Curriculum Vitae. : Dr. N. Parthasarathy, FNASc.

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1 Curriculum Vitae Name : Dr. N. Parthasarathy, FNASc. Present position : Professor, Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences and Dean, School of Life Sciences Pondicherry University, Puducherry , India. ( parthapu@yahoo.com) Qualifications B.Sc Botany University of Madras I Class M.Sc Botany University of Madras, Outstanding Grade, Rank Holder Ph.D Botany University of Madras Honor received: FNASc. (2013) Research Experience: Thirty-six years of research experience in ecological and taxonomic studies in forest ecosystems. Involved in carrying out extensive field research in the forests of Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats and tropical dry evergreen (sacred grove) forests on the Coromandel Coast and Carnatic areas of India. Also worked on Seagrass ecosystem. Current areas of specialization: Biodiversity and Conservation, Forest Ecology, Diversity and ecology of lianas, Forest dynamics, Medicinal plant resources and Conservation. Research Publications in peer reviewed journals : 103 Research publications in Book : 4 Research publications in Book chapters/proceedings : 16 Presentation of research papers in conferences etc. : 156 Research Projects handled : 12 Teaching Experience: At postgraduate level : 31 years.

2 Courses offering at present for M. Sc. Ecology and Environmental Sciences 1. Terrestrial Ecology Hard core 2. Forest Botany Soft core 3. Research Methodology: Forest structure and Hard core functional ecology Research guidance: Ph.D.: Awarded 16; Guiding: 1 M.Sc. dissertations guided: 58; Guiding:5 Life Membership in professional societies: * International Society for Tropical Ecology. * National Institute of Ecology * Indian Botanical Society. * Indian Science Congress Assn. *Association for Plant Taxonomy * Mycological Society of India Awards: Twice awarded Certificate of Merit for best presentation in Plant Ecology and Plant Taxonomy sections in All India Botanical Conferences Awarded Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Teacher Pondicherry University Referee in 16 Journals Member in Editorial board of Biodiversity and Conservation for three terms Associate Editor in two international journals: 1. Tropical Conservation Science 2. Tropical Ecology Research projects undertaken: Twelve (DST: 3, MoEFCC: 3, ONGC: 2, UGC: 1, DBT: 1, INSA: 1 and PU-1) Delivered invited lectures as a resource person in various Indian Universities Contributor for Indo-US Tropical Ecology Program Invitee of American government for Global Liana research collaborative program at NCEAS, University of California, Santa Barbara. Invitee of European government for Global dry forest research with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.

3 Selected Research Publications 1. Slik, F. Parthasarathy,N.et. al Phylogenetic classification of the world s tropical forests. PNAS- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. ( Impact factor: 9.661) 2. Ibanez,T..Parthasarathy,N.et. al Regional forcing explains local species diversity turnover on tropical islands. Global Ecology & Biogeography- A journal of Macroecology (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford). 27: (Impact factor : 6.045) 3. Osuri, A.M., Chakravarthy, D., Mudappa, D., Raman, T.R.S., Ayyappan, N., Muthuramkumar, S. and N. Parthasarathy Successional status, seed dispersal mode and overstorey species influence tree regeneration in tropical rainforest fragments in Western Ghats, India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 33: (Camb. Univ. Press) 4. Anil, K. and Parthasarathy, N Flower traits of plant species and floral resource users in tropical dry evergreen forest on the Coromandel Coast of India. Tropical Ecology 58: Pandian, E. and Parthasarathy, N Decadal ( ) changes in liana diversity, abundance and aboveground biomass in four inland tropical dry evergreen forest sites of peninsular India. Journal of Forestry Research 27: (Springer) 6. Vivek, P. and N. Parthasarathy Liana community and functional trait analysis in tropical dry evergreen forest of India. Journal of Plant Ecology (Oxford Univ. Press 2015) 8: [Impact factor: 2.67]. 7. Slik, F...Parthasarathy. et al An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. PNAS- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112(24), [Impact factor: 9.661]. 8. Baithalu, S, Anbarashan M and Parthasarathy N, Two-decadal changes in forest structure and tree diversity in a tropical dry evergreen forest on the Coromandel Coast of India. Tropical Ecology 54: [Impact factor: 0.708]. 9. Laurance, W.F Parthasarathy, N. et al Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. Nature 489: [Impact factor: ].

