Professor Dmitry Ponomarev was educated from Department of Chemistry St.Petersburg State University. Since that time he works as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and the last 20 years as a Full Professor in State Forest Technical University. His teaching activity includes lectures and seminars in such disciplines as Organic Chemistry, Chemistry of Terpenes, Environmental Chemistry and others. Nowadays he works with students of the Department of Forestry. He was invited to give lectures in University of Helsinki, University of Joensuu and University of Turku (all Finland). In 2001 he had a semiannual internship in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Ford Motor Co (Dearborn, USA). At present scientific work of Dmitry Ponomarev is focused on chemical valorization of wood and wood wastes especially for production of liquid biofuels and charcoal. He is an author of about 150 publications on the field of organic thermochemistry and wood chemistry.

Chemistry

My research interests include plant community ecology and effects of perturbations in terrestrial ecosystems, mainly fire, cutting and nitrogen deposition. I participated in numerous projects related to the analysis of the effects of these perturbations in different terrestrial ecosystems: forest, heathland and shrubland. She is an expert in heathlands ecology.

plant community ecology and effects of perturbations in terrestrial ecosystems

Institute of Biomoleular Chemistry National Research Council, Italy

Biology；Plant pathogens

Prof. José Antônio ALEIXO da Silva https://lattes.cnpq.br/5674098794412714 Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil

Forestry

Dr. Hanuman Singh Jatav Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University , India

Biochar；Plant nutrition

Prof. Kankan Shang https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kankan-Shang Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, China

Botany

Prof. Lei Deng https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lei-Deng-9 Northwest A&F University, China

Land Use Change

Prof. José Borges https://www.isa.ulisboa.pt/cef/grupos-de-investigacao/forchange/equipa-de-investigacao/joseborges/ University of Lisbon, Portugal Ph.D. in Forest Sciences (U. Minnesota), associate professor at the School of Agriculture (ISA), ULisboa. Coordinator of IUFRO Unit 4.04.04 Landscape Management Planning for Multiple Ecosystem Services and of the Erasmus Mundus. Joint Master Degree MEDFOR. Has 25+ years of higher education, research and outreach experience in forest management planning methods and decision support systems. Responsible for forest and natural resources management courses in ISA with participation in several international courses. Acted as PI or as coordinator of the participation of ISA in national and international projects targeting the development of forest management planning methods, of tools to analyse trade-offs between ecosystem services and of business models to attract payments for these services. Co-authored over 100 international peer-reviewed publications.

Forest management

Prof. Lukasz Warguła https://sin.put.poznan.pl/people/details/lukasz.wargula Poznań University of Technology, Poland I am a researcher at the Institute of Machine Design at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, where I conduct scientific research and implementation activities, focusing on mechanical engineering. My research interests primarily include machines and equipment for wood processing as well as technologies related to environmental protection.In recent years, I have concentrated on modern technologies used in low-power machines, such as wood chippers. I study their impact on energy consumption, exhaust emissions, and operation, especially when using alternative fuels such as LPG or CNG. My work also includes the development of innovative drive and control systems aimed at reducing operating costs and minimizing environmental impact. The results of this research are reflected in numerous publications on wood processing technologies and the operation of machines in various working conditions.I am also involved in analyzing the energy consumption of machines and examining how their design affects efficiency, which is important not only for the wood industry but also for environmental protection. Additionally, I actively participate in implementation projects that aim to apply my research findings in industrial practice, providing tangible support to the industry.

machines and equipment for wood processing

Dr. Panos Vassilis Petrakis https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Panos-V-Petrakis Hellenic Agricultural Organisation, Greece Panos Vassilis Petrakis (P. V. Petrakis) is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems, Laboratory of Entomology, part of the Hellenic Agricultural Organization – Dimitra. He has over 25 years’ experience in designing and conducting research in the entomology of the natural environment. His research focuses on insect biosystematics and biogeography employing research in semiochemicals especially those that shape insect-plant associations. He worked in the National Centre for Science Research – Demokritos as a research scientist in entomology of the olive tree pests, and in the Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, Directorate of Informatics as a biometrician and data analysis specialist with computer science skills in all major computer programming languages (e.g. R, C++), libraries, and techniques (e.g. GIS). He has developed several specialized computer packages (e.g. HyperBase) oriented in entomology and plant secondary metabolites. His research interests are also in Biological Evolution, Biomathematics, and Chemometrics.

