This book is comprehensive collection of information about the features, functions and services of aquatic macrophytes. This book is dealing with various aspects of aquatic macrophytes in nutrient re-cycling, biogeochemical processes, biomass production, wetland ecosystems, water resource management, carbon sequestration, environmental clean-up, bioenergy production etc. The book also presents the current status of aquatic macrophytes and impact of climate change on these plants and will highlight the major challenges towards exploiting the benefits served by aquatic macrophytes as ecosystem services. As primary producers, aquatic macrophytes form the basis of food webs, share a major part of highly productive aquatic ecosystems and have significant impression on ecosystem functions and services. Macrophytes are also known to strongly influence the micro-climate and biogeochemical processes occurring in littoral zones of marine ecosystems and sediment dynamics of freshwater systems. They also serve as most effective carbon sinks and plays an important role in carbon sequestration. The book is of interest and useful to academicians, environmental researchers, climate change scientists, and ecologists. Also, the book serves as reading material for students and researchers working in the field of ecology, biogeochemistry, wetland conservation, phytoremediation, elements biomonitoring, wastewater management, bioenergy production etc.
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar has obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India. He has worked in the field of sustainable agriculture, soil quality management, agriculture gaseous emission, development of slow-release fertilizers, phytoremediation, etc. He has published 32 research articles, 21 book chapters, and 3 edited books with Springer, and presented research papers at many national and international conferences and seminars. He was awarded the FSPR ‘Fellow of the Society of Plant Research’, FSSCE ‘Fellowship of Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment’, and the ‘Young Scientist Award’ by The Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment. He also received the recognition award for ‘Significant contribution to academic activities’ from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University. At present, Dr. Kumar is working in the Department of Geology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, U.P. India.
Dr. Kuldeep Bauddh is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science from BB Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India. Dr. Bauddh is currently teaching thrust areas of environmental sciences like Environmental Pollution and Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Toxicology, etc. His main research areas are phytoremediation and sustainable agriculture. ‘Phytomanagement of Polluted Sites’, ‘Phytorestoration of Abandoned Mining and Oil Drilling Sites,’ Advances in Microbe Assisted Phytoremediation of Polluted Sites, and three with Springer on ‘Phytoremediation Potential of Bioenergy Plants’, ‘Algae and Environmental Sustainability’ and ‘Ecological and Practical Approaches for Sustainable Agriculture.’ He has published 50 research papers in national and international journals and 27 book chapters. He is working as a reviewer of several International Journals, including Chemosphere, Ecological Engineering, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Phytoremediation, Land Degradation and Development, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, etc.
Dr. Ritu Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, School of Earth Sciences at the Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, and Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. She has 10 years of teaching and research experience in environmental chemistry and environmental pollution. Her research interests include nano-agroparticles, nano-remediation, metal nanoparticles, nanocomposites, emerging contaminants, and wastewater treatment. She has 30 publications in peer-reviewed international journals to her credit and published 18 book chapters with national and international publishers. She has also edited two books with Springer Nature and Taylor and Francis group. She has been awarded the ‘Young Scientist Award’ two times in the field of Environmental Science by the Dalela Education Foundation, the Academy of Environmental Biology, and The Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Development (SSCE). She completed one research project sanctioned by UGC, New Delhi, and is currently running two international projects. She is a scientific and academic editor of three international and two national journals. She is also working as a reviewer of several international journals of repute.
Dr. Narendra Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and is currently the Head of the Department of Geology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science. Dr. Kumar is an active researcher and academician having almost 20 years of postgraduate teaching and research experience. He started his academic career in 2002 as a Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science, Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, U.P., India. Now he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow. Dr. Kumar has published more than 50 international and National research papers, besides many articles in leading newspapers. He has published 30 book chapters with reputed national and international publishers and has edited 06 books with Springer Nature and Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group. He also has one German Patent to his credit. He is currently editing a series on Earth, Environment and Sustainability with Taylor & Francis Group. Dr. Kumar has completed 01 major research project sanctioned by UGC, New Delhi and running two research projects sanctioned by SERB, New Delhi. Five Ph.D. degrees have been awarded under the supervision of Dr. Kumar, and currently five research scholars are working under his guidance for the doctoral degree. In addition, Dr. Kumar has guided more than 50 students in their M.Sc. dissertation work.
Dr. Rajesh Kumar is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and presently Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India. He earned his M.Sc. (Tech.) and PhD from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India. With over 23 years of research experience in air pollution, climate change and the Himalayan cryosphere, he has published 116 papers in various International & National journals and book chapters, including 3 articles in Scientific Reports. To his credit, he has made 31 foreign visits for academic purposes like conferences and collaborative research and presented 38 papers at National and International conferences/symposia. He has supervised 13 PhD scholars. He is a member of several academic societies and on the editorial board of journals. Prof. Kumar was among the 2% of the world's scientists on the Stanford University list in 2020. He has successfully executed research projects of more than 30 million INR funded by WWF-India; DST, GoI; USAID, USA; SAWI, ICIMOD, Nepal; MoES, GoI; SAC (ISRO) and APN. BBC News, CNN-IBN, AajTak, Hindustan Times, the Hindu, BBC Radio, and All India Radio for climate-related issues have interviewed him.
