Dr Amit Kumar

Biodiversity Conservation

I had the privilege of investigating the flora and ecology of the cold-arid and Trans-Himalayan zones of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve for my doctoral thesis. Delineation of a new biogeographic province in the Trans-Himalaya, designation of Caragana versicolor as a keystone species, flora of NDBR and discovery of few new species in one of the least explored regions of the Western Himalaya were few outcomes of the thesis. I joined Wildlife Institute of India (WII) as a faculty in May, 2018. Pri