Climate Change Impacts on Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum

Impacts of climate change on soil processes.- Nutrient cycling and climate change.- Soil carbon sequestration in the context of climate change.- Soil health and climate change.- Climate change impact on soil erosion and land degradation.- Response and behavior of paddy soil microbiota towards environmental change variables.- Contemporary use of sensors for soil qualitative and quantitative assessment in the context of climate change.- Evolution of basin-scale soil moisture under changing climate and land use scenarios: A hillslope-based approach.- Prospect of organic agriculture in the present climate change scenario.- Impact of conservation agriculture on soil health and environmental sustainability.- Prospects of modified plant micro-climate in global climate change research.- Climate change and crop resource use efficiency.- Climate change on seeds physiology.- Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for agronomic crops.- Understanding the effects of changing climate onweeds and their management.- Impacts of abiotic stresses on eco-physiology of crop in changing climate.- Impact of climate change on agriculturally important insects and nematodes.- Plant virus diseases dynamics under modified environments and impacts on host virus-vector landscape.- Breeding rice variety with suitable plant ideotype for next-generation Indian agriculture in the changing climatic conditions.- Crop modelling for climate change studies.- Advanced facilities for climate change research and greenhouse gas mitigation.- Monitoring and impact assessment of climate change: eddy covariance technique.- Greenhouse gas and energy flux measurements with eddy covariance technique under lowland rice ecology.- Climate change scenarios of India with special emphasis on Sundarbans delta and Western Himalayan region.- Drought preparedness under changing climate with special reference to Manipur.- Climate change induced spatiotemporal monsoon variability: assessment of its implications

Himanshu Pathak is a director of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management (ICAR-NIASM), Baramati, India, and a former director of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Rice Research Institute (ICAR-NRRI), Cuttack, India. He is a soil scientist by profession, and his expertise includes climate change and simulation modelling. He is the recipient of the Humboldt Fellowship (Germany) and the Better Opportunities for Young Scientists in Chosen Areas of Science and Technology (BOYSCAST) Fellowship (UK). In addition, he is a fellow of other societies that include the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). He was a visiting scientist of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.


Dibyendu Chatterjee is a scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Rice Research Institute (ICAR-NRRI). He is a soil scientist by profession and his expertise includes eddy covariance, climate change and nutrient dynamics. He received the Nitrogen Efficiency of Whole Cropping Systems (NEWS) India-UK Fellowship in which he visited the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK, and the Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique, France. He is the recipient of the Dr. S. P. Raychaudhuri Gold Medal Award, the D. N. Borthakur Award, the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) Young Scientist Award, the Clay Minerals Society of India (CMSI) Young Scientist Award, Nanaji Deshmukh ICAR Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Reserch in Agricultural and Allied Sciences and Golden Jubilee Young Scientist Award 2021. He is an associate of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST) anda member of the Indian