insect ecology

Prof. Marko Sabovljevic http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marko_Sabovljevic University of Belgrade, Serbia Marko Sabovljevic (05. April 1974) Belgrade, Yugoslavia. I graduated Biology (2000, BSci, University of Belgrade, Serbia) and then received MSci (2003, University of Belgrade), PhD (2006, University of Bonn, Germany) in Biology. Following the post-docs in various European Science Institutions, in 2008, I joined Faculty of Biology academic stuff at University of Belgrade as Assistant Professor in Department of Plant Ecology and Phytogeography. In 2014 I received Associate Professorship and in 2019 Full Time professorship. In 2022 I joined academic stuff at Botany Department of University of Kosice. I am giving various courses like Molecular Ecology, Biogeography, Plant Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation or Bryophyte Biology, for example. My research interest goes to plant sciences and narrows to bryophyte biology i.e. any problem targeting bryophytes from the molecule to ecosystem level. Thus, my studies includes both field and laboratory work, both fundamental and biotechnological problems and bryophyte conservation. I published over 500 scientific papers, with focus on bryophytes, which even though the second largest group of terrestrial plants, are not receiving attention as much as vascular plants and a lot assumptions and not-known still waiting to be explained. I was a fellow by national (Serbia, Italy, Germany, Austria) and international funds, and visiting scholar in many European Institutes and Universities. I am a founder and leader of Bryological Association of South-Eastern Europe and a part member of many scientific societies and working groups. I am active reviewer in 55 scientific journals, editor-in-chief in one SCI journal and member of editorial boards in 18 additional journals. I participated in 106 scientific meetings world-wide and organize a few.

plant sciences

Dr. Abhijit Mitra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1323-803X Techno India University, India Dr. Abhijit Mitra, associate professor and former Head, Dept. of Marine Science, University of Calcutta (India) has been active in the sphere of Oceanography since 1985. He obtained his Ph.D as NET qualified scholar in 1994. Since then he joined Calcutta Port Trust and WWF (World Wide Fund), in various capacities to carry out research programmes on environmental science, biodiversity conservation, climate change and carbon sequestration. Presently, Dr. Mitra is serving as the advisor of Oceanography Division of Techno India University, Kolkata. He has to his credit about 450 scientific publications in various National and International journals, and 36 books of postgraduate standards. Dr. Mitra is presently the member of several committees like PACON International, IUCN, SIOS etc. and has successfully completed about 16 projects on biodiversity loss in fishery sector, coastal pollution, alternative livelihood, climate change and carbon sequestration. Dr. Mitra also visited as faculty member and invited speakers in several foreign universities of Singapore, Kenya, Oman and USA. In 2008, Dr. Mitra was invited as a visiting fellow at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA to deliver a series of lecture on climate change. Dr. Mitra also successfully guided 32 Ph.D students. Presently, his domain of expertise includes environmental science, mangrove ecology, sustainable aquaculture, alternative livelihood, climate change and carbon sequestration.

environmental science

Dr. Alban Kuriqi https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/alban-kuriqi University of Lisbon, Portugal Dr. Alban Kuriqi is an accomplished researcher and an academic in Civil Engineering, specializing in Renewable Energy and Water Management. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Lisbon, where he developed methods to optimize hydropower output while reducing ecological impacts. With over 14 years of professional experience, Dr. Kuriqi has contributed to hydropower design, river rehabilitation, and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). He is recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in Civil Engineering and Environmental Science. Author of over 150 peer-reviewed papers, he serves on editorial boards of 13 journals, advancing sustainable solutions in engineering and environmental management globally.

