Sustainable Plant Nutrition and Soil Carbon Sequestration

陸地植物系統是地球土地資源的重要組成部分。這些資源透過養分交換現象相互連結。因此，植物營養在管理土壤肥力和土地生產力方面至關重要。土壤有機碳是評估土地可行性的重要指標之一，因此土壤碳封存成為一個日益受到關注的議題，尤其是在氣候變遷的背景下。

在這個背景下，本書提供了可持續植物營養與土壤碳封存之間的重要聯繫，以及其管理策略，這些策略能夠為環境可持續性帶來多方面的好處。本書的主要目的是探討碳封存與植物生長之間的聯繫、其在維持生態系統服務中的角色，以及土壤碳和養分動態的建模方面。此外，本書還旨在應對生態擾動日益增長的挑戰，揭示退化土地在食品、燃料和營養安全方面的潛力，並考量如何實現各項聯合國可持續發展目標（UN SDGs）。

Dr. Sheikh Adil Edrisi is an Assistant Professor at the Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (TSLAS) at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India. He earned his MPhil and PhD from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. He is researching to restore degraded lands for multipurpose environmental benefits, exploring the role of GIS to assess land productivity, bioremediation of contaminated and degraded lands for efficient bioenergy production, biodiversity conservation and restoration by developing an apposite policy framework for attaining key UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). He has received the 2021 Early Career Start-up Research Grant from SERB, Govt. of India, the 2021 Young Scientist Medal from International Society of Environmental Botanists (ISEB), Lucknow, India, the 2019 Green Talents Award from the BMBF in Germany, and the NASI-Springer Award (2018) from NASI, India. Additionally, he holds editorial roles in reputed journals in the area of land degradation, restoration, and sustainable production, such as Energy, Ecology and Environment, Anthropocene Science (Springer), Restoration Ecology, Land Degradation and Development (Wiley), and PLoS-One (PLoS). Dr. Adil is also the 'initial member' of Global Soil Biodiversity Initiatives and is currently an active IUCN-CEM, CEESP, and CEC commission member to resolve pressing global challenges of land restoration, bioenergy production, and sustainable development.

Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dubey is a Program Manager for the Sustainable Landscape and Restoration program at the World Resource Institute, India (WRI India). His primary area of expertise lies in agroecosystem management following a bottom-up approach, and he currently focuses on landscape restoration in Maharashtra, India. Pradeep holds an MSc and PhD in Environmental Science from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has undertaken substantial agricultural surveys and field-level experimental validation, proposing various ecological solutions for agri-environmental sustainability land-soil management within the Vindhyan dryland and Gangetic Plain in eastern UP, India. Dr. Dubey is selected as an IPBES fellow for Nexus assessment, a Fellow of the Society for Plant Research in India, and a recipient of the IUCN CEM Agroecosystems Special Recognition Award and Young Scientists Award from the Society for Science of Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability. He serves as a member of IUCN commissions (CEM, CEC, CEESP), the Global Land Program (GLP), and the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI). He is invited as a resource person, expert, and speaker in various state, national, and international forums. He has published research, reviews, opinions, editorial pieces, book chapters, and a lead-authored book. He has been actively involved in editorial and reviewer roles for esteemed international journals.

Dr. Cherukumalli Srinivasa Rao acquired his Ph.D. in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from IARI, New Delhi, and Post-Doctoral (Fellow) from Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Dr. Rao worked in the ICAR system in different capacities, from Scientist to Director. Currently, he is serving as Director of ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad, since 2017. He also served the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, for three years. He has been the recipient of 40 national and international awards, including the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award for Outstanding Research in Agricultural Sciences, 2019. He contributed to the UNFCCC global climate change negotiator in the agriculture sector from the Government of India. Dr. Rao is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and a Member of various National and International Committees globally. Dr. Rao specializes in Climate Change, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Balance, Dryland Production Systems, and Climate Policy. Dr. Rao is credited with 340 Research Papers, 50 Books authored/edited, 14 copyrights, and 21 Policy/Strategy/Status Papers. He visited more than 15 countries for scientific meetings. His Google Scholar total citations = 9151 and h-index = 46.

Dr. Himlal Baral is a Senior Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) scientist with CIFOR-ICRAF's Climate Change, Energy, and Low Carbon Development team. Based in Bali, Indonesia, Dr. Baral coordinates CIFOR's work on FLR, planted forests and bioenergy in Asia and the Pacific, specifically 1) promoting FLR for multiple ecosystem goods and services (EGS); 2) quantifying and valuing EGS under different landscape management scenarios; 3) investigating and developing locally appropriate landscape restoration models; and 4) contributing to land-resource planning for food, biomaterial, and energy security. Prior to joining CIFOR-ICRAF, he worked in the forestry and natural resources management field for over 25 years in both the private and public sectors in Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Baral has a PhD in Land and Environment and two Master's degrees in Forest Science and Social Science. Dr. Baral also serves as a Fellow of the Melbourne School of Land and Environment and the Global Evergreening Alliance and leads IUCN-CEM's specialist group on forest ecosystems.

