Climate Change: Effects on Natural Resource Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Applications of Crop Growth Simulation Models in Climate Change Assessments/M. Mohanty and Nishant K. Sinha. 2. Elevated Atmospheric Co2: Its Indirect Effects on Soil Processes/S. Kundu, S. Rajendran and M. Vassanda Coumar. 3. Carbon Pools, Carbon Management Indicesand Soil Carbon Dynamics/Brij Lal Lakaria, Pramod Jha and A.K. Biswas. 4. Mechanisms of Soil Carbon Sequestration and Stabilization/K.M. Hati. 5. Remote Sensing Based Methodology for Crop Acreage Estimation/Prachi Misra sahoo. 6. Statistical Techniques for Spatial Data Analysis/ Prachi Misra Sahoo. 7. Making APSIM Model Ready for crop Simulation Model/Nishant K. Sinha and M. Mohanty. 8. The APSIM Model (Agricultural Production Systems Simulator): A Model for production or Resource Management and Seasonal Climate Forecasting/M. Mohanty and Nishant K. Sinha. 9. Effect of Organics on Soil Aggregate Stability/R.S. Chaudhary, Nishant K. Sinha and M. Mohanty. 10. Conservation Agriculture for Climate Change Mitigation in Rainfed Region/J. Somasundaram. 11. DNDC Model-Calibration and Validation from Long-term Experiments/Pramod Jha. 12. Diversity and Response of Soil Microbes to Climate Change/S.R. Mohanty. 13. Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation/A.K. Biswas, Pramod Jha and B.L. Lakaria. 14. Engineering Interventions and Conservation Agriculture in Context of Climate Change/K.P. Singh. 15. Improving Water Productivity Under Climate Change Scenarios: Indian Perspective/R. Saha. 16. Glossary of technical Terms/L.L. Somani.