Publications

  • 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, Marsico TD. 2024. Saccharum spontaneum L. In: CABI Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. https://doi.org/10.1079/cabicompendium.4816
  • ​​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
  • O’Neill, A.R., Chhetri, P.K., Bijoy Chhetri, B., Rana, S.K.*, 2020. Establishing ecological baselines around a temperate Himalayan peatland. Wetl. Ecol. Manag. 28, 375–388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-020-09710-7
  • Rana, H.K., Luo, D., Rana, S.K., Sun, H., 2020. Geological and climatic factors affect the population genetic connectivity in Mirabilis himalaica (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