4 10. Muthumperumal, C. and Parthasarathy, N A large-scale inventory of liana diversity in tropical forests of southern Eastern Ghats, India. Systematics and Biodiversity (Taylor and Francis) 8: [Impact factor: 2.1]. 11. Pragasan, L.A. and Parthasarathy, N Landscape-level tree diversity assessment in tropical forests of southern Eastern Ghats, India. Flora (Elsevier) 205: [Impact factor: 1.716]. 12. De Walt, S..Parthasarathy, N..et. al Annual rainfall and seasonality predict pan-tropical patterns of liana abundance and basal area. Biotropica (Blackwell) 42: [Impact factor: 2.351]. 13. Parthasarathy, N., Selwyn, M.A. and Udayakumar, M Tropical dry evergreen forests of peninsular India: Ecology and conservation significance. Tropical Conservation Science 1: [Impact factor: 1.092]. 14. Nandini, R and Parthasarathy, N Food habits of the Indian giant flying squirrel (Petaurista philippensis) in a rain forest fragment, Western Ghats. Journal of Mammalogy. 89: [Impact factor: 2.308]. 15. Kinhal, V. and Parthasarathy, N Secondary succession and resource use in tropical fallows: A case study from the Coromandel coast of south India. Land Degradation and Development. 19:1-14 [Impact factor: 1.991]. 16. Rasingam, L. and Parthasarathy, N Diversity of understory plants in undisturbed and disturbed tropical lowland forests of Little Andaman Island, India. Biodiversity and Conservation 18: [Impact factor: 2.264]. 17. Muthuramkumar, S., Ayyappan, N., Parthasarathy,N., Mudappa, D., Raman, T. R. S.. Selwyn, M.A. and Pragasan, L.A Plant community structure in tropical rainforest fragments of the Western Ghats, India. Biotropica (Blackwell) 38: [Impact factor: 2.351]. 18. Mani, S. and Parthasarathy, N Biodiversity assessment of trees in five inland tropical dry evergreen forest of peninsular India. Systematics and Biodiversity (Camb. Univ. Press) 3: 1-12 [Impact factor: 1.884]. 19. Parthasarathy, N., Muthuramkumar, S. and Reddy, M.S Patterns of liana diversity in tropical evergreen forests of peninsular India. Forest Ecology and Management (Elsevier) 190: [Impact factor: 2.766] 20. Chittibabu, C. V. and Parthasarathy, N Liana diversity and host relationships in a tropical evergreen forest of Indian Eastern Ghats. Ecological Research (Blackwell) 16: [Impact factor: 1.552].

5 21. Muthuramkumar, S. and Parthasarathy, N Tree-liana interactions in a tropical evergreen forest in the Anamalais, Western Ghats, India. Journal of Tropical Ecology (Camb. Univ. Press) 17: [Impact factor: 1.482]. 22. Parthasarathy, N Changes in forest composition and structure in three sites of tropical evergreen forest around Sengaltheri, Western Ghats. Current Science 80: [Impact factor: 0.905]. 23. Chittibabu, C. V. and Parthasarathy, N Attenuated tree species diversity in human-impacted tropical evergreen forest sites at Kolli hills, Eastern Ghats, India. Biodiversity and Conservation 9: [Impact factor: 2.264]. 24. Muthuramkumar, S. and Parthasarathy, N Alpha diversity of lianas in a tropical evergreen forest in the Anamalais, Western Ghats, India. Diversity and Distributions (Blackwell) 6: 1-14 [Impact factor: 6.122]. 25. Annaselvam,J.and Parthasarathy,N Inventories of understory plants in a tropical evergreen forest in the Anamalais, Western Ghats, India. Ecotropica 5: [Impact factor: 0.242]. 26. Ayyappan, N. and Parthasarathy, N Biodiversity inventory of trees in a large-scale permanent plot of tropical evergreen forest at Varagalaiar, Anamalais, Western Ghats, India. Biodiversity and Conservation 8: [Impact factor: 2.264]. 27. Parthasarathy, N., Ravikumar, K. Ganesan, R. and Ramamurthy, K Distribution of seagrasses along the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu. Aquatic Botany (Elsevier) 40:

