Research Terms
Ecology Biodiversity Riparian Ecosystems Terrestrial Ecosystems Wetland Ecosystems Plant Ecology Natural Resources Management
Keywords
Community Ecology Gis Integrating Human And Natural Systems Multivariate Analysis Plant Ecology Vegetation Science Wetland Ecology
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Dr. Jay P. Sah is a plant community ecologist, and he is working as a Research Professor with the Institute of Environment (IoE) at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL, USA. He is an Affiliate Graduate Faculty in the Department of Earth and Environment, and a Project Collaborator in Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE-LTER) Program. His primary research interest includes vegetation-environment relationships, and vegetation dynamics in response to environmental changes caused by natural and anthropogenic disturbances, including global change, climate extreme events and the use of plant resources. His expertise is in analysis of vegetation dynamics to answer a wide range of ecological questions at various spatial and temporal scales by using multivariate statistical techniques, statistical modeling and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Currently, Dr. Sah works on vegetation dynamics and their management implications in marl prairies, ridge and slough landscape and the tree islands in freshwater Everglades, the coastal wetlands of the Southeast Saline Everglades, the tropical and sub-tropical upland forests of the Miami Rock Ridge and adjacent islands. While he is fully engaged in Everglades research since 2002, before joining FIU as a research faculty, Dr. Sah had 16 years (1984-2000) of post-graduate teaching experience at Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, where he did intensive research on wetland vegetation dynamics and management in the lowlands of southern Nepal. Dr. Sah has edited three volumes of the Proceedings of a conference held in Nepal, and has published one book, 3 book chapters, 58 peer-reviewed research papers, 23 research chapters and proceeding articles, and 13 semi-technical articles. He has authored/co-authored 96 abstracts and 92 technical reports. Dr. Sah has presented his work at more than seven dozen national and international conferences and workshops.
International Association of Vegetation Science (IAVS) , Member; 2009 - present
The International Association for Ecology (INTECOL) , Member; 2004 - present
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) , Member; 2004 - present
Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS), Member; 2004 - present
National Geographic Society (NGS), Member; 2001 - present
Hydrologic driven short-term vegetation successional dynamics in Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida; GEER (Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration) 2015 Conference; USGS/Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration; 2015
Assessing the effects of forest canopy cover on understory vegetation composition and biomass along an experimental hydrological gradient.; The Ecological Society of America (ESA) 99th Annual Meeting ; The Ecological Society of America (ESA) ; 2014
Spatio-temporal Pattern in Plant Communities along Hydrology Gradient in Shark Slough Tree Islands, Everglades National Park, Florida; Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) Annual Meeting-2013; Society of Wetland Scientists; 2013
Fire and flooding interactions: Vegetation trajectories in the southern Everglades Marl Prairies, FL, USA; 9th INTECOL: International Wetlands Conference – Wetlands in a Complex World. ; The International Association for Ecology (INTECOL) ; 2012
Linking vegetation dynamics to hydrologic changes in the southern Everglades marl prairies; The Ecological Society of America (ESA) 96th Annual Meeting ; The Ecological Society of America (ESA) ; 2011
Changing Cape Sable seaside sparrow habitat conditions in marl prairie landscape and their implications for Everglades restoration; GEER (Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration) 2010 Conference; USGS/Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration; 2010
Understory vegetation composition and biomass on the tree islands in the Loxahatchee impoundment landscape assessment (LILA) experimental site; GEER (Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration) 2010 Conference; USGS/Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration; 2010
Tree mortality following prescribed fire and a storm surge event in the Florida Keys pine forests; Pine Rockland Conference 2010 ; Pine Rockland Working Group; 2010
