Shifting Cultivation Systems: From Indigenous Practices to Soil Fertility in North-East India

Author:   Shri Kant Tripathi ,  Francis Q. Brearley
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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Pages:   230
Publication Date:   10 December 2024
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Author:   Shri Kant Tripathi ,  Francis Q. Brearley
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031703874


ISBN 10:   3031703871
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   10 December 2024
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Format:   Hardback
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Professor Shri Kant Tripathi is an ecologist with over 30 years of research experience. He received Master’s and Ph.D. in Botany from Kumaun University and Banaras Hindu University, respectively. Presently, he is working in the Department of Forestry at Mizoram University, and has mentored over 17 doctoral and four post-doctoral researchers. He has edited three books and published over 180 research papers/chapters with over 3500 citations. He has visited many countries abroad like UK (1994, 2016), USA (1995, 2005), Nepal (1997), Japan (2002, 2003, 2004), China (2008), Germany (2009), Italy (2017), and France (2019) for short-term and long-term academic activities. He was given the National Award for Excellence in Forestry Research by the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun in 2020, and was elected Fellow of Indian Ecological Society in 2023. Prof. Tripathi has been collaborating with ecologists within India and abroad on his research in terrestrial ecosystem ecology including aspects of biodiversity change, biogeochemistry, ecosystem carbon sequestration, plant-soil-microbe interactions, ecosystem sustainability at different spatio-temporal scales, and management regimes under changing environments. Dr Francis Q. Brearley is an ecologist with key research interests in tropical plant-soil interactions and their importance for ecosystem processes. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 2003 and, after short-term appointments at British Antarctic Survey, University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin, joined Manchester Metropolitan University in 2007 and was promoted to Reader in 2022. He has published over 120 papers/chapters and edited one previous book on the impacts of land-use change on soil processes. His work has been supported by various funding agencies including the British Council, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Natural Environment Research Council, and the Royal Society for work in numerous countries including French Guiana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan where he works productively with international collaborators.

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