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., Paudel, A., & Markwith, S. H. (2025). Integrating the physical harvesting of dead wood into fuel treatments to reduce wildfire hazards and enhance carbon benefits. Journal of Environmental Management, 376, 124535. Full text Noble et al. (2025). The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292(2039), 20241487. Full text 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