Dr. Suresh Subedi

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY

EDUCATION HISTORY

  • PHD-Florida International University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Subedi is a broadly trained plant ecologist researching at different biological scales- organismal to community to ecosystem. He uses an integrative approach combining observational, experimental, and modeling techniques to unravel the short-term responses of plants to environmental changes and to understand over the long-term how environmental changes affects their structure and function.

PUBLISHED WORK

26. Stoffella, Susana; Ross, Michael; Ruiz, Pablo L.; Subedi, Suresh, 2023. Transient vegetation dynamics in a tropical coastal wetland: sea-level rise, glycophyte retreat, and incipient loss in plant diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science (Under Review).

25. Bhandari, S., Adhikari, B., Baral, K. and Subedi, S.C., 2023. Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris) diet landscape in the Indian subcontinent: a review. Mammal Research (Under review).

24. Subedi, SC et al. (2023). Climate-change driven habitat change for the vulnerable Arkansas oak (Quercus arkansana) species. Journal of Forestry Research (in press). 

23. Kaylee Freeman, Subedi, SC, Michael S Ross. Coastal dry tropical forests in Florida and the Caribbean in peril: A review. Biotropica (in press)

22. Subedi, SC, Boone Ruston, J. Aaron Hogan, Mark V. Coggeshall (2023). Defining the extent of suitable habitat for the endangered Maple-Leaf oak (Quercus acerifolia). Frontiers of Biogeography, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG58763

21. Adhikari B, Bhandari S, and Subedi SC (2023). Predicted decline in climatically suitable habitat of endemic spiny babbler. Ecosphere,14(6): e4584. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.4584

20. Ripu M Kunwar, Khum Thapa Magar, Suresh C Subedi, et al. (2023). Distribution of medicinal plants in Nepal under climate change: Past, Present and Future. Journal of Ecological Indicator, 146, 109879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.109879

19. Bhattarai KR and Subedi SC. (2023). Important Medicinal and Aromatic Plants – Nepal. Book chapter in UNESCO - Encyclopedia Life Support Systems (UNESCO-EOLSS). (https://www.eolss.net/ebooklib/sc_cart.aspx?File=E6-79a-54)

18. Adhikari B, Bhandari S, and Subedi SC (2022). Raptors in risk: attributes of mortality in anthropogenic landscape of mid hills, Nepal. Global Ecology and Conservation, 38: e02258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02258- 

17. Adhikari B, Bhandari S, Baral K. and Subedi SC (2022). Causes of wildlife mortality: a retrospective study from wildlife rescue center. Conservation Science and Practice. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12799

16. Suresh SC, Susan Walls, William J. Barichivich, Ryan Boyles, Michael S. Ross, J. Aaron Hogan*, John Tupy (2022). Future changes in habitat availability for two specialist snake species in South Florida. Conservation Science and Practice. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12802

15. Bhandari, S., Adhikari, B., Baral, K. and Subedi, S.C., 2022. Greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) mortality patterns in Nepal. Global Ecology and Conservation, p.e02189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02189

14. Kunwar, RM, Subedi SC et.al. 2022. Ethnomedicinal Landscape: Distribution of Medicinal Plants in Use in Nepal. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 18(1), pp.1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00531-x 

13. Subedi SC, Allen Preston, Rosario V., Sternberg L., Ross, M., Afkhami M. 2022. Salinity Legacy: Microbiome’s history affects mutualist-conferred salinity tolerance. Ecology, e3679. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3679  

12. Ross MR, Susana Stoffella, Rosario Vidales, Jack Meeder, David Kadko, Leonard Scinto, Suresh C Subedi, Jed Redwine. 2022. Sea-level rise and the persistence of tropical hardwoods in coastal tree islands. Ecosystems 25(3), pp.586-602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00673-1

11. Thapa S, Kunwar RM, Adhikari B, Paudel HR, and Subedi SC. 2021. Trillium govanianum (Himalayan Trillium): production, distribution and use in Nepal. Nordic Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.03356 

10. Bhandari K.B., Subedi S., Kunwar R.M., Bussmann R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana N.Y. (2021) Grewia disperma Rottler ex Spreng. Malvaceae. In: Kunwar R.M., Sher H., Bussmann R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45597-2_112-1

9. Subedi SC, Bhattarai, KR, Perez, T., Sah JP 2020. Gymnosperm distribution patterns in the Himalayas and Rapoport’s rule. Frontiers of Biogeography, 12.1, e44232.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG44232

8. Subedi SC, J. Aaron Hogan, Michael Ross, Jay P Sah, Christopher Baraloto 2019. Evidence for trait-based community assembly patterns in hardwood hammock forests. Ecosphere: e2956. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2956

7. Subedi SC, Sternberg L., DeAngelis D., Ogurcak D., Ross M. 2019. Using field data to verify predictions of a model simulating the interaction between coastal plant communities and their effect on sea-level rise. Ecosystems, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00423-4 

6. Subedi SC, Ross MS, Sah JP, Redwine J., Baraloto, C. 2019. Trait-based community assembly pattern along a forest succession gradient in seasonally dry sub-tropical forest Florida Keys USA. Ecosphere 10(4): e02719. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2719 

5. Subedi SC, Ross MR, Vilades* R, Sah JP, Sternberg L, 2018. Variation in stomatal characteristics of Bursera simaruba, a dominant tree species of tropical hardwood hammock forest across a habitat gradient in the Florida Keys. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 9, 2120-2139.  https://doi.org/10.4236/ajps.2018.910154 

4. Ross MR, Sah JP, Ruiz PL, Spitzig A, Subedi SC, 2016. Inferring implications of climate change in patchy tropical dry forests through analysis of metacommunity structure. Diversity and Distribution. 22:7, 783-796. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12442

3. Subedi SC, Bhattarai KR, Chaudhary RP, 2015. Distribution patterns of Manang's species along the whole Himalayan gradient and their fate against global warming. Journal of Mountain Science, 12(6): 1345-1354.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-015-3495-9

2. Bhattarai, KR, Inger Måren, Suresh Subedi 2014. Biodiversity and invasibility: distribution patterns of invasive alien plant species in the Himalayas. Journal of Mountain Science, 11(3):1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-013-2821-3

1. Subedi, S.C., Ross, M.S. and Scinto, L.J., 2012. Nutrient limitation in two everglades tree species planted on constructed tree islands. Wetlands, 32(6), pp.1163-1173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-012-0346-0

Recently Taught Courses

  • BIOL 1011 - ORIENTATION TO BIOL SCI
  • BIOL 2134 - PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY
  • BIOL 3004 - PLANT TAXONOMY
  • BIOL 4044 - DENDROLOGY
  • BIOL 4891 - SEMINAR IN BIOLOGY
  • BIOL 4952 - UR: DRY TROPICAL FOREST
  • BIOL 4952 - UR: NATIVE AR PLANTS AND FUNGI