Rana SK, Koirala D, Rana HK. 2026. Eco-evolutionary overlap defines adaptive frontiers during biological invasions. (Author review)
Rana SK, Davenport GL, Awad S, Webb DJ, Esposito SG, Nguyen CD, Renne IJ. 2026. Trait-based bias shapes native and introduced plant assemblages in university landscapes. (Submitted to Urban Forestry & Urban Greening)
Rana, S.K., et al. 2026. Canalized gene regulatory networks stabilize floral polymorphism and enable modular transgressive expression. (Submitted to Nature Communications)
Rana SK, Long T, Lucardi R, Marsico TD. 2025. Industrial floristic inventories valuable for resolving taxonomic ambiguity? A test case in the genus Glandularia: Verbenaceae. (Systematic Botany, Under Review)
Rana HK, Rana SK, Landis JB, Luo D, Sun H. 2024. Decoding the genomic basis of adaptive capacity and vulnerability in the high-altitude Saussurea obvallata complex. Plant Diversity (In Press).
Rana, H.K., Rana, S.K., Sun, H., Luo, D., 2025. Genomic signatures of habitat isolation and paleo-climate unveil the “island-like” pattern in the glasshouse plant Rheum nobile. Glob. Ecol. Conserv. 58, e03471.
Rana, S.K., Lindstrom, J., Lehrer, M., Ahlering, M., Hamilton, J., 2025. Forecasting hotspots of grassland suitability under climate change for restoration. Biol. Cons. 302, 110988.
Rana SK, Rana HK, Kuang T, Landis JB, Chen J, Wang H, Deng T, Davis CC, Sun H. 2024. Pleistocene glaciation advances the cryptic speciation of Stellera chamaejasme L. in a major biodiversity hotspot. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 66(6), 1192–1205.
Rana, H.K., Rana, S.K., Luo, D., Sun, H., 2023. Existence of biogeographic barriers for the long-term Neogene-Quaternary divergence and differentiation of Koenigia forrestii in the Himalaya-Hengduan mountains. Bot. J. Linnean Soc. 201, 230–253. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boac045.
Rana, S.K., Rana, H.K., Stöcklin, J., Ranjitkar, S., Sun, H., Song, B., 2022. Global warming pushes the distribution range of the two alpine ‘glasshouse’ Rheum-species north- and upwards in the Eastern Himalaya (EH) and the Hengduan Mountains (HM). Frontiers in Plant Science 13, 925296. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.925296
Rana, H.K., Rana, S.K., Sun, H., Fujikawa, K., Luo, D., Joshi, L.R., Ghimire, S.K. 2021. Saussurea talungensis (Asteraceae), a new species from Humla, Nepal Himalayas. Phytokeys 176(1), 55–66. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.176.61996
Rana, S.K., Rana, H.K., Luo, D., Sun, H., 2021. Estimating climate-induced ‘Nowhere to go’ range shifts of the Himalayan Incarvillea Juss. using multi-model median ensemble species distribution models. Ecol. Indic. 121, 107127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107127
Rana, S.K., Luo, D., Rana, H.K., Chen, S.T., Sun, H., 2021. Molecular phylogeny, biogeography and character evolution of the montane genus Incarvillea Juss. (Bignoniaceae). Plant Divers. 43(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2020.09.002
Poudeyal, M.R., Pyakurel, D., Rana, S.K., Meilby, H., Paneru, Y.R., Ghimire, S.K. 2021. Does resource availability coincide with exploitation pattern? Inference through distribution and trade scenario of Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora in the Nepal Himalaya. J. Appl. Res. Med. Aromat. Plants 22, 100292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmap.2021.100292
Rana, S.K., Rana, H.K., Ranjitkar, S., Ghimire, S.K., Gurmachhan, C.M., O’Neill, A.R., Sun, H., 2020. Climate-change threats to distribution, habitats, sustainability and conservation of highly traded medicinal and aromatic plants in Nepal. Ecol. Indic., 115, 106435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106435
Rana, H.K., Luo, D., Rana, S.K., Sun, H., 2020. Geological and climatic factors affect the population genetic connectivity in Mirabilishimalaica (Nyctaginaceae): insight from phylogeography and dispersal corridors in the Himalaya-Hengduan Biodiversity hotspot. Front. Plant Sci. 10, 1721. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01721
Tiwari, A., Uprety, Y., Rana, S.K., 2019. Plant endemism in the Nepal Himalayas and phytogeographical implications. Plant Divers. 41(3), 174–182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2019.04.004
Luo, D., Xu, B., Rana, S.K., Li, Z.M., Sun, H., 2018. Phylogeography of rare fern Polystichum glaciale endemic to the subnival zone of the Sino-Himalaya. Plant Syst. Evol. 304, 485–499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-018-1495-2
Rana, S.K., Rana, H.K., Shrestha, K.K., Sujakhu, S., Ranjitkar, S., 2018. Determining bioclimatic space of Himalayan alder for agroforestry system in Nepal. Plant Divers. 40, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2017.11.002
Rana, S.K., Rana, H.K., Ghimire, S.K., Shrestha, K.K., Ranjitkar, S., 2017. Predicting the impact of climate change on the distribution of two threatened Himalayan medicinal plants of Liliaceae in Nepal. J. Mt. Sci. 14(3), 558–570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-015-3822-1
O’Neill, A.R., Badola, H.K., Dhyani, P.P., Rana, S.K., 2017. Integrating ethnobiological knowledge into biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Himalayas. J. Ethnobiol. Ethnomed. 13, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-017-0148-9
Rana, H.K., Rana, S.K.*, Ghimire, S.K. 2017. Distribution pattern and species richness of Liliaceae in the Nepal Himalaya. Our Nat. 14(1), 22–29. https://doi.org/10.3126/on.v14i1.16437
O’Neill, A.R., Rana, S.K.*, 2016. An Ethnobotanical Analysis of Parasitic Plants (Parijibi) in Nepal Himalaya. J. Ethnobiol. Ethnomed. 12, 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-016-0086-y
Ghimire, S.K., Awasthi, B., Rana, S.K., Rana, H.K., Bhattarai, R., Pyakurel, D., 2016. Export of medicinal and aromatic plant materials from Nepal. Botanica Orientalis – J. Plant Sci. 10: 24–32. https://doi.org/10.3126/botor.v10i0.21020
