Dr. Dhiraj Naik

Biography

His education includes: Ph.D (Botany),2006 Department of Botany, University of Pune, India, M.Sc (Botany),1998-99 Department of Botany, University of Pune, India and B.Sc,1995-99 Abasaheb Garware College of Arts and Science,University of Pune, India. His research is broadly interested in the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying adaptation and acclimation of plants to their stressful environment, which are accelerated due to changing climate conditions. In India, terrestrial and grassland ecosystem are strongly dependent on changes in climate, which accelerates predominantly by land use, drought and other edaphic stresses. His research focuses on understanding how drought and edaphic stresses affect forest and grassland ecosystems. To answer these questions he combine ecophysiological and molecular approaches in open field, greenhouse and lab experiments. Click on the “Research’ tab to see the types of studies, ideas and questions that have intrigued us.

Research Interest

Change in annual carbon sequestration and soil respiration in semi-arid grassland and forest ecosystem, Impact of legume based intercropping in soil carbon sequestration,Dynamics of carbon and nitrogen allocation and partitioning in forest trees and crop plants under changing climate conditions.