Understanding Soils of Mountainous Landscapes

Edited by:   Rahul Bhadouria (Post-Doctoral Researcher University of Delhi New Delhi India), Shipra Singh (Research Scholar, School of Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), Sachchidanand Tripathi (Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India), Pardeep Singh (Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India)
Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 191mm, 
Weight:   930g
ISBN:   9780323959254
ISBN 10:   0323959253
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   25 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 (Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India). He obtained his master's degree from the Department of Environmental Science 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 65 papers in the international journals in the fields of waste management.