Rohit Subhedar is a PhD student at New Mexico State University working with Professor Niall Hanan in the Plant and Environmental Sciences department. He is broadly interested in understanding what factors maintain savannas globally. More specifically, however, he is interested in the effects of top-down factors such as fire and mammal herbivory on savanna vegetation. He plans to use these interests for his PhD. He wants to work with these research themes in the lesser known and poorly researched Asian savannas.
Prior to starting his journey at NMSU, he was working as a project manager for the Long-term Ecosystem Monitoring Network (LEMoN) in India with Professor Mahesh Sankaran at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS). HIs research there focused on understanding carbon dynamics across broad environmental gradients in the forests and savannas of India.
