metropolitan area, India. GeografiskTidsskrift - Danish Journal of Geography, 122(2), 87–102

11. Baruah, U.D., Robeson, S.M., Saikia. A., et al.  (2021). Spatio-temporal characterization of tropospheric ozone and its precursor pollutants NO2 and HCHO over South Asia. Science of The Total Environment. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151135

12. Baruah, U.D., Saikia, A., Robeson, S.M. et al. (2021). Perceptions and adaptation behavior of farmers to climate change in the upper Brahmaputra Valley, India. Environment Development and Sustainability. doi:10.1007/s10668-021-01309-z

13. Hazarika, R., Saikia, A. (2020) Landfill site suitability analysis using AHP for solid waste management in the Guwahati Metropolitan Area, India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences.  13(21), 1148 

14. Pawe, C.K. & Saikia, A. (2020) Decumbent development: Urban sprawl in the Guwahati Metropolitan Area, India.     Singapore  Journal of  Tropical Geography.  41 (2)  226-247.

15. Borthakur, M., Saikia, A., Sharma, K. (2020). Swelter in the city: Urban greenery and its effects on temperature in Guwahati, India. Singapore Journal of  Tropical Geography, 41(3) 341–366.

16. Sharma, K., Saikia, A., Goswami, S., Borthakur, M. (2020). Aboveground biomass estimation and carbon stock assessment along a topographical gradient in the forests of Manipur, Northeast India. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 13(12), 443.

17. Chetia, S., Saikia, A., Basumatary, M., Sahariah, D.(2020). When the heat is on: urbanization and land surface temperature in Guwahati, India. Acta Geophysica, 68(3), 891–901.

18. Bungnamei K.& Saikia, A. (2020) Park in the periphery: Land use and land cover change and forest fragmentation in and around YangoupokpiLokchao Wildlife Sanctuary, Manipur, India  Geographia Polonica 93, (1)  107-120

19. Lesiv, M.........Saikia,A.....(2019) et al. Estimating the global distribution of field size using crowdsourcing. Global Change Biology25(1)   174-186.  

20. Pawe, C.K. & Saikia, A. (2018): Unplanned urban growth: land use/ land cover change in the Guwahati Metropolitan Area, India, Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of  Geography,  118:1, 88-100.     

21. Sharma, K & Saikia, A. (2018) How green was my valley:forest canopy density in relation to topography and anthropogenic effects in Manipur Valley, India. GeografiskTidsskrift - Danish Journal of Geography   118(2) 137-150 

22. Sharma, K., Robeson, S. M., Thapa P, & Saikia A. (2017). Landuse/land-cover change and forest fragmentation in the Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan. Physical Geography, 38, 1: 18 - 35.   

23. Bayas,J.L., Lesiv,M., ...Saikia,A......(2017).A global reference database of crowd sourced cropland data collected using the Geo-Wiki platform. Scientific Data, 4:170136

24. Shah, S.K., Touchan, R., Babushkina, E., .... Saikia, A., …(2014). August to July precipitation from tree rings in forest-steppe zone of  central Siberia (Russia). Tree  Ring Research, 71(1), 37-44   

25. Saikia, A., Hazarika, R. and Sahariah, D. (2013). Land use land cover change and fragmentation in the Nameri Tiger Reserve, India. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 113: 1-10. 

26. Hazarika, R. and Saikia, A. (2013). The pachyderm and the pixel: an assessment of elephant habitat suitability in Sonitpur, India. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34:15, 5317 5330.   

27. Saikia, A (2009). NDVI variability in north east India. Scottish Geographical  Journal. 125,2:195-213.

Fulbright Scholar to Indiana University, Bloomington,  September 2011- April  2012.

UGC Research Award  2006-09 

International Foundation for Science Grantee,  2004-06   (IFS, Stockholm, Sweden)

Current Scholars

(PhD)

Neha Prasad

Olek Sinung

Tanveer Ahmed
Sneha Deb
Sourav Chetia

Bikashita Kalita

Marine Namte

Namita Sharma
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Former doctoral scholars

Rekib Amhed (2021)
Rashima Kacheri (2021)
Chandra Kant Pawe (2020)
Kiran Sharma (2019)
Khangsembo Bungnamei (2019)

Ujjal Deka Baruah (2018)
Trishna Changkakati(2018)
Monjit Barthakur (2017)
Smarajit Ojha (2016)
Safiqur Rahman (2012)
Khagen Sharma (2012)
Mreeshi Agarwala (2011)
Rubul Hazarika (2011)
Manjil Basumatary (2011)
Dinamani Bhagawati (2007)

Geoinformatics
North East India
Protected Areas