6 Book Edited/Published 1. Parthasarathy, N. (ed.) Biodiversity of Lianas. Springer Int. Publishing AG, Switzerland. 289 p. ISBN: Parthasarathy, N., Vivek, P., Anil, K Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation of Tropical dry Evergreen forest. Lambert Academic Publishing, GmbH and Co. Germany. ISBN: Parthasarathy, N., Pragasan, L.A, Muthumperumal, C. and Anbarashan, M Flora of Pondicherry University Campus. Pondicherry University Publication. Puducherry. Pp.398. ISBN: Rasingam, L. and Parthasarathy, N Biodiversity inventories of Little Andaman Island, India. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, GmbH and Co. Germany. ISBN: Selected papers presented in various Conferences, Seminars, Symposia and workshops Trends in Plant Ecology under Climate change era: Lessons from Biomonitoring of LTER plots. National Symposium on current trends in Plant Sciences. Madras Christian College, Chennai. 23 rd February Biodiversity Conservation under global change scenario: Absorptive Learning from School-Level. DST INSPIRE Camp. Periyar University, Salem. 23 rd Dec Ozone layer, Climate Change, Biomes and Biodiversity issues. World Ozone day ENVIS Centre, CAS in Zoology, University of Madras.16 th Sep Biodiversity Conservation. Invited lecture. 2 nd National Conference on Frontiers in Ecobiological Sciences and its Applications. Periyar University, Salem. 17 th March Tropical forests: Issues and contemporary research. Winter School, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University. 15 th February Patterns of liana diversity in different forest types of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. Annual Meeting of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Tropical Ecology and Society Reconciliating conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity. Le Corum, Montpellier, France. 19 th 23 rd June 2016.

7 Plant diversity conservation from various biomes under global changes, and research opportunities. National conference on Achievements, challenges and opportunities in plant science research. Annamalai University 19 th March Environmental conservation of medicinal plants through biotechnological intervention. National Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Environmental Biotechnology. Auxilium College, Vellore 4 th February Current trends in medicinal plant research, sustainable resource use and conservation. International Symposium on Medicinal plants and drug discovery for human welfare. Pachaiyappas College, Chennai 29 th January Trends in plant science research as related to carbon management and medicinal plant conservation. National seminar on Recent trends in plant Sciences. Krishnammal College, Chennai 6 th January Blue carbon sequestration, Seagrass ecosystem, faunal interactions and conservation. Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Integrated Research Approach in Biology. Nirmala College, Coimbatore 7 th August Challenges in biodiversity conservation of tropical forests in the face of climate change. National seminar on Climate change and Biodiversity Conservation, Queen Mary s College, Chennai, Asian tropical dry evergreen forests. Workshop on Key research issues in global tropical dry forests. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, 29 th 30 th October Climate change and carbon sequestration with species of advantageous ecological traits in dry tropics. In: International Conference on Impact of Physical Sciences on Biology, Queen Mary s College, Chennai. 9 th July, Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources with special reference to tropical dry evergreen forests. In: Workshop on Forest Genetic Resource Management Network (FGRMN), IFGTB, Coimbatore. March 9 th & 10 th, Conservation of tropical forests for biodiversity maintenance, biomass energy and human welfare. In: International seminar on Biodiversity. Ethiraj College. 27 th Jan Assessment of Biological Diversity and Monitoring. In: Biodiversaity training program, IFGTB, Coimbatore, 4 th August Biodiversity and conservation of plant resources under changing environmetntal conditions. Dr. Todla Ekambaram Endowment Lecture, C.A.S. in Botany, University of Madras, Chennai, 9 th March 09.

8 Plant diversity of tropical forest and bioresources and conservation. UGC National Seminar on Biodiversity conservation: issues and strategies July 05 Hindu College, Guntur Distributional analysis of liana diversity in coastal and inland tropical dry evergreen forests of peninsular India. Int. Symp. Recent Trends Plant Ecol. & Biodiv. Res. May North Eastern Hill University. Shillong. Google Scholar link orks&gmla=ajsn-f4i2oic0ustkfzwxecbqxvn_lol5iorgbun8iqh075_c5evhq67wlsxxa4tuqr_9dsoi-bjnsh--mgym0sh0jtt-v6qq Research Gate link