Biodiversity of the Himalaya: Jammu and Kashmir State

Professor Ghulam Hassan Dar, an eminent plant taxonomist, is widely known for his significant research contributions to the biodiversity of Kashmir Himalaya. In more than 40 years of teaching and research career, Prof. Dar has to his credit 200 research publications (including 10 books) and supervised 27 Ph. D. and M. Phil. students. A Fellow of Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy and awardee of its Prof. Y. D. Tiagi Gold Medal, he has also been recipient of International Fellowship of the Danish Academy of Sciences, Denmark. He has successfully completed several extramural research projects and attended numerous national and international conferences. In pursuit of research and academic collaboration, he has visited many foreign countries. He has held the positions of Head Department of Botany at University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Director CBS, Dean School of Biological Sciences and prestigious Mahatma Gandhi Chair on Ecology & Environment at BGSB University, Rajouri, India.


Dr Anzar A. Khuroo is currently working as Senior Assistant Professor at Centre for Biodiversity & Taxonomy, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), India. His main areas of research interest include taxonomy, ecology and biodiversity. He has completed many extramural projects and published 90 research papers in reputed journals. He is recipient of young scientist award by Department of Science & Technology, J&K Government and visiting scientist fellowship to Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing by Indian National Science Academy. He has served as Country Editor (India) for IUCN-led Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species, and is presently serving as Associate Editor for the journal Conservation Science and Section Editor (Botany) for Checklist. He has decade long teaching experience at post-graduation level and also coordinates Massive Online Open Course on Plant Systematics, hosted by Consortium for