Renewable Energy and Water Management

Dr. Bhupendra Singh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8705-2959 Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry, India Medicinal plant and carbon sequestration by temperate forests of Gahwal Himalaya

Silviculture and Agroforestry

Dr. Víctor Fernández-García https://sites.google.com/view/victorfernandez-garcia Université de Lausanne, Spain Doctor cum laude from the University of León since 2019, with international mention thanks to stays at the University of California, Michigan State University, and Northern Arizona University. I currently work as a researcher at the University of Lausanne. My work focuses on disturbance ecology and the use of remote sensing techniques applied to the field of ecology, mainly to wildfires.

disturbance ecology

Prof. Xiaobo Wang http://cgm.lzu.edu.cn/info/1132/1724.htm Lanzhou University, China Dr. Xiaobo Wang is a researcher and doctoral supervisor with expertise in microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, and global change biology. He was recruited as overseas talent by Lanzhou University in 2020 and was previously recognized as a young and outstanding talent in Liaoning Province's "Xingliao Talent Plan" and for his excellent doctoral dissertation by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wang has published more than 30 papers in SCI journals such as Nature Communications, The ISME Journal, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and mSystems. He has also led several research projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, National Key R&D Program of China projects, and subprojects under the Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and Technology Service Network (STS) plan.

Microbial Ecology

Dr. Huakun Zhou http://www.nwipb.cas.cn/sourcedb_nwipb_cas/yw/rck/200907/t20090715_2082025.html Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, China Graduated from department of agriculture in Qinghai University and got a bachelor degree in 1996; Graduated from Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology and got a master degree in 1999 and the prime research is the response research about alpine grassland against global climate change in Haibei station; Graduated from ecology professional of Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology and got a doctor degree of science in 2004. Conducting grassland ecology as the assistant lecturer of Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, CAS from 1997 to 2002; Conducting grassland restoration and ecology in the source region of three rivers as the lecturer of Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, CAS from 2002 to 2007; Conducting grassland ecology in the source region of three rivers as the Associate Professor of Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, CAS from 2007 to 2011; Conducting grassland ecology in Tibetan Plateau as the Professor of Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, CAS from 2011 to today.

Grassland Ecology and Restoration Ecology

Dr. Lampros Vasiliades https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/889871 University of Thessaly, Greece Dr. Lampros Vasiliades is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Hydrology at the Hydraulics & Environmental Engineering Sector, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. He was awarded a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from the University of the Aegean, Greece, a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and a PhD (2010) in Hydrology and Hydroinformatics from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. Mr. Vasiliades is a registered professional environmental scientist in Greece and member of the Greek Committee for Water Resources Management, the Hellenic Meteorological Society, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), the European Geosciences Union (EGU), the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), the Global Network for Environmental Sciences and Technology (Global Nest), the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society (iEMSs) and other professional and scientific organizations. Additionally, he is an active participant in the scientific community and regularly contributes to the advancement of knowledge in his field through his role as a reviewer and editorial board member. His research interests include: a) analysis, modelling, and forecasting of extreme hydrological events (floods and droughts), b) spatiotemporal analysis, estimation, and modelling of hydrometeorological and water quality data, c) deterministic and stochastic hydrological modelling, d) climate change impacts on the hydrological processes and water resources, e) water resources management, f) applications of geoinformatics on hydrology, water resources and hydrosystems and g) design and environmental impact assessment studies of hydrotechnical projects. Mr. Vasiliades is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications in refereed journals, international conference proceedings and technical reports. His published work has received over 1450 citations, as indicated in Scopus database search with h-index=20 and over 2700 citations, as indicated in Google Scholar database search (h-index=24, i-10-index=30). He has participated in several national and European research projects on hydrology, water resources management and the use of remote sensing and GIS in hydrology and water resources and he is National Representative and/or Substitute Member of Greece in COST Actions (i.e. COST ES1404, COST ES0901, CA15206).

Hydrology

Prof. Garyfallos D. Arabatzis https://www.researchgate.net/profile/G-Arabatzis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Garyfallos Arabatzis is Professor (2018-today) at the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources of Democritus University of Thrace. He teaches among others the following courses: Investments and Forest Resources Development, Green ?entrepreneurship and Innovation, Regional Development, Forest Valuation and Accounting, Land Use Planning, Financial Management. Garyfallos has a wide spectrum of research interests, with truly multidisciplinary nature. Most of his research analyses elements of Forest, Rural and Regional Development, Forest Economics, Forest Valuation and Accounting, and the impacts of CAP in the Regional Economy. However, part of his recent work also looks into elements of Socio-Economic Evaluation of RES, Operational Research and Natural Resources, Green Finance and Development, and Investment Appraisal. He has published over 200 articles in international and Greek journals and proceedings. More specifically, 100 articles are published in international journals (mainly in top-tier journals) such as: Forest Policy and Economics, Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Informetrics, Journal of Environmental Management, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research. Reviewer in 54 international journals such as: Land Use Policy, Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Economics, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal of Environmental Management. Member of the Editorial Board of journal “Current Trends in Forest Research”. Senior researcher in 20 projects and coordinator in 2.The total impact factor of his work is more than 200. His work has been cited more than 1,500 times (information from Google Scholar).

