Harshita Bhatia

About

Her research focuses on understanding how Indian vegetation and climate have interacted and evolved throughout the Cenozoic era, with an emphasis on how plant life has responded to long-term climate change. She employs systematic approaches and terrestrial paleoclimate proxies, utilizing multivariate statistical analyses such as CLAMP and NLR-based Coexistence approach (CA).

Employment

• Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences WISE-Post Doctoral Fellow
  2026 - Present
• Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences PostDoc Research Associate
  2025 - 2026
• Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences PhD Student
  2019 - 2024

Education

• Banaras Hindu University Faculty of Science MSc Botany
  2016 - 2018
• Banaras Hindu University Bsc Botany
  2013 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (33)

• Fossil evidence of Apocynaceae from the late Paleocene of India and its biogeographic significance
  Earth History and Biodiversity 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.hisbio.2026.100040
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• Fossil leaves of Pandanaceae from India suggest Paleogene persistence of the family in South Asia
  Geobios 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2026.05.001
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• Earliest fossil record of Cryptocarya R. Br. (Lauraceae) from Asia and its biogeographic and palaeoenvironmental implications
  Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s12549-025-00658-1
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• Miocene Syzygium Gaertn. (Myrtaceae) from India and its ancestral lineages from Gondwanaland
  Journal of Palaeogeography 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jop.2026.100343
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• Monsoon and vegetational shifts on the Indian plate since 66 Ma evidenced by megafossils
  Discover Geoscience 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s44288-026-00559-6
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• Late Miocene weakening of the South Asian Monsoon: Insights from the Siwalik of Nepal
  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112789
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• Early Miocene ventricose bamboo from south Asia with implications for evolutionary ecology and biogeography
  iScience 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112455
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• Leaf impressions from the Lower Siwalik sediments of eastern Nepal and their climatic and phytogeographic implications
  Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 2025 DOI: 10.1177/05529360251352619
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• Earliest Swintonia (Anacardiaceae) fossil from the late Paleogene of India suggests its Gondwanan origin
  Geobios 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2025.05.008
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• Climatic shifts and floristic responses during India’s tectonic voyage from Gondwana to Asia
  Habitable Planet 2025 DOI: 10.63335/j.hp.2025.0014
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