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Dr. Purabi Saikia

Assistant Professor

Department of Environmental Sciences

Full Name
Dr. Purabi Saikia
Email
Purabi.saikia@cuj.ac.in
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+91-9546757398
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Department of Environmental Sciences
Researcher Id:
Google Scholar Id:
57
Journal PUBLICATIONS
08
SPONSORED PROJECTS
42
Books and Book Chapters
Awarded : 01
Ongoing : 03
DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Brief Profile

Dr. Saikia has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi since May 2013. She is a trained Plant Ecologist and Conservation Practitioner; with a Ph.D. in Forestry from NERIST, Itanagar and M.Sc. in Botany with Plant Ecology specialization from the Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati.She is basically working in the field of plant ecology including phytosociology, population and regeneration ecology, conservation of rare, endangered plant species, plant-soil interactions, plant population mapping, biomass and productivity estimation, plant invasions, and ecological niche modelling in Indian forests. She has received eight different R & D projects sponsored by MoEFCC, DST, DBT, SERB, UGC, SAC-Ahmedabad, Govt. of India for the analyses of vegetation dynamics of Indian forests. She has supervised 01 Ph.D. thesis (03 ongoing) and 34 PG dissertations. Presently, she is an active member of the IUCN-Commission on Ecosystem Management-South Asia and Global Forests Biodiversity Initiatives (GFBI)-USA. She is recipients of the Fellow Award 2021 and Women Scientist Award (Age Group <45 Years) 2020 of The Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment-New Delhi, PHSS Foundation Young Women Leadership Award 2018-2019 of the Prof. HS Srivastava Foundation for Science and Society-Lucknow, DBT Research Associate in 2011, startup grant under SERB-Young Scientists Scheme in 2016, UGC-startup grant for newly recruited faculties in 2014, and international travel support scheme from SERB (two times in 2017 & 2013). She has published more than 100 research articles including fifty-seven international/ national refereed articles in different Scopus, web of science, and UGC-care listed journals, 41 chapters in edited book volumes, and 01 authored and 02 edited books in the field of plant ecology, restoration ecology, and conservation biology. She participated in the Inaugural Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative Conference & Joint GFBI-FECS Symposium on Forest Research in the Big Data Era organized by GFBI, USA, and Beijing Forestry University held at Beijing Forestry University, China in September 2017, and 1st International Scientific Symposium on Agarwood (ISSA) on ‘Agarwood in the New Era’ organized by Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia during September 2013 in addition to her participation in different international/ national/ regional/ state level seminars/ conferences/ webinars in India with invited talks/ panelists/ oral presentations/ sessions chaired/ co-chaired/ rapporteur, etc.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

Ph.D. (Forestry) from the Department of Forestry, NERIST, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India

M.Sc. (Botany with Plant Ecology specialization) :

B.Sc. (Botany Hons.) :

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Ecology and Ecosystem (T&P)
    • Restoration Ecology
  • Forestry and Wildlife Management
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Instrumentation and Analytical Techniques
  • Fundamental of Soil Sciences
  • Environment and Ecology, , , , ,
  • Land and Soil Resource Management
  • Environmental Studies
  • Forestry and Wildlife Management
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Instrumentation and Analytical Techniques

Additional roles/ responsibility

  1. Proctor of the University (since December 2015)
  2. Member BoS (DEVS)
  3. Member, Departmental Research Committee

PUBLICATIONS

Total Publications:58
List of Latest Five :
  1. Ekka, P., Shilky, Baishya, R., Saikia, P.* (2024). Ecological Analyses of Street Trees of Indian Cities to Achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Ecological Frontiers (in press)  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecofro.2024.03.003
  2. Saikia, P.*, Kumar, S., Kumar, A. (2024). Plant population mapping and quantitative assessment of peri-urban vegetation of Ranchi, eastern India. Tropical Ecology (online first)   https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-024-00342-z IF: 1.6
  3. Diksha, Kumar, A., Saikia, P.*, Srivastava, P. (2024). Human-induced Impacts on Ecological Infrastructure in the Himalayan Urban Agglomerations. Acta EcologicaSinica, 44(1): 84-95.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chnaes.2023.07.005
  4. Kishore, B.S.P.C., Kumar, A., Saikia, P.* (2024). Understanding the Invasion Potential of Chromolaena odorata and Lantana camara in the Western Ghats, India: An Ecological Niche Modelling Approach under Current and Future Climatic Scenarios. Ecological Informatics, 79: 102425.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102425 IF: 5.1
  5. Bouchard, E., ………..Saikia, P.* et al. (2024). Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(2): 303-324.   http://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13790 IF:

