Sai Abhipsa Dash

What I measured, then what I read afterwards

The method came from a field plot.

Before I ran a studio I was peer-reviewed for counting trees. That is not a metaphor for how I work — it is where the habit came from: count what is actually there, publish it, let someone check it.

JournalArboricultural Journal 44(2)
Pages72–83
Published3 April 2022
Citations13
DOI10.1080/03071375.2021.2022326

What is the publication record for the Bhubaneswar biomass study?

The paper is titled Estimation of above-ground biomass and carbon stock of tree species in public parks of Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It was authored by Sai Abhipsa Dash, Antaryami Pradhan and Niranjan Behera, with Dash as first author, and was published in Arboricultural Journal by Taylor & Francis on 3 April 2022, volume 44, issue 2, pages 72 to 83. Its DOI is 10.1080/03071375.2021.2022326. The affiliation is the Asian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar. Using allometric biomass estimation, we documented 48 tree species across 44 genera and 22 families, and measured carbon stock of 13.48 megagrams over 0.22 hectares at SV Park and 479.49 megagrams over 8.91 hectares at BP Park, averaging 32.85 megagrams per hectare. Co-author records stand at h-index 12 and 518 citations for Niranjan Behera, and h-index 6 with 149 citations for Antaryami Pradhan. The paper itself has been cited 13 times and carries an h-index of 1 across 32 references.

01 — The survey

Bhubaneswar's parks, measured.

I was first author on a study estimating above-ground biomass and carbon stock of tree species in the city's public parks. Forty-eight species across forty-four genera and twenty-two families, identified and measured in the field.

The finding that mattered was not the carbon. It was the structure: most of the parks carry almost nothing in the sapling class, so the regeneration potential is lacking. A park planted in one season has nothing behind it.

doi.org/10.1080/03071375.2021.2022326

In the authors' own words

Bhubaneswar is a rapidly urbanising city and is witnessing a decline in its green status. These urban parks are also reservoirs of carbon stock; and the study estimates park biomass and biomass carbon stocks.

The population structure in the parks revealed that most of the parks lacks trees in the sapling category and hence the regeneration potential is lacking. This may be because of the plantation of various tree species in different planting years.

AuthorsS. A. Dash · A. Pradhan · N. Behera
PublisherTaylor & Francis
AffiliationAsian Institute of Public Health
AreasVegetation dynamics · land use & ecosystem services

Reproduced verbatim from the published abstract.

02 — The finding

Full of trees. Short of saplings.

Forest stand profile: eleven trees plotted against a metre scale, with the one- to five-metre sapling band marked as empty A schematic stand profile. Ground line, stem heights from six to twenty-two metres, and a hatched band between one and five metres that the paper reports as largely empty across Bhubaneswar's parks. 05 101520 Metres SAPLING CLASS · 1–5 M
Stand profile, schematic — stem heights six to twenty-two metres against a metre scale. The hatched band is the finding of the paper: the sapling class is largely empty across these parks, so regeneration is lacking. This is the habit the studio runs on: measure the layer everyone else is skipping.

Height classes on the surveyed axis

Height classes of the surveyed parks on a zero to twenty-five metre axis Four height classes plotted by their position on the height axis: mature fifteen to twenty-five metres, young five to fifteen metres, sapling one to five metres marked as reported absent, and seedling zero to one metre. 0510 152025 Metres MATURE · 15–25 M YOUNG · 5–15 M SAPLING · 1–5 M SEEDLING · 0–1 M reported absent in most surveyed parks
The paper reports the sapling absence qualitatively; per-class counts are not published.

What the study did

  1. 01

    Surveyed the parks

    Species composition and population structure across selected public parks in a rapidly urbanising city whose green status is declining.

  2. 02

    Identified to species

    48 species, 44 genera, 22 families — fine enough to build a species list rather than a count of trees.

  3. 03

    Estimated biomass

    Above-ground biomass per park, converted into carbon stock.

  4. 04

    Read the structure

    32.85 Mg/ha on average — and a sapling class that is not regenerating.

03 — The figures

Two parks, one instrument.

Carbon stock is the one number in this work a reader can check against the paper. Switch the scale and the same two measurements read as total mass or as mass per hectare. The paper's own average across the surveyed parks appears in the per-hectare view.

SV Park0.22 ha

13.48

BP Park8.91 ha

479.49

SV Park0.22 ha

61.27

BP Park8.91 ha

53.82

Park averageacross the surveyed parks

32.85
ParkAreaCarbon stockPer hectare
SV Park0.22 ha13.48 Mg61.27 Mg/ha
BP Park8.91 ha479.49 Mg53.82 Mg/ha
All surveyed parks——32.85 Mg/ha

04 — Published content

Before the studio, the unglamorous part.

At Hemprava Softsonic I ran the blog content and the public voice of the company — an IT services and web development shop in Bhubaneswar. The pattern is recognisable once you see it: one article per target market, each framed as an industry guide, each answering a query someone is genuinely typing.

It is the least glamorous search work there is, and it is the work that teaches you how a query becomes a paragraph, a paragraph becomes a page, and a page becomes a citation. It is also where the crawl-first instinct came from: publish more into a broken site and you buy nothing.

Publisher's blog

  • Feb 2025NFT SEO guide — optimising marketplaces, collections and content for searchHemprava Softsonic · industry guide
  • Feb 2025Best Web Development Company in Bowling Green, KYHemprava Softsonic · city-scaled
  • Mar 2025The Ultimate A-to-Z Guide to SEO ToolsHemprava Softsonic · Ahrefs → Zyro
  • Mar 2025Boost Your Business with the Top SEO Company in BhubaneswarHemprava Softsonic · city-scaled
  • Mar 2025Email marketing strategy for Bangalore startupsHemprava Softsonic · city-scaled

Written and published under my own name on the company blog.

05 — Outside the studio

The other published things.

eBook

Eternal Echoes: Love Beyond Boundaries — a reflective journey through love, longing, connection, and the unseen threads that bind hearts across time and space. Published January 2026.

Workplace

“People don't quit when they feel seen. Recognition isn't just about awards or applause. It's about empathy, active listening, and making people feel valued beyond their roles.”

My own post, June 2025.

Reviews

  • Nov 2024All Yours, Stranger — a review of Novoneel ChakrabortyThriller
  • 2025Mahabharata Unravelled — on myth as a living textMythology · @amiganatra

Both are reviews of other authors' work.

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