Warming Mountains: Implications for Livelihood and Sustainability

Sachchidanand Tripathi, Ph.D.
Sachchidanand Tripathi is an associate professor at the Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India. The areas of his interest are plant ecology, soil ecology of various ecosystems, ecophysiology and urban ecology. He has published more than 60 publications (including research publications, books and book chapters, conference proceedings) with journals and publishers of international repute.
Rahul Bhadouria, Ph.D.
Rahul Bhadouria is an assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has published more than 24 papers, 25 book chapters, and 12 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.

Satish Chandra Garkoti, Ph.D.
Satish Chandra Garkoti is Professor at School of Environmental Sciences and Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor) in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His areas of research are Plant Ecology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tree water relations, Plant invasions, Ecosystem restoration, Himalayan Ecology. Prof. Garkoti has 32 years of Research and 23 Years of teaching experience. He is member of various professional societies of international repute such as International Society for Tropical Ecology, India (Fellow); Ecological Society of America, USA (Member); National Institute of Ecology, India (Fellow); International Association for Ecology (INTECOL)(Member). Prof. Garkoti has been awarded and successfully conducted a number of research and development projects funded by various funding agencies of the Government of India. He has published more than 85 research publications, 8 chapters in proceedings and books and 2 books with journals and publishers of international and national repute.

Sachchidanand Tripathi, Ph.D.
Sachchidanand Tripathi 是德里大學迪恩·達亞爾·烏帕迪亞雅學院植物學系的副教授。他在印度瓦拉納西的班納拉斯印度大學植物學系獲得博士學位。他的研究興趣包括植物生態學、各種生態系統的土壤生態學、生態生理學和城市生態學。他已在國際知名的期刊和出版社發表了超過60篇出版物（包括研究論文、書籍和書籍章節、會議論文集）。

Rahul Bhadouria, Ph.D.
Rahul Bhadouria 是德里大學德里藝術與商業學院環境研究系的助理教授。他在印度瓦拉納西的班納拉斯印度大學植物學系獲得博士學位。他已在國際知名的期刊/出版社發表了超過24篇論文、25章書籍章節和12本編輯書籍。他目前的研究領域包括管理土壤碳動態以減緩氣候變遷、氣候變遷下熱帶乾燥森林中樹苗存活和生長特徵的觀點、植物群落組成、功能多樣性以及印度森林-草原-草地連續體的土壤特徵、中央喜馬拉雅山的退化山地恢復和城市生態學。

Satish Chandra Garkoti, Ph.D.
Satish Chandra Garkoti 是新德里賈瓦哈拉爾·尼赫魯大學環境科學學院的教授及副校長。他的研究領域包括植物生態學、傳統生態知識、樹木水分關係、植物入侵、生態系統恢復和喜馬拉雅生態學。Garkoti 教授擁有32年的研究經驗和23年的教學經驗。他是多個國際知名專業學會的成員，如印度熱帶生態學會（Fellow）、美國生態學會（Member）、印度國家生態學研究所（Fellow）和國際生態學協會（INTECOL）（Member）。Garkoti 教授曾獲得多個印度政府資助機構的研究和發展項目資助，並成功執行這些項目。他已在國際和國內知名的期刊和出版社發表了超過85篇研究論文、8章會議和書籍章節以及2本書籍。