Photo: Postdoctoral Research Associate Contact info Email: rabindra.parajuli@uga.edu Office: Center for Geospatial Research, Geography-Geology #319E Research Interests: Ecological biogeography, geospatial and statistical modeling applications, meta-analysis, biodiversity, and climate change Professional Website LinkedIn Profile Google Scholar Profile Other Affiliations: Odum School of Ecology CV: CV_Rabindra_Sept'24.pdf (203.92 KB) Education Education: 2024 - PhD in Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, FL 2012 - MS in Botany, Tribhuvan University, Nepal 2006 - BS in Biology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Grant Support Grants: 2016 - Scientific Cooperation and Development (i-COOP) Grant for the project "Soil Microbial Communities as Mediators of Plant-Plant Interactions" by Spanish National Research Council, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. €15,000. PIs: Francisco I. Pugnaire (Spain) and Ram P. Chaudhary (Nepal); Co-PI: Rabindra Parajuli. 2009 - The Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation for the project "Positive Interaction in Alpine Plant Communities: Implication for Conservation in Langtang National Park, Nepal" by The Rufford Small Grants Foundation, U.K. £4078. PI: Rabindra Parajuli; Co-PIs: Bishnu Timilsina and Obindra B. Chand. Research Selected Publications: Parajuli, R. & Markwith, SH. (2023). Quantity is foremost but quality matters: a global meta-analysis of correlations of dead wood volume and biodiversity in forest ecosystems. Biological Conservation, 283, 110100. Full text Mainali, J., Chang, H., & Parajuli, R. (2023). Stream distance-based geographically weighted regression for exploring watershed characteristics and water quality relationships. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(2), 390-408. Full text Bhattarai, P., Timilsina, B., Parajuli, R., Chen, Y., Gao, J., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Distinct response of high-latitude ecosystem and high-altitude alpine ecosystem to temperature and precipitation dynamics: A meta-analysis of experimental manipulation studies. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 46(6), 909-921. Full text Parajuli, R., O'Brien, M. J., Timilsina, B., Pugnaire, F. I., Schoeb, C., & Ghimire, S. K. (2021). Facilitation by a dwarf shrub enhances plant diversity of human-valued species at high elevations in the Himalayas of Nepal. Basic and Applied Ecology, 54, 23-36. Full text Kikvidze et al. (2015). The effects of foundation species on community assembly: a global study on alpine cushion plant communities. Ecology, 96(8), 2064-2068. Full text Cavieres et al. (2014). Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity. Ecology Letters, 17(2), 193-202. Full text Butterfield et al. (2013). Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments. Ecology Letters, 16(4), 478-486. Full text Research Areas: Earth, Environment, and Climate Geographic Information Science Labs: Center for Geospatial Research