Books and Book Chapters

Books and Book Chapters:42
List of Latest Five :
  1. Saikia, P., Kumar, A., Khan, M.L., Lei, X. (eds.) (2024). Forests for Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth. Elsevier Inc.(in press).ISBN: 9780443314063.
  2. Kumar, A., Srivastava, P.K., Saikia, P., Mall, R.K. (eds.) (2023). Earth Observation in Urban Monitoring: Techniques and Challenges. Elsevier Inc. Available at URL:  https://doi.org/10.1016/C2021-0-01898-8 ISBN: 9780323991643
  3. Pandey, V.C., Mahajan, P., Saikia, P., Praveen, A. (2022). Fibre crops-based Phytoremediation: Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability. Elsevier Inc.  https://doi.org/10.1016/C2020-0-00723-1 ISBN: 9780128239933
  4. Patra, S., Anurag, S., Saikia, P., Kumar, A., Khan, M.L. (2024). Traditional Ecological Knowledge for the Management of Medicinal Plants with particular emphasis on Northeast India. In: Sustainable Forest Resources Management: Issues and Implications, Bhat, J.A., Shukla, G., Dobriyal, M.J., Chakravarty, S., Arunachalam, A., Bussmann, R.W. (eds.), Chapter 10, Apple Academic Press (AAP), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA (in press). ISBN: 9781774917060.
  5. Kumar, A., Kumari,R., Lal,P., Prasad,A.,Saikia, P.(2024). Vegetation dynamics and climate change: A study of the Indian Himalayan region. In: Sustainable and Conservation Management of Environmental Resources in India, Chakravarty, S., Vineeta, Bhat, J.A., Kumar M., Shukla, G. (eds.), Chapter 2, Apple Academic Press (AAP), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA (in press). ISBN: 9781774915929.

Seminar/ Workshop/ Conference Participation:

International Seminar/ Conferences:
List of Latest Five :
  1. Saikia, P. (2023). Plant Inventory Datasets of Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India at Altitudinal Gradient for Determining Forest Composition and Above-ground Biomass. Delivered an invited talk virtually at the 'Purdue Biodiversity Database Development Workshop' organized by Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA on 3 August 2023.
  2. Saikia, P. (2022). Acted as a panelist virtually in a panel discussion on the theme ‘Women in action’ in International Women’s Day 2022 organized by International Union for Conservation of Nature-Commission on Ecosystem Management (IUCN-CEM), Southasia on 5 March 2022.
  3. Saikia, P. (2017). Diversity and dominance of a Tropical Moist Deciduous Forests of Ranchi, Jharkhand, Eastern India. Paper presented in Inaugural Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative Conference & Joint GFBI-FECS Symposium on Forest Research in the Big Data Era organized by GFBI, USA and Beijing Forestry University, China held at Beijing Forestry University, China during 6 to 9 September 2017.
  4. Saikia, P., Khan, M.L. (2013). Cultivation of Agaru (Aquilaria malaccensis Lam.) in homegardens of upper Assam, Northeast India and its prospect in socio-economic development. Paper presented and abstract published on page 42 of the Proceedings ofthe1st International Scientific Symposium on Agarwood (ISSA) on ‘Agarwood in the New Era’ organized by Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia during 3 to 5 September 2013.
  5. Saikia, P. (2022). Wild edible plants of Jharkhand and their Ethnomedicinal significance. Delivered a Keynote Lecture in International Conference on Ethnobotany: Present and Future Perspectives organized by Department of Botany, Government Degree College, Billawar, Jammu on 22 November 2022.
National Seminar/ Conferences:
List of Latest Five :
  1. Saikia, P. (2024). Long-term Ecological Monitoring and Observation: Opportunities and Challenges. Delivered an invited talk virtually in the Meeting of ecologists, wildlife biologists, biodiversity and conservation experts to discuss new initiatives and partnerships organized by NCBS, Bengaluru on 8 April 2024.
  2. Saikia, P. (2023). Climate-smart agricultural approaches to achieve food security and UN sustainable development goals. Delivered an invited talk in the National Conference on ‘Women Scientists in Plant Health Management for Sustainable Development’ organized by Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat on 23 December 2023.
  3. Saikia, P. (2023). Co-chaired a technical session (Session III) on ‘Pathogen fitness, disease and pest dynamics and epidemiological advances under the changing climate scenario’ in the National Conference on ‘Women Scientists in Plant Health Management for Sustainable Development’ organized by Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat on 23 December 2023.
  4. Saikia, P. (2023). Paper Writing, Publication, Referencing, and Plagiarism in Research. Delivered an invited talk in the PhD coursework program of Department of Zoology, Ranchi University, Ranchi on 26 August 2023.
  5. Saikia, P.(2023). Recent Trends in Forestry Research to Support Forest Management and Ensure Livelihood Security. Delivered an invited talk virtually in the ICFRE-Regional Research Conference on Improvement in Productivity of Forest and Generation of Livelihood through degraded land management” organized by ICFRE-Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi in collaboration with ICFRE-Institute of Forest Biodiversity, Hyderabad on 4 August 2023.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

