Dinesh Thakur

About

Plant ecologist interested in - Functional Ecology; Global change ecology; Biodiversity patterns; Plant climate adaptation;inter and intra-specific trait variation; Eco-metabolomics; Alpine ecology; ecosystems; Trait scaling; Ecosystem functioning.

Employment

• IGZ Visiting Scientist
  2026 - Present
• Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany Scientist
  2025 - Present
• Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Umweltforschung UFZ Department Bodensystemforschung Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher
  2022 - 2023
• Institute of Botany Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow
  2021 - 2024
• Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology CSIR Research Associate
  2020 - 2020
• Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology Research Scholar
  2012 - 2018
• Government Degree Colleges (Affiliated to Jammu University) Assistant Professor (Fixed term)
  2012 - 2012

Education

• Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology CSIR Ph.D.
  2013 - 2019
• Chaudhary Charan Singh University Master of Science in Botany
  2008 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (30)

• Beyond elevation: climate, geography, and the diversification of Himalayan Rhododendrons. A commentary on ‘Phenotypic and genetic variation among Rhododendron arboreum species complex widely distributed throughout the Himalayas suggests an obscure geogra…
  Annals of Botany 2026 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcag253
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• Direct and indirect effects of elevated CO2, warming and drought on plant–consumer interactions of Plantago lanceolata
  Journal of Ecology 2026 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.70412
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• Methyl jasmonate induces conservative trait shifts that improve drought resilience in clonal grass
  Scientific Reports 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-55628-0
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• Elevated CO2, warming and drought differentially impact reproductive and vegetative economic traits in two grassland species
  Annals of Botany 2026 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaf214
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• Crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring fills gaps in global plant trait mapping
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68996-y
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• Shift from acquisitive to conservative plant strategies with increasing drought and temperature extremes in an alpine shrub
  Annals of Botany 2026 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaf211
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• Transgenerational Drought and Methyl Jasmonate Memory Interactively Shape Metabolome and Physiology in Clonal Grass
  Physiologia Plantarum 2026 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.70720
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• Simulating the net primary productivity of Betula utilis-dominated timberline forests under the future climate scenarios in western Himalaya
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6480585
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• Mycorrhizal strategy of non-native plants varies with biome and disturbance
  Nature Ecology & Evolution 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-03144-9
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• Invasive species are more homogenous in their root morphology and exudate metabolome than non-invasive alien species
  Environmental and Experimental Botany 2025 DOI: 10.1016/J.ENVEXPBOT.2024.106057
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