Sachchidanand Tripathi, Ph.D. is presently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. The areas of his interest are plant ecology, soil ecology, ecophysiology, urban ecology and environmental policy. He has published more than 60 publications (including research publications, books and book chapters, conference proceedings) with reputed international journals and publishers. He is actively engaged as a reviewer with several international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, NPG and Taylor and Francis.Rahul Bhadouria, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He has published more than 23 papers, 22 book chapters, and 10 edited books in 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, plant community assembly, functional diversity and soil attributes along the forest-savanna-grassland continuum in India, recovery of degraded mountains in central Himalayas and urban ecology.Rishikesh Singh, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Punjab, Mohali, India. His research interests include soil carbon dynamics, land-use change and management, waste management, environmental contaminants, biochar and carbon sequestration. He has published several research and review articles and is working as a reviewer of several international journals. He has published 10 books in different international publishers including Elsevier, Springer Nature, CRC Press, and Wiley. Dr. Singh has 70 Scopus publications with more than 1100 citations and a Scopus h-index 26.Pratap Srivastava, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj India. His areas of research include soil C dynamics and its management, plant ecology, Invasion biology and waste management. He has published more than 30 research papers, 2 books and 12 book chapters in journals/publications of international repute. He is actively involved as an ad-hoc reviewer of several international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, NPG and Taylor and Francis.Rajkumari Sanayaima Devi, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Her research interest includes plant conservation, sustainability. and ethnobiology. She has published more than 25 publications and 2 Edited books with international journals and publishers including Elsevier, Springer Nature, CRC Press.
