The Role of Tropics in Climate Change: Global Case Studies uses a 20-chapter, easy-to-understand format to centralize the practical application ideas for functional metagenomics. This important resource not only includes chapters on next-generation sequencing technologies to study important biogeochemical cycles, degradation pathways and detoxification, but also gives insight into several tools that have been developed to integrate metadata and sequence data, allowing downstream comparative analyses of different datasets using several ecological indices. The book further explains newly developed techniques for sequencing DNA, generating shorter fragments than Sanger sequencing techniques to quickly read larger sequences in a shorter amount of time.

Dr. Neloy Khare is Scientific Adviser to the Government of India at MoES. His research areas cover locations including the Antarctic, Arctic, and global oceans. He has 30 years of experience in paleoclimate research. He completed his doctorate on tropical marine regions and Doctor of Science on Southern High latitude marine regions towards environmental/climatic implications. Dr. Khare was granted Honorary and Adjunct Professorships by several Indian Universities. He has published 121 research articles in National and International Scientific journals; edited 3 Special Issues of National Scientific Journals; edited a Special Issue of Polar Science, authored/edited many books, 130 Abstracts have been contributed to various seminars; 23 Popular Science Articles. He has been awarded Awards for his scientific contributions including the Rajiv Gandhi National Award - 2013. Dr. Khare has sailed the Arctic Ocean as a part of "Science PUB? in 2008 and became the first Indian to sail the Arctic Ocean.

1. The Importance of Tropics in the Changing Climate 2. Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Agriculture in Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia 3. Interrelationship between Climate Justice and Migration: A case of South Western Coastal Region of Bangladesh 4. Climate change projection: Precipitation concentration changes over Bangladesh 5. Climate variability Observed climate trends, future climate projections for Sri Lanka 6. A review study on the artefacts, vertebrate remains and volcanic ash of Peninsular Malaysia and their significance to reconstruct paleoclimate 7. Bhutan and the Geography of Climate Change 8. Study of Spatio-temporal climate variability and change of South America using climate data tools 9. Climate change scenario over Japan: trends and impacts 10. A brief review of climate in Taiwan 11. Potential of the lake sediments study of Ethiopia in understanding the Holocence climatic conditions: A Case Study of Chamo Lake, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region, Ethiopia 12. High resolution palaeoclimatic records from the tropical Delta Shelf of Ayeyarwady, Myanmar 13. Sedimentation model for the Pinjor Formation of the Upper Siwalik, Dehradun Sub-basin, Garhwal Himalaya, India: A response of Climate and Tectonics 14. A catalogue of Quaternary diatoms from the Asian tropics with their environmental indication potential for paleolimnological applications 15. Environmental disaster in Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, India: An analogy to Climate Change and Anthropogenic Interference 16. Geological/paleontological applications in Marine Archaeology: few examples from Indian waters 17. Introspecting contribution and preparedness of Tropical Agriculture against climate change: An Indian Perspective 18. Mechanisms and proxies of solar forcing on climate and a peek into Indian palaeoclimatic records