Prof. Penuelas has visited India and Nepal in the frame of the ERC Imbalance-P project

Prof. Penuelas had been on tour during May visiting India and Nepal to stablish new projects and research lines on phosphorus limitation and climate change impacts in these locations.

In India he visited several research centers to conduct meetings with local scientis from:

National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR). Scientists discussed about the limited stock of this vital macronutrient in nature and its Increasing limitation in an increasingly fertilized world with N and C.
- Principal investigators
  - Dr. Ayay Parida. Director of the Institute of Life Sciences
  - Dr. Ramesh V. Sonti. Director of the National Institute of Plant Genome Research
  - Dr. Jitender Giri.
  - Dr. Raman Meenakshi Sundaram. PhD. Fellow-NAAS, ISGPB and IUSSTF
  - Dr. Jitendra Thakur.
  - Dr. Amar Pal Singh.
  - Dr. Ananda Sarkar
- Postdoc researchers
- PhD students
- Technicians

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
- Dr. Harsh Chauhan
- Dr. Jitender Giri from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research

Jawaharlal Nehru University. School of Environmental Sciences. Scientists discussed about antibiotic resistance and air pollution.
- Postdoc researchers
- PhD students
- Technicians

During the stay Prof Penuelas held seminars and conferences in the research centers listed above.

Dr. Jitender Giri and colleagues from the NIPGR — Dr. Jitender Giri, Prof Penuelas and colleagues from the NIPGR

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IIT-2 (2) — Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

During his visit to Nepal he conducted meetings and fiels trips on research on treeline shifts, nutrients and emergent pollutants in response to global warming and global eutophication and pollution in the Himalayas of Nepal.

This research involved scientists from:

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) – Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research:
- Prof. Eryuan Liang
- Dr. Shalik Ram Sigdel
- Dr. Haifeng Zhu

Nanjing Forestry University – College of Biology and the Environment:
- Dr. Yafeng Wang

Tribhuvan University, Nepal
- Prof. Binod Dawadi (Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology)
- Prof. Ram Kailash Prasad Yadav (Central Department of Botany)
- Dr. Chitra Bahadur Baniya (Central Department of Botany)

During the stay Prof Penuelas held seminars and conferences and visit selected treeline plots across the central Himalayas in Nepal.

Tribhuvan University_30052019 — Tribhuvan University, Nepal

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Tribhuvan University_talk_30052019 — Prof. Penuelas seminar at Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Treeline central Himalayas_30052019b — Visit to selected treeline plots across the central Himalayas

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