Dr. Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi is currently an Associate Professor at BITS Pilani, Goa campus. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Ecology from the Centre for Ecological Sciences and a Masters in Geography from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, New Delhi, India. Dr. Chaturvedi has been a National Environmental Sciences Fellow at IISc and has contributed to more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, as well as two books on environment and climate change. Dr. Chaturvedi has worked extensively with communities, Government officials, NGOs, and UN organizations. Dr. Chaturvedi is currently the co-chair of IUCN's Forest Ecosystem's specialist group. He is currently involved with India's national greenhouse gas inventory programand is listed as a UN expert on GHG inventory. He has been a lead author for the regional assessment reports of the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) and IPBES (Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services).

Dr. P. C. Abhilash is a senior Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD) at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and Lead of the Agroecosystem Specialist Group of the IUCN-Commission on Ecosystem Management. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. His research interest lies in sustainable biomass production from marginal and degraded lands for supporting a biobased economy, restoring degraded lands for regaining ecosystem services, land system management, sustainable utilization of agrobiodiversity, nature-based solutions, ecosystem-based adaptations for climate-resilient and planet-healthy food production, and sustainable agriscape management for food and nutritional security. He is particularly interested in sustainability analysis, system sustainability, sustainability indicators, circular economy principles, policy realignment, and the localization of UN SDGs for sustainable development. He is on the editorial board of prestigious journals in Ecology/Environment/Sustainability from leading international publishers and also serves as a subject expert for UN-IPBES, IRP- UNEP, UNDP-BES Network, IPCC, UNCCD, APN, GLP, and IUCN Commissions (CEM, CEC, CEESP, and SSC) for fostering global sustainability.

Dr. Sheikh Adil Edrisi 是印度帕提亞拉的 Thapar 工程與技術學院 Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (TSLAS) 的助理教授。他在印度瓦拉納西的班納拉斯印度大學獲得了碩士和博士學位。他的研究旨在恢復退化土地以獲得多重環境效益，探索 GIS 在評估土地生產力中的作用，進行受污染和退化土地的生物修復以提高生物能源生產效率，並通過制定適當的政策框架來促進生物多樣性保護和恢復，以實現聯合國可持續發展目標 (UN SDGs)。他獲得了印度政府 SERB 的 2021 年早期職業啟動研究獎金、來自印度勒克瑙的國際環境植物學會 (ISEB) 的 2021 年青年科學家獎、德國 BMBF 的 2019 年綠色人才獎，以及來自印度 NASI 的 NASI-Springer 獎 (2018)。此外，他在土地退化、恢復和可持續生產等領域的知名期刊中擔任編輯角色，如 Energy, Ecology and Environment、Anthropocene Science (Springer)、Restoration Ecology、Land Degradation and Development (Wiley) 和 PLoS-One (PLoS)。Dr. Adil 也是全球土壤生物多樣性倡議的「初始成員」，目前是 IUCN-CEM、CEESP 和 CEC 委員會的活躍成員，致力於解決土地恢復、生物能源生產和可持續發展的緊迫全球挑戰。

Dr. Pradeep Kumar Dubey 是世界資源研究所印度分部 (WRI India) 可持續景觀與恢復計畫的計畫經理。他的主要專業領域是採用自下而上的方法進行農業生態系統管理，目前專注於印度馬哈拉施特拉邦的景觀恢復。Pradeep 擁有來自班納拉斯印度大學的環境科學碩士和博士學位。他進行了大量的農業調查和現場實驗驗證，提出了多種生態解決方案，以促進印度東部烏塔爾普拉德什邦的 Vindhyan 乾地和恒河平原的農業環境可持續土地-土壤管理。Dr. Dubey 被選為 IPBES 連結評估的研究員，是印度植物研究學會的成員，並獲得了 IUCN CEM 農業生態系統特別表彰獎和氣候變化與環境可持續科學學會的青年科學家獎。他是 IUCN 委員會 (CEM、CEC、CEESP)、全球土地計畫 (GLP) 和全球土壤生物多樣性倡議 (GSBI) 的成員。他受邀在各種州、國家和國際論壇中擔任資源人員、專家和演講者。他發表了研究、評論、意見、編輯文章、書籍章節以及主編的書籍，並積極參與知名國際期刊的編輯和審稿工作。

Dr. Cherukumalli Srinivasa Rao 獲得了新德里的印度農業研究所 (IARI) 土壤科學與農業化學博士學位，並在以色列特拉維夫大學獲得博士後研究員資格。Dr. Rao 在 ICAR 系統中擔任過不同職位，從科學家到主任。目前，他自 2017 年以來擔任 ICAR-國家農業研究管理學院的主任。他還在印度海德拉巴的國際半乾旱熱帶作物研究所 (ICRISAT) 工作了三年。他獲得了 40 項國內外獎項，包括 2019 年的 Rafi Ahmed Kidwai 農業科學傑出研究獎。他代表印度政府參與了 UNFCCC 全球氣候變化談判，專注於農業部門。Dr. Rao 是印度國家科學院、國家科學院和國家農業科學院的院士，並且是全球各種國家和國際委員會的成員。