Dr. Bency David Chinthala

2024: Researcher, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
2024: Ph.D. Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
2019: Junior Research Fellow at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India
2017: M.Sc. Department of Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, India
2015: B.Sc. Department of Botany, Madras University, India

Chinthala, B.D., Grießinger, J., Ranhotra, P.S., Jain, S., Singh C.P., Bräuning, A. (2025). Drought reconstruction and related dendrogeomorphic time-series analysis from Kinnaur region of western Himalayas. Catena. doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108950

Tomar, N., Roy, I., Shreya Shri., Chinthala, B.D., et al. (2024). Modern pollen dispersal in relation to present vegetation distribution and land use in the Baspa valley, Kinnaur, western Himalayas. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 196:194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12340-8

Chinthala, B.D., Ranhotra, P.S., Grießinger, J., Singh C.P., Bräuning, A. (2023). Himalayan silver fir reveals moist phase during Little Ice Age in the Kashmir region of the western Himalayas. Quaternary Science Reviews, 312, 108167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108167

Chinthala, B.D., Singh, A., Shekhar, M., Tomar, N., Phulara, M., Yadav, A., Pandey, P., Ranhotra, P.S., Bhattacharyya, A., Joshi, R. and Singh, C.P. (2023). Age-Girth Stand Structure of Himalayan fir and Growth-NDVI relationship in the Treeline transects of western Himalaya: An ecological perspective. Ecology of Himalayan Timberline Ecotone, Eds. S.P. Singh, Zafar Reshi & Rajesh Joshi, Springer Nature.

Shekhar, M., Singh A., Chinthala, B.D., Tomar N., Roy I., Ranhotra P.S., A. Bhattacharyya A. (2023). Tree Ring–Based Drought and Flood Analyses from the Himalayan Region. Integrated Drought Management, Vol. 2, CRC Press. eBook ISBN: 9781003276548

Chinthala, B.D., Grießinger, J., Ranhotra, P.S., Tomar, N., Singh, C.P. and Bräuning, A. (2022). Tree-Ring Oxygen Isotope Variations in Subalpine Firs from the Western Himalaya Capture Spring Season Temperature Signals. Forests, 13, 437. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13030437

Singh, S.P., Bhattacharyya, A., Mittal, A., Pandey, A., Tewari, A., Latwal, A., Chinthala, B.D., et al. (2021). Indian Himalayan timberline ecotone in response to climate change- initial findings. Current Science, 120(5), (00113891).

Singh, U., Phulara, M., Chinthala, B.D., Ranhotra, P.S., Shekhar, M., Bhattacharyya, A., Dhyani, R., Joshi, R. and Pal, A.K. (2018). Static tree line of Himalayan silver fir since last several decades at Tungnath, Western Himalaya. Tropical Ecology, 59(2), 351-363.

(2023-2025) Award of ‘Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching’ (FFL)
(2019-2023) Award of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Doctoral Fellowship at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
(2017-2019) MoEF&CC sponsored project entitled “Tree growth response of selected tree species of timber line to climate variability across the Indian Himalayan Region”, under National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS) program.

Abstract accepted for oral presentation on “Spatio-temporal variability in seasonal growth response of Abies spectabilis in the western Himalaya.” in EuroDendro, Rīga, Latvia, September 15-19, 2025.

Oral presentation on “Dendrogeomorphic Time-series Analysis in Relation to Climate from Kinnaur Region of Western Himalayas” in American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington, D.C. from 9-13, 2024 December.

Oral presentation on “Dendrogeomorphic time-series analysis in relation to climate from Kinnaur region of western Himalaya” in the Symposium on Progress of Dendroecology in High Asia from Iran along the Himalayas to the Tibetan Plateau. July 12-13, 2024, FAU, Erlangen, Germany.

Poster presentation on „Climate reconstruction and Geohazard analysis using tree ring data from western Himalaya“, In the Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology (TRACE) conference, June 3-8, 2024, Brasov, Romania.

Oral presentation on “Reconstruction of climate and Geohazard events using Tree-ring and δ¹⁸O data from the Western Himalaya, India”, in the Institute colloquium November 15^th 2023, FAU, Erlangen, Germany.

Poster presentation on “Growth behavior assessment of subalpine fir in relation to climate and glacial variability from Kashmir, northwest Himalaya”. In the Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology (TRACE-2022). May 23-28, 2022, FAU, Erlangen, Germany.

Poster presentation on “Tree-line dynamics of Abies spectabilis in the summer monsoon dominant region of western Himalaya. Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology (TRACE- 2021 digital event).

Chinthala, B.D., Ranhotra, P.S., Shekhar, M., Bhattacharyya, A., Phulara, M., Joshi R. and Singh, U. (2019). „Growth behavior of fir and pine in response to climate and glacial variability along the altitude in Kashmir Himalaya“. Abstract in 20th INQUA Congress at Dublin (Ireland) July 25-31, 2019.

Shekhar, M., Chinthala, B.D., Bhattacharyya, A., Sharma, R.K. and Ranhotra, P.S. (2018). Tree-ring based reconstruction of natural hazards from Lachung valley Sikkim. Abstract volume of Conference on The State of the Cryoshpere in the Himalaya: with a focus on Sikkim and Eastern Himalayas, gaps, challenges and opportunities. February 19-20, 2018 at Sikkim University, Sikkim, India.

Association for Tree Ring Research (ATR)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)