Special Issue of Journal Soil Salinity & Water Quality on Theme Restoring Salt–affected Ecologies in Changing Climate

2024-09-02

All persons working in these areas are invited to submit their research/review article(s) to this Special Issue. The manuscripts are to be submitted online at site-  https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JoSSWQ/about/submissions  by registering and logging in to this website. Once registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline September 10, 2024. All submissions that pass pre-check will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the special issue or subsequent regular issue of journal, as per their suitability. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Author Guidelines page.  Please visit the “Information for Authors” page before submitting a manuscript.

This special issue will cover the underlying topics:

  • Land use and land cover changes
  • Potential halophytes, halophilic microbes and organic amendments for remediation of salt-affected soils
  • Climate change action on dryland salinity
  • Crop diversification in salty soils
  • Ecosystem vulnerability in saline and sodic landscapes
  • Nature-based solution for increasing crop diversification on salty environment
  • Utilization of poor-quality water for high value crops
  • Soil resources and their management in coastal saline ecology
  • Development and domestication of salt–tolerant crops and crop cultivars
  • Crops wild relatives for designing salt– tolerant crops
  • Management of waterlogged saline soils including sub-surface drainage-based engineering solutions
  • Agroforestry practices to utilize and restore the salt-affected landscapes
  • Pisci-culture in coastal, brackish and inland aquatic systems 
  • Socio-economic impact of cutting edge technologies solving salinity problem
  • Designing the cropping systems to meet environmental and social sustainability
  • Integrative impact assessment of different cropping systems in saline environments
  • Policy initiatives with special reference to salinity management and food, water and climate security