Shrabya Timsina is a researcher interested in ecology and ecosystem management. He has a Master of Forestry degree from Yale University, and a B.A. in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago. At SIAS, as part of the CREW project, he is currently engaged with natural and artificial regeneration experiments for the cultivation of Dhasingre (wintergreen, Gaultheria fragrantissima) in Dolakha. Elsewhere in Nepal, he has been conducting silvicultural experiments and studying forest dynamics in mid-hill forests, as well as exploring the floristics of the alpine tundra.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. Timsina, S.; Sharma, L.N.; Ashton, M.S.; Poudyal, B.H.; Nuberg, I.K.; Baral, S.; Cedamon, E.; Bajracharya, S.B.; Paudel, N.S. Lessons from Managing for the Extremes: A Case for Decentralized, Adaptive, Multipurpose Forest Management within an Ecological Framework. Forests 2022, 13, 333. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020333
2. Vandebroek, I., Pieroni, A., Stepp, J.R. et al. Reshaping the future of ethnobiology research after the COVID-19 pandemic. Nat. Plants 6, 723–730 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0691-6
3. Timsina, S. 2020. Persistence, decay and upheaval in the Great Himalayan Tundra: A saga of plants, fungi, deities, and people. Tropical Resources 39, 00–00. https://tri.yale.edu/tropical-resources/tropical-resources-vol-39/persistence-decay-and-upheaval-great-himalayan-tundra