  1. Fellow of the Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment (FSSCE), New Delhi of the year 2021in December 2022.
  2. Women Scientist Award 2020 (<45 Years Category) of The Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment, New Delhi in December 2020.
  3. PHSS Foundation Young Women Leadership Award 2018-2019 from Prof. H. S. Srivastava Foundation for Science & Society, Lucknow in November 2019.

Any Other Information

Membership of Professional Bodies/Societies, etc:
  1. Member of Department of Science and Technology (DST)-Local Project Advisory Committee (LPAC) for monitoring the progress of “Women Technology Park (WTP) for capacity building and entrepreneurship development at Ranchi and East Singhbhum of Jamshedpur since December 2021.
  2. Member of IUCN-Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), South Asia for the session 2017-2021 since September 2017 and also for the session 2021-2025 since October 2021.
  3. Member of Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative (GFBI), USA since January 2017.
  4. Member of International Association for Water, Environment, Energy, and Society (IAWEES), Bhopal since 2020 (Membership No. 5103).
  5. Life member of International Society of Environmental Botanists, Lucknow since 21st January 2020.
  6. Honorary Life member of Prof. H.S. Srivastava Foundation for Science & Society, Lucknow since 27th November 2019.
  7. Life Member of the Indian Society for Geomatics, Dehradun since January 2017.
  8. Member of Jharkhand State Wildlife Board, Govt. of Jharkhand for the session 2018-2021 since September 2018 and also for the session 2021-2024 since December 2021.
  9. RAC member under the discipline Forest Geo-Informatics of ICFRE-Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi since July 2021.
  10. Honorary member of XXIth Research Advisory Group of ICFRE-Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi since September 2020.
Editorial Assignments and Other Recognitions:
  1. Associate Editor since October 2022 and Review Editor since July 2022 of the Conservation and Restoration Ecology (special section of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Environmental Science)
  2. Editorial Board Member of Plants and Environment since Sep. 2019,
  3. Subject Editor (Ecology and Environmental Sciences), Tropical Plant Research, an International Journal by Society for Tropical Plant Research, India since June 2018.
  4. Guest editor (Khan, M.L., Khare, P.K., Kumar, A., Saikia, P.) of two special issues on ‘Forest dynamics under anthropogenic disturbances and global climate change’ of International Journal of Ecology and Environment Sciences, Volume 48 (2 & 3), National Institute of Ecology (NIE), New Delhi of April and June 2022.
  5. Academic Counselor of Master of Arts in Sustainability Sciences (MASS) of course on Mountain and Hill Ecosystem(MSD 01) of IGNOU, New Delhi from 19 October 2022 to 31 December 2023.

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