Jean Lazarhttps://orcid.org/0009-0008-7082-0414,^1,2,* Srinivasan Prasadhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8209-3647,^1,** Doris Barbonihttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7753-1254,^1,*** Lipi Das,^3,**** Vadivelu Kumaresan,^2,***** Krishnamurthy Anupamahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3130-0113<sup>1,******,*******

1</sup>French Institute of Pondicherry, UAR 3330 MEAE/CNRS, Puducherry, India
²Department of Botany, Kanchi Mamunivar Government Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Puducherry, India
³Project Eco-lake, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Puducherry, India

^*JEAN LAZAR has a master's degree in Plant Biology and Biotechnology from Pondicherry University, India. Currently he is a Doctoral student conducting research with a special focus on the foraging behaviour of native Indian honey bees, combining field and lab methods in palynology and plant sciences. He has experience in pollen morphology and plant taxonomy in tropical region.
^**SRINIVASAN PRASAD is a pollen analyst at the IFP since more than 30 years, with experience in field methodologies, laboratory protocols and microscopic analyses pertaining to pollen morphology and Quaternary Palynology. His specific expertise is on identifying and describing pollen recovered from the sediments of tropical India, Sri Lanka and Cambodia.
^***DORIS BARBONI is a paleoecologist studying plant micro-fossils, namely phytoliths and pollen grains that accumulate in present-day modern soils and may be found preserved in fossil sediments. She is interested in understanding the interactions between plants, vegetation and climate in the past and has worked in South India and in Africa. Currently she is Head of the Department of Ecology, French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP).
^****LIPI DAS is one of the key teachers involved in Project Ecolake, Education and Research in Applied Ecology, SAICE through a 45 year long eco-restoration project at Mereville where students of SAICE learn hands-on about and from Nature. Her special experience and knowledge are in studying and building habitat for native honeybee species and earthworms. Lipi, skilled in plant regeneration, is passionate about improving the urban atmosphere and experiments with urban gardening to provide green solutions even in tiny spaces.
^*****VADIVELU KUMARESAN is Assistant Professor of Botany carrying out research in the field of fungal diversity, Plant Diversity and Molecular Biology. He has also guided Master's students on Angiosperm pollen morphological diversity studies. In collaboration with IFP, Puducherry he has worked on pollen and phytoliths occurring in the soil sediments at an archeological site.
^******CONTACT Krishnamurthy Anupama anupama.k@ifpindia.org Laboratory of Palynology & Paleoecology, Department of Ecology, French Institute of Pondicherry, Puducherry, India
^*******KRISHNAMURTHY ANUPAMA is a Palynologist and Palaeoecologist at IFP. Since more than 30 years she has been carrying out research in the fields of Palaeovegetation reconstruction, Pollination Ecology and Aerobiology employing pollen grains as the key tool. She has guided/co-guided several doctoral and Masters Students on various aspects of Quaternary Palynology, melisso – & entomo - palynology and in diverse topics linked to palynology. She has been actively involved with Humans and Biosphere Commission of INQUA and is a member of PAGES Landcover6K Working group.