A5050098877- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Natural product bioactivities and synthesis
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Ecology and Conservation Studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Sesquiterpenes and Asteraceae Studies
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Botanical Studies and Applications
- Landslides and related hazards
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Florida Atlantic University
2020-2025
Colorado State University
2024
Tribhuvan University
2018-2020
Abstract Wildfire can both promote and erode resilience to future disturbances in fire‐adapted ecosystems. Through a combination of past fire exclusion climate change, patterns successional trajectories are shifting with potentially negative consequences for forest resilience. In particular, high‐severity short‐interval reburns lead permanent transitions from forested persistent non‐forested To test conditions under which wildfires or initiate vegetation we leveraged high‐resolution LiDAR...
Rapid climate change in the Himalaya threatens traditional livelihoods of remote mountain communities, challenges systems knowledge, and stresses existing socio-ecological systems. Through semi-structured interviews, participatory photography, repeat photography focused on its impacts livelihoods, we aim to shed light some socio-cultural implications related Manang, a village Annapurna Conservation Area Western Nepal. Observed changes temperature, precipitation, permanent snow cover, glacial...
Alpine vegetation of the Himalaya is used as food, medicine or fodder, and commonly managed with fire by agropastoralists. Prescribed can have positive effects on rangeland biodiversity, but studies evaluating its in alpine shrublands are scarce. Our objective was to examine anthropogenic biophysical characteristics, species richness, abundance composition an shrubland socioeconomic value local peoples Langtang National Park central Nepal. We surveyed variables, vascular plant richness along...
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is an important deciduous species in western U.S. forests. Existing maps of distribution are based on Landsat imagery and often miss small stands (<0.09 ha or 30 m²), which rapidly regrow when managed following disturbance. In this study, we present methods for deriving a new regional map forests using one year Sentinel-1 (S1) Sentinel-2 (S2) Google Earth Engine. We assessed the annual phenology Southern Rockies leveraged frequent...
Quaking aspen is an important deciduous tree species across interior western U.S. forests. Existing maps of distribution are based on Landsat imagery and often miss small stands (<0.09 ha or 30 m2), which rapidly regrow when managed following disturbance. In this study, we present methods for deriving a new regional map forests using one year Sentinel-1 (S1) Sentinel-2 (S2) in Google Earth Engine. Using observed annual phenology the Southern Rockies leveraging frequent temporal resolution...
Abstract Aims Prolonged fire suppression in conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range, California, USA, has led to ingrowth seedlings, converting open heterogeneous structure into uniformly dense and layered forest. The threat a stand‐replacing increased because fuel buildup combination with rising drought extreme heat frequency caused by climate change. With such high severity fire, there is also concern regarding forest shrublands as severe favors establishment large shrub...
Saussurea ramchaudharyi Ghimire & Rana, a new species from the alpine slopes of northwestern region Nepal is described and illustrated. It closely related to S. topkegolensis gossypiphora, both which are members subgen. Eriocoryne, but differs by having much shorter (2.5–3 cm vs. ≥4 cm) stem, greenish purple upper leaves extending half length capitula, broadly campanulate involucres, 4-seriate phyllaries, apically glabrous inner smaller achene (≤2 mm >2 mm) bristles pappus than...
Government agencies in the United States (US) adopted a prescribed burning policy based part on paleo-environmental evidence of pre-Columbian Native American regimes. However, biomass collection by Americans era left little direct or indirect its magnitude influence fire In many developing countries, local peoples harvest for shelter, tool production, cooking, and heating, often manage forests communally. The objective this study was to use modern proxy estimates analogous practices western...