Faculty Profile

Dr. Sourav Das

Associate Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Associate Professor Institute of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801711348630
  • Email: sourav-fes@sust.edu, souravdron@gmail.com

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Department of Biological Science, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
  • Master of Research (MRes) in Biological Science, Department of Biological Science, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
  • M.Sc. in Forestry from Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet
  • B.Sc. in Forestry from Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet

Research Interests

  • Remote Sensing
  • Landscape ecology
  • Niche theory
  • Functional Ecology
  • Urban ecology
  • Climate refugia

Previous Research Project

  • Co-investigator, “Assessing Environmental Drivers Of Phylogenetic Structure In Patharia Hill Reserve Of Bangladesh.” Project Granted by University Research Center (URC) Project 2014-15, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet.
  • Investigator, ''Technical support for the finalization of the Bangladesh Forest Inventory field manual FAOBGDLOA2016-040” - for supporting the Project “Strengthening National Forest Inventory and Satellite Land Monitoring System in support of REDD+ in Bangladesh. (GCP/BGD/058/USA) Project funded by The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal Publish

  • 1. Das, S., Ossola, A., Beaumont, L.J. Records of urban occurrences expand estimates of the climate niches in tree species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 00, 1–11. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13809
  • 2. Yap, J.-Y.S., Rossetto, M., Das, S., Wilson, P.D., Beaumont, L.J. and Henry, R.J. (2022), Tracking habitat or testing its suitability? Similar distributional patterns can hide very different histories of persistence vs non-equilibrium dynamics. Evolution.
  • 3. Henry, M., Iqbal, Z., Johnson, K. et al. A multi-purpose National Forest Inventory in Bangladesh: design, operationalisation and key results. For. Ecosyst. 8, 12 (2021).
  • 4. Das, S., Baumgartner, J.B., Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Wilson, P.D., Yap, J.Y.S., Rossetto, M., Beaumont, L.J. Identifying climate refugia for 30 Australian rainforest plant species, from the last glacial maximum to 2070. Landscape Ecology 34, 2883–2896
  • 5. Gupta KK, Das S, Sonet SS, Deb SK, Islam N, Sarker SK (2019) Determining Tree-habitat Associations at the Raghunandan Hill Reserve Forest in Bangladesh. SUST Journal of Science & Technology 29(1):47-57
  • 6. Rossetto, M.; Beaumont, L.; Das, S.; Yap, S. Bioclimatic Discordance: Combining Molecular and Environmental Data to Identify Floristic Refugia and Corridors. Final Report Prepared for the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. April 2018, pp. 1–10. Available online: https://climatechange.environment.nsw.gov.au/
  • 7. Sarker, S. K., Nu r un nabi, M ., Haque, M., Sharmin, M., M., Sonet, S. S., Das, S., Das, N. Tree assemblages and diversity patterns in Tropical Juri Forest, Bangladesh Journal of Forestry Research, 26(1) 159-169 (2015).

External Affiliations

  • Casual academic staff, Department of Biological Science, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
  • Research Assistant, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Biological Science, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia.
  • Member, Ecological Society of Australia (https://www.ecolsoc.org.au/ )

Awards & Recognition

  • International Macquarie University Research Training Pathway Master of Research (iMQRTPMRES) Scholarship.
  • International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES) for Doctor of Philosophy

Conference

  • 1. Das, S., Ossola, A. , Beaumont, L.J. (2020) Urban living expands estimates of the climate niches of tree species. ESA 2020: Understanding Ecological Extremes - Mechanism of Resilience and Recovery, Ecological Society of Australia, Australia
  • 2. Das, S., Beaumont, L.J., Ossola, A. (2019) To what extent do tree inventory records extend species’ realised climate niches? Department of Biological Sciences HDR Conference 2019, Macquarie University, Australia.
  • 3. Chowhan G.K., Das S.,Sarker S.K. (2014) Bodymass estimation of three snake species based on their morphological traits in Lawachara National Park, Bangladesh. IUCN Bangladesg (2014), The Festschrift on the 50th Anniversary of the IUCN Red list of the threatened speciesTM , Dhaka, Bangladesh: IUCN, 89 pp.
  • 4. Bani R. J., Das S.,Sarker S.K. (2014) Butterfly diversity and distribution in Lawachara National Park (LNP), Bangladesh. IUCN Bangladesg (2014), The Festschrift on the 50th Anniversary of the IUCN Red list of the threatened speciesTM , Dhaka, Bangladesh: IUCN, 99 pp.

Teaching

  • Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System
  • Forest Engineering
  • Plantation Silviculture
  • Forest Zoology