Vishal Tripathi – författare

The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, faces profound threats from climate change, altering plant distributions, microbial communities, and ecosystem services vital for millions. This edited volume explores these shifts through expert insights on medicinal plant conservation, invasive species dynamics, and microbial functionality. Chapters reveal how warming disrupts phenology, phytochemistry, and soil health, while offering strategies like indigenous knowledge and biotechnological tools for resilience. Targeting ecologists, policymakers, and conservation practitioners, the book emphasizes the Himalayan region's unique vulnerability—home to rare flora and carbon-rich soils—and calls for integrated action to safeguard livelihoods and ecological balance. With practical policy recommendations, it bridges science and sustainability, urging adaptive measures to combat biodiversity loss in this fragile mountain arc.

This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in soil functions, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability, and achieving the sustainable development goals. With a focus on agriculture and environment, the book highlights the importance of the microbial world by providing state-of-the-art technologies for examining the structural and functional attributes of soil microbial diversity for applications in healthcare, industrial biotechnology, and bioremediation studies. In seven chapters, the book will act as a primer for students, environmental biotechnologists, microbial ecologists, plant scientists, and agricultural microbiologists. Chapter 1 introduces readers to the soil microbiome, and chapter 2 discusses the below ground microbial world. Chapter 3 addresses various methods for exploring microbial diversity, chapter 4 discusses the genomics methods, chapter 5 provides the metaproteomics and metatranscriptomics approaches and chapter 6 details the bioinformatics tools for soil microbial community analysis, and chapter 7 concludes the text with future perspectives on further soil microbial uses and applications.