Carbon Management in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Terrestrial Systems

Part 1. Impact of land use management for regulating SOC pools.- Chapter 1. Potential Soil Carbon Sequestration in Different Land Use and Management Systems in Peninsular India.- Chapter 2. Inclusion of Legumes in Rice-Wheat Cropping System for Enhancing Soil Carbon Sequestration.- Chapter 3. Effect of Land Use and Management Practices on Quantifying Changes of Phytolith Occluded Carbon in Arable Soils.- Chapter 4. Soil Management for Regulating C Pools: Perspective in Tropical and Subtropical Soils.- Chapter 5. Soil Management Practices of Major Crops in the United States and their Potential for Carbon Sequestration.- Chapter 6. Soil Carbon Dynamics in different Land Use and Management Systems in Tropical Coastal Regions of India.- Chapter 7. Soil Carbon Dynamics under Different Land Use and Management Systems.- Chapter 8. Carbon- Management in Diverse Land Use Systems of Eastern Himalayan Sub-tropics.- Chapter 9. Good Agricultural Practices and Carbon Sequestration.- Chapter 10.Soil Carbon Dynamics in Relation to Soil Surface Management and Cropping System.- Part 2. Conservation agriculture and C sequestration.- Chapter 11. Conservation Agriculture and C Sequestration in Tropical Regions.- Chapter 12. Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration under Conservation Tillage in Tropical Vertisols.- Chapter 13. Effect of Tillage on Soil Carbon Sequestration.- Part 3. Soil physical and biological factors regulating SOC storage.- Chapter 14. Functional Behaviour of Soil Physical Parameters for Regulating Organic C Pools.- Chapter 15. Role of Microorganisms in Regulating Carbon Cycle in Tropical and Subtropical Soils.- Chapter 16. Soil Organic Carbon Stock of Some Upland Use System under Tropical Monsoon Climate and Their Interrelationship with Soil Water Retention.- Part 4. Pastures, grasslands, forests and farming systems.- Chapter 17. Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Tropical and Subtropical Grassland Ecosystem.- Chapter 18. Tropical Grasslands as Potential

Dr. Probir Kumar Ghosh, Former Director, IGFRI, Jhansi  is presently working as National Coordinator, National Agricultural Higher Education Project (World Bank Funded), ICAR, New Delhi, India. He has graduated from Visva Bharati, Shantiniketan, and post-graduated (M.Sc. (Ag) and Ph.D.) from GBP AU&T, Pant Nagar. He is serving in ICAR since last 27 years at various capacities. He has outstanding publication records (267) with 4879 citations, 34 h- index and 73 i10 index. He is a fellow of National Academy of Agriculture Sciences and National Academy of Sciences and 20 National Awards in his credit including MS Randhawa Memorial Award and Vasaantrao Nayak Award. 

Dr. S.K. Mahanta, after completion of doctoral studies at ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, started his career as Scientist and currently serving as Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi. He has more than 23 yearsof research and extension experience in farm animal nutrition and feeding. He specializes in grazing and pasture management, forage evaluation and development of forage based feeding system for different categories of ruminant animals. He has over 70 research papers of national and international repute and 5 books to his credit. He is recipient of Endeavour Award of Australian Government and Fellow of Range Management Society of India & Animal Nutrition Association of India. At present, he is Editor of Range Management and Agroforestry journal and active member of many scientific societies. 


Dr. Debashis Mandal received MSc degree in Soil Science with majors in Soil Chemistry from GBPUA&T, Pantnagar  and the PhD degree on Physical Chemistry of Soil  from IARI, New Delhi. Debashis currently holds a renowned post of ICAR National Fellow with emphasis on Land Degradation since 2014 at the Faculty of ICAR-IISWC, Dehradun. His research interests comprise