Biography
Ashish is a plant community ecologist interested in understanding what boosts, maintains, and erodes the biodiversity of tropical grasslands and savannas. Specifically, the current focus of his lab is to disentangle the contributions of climate, land use, and disturbance regimes in plant community assembly. Much of the current work in the lab is set in the stunning savannas of western Maharashtra, which, due to the broad climatic gradient they span, are a microcosm of global tropics. Through his work, Ashish hopes to improve the scientific and public recognition of tropical savannas, particularly those in India, to eventually provide solutions to halt the ongoing global biodiversity crisis.
