B.S., Indore University, India, 1989
M.S., Pondicherry University, 1992
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago, 2002

Research Interests

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Education, Research Positions | Grants, Awards, Fellowships | Teaching and Mentoring | Editorial Service | Publications | Manuscripts in Preparation or Review

CV of Sonali Saha, Ph.D.

Permanent Address: Department of Biology, 1301 Memorial Drive, #215, Coral Gables, FL 33124.

Telephone: 305 788 2873    Fax: 305 284 3039   e-mail :  sonali@bio.miami.edu

Current Affiliation

• Postdoctoral Fellow- Archbold Biological Station, Florida

 Education and Research Positions

• Postdoctoral Fellow-Archbold Expeditions (current)

• Instructor, Biology, Pinecrest Preparatory School, (2004)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (2002-2004)

• PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (1996-2002)

• Junior Research Fellow, Wildlife Institute of India, India (1993-1995)

• Research Assistant, French Institute, India (1992-1993)

• Master of Science, Pondicherry University (1989-1992)

• Bachelor of Science, Indore University, India (1986-1989)

 Grants, Awards, and Fellowships

• Inter American Institute of Climate Change Research, January-December 2004, Co-PI, Small Grant Proposal to conduct workshop series titled “Effects of bamboo on the diversity, productivity, and stability of Amazonian and Atlantic forests”

• Putnam Fellowship, October 2002-September 2004, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation’s travel grant, 2003

• Ideawild’s, Research Grant, 2002

• The University of Illinois’s Provost Research Award, 2001

• Conservation Training Consortium’s Research Grant, 2001

• University of Illinois at Chicago’s  J. Watumull Award for meritorious international student, 1999-2000

• Kalpavriksha, Research Grant, 1999

• Wildlife Institute of India’s Junior Research Fellowship, 1994-1995

 Teaching and Mentoring

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996-2001. Lectured, led laboratory sessions and fieldtrips for Introductory Biology (class of 30 students) Ecology (class of 50 students ) and Plant Physiology (class of 20 students)

• Lia Montti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, PhD committee

• S. Bharath, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, PhD committee

Editorial Service

•  Referee for American Journal of Botany; American Naturalist; Biotropica; Conservation Biology; Plant Cell and Environment; Plant Ecology

Publications  

• Saha. S. 2001. Comparison of tree community structure between dry deciduous forests and Tectona grandis (teak, Verbanaceae) plantations in central India. Forest Ecology and Management. 143: 159-167.

• Saha, S. & Howe, H. F. 2001. Bamboo fire cycle hypothesis, a comment. The American Naturalist 158 (6): 659-663.

• Saha, S. 2002. Anthropogenic fire regime in a central Indian deciduous forest. Current Science 82:1144-1147.

• Saha, S. 2003. Patterns in woody species diversity, richness and partitioning of diversity in forest communities of tropical deciduous forest biome. Ecography 26: 80-86.

• Saha, S., and Howe, H. F. 2003. Species composition and fire in a dry deciduous forest. Ecology 84:3118–3123.

• Saha, S., and Hiremath, A. 2003. Anthropogenic fires in India: A tale of two forests Aridlands Newsletter. http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln54/saha.html

• Martínez-Garza, C., Saha, S., Torres, V., Brown, J. S., and Howe, H. F. 2004. Planting densities and bird and rodent absence affect size distributions of four dicots in synthetic tallgrass communities. Oecologia 139:433-439.

• Saha, S., BassiriRad, H. and Joseph, G. Water relations of tree sprouts and seedlings in a tropical deciduous forest of South India, in press, Trees-structure and function.

Manuscripts in Preparation or Review

• Saha, S., and Howe, H. F. Fire and functional traits of tree seedlings: impacts on stature and abundance. Conservation and Society, in review.

• Saha, S., O’Brien, E., H. F. Howe. Are tropical deciduous forests fie-adapted? In revision for   Journal of Biogeography

• Saha, S., Holbrook, N. M., Zwieniecki, M. A. Functional anatomy of bamboo nodes. In preparation for submission in American Journal of Botany.

• Saha, S., Holbrook, N. M., Goldstien, G., and Cardinot, G., and Montti, L. Ecophysiology of native weedy bamboos in Atlantic subtropical forests of Argentina, in preparation for submission in Oecologia.