Forest Economics

Prof. Guillermo José Martínez Pastur https://www.conicet.gov.ar/new_scp/detalle.php?id=33834&datos_academicos=yes Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicasy Técnicasdisabled, Argentina PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Specialty - Forestry and forest management. - Conservation of biodiversity. - Ecology of landscapes. Professional performance - 08/99 to date: CONICET researcher at CADIC. - 02/99 to 07/99: Forest Management Agent of Tierra del Fuego. - 10/98 to 01/99: Private activity. - 03/92 to 10/98: Scholarships and postgraduate courses. - 09/91 to 03/92: Ad-honorem Assistant (UNLP). - 09/91: Exit UNLP. Metrics http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2614-5403 http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=6602548115 http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4BcAqSYAAAAJ&hl=en http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guillermo_Martinez_Pastur

Forestry and forest management

Prof. Ali Jahani https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ali-Jahani-4/3 Research Center for Environment and Sustainable Development, Iran Dr. Ali Jahani is a professor in forestry within the Branch of Environment impact assessment at College of Environment, Iran. His research focuses on sustainable forestry with specific interest in forest modeling, environmental impact assessment and ecotourism. His most recent projects integrate the environment impacts of tourism and forest conservation in protected areas and highlight the environmental changes of the forests in respond to tourism activities to modify the forest management plans for conservation and utilization objectives simultaneously.

Forestry

Dr. María Rosa Mosquera-Losada https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Rosa-Mosquera-Losada University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dr. María Rosa Mosquera-Losada, Distinguished Professor of the Crop Production and Project Engineering Department of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Current President of the Spanish Agroforestry Federation. Chair of the Arable Crop working group of the Global Research Alliance (official IPPC observer) and of the “Enabling Environment working group” of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (FAO). Editor of the books “Silvopastoralism and Sustainable Land Management” (CAB International) and “Agroforestry in Europe” (Springer). Author of over 400 peer reviewed papers, 80 of which are indexed in the JCR (90% of papers in the first decile) about the subject of agroforestry. Main responsible of the reports of “Biodiversity indicators on silvopastoralism across Europe” written for the European Environmental Agency and “Current status of Agroforestry EU policy” and “Agroforestry Policy recommendations for EU” as leader of the Policy section of the AGFORWARD. Go-Grass, Under-trees and AFINET Project. She is the current coordinator of the most important Agroforestry Network in Europe: AFINET. Currently she is leading the “enabling working group” of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) and the Croplands Research Group of the Global Research Alliance (GRA).

Agroforestry

Dr. Shamim Akhtar Ansari https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shamim-Ansari-4 Institute of Forest Productivity, India Dr. Shamim Akhtar Ansari, Scientist G & Ex-Director, Institute of Forest Productivity, is an erudite academician and researcher with an experience of more than 38 years. Dr. Ansari has specialized in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry during MS and doctoral work. Subsequently, he joined as a senior scientist in Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education under Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. He has conducted extensive research, and developed expertise, in Clonal Forestry or Forest Biotechnology, including Tissue Culture and Adventitious Rhizogenesis and Population (molecular) Genetics and Association Mapping of Tropical Deciduous Trees. He served as an assistant editor of "TFRI Newsletter" for five years (1997-2002) and Editor of peer reviewed international "Indian Journal of Tropical Biodiversity" for ten years (2002-2012). He has edited two books and published more than 100 research papers/ review articles/ popular science articles and received global citations (cumulative citation: 904, h-index: 15, i10-index: 28). He has also guided ten students for doctorate program. Dr. Ansari has received several academic accolades; notable among them are University Gold Medal (Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) and R.D. Gold Medal (Indian Society for Plant Physiology, New Delhi).Dr. Ansari is elected fellow of Indian Botanical Society, Indian Society for Plant Physiology and Linean Society. He is a regular referee of over 40 journals published by Springer Nature, Elsevier and of Internation Societies of Plant Physiology, Molecular Biology and Forest Population Genetics.

