Integrated Agricultural Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change

Contents: 1. Fundamentals of microbial diversity and ecosystem function/S R Mohanty and B Kollah. 2. Conservation agriculture to enhance soil microbial diversity/ S R Mohanty, A K Patra and B Kollah. 3. Soil organic carbon for eco-system functioning and soil health/S Kundu. 4. Mitigation of atmospheric greenhouse gasses through different agricultural practices/R C Singh. 5. Elevated atmospheric temperature and carbon dioxide: effect on soil biota and microbial diversity/S R Mohanty and B Kollah. 6. Soil carbon sequestration and framing the limits of carbon in soil types/M C Manna. 7. Soil microbial diversity and organic matter decomposition/D L N Rao. 8. Soil organic carbon dynamics in long term fertilizer experiment and methodology to calculate minimum amount of C required to maintain thresh hold level/M Singh.  9. Climate change in relation to emissions of green house gases and land use change and mitigation opportunities/A K Mishra. 10. Plant physiological responses to elevated CO2 and temperature/S Ramana. 11. Importance of soil testing in soil health assessment and improvement/Sanjay Srivastava. 12. Organic farming: carbon sequestration in tropical agro-eco systems/A B Singh. 13. Greenhouse gas contributions from agriculture: potential mitigation strategies through simulation modelling/M. Mohanty and Nishant K. Sinha. Index.