Climate Change and Soil Interactions

Marcin Pietrzykowski is a professor in forestry, forest ecology, and forest land reclamation at the Department of Forest Ecology and Reclamation at the Agricultural University in Krakow, Poland. His principal research focuses on the forestry, forest ecology, and forest land reclamation, especially on mine soil including vegetation relationships, trees species response and to reclaimed mine site conditions, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, site classification, and forest management on reclaimed mine sites. In 2013, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Virginia, United States. He was awarded the European Award for Sustainable Land Use - CULTURA Prize 2015 by Alfred Toepfer Foundation. He is a member in the American Society of Mining and Reclamation, Society of Ecological Restoration, and the Polish Society of Soil Science. He is an author and co-author of over 150 scientific papers and has patented several inventions for biostabilazation methods of post-industrial sites. Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.

• 1. Soil biodiversity conservation for mitigating climate change2. Potential changes in forest soil carbon stocks under different climate change scenarios3. Methane Emission from Unsustainable Crop Production in Nepal: SRI as an option for mitigation4. Heavy metal mobility in surface water and soil5. Managing organic amendments in agroecosystems to enhance soil carbon storage and mitigate climate change6. Seed priming: state of the art and new perspectives in the era of climate change7. Use of Lysimeter for Monitoring Soil Hydrological Parameters and Nutrient Leaching8. Consequences of land use changes for soil quality and function, with a focus on the EU and Latin America9. Soil as a complex ecological system for meeting food and nutritional security10. Microbial approach for alleviation of potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils11. Alleviation of soil salinization and the management of saline soils12. Soil and water soil salinization in the era of climate change13. Soil salinity risk in a climate change scenario and its effect on crop yield 14. Organic matter decomposition under warming climatic conditions15. Organic matter decomposition under warming climate conditions16. Heavy metal mobility in soil under futuristic climatic conditions17. Sustainability Science - below and above the ground as per the UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals18. Hydraulic Properties of Soil under Warming Climate19. Methane and carbon dioxide release from wetland ecosystems20. The effect of climate changes on mycorrhizae21. Exploring soil responses to various organic amendments under dry tropical agro-ecosystems22. Climate resilient and smart agricultural management tools to cope with climate change induced soil quality decline23. Plant Soil interactions in the era of climate change 24. Plant soil interactions as a Restoration tool25. Soil enzymes in a changing climate26. Soil Health and Climate Change27. Soil carbon flux / carbon sequestration under warming climate