Forest Genetics

Dr. Alexandre dos Santos https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandre-Santos-8 Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil Forest Engineering and MS in Entomology from the Federal University of Lavras ( UFLA / Brazil ) , PhD in Entomology from the Federal University of Lavras / Unit Biostatistique et Processus Spatiaux ( BioSP ) ( INRA / France ) and MBA in Innovation Management Professional from the School of International Business and Entrepreneurship (Steinbeis-Sibe / Germany). Currently I am a professor of Forest Engineering in IFMT--Campus Cáceres/ Brazil, collaborator professor of the postgraduate program in Entomology at UFLA / Brazil and professor of the postgraduate program in Technological Innovation at UFMT / Brazil. My skills were Geotechnologies and Spatial Statistics applied to Forest Entomology.

Floresta

Prof. Mehmet Cetin https://avesis.omu.edu.tr/mehmet.cetin Kastamonu University, Turkey Mehmet Cetin, PhD, Professor Dr, Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kastamonu University, Turkey. He is working Professor at Kastamonu University for teaching courses and research projects. He has teaching 20 courses for Bachelor, Master and PHD Students. He has 14 master and PhD students. He has working 5 projects to do. He has research interest: Landscape Ecology, Ecology, ecosystems, Remote sensing, Land use land cover, Plants, Forest road planning, Landscape Engineering, Recycling, Engineering material, Landscape materials, Construction, Materials, Landscape construction, landscape ecology, landscape planning and management, GIS, recycling, plants, landscape engineering, environmental engineering, air quality, forest area, land use. He has 60 SSCI, SCI, SCI-Expanded journals, 60 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals;13 indexed book chapter; 1964 citations; H-index 28; i10 index 45(Google Scholar and WOS). He attended 60 conferences. https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp

Landscape Ecology

Prof. Ferhat Gokbulak https://avesis.iuc.edu.tr/fgokbulak Istanbul University Cerrahapasa, Turkey Education: I graduated as a forest engineer from Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry in 1991 and completed MS degree in Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, department of watershed management in 1993. I got PhD degree from Utah State University, Department of Forest, Range and Wildlife Sciences in 1998. Experience: I worked as a research and teaching assistant at Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, department of Watershed Management between 1991 and 1994 and Utah State University from 1994 to 1998. I took part in a research project in New Mexico State University between 2008- 2009. Currently, I am working as a full time professor at Istanbul University Cerrahapasa, Faculty of forestry, Department of watershed Management and teaching courses for undergraduate and graduate students, supervising some graduate students and taking part in some international and national research projects. My areas of expertise include the effects of forestry practices on water yield and quality, the effects of land use changes on soil and water resources, soil and water conservation, and range management. I published several research papers in different scientific journals.

the effects of forestry practices on water yield and quality

Dr. Daniel Jose Vega-Nieva https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35575175300 Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Mexico Dr. Daniel Vega-Nieva has a PhD in Environmental Enginieering from the University of Vigo (Spain). He is a full time professor at the Faculty of Forest Science at the University of Durango (UJED, Mexico). He has authored more than 40 indexed articles and participated in mote than 30 international conferences in the past 10 years. He participates as a reviewer for the journals Remote Sensing, Forests, Biomass and Bioenergy, Annals of Forest Science and International Journal of Wildland fire, among others. Dr. Vega has coordinated and collaborated in several national and international projects in the areas of forest fires, forest remote sensing and forest bioenergy, including the coordination of the development of the national forest fire GIS system of Mexico: http://forestales.ujed.mx/incendios2/

forest fires GIS

Prof. Sabatino Cuomo https://sabatinocuomo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cuomo_sabatino_cv_eng_2017_12_long.pdf University of Salerno, Italy Research Topics: Landslide Mechanisms Solid-fluid Transition Landslide Dynamics Regional Slope Stability Slope Erosion Geosynthetics Reinforcement Laboratory Testing Constitutive Modelling Publications: 70+ international publications 26 papers in peer-reviewed international ISI journals SCOPUS citations: 563 citations by 349 documents H-index: 12 www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=23049080900

Geosynthetics reinforcement

Dr. Soleiman Mohammadi Limaei https://www.miun.se/en/personnel/l/soleimanlimaei/ Mid Sweden University, Sweden Soleiman Mohammadi Limaei is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and a member of Centre for Research on Economic Relations (CER) at Mid Sweden University (MIUN). In addition, Limaei has been as a Professor in Forest Economics at University of Guilan in Iran. His area of interest is economics optimization in forestry. He is also serving as reviewer and editorial member in a number of journals.

