Jay P. Sah, Ph.D.
Affiliate Graduate Faculty – Department of Earth and Environment
Research Interests
- Study of plant community structure and function
- Analysis of underlying vegetation-environment relationships and vegetation responses to natural and anthropogenic disturbances to answer a wide range of ecological questions at various spatial and temporal scales by using multivariate statistical techniques and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Strategic analysis of integrating ecological and socio-economic approaches in natural resource and environmental management.
Publications (Selected)
- Radhamoni, H. V. N., Spicer, M. E., Duguid, M. C., Comita, L. S., Bruna, E....., Sah, J. P., ...... A. Zuluaga and S. A. Queenborough (31 co-authors) (2026). Herbaceous plants in forest ecosystems: One hundred fundamental and applied questions. Journal of Vegetation Science 2026; 37: / e70168. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70168
- Kleindl, P., Wachnicka, A., Sah, J. P., Ross, M. and Gaiser, E. (2025). Hydrology drives facilitative and competitive strategies in freshwater macrophyte and microbial communities. Ecosphere 2025; 16: / e70384. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70384
- Nocentini, A., Redwine, J., Gaiser, E., Hill, T., Hoffman, S., Kominoski, J., Sah, J. P., Shinde, D., Surratt, D. (2024). Rehydration of degraded wetlands: understanding drivers of vegetation community trajectories. Ecosphere 15: / e4818. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4813
- Stoffella, S. L., Ross, M. S., Sah, J. P., Price, R., Scinto, L., Cline, E. A. and Sklar, F. (2022). Flooding and planting density shape forest in an experimental Everglades landscape: lessons for forest restoration. Ecosphere 13: / e4223. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4223
- Ogurcak, D. E., Sah, J. P., Price, R. M. and Ross, M. S. (2019). Shifting baselines in coastal forests: rising seas transform plant communities from the 'ground' up. Forest Ecology and Management 453 (2019) 117581 (doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117581)
- Subedi, S. C., Ross, M. S., Sah, J. P., Redwine J. and Baraloto, C. (2019). Trait-based community assembly pattern along a forest succession gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest. Ecosphere 10 (4)/ e02719. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2719
- Sah, J. P., Ruiz, P. L. and Ross, M. S. (2018). Spatio-temporal pattern of plant communities along a hydrologic gradient in Everglades tree islands. Forest Ecology and Management 421:16-31.
- Ross, M. S., Sah, J. P., Ruiz, P. L., Spitzig, A. and Subedi, S. (2016). Inferring implications of climate change in patchy tropical dry forests through analysis of metacommunity structure. Diversity and Distributions 22: 783-796.
- Paudel, S. and Sah, J. P. (2015). Effects of different management practices on stand composition and species diversity in sub-tropical forests in Nepal: Implications of community participation in biodiversity conservation. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 34 : 738-760.
- Sah, J. P., Ross, M. S., Saha, S., Minchin, P. and Sadle, J. (2014). Trajectories of vegetation response to water management in Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida. Wetlands 34 (Suppl 1) : S65-S79.
- Ruiz, P. L., Sah, J. P., Ross, M. S. and Spitzig, A. A. (2013). Tree island response to fire and flooding in the short-hydroperiod marl prairie grasslands of the Florida Everglades. Fire Ecology 9 (1) : 21-29.
- Ross, M. S., Sah, J. P. (2011). Forest resource islands in a sub-tropical marsh: soil-site relationships in Everglades hardwood hammocks. Ecosystems 14: 632-645.
- Sah, J. P., Ross, M.S., Snyder, J. R. and Ogurcak, D. E. (2010). Tree mortality following prescribed fire and a storm surge event in slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa) forests in the Florida Keys, USA. International Journal of Forestry Research (Volume 2010, Article ID 20495; 13 pp. doi: 101155/2010/204795.
- Armentano, T. V., Sah, J. P., Ross, M. S., Jones, D. T., Cooley, H. C. and Smith, C, S. (2006). Rapid responses of vegetation to hydrological changes in Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. Hydrobiologia 569: 293-309.
- Sah, J. P., Ross, M. S., Snyder, J. R., Koptur, S. and Cooley, H. (2006). Fuel loads, fire regimes and post-fire fuel dynamics in the Florida Keys pine forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15 (4): 463-478.
- Sah, J. P., Ross, M. S., Koptur, S. and Snyder, J. R. (2004). Estimating biomass of broadleaved woody plants in the understory of Florida Keys pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 203: 319-329.
- Sah, J. P. and Heinen, J. T. (2001). Wetland resource use and conservation attitudes among indigenous and migrant peoples in Ghodaghodi Lake area, Nepal. Environmental Conservation 28 (4): 345-356.
- Sah, J. P. (1997). Koshi Tappu Wetlands: Nepal's Ramsar Site. IUCN-Nepal in collaboration with IUCN-Wetland Program, South and South-east Regional Office, Bangkok. pp. 254. ISBN 2-8317-0237-2
