Understanding Soils of Mountainous Landscapes: Sustainable Use of Soil Ecosystem Services and Management

Rahul Bhadouria · Shipra Singh · Sachchidanand Tripathi · Pardeep Singh

jan. 2023 · Elsevier

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Understanding Soils of Mountainous Landscapes: Sustainable Use of Soil Ecosystem Services and Management focuses on the patterns and processes of mountainous soils, including threats due to the fragile nature of mountain ecosystems, and the conservation and management of soil ecosystem services and restoration processes. The book covers a balanced approach to land and resource management, ensuring that environmentally and socio-culturally sound interventions are developed and applied in the complex geophysical, ecological, and social landscapes of the world's mountain systems. The book provides holistic understanding of mountain soils to help environmental and soil scientists gain insight and develop new problem-solving approaches. With obvious up- and downstream linkages (e.g., a large proportion of urban canters globally depend on water that originates in the mountains) as well as globalization (e.g., continental-scale impacts of air pollution and climate change on glaciers), the long-range success of conservation measures in mountain regions requires that the following discrete but interconnected interventions be pursued concurrently: (1) the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services, (2) empowerment of mountain communities (including family farming), and (3) elaboration of more thoughtful, context-specific policy environments for sustainable mountain development. - Offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of mountain soils including climate change, ecosystem services, and threats - Focuses on exploring the human and anthropogenic challenges associated with the sustainable management of soils in mountain landscapes - Includes content on biochar-mediated microbial community dynamics

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Rahul Bhadouria is working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctorate from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 2017. The area of his doctoral research was performance evaluation of tree seedling growth under dry tropical environment. He has published more than 19 papers, 18 book chapters, and 2 books in the internationally reputed journals/publishers. His current research areas are ‘Management of Soil C Dynamics to Mitigate Climate Change’, ‘A perspective on tree seedling survival and growth attributes in tropical dry forests under the realm of Climate Change’ and ‘Plant community assembly, functional diversity and soil attributes along the forest-savanna-grassland continuum in India’.

Shipra Singh is pursuing Ph. D. on “Plant Functional Traits in Temperate Forests of Western Himalaya from SES, JNU. Ms. Singh has done M. Phil. from SES, JNU on the topic “Effect of Slope Aspect on Vegetation Composition and Structure and Soil Physico-chemical properties in Western Himalaya. Ms. Singh holds expertise in Himalayan ecology with an altitudinal variation of 400m to 3000 m asl. She also holds UGC-JRF in Environmental Sciences. Ms. Singh has completed her Master of Science from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in Environmental Sciences.

Dr. Sachchidanand Tripathi did his post-graduation and Ph.D. from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. His areas of interest are forest ecology, restoration ecology, aquatic ecology, and eco-physiology. He has published more than 18 research/review papers in peer-reviewed reputed international journals, 5 books with international publishers, 12 book chapters in books published by Elsevier, Springer, etc. He has also edited conference proceedings. He is interested in collaborating with scholars from the same fields as well as from other disciplines of interest.

Dr Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, India. He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India in 2011. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi in the year 2017. The area of his doctoral research is the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management.

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