Economics optimization in forest resource management

Prof. Jung Il Seo https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jung-Il-Seo Kongju National University, Korea He got his Ph.D. degree with the theme entitled 'Spatial and temporal variations in the fluvial export of large woody debris at the watershed scale' from Hokkaido University, Japan in 2008. He spent one more year in Hokkaido University with his in-stream wood study. Then he moved to Oregon State University in USA and spent two years with the study theme related to the interaction between in-stream wood and sediment dynamics. Since getting position as an assistant professor in the Department of Forest Resources, College of Industrial Sciences, Kongju National University, Republic of Korea in 2013, he has currently served as an associate professor. His interests of research and education include the fluvial & non-fluvial processes, geomorphic disturbance, riparian forest & ecology, channel development, stream restoration, and watershed management.

riparian forest & ecology

Dr. Raj Kumar https://cssri.res.in/staff-members/dr-raj-kumar/ ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, India I am presently working as Scientist (agroforestry) at ICAR- Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, India. I did my Ph.D in Silviculture and worked on sustainable management of Pinus gerardiana in Indian Himalaya. As a scientist my priority areas are tree improvement, ecology, agroforestry, Soil water management, Salt soil reclamation and Carbon sequestration. Beside this he also expertise in developing climate smart systems in climate change vulnerable areas. I have reviewed several papers of Journal of Soil Water Conservation, Indian Journal of agroforestry, Journal of tree science, Sustainability, Journal of Forest Science, Current science.

tree improvement

Dr. Sahadev Sharma https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sahadev-Sharma Universiti Malaya, Malaysia Sahadev Sharma currently works at the Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya. Sahadev does research in Marine Biology, Ecology and Biogeography. Their current project is 'The Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP)'.

Forest ecophysiology

Dr. Hayssam M. Ali https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Hayssam-M-Ali-84339369 King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

plant physiology

Dr. E G Kolomyts https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/E-G-Kolomyts-78883833 Institute of Fundamental Problems of Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Dr. Jagdish Chander Dagar https://www.researchgate.net/profile/J-Dagar-2 ICAR - Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, India Chief Editor of Journal Soil Salinity & Water QualityMember Editorial Board Journal Soil Science & Environmental Management Member Editorial Board Journal Climate Change & Environmental SustainabilityRemained Member Editorial Board Indian J Agroforestry

Agroforestry

Prof. Surendra Singh Bargali https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Surendra-Bargali Kumaun University, India Prof. Surendra Singh Bargali has studied an important problem pertaining to Eucalyptus by establishing its high nutrient use efficiency and made significant contribution to understand these exotics for stand point of ecology and management. He examined the effect of traditional agroforestry systems on crops and their management to enhance crop productivity. He brought light on farmer’s perception and technology adoption about forestry plantations. He has been able to infer the genetic relationship among cultivated/wild species of Luffa aegyptiaca. This was first ever report on mating system in Luffa using molecular markers and demonstrated the utility of using more than one DNA marker in assessment of molecular diversity in a widely cultivated crop having narrow genetic base. He conducted experiments to select leguminous plants that can be used for the recovery of degraded lands and to identify drought and salt tolerant varieties that can be used in dry/saline soils. He has started his job from Indira Gandhi Agricultural University as a Scientist (Agroforestry) in 1994 and became Senior Scientist (Agroforestry) in the year 2003 and Principal Scientist/Professor (Forestry) in the year 2009. In the year 2011, he joined Kumaun University, Nainital as a Professor of Botany. He has been Awarded the 'Fellow of National Institute of Ecology (FNIE)' in the year 2010. He is the Editor/Member Editorial board/Reviewer of several International/National research journals.

Biodiversity