Sonali Saha, Ph.D.
Senior Biologist
saha@regionalconservation.org

An all-around lover of plants, Sonali is particularly interested in how plant structure and function affects their ecological distribution. She's excited about how this information can be applied to restoration planning to maintain appropriate plant communities in natural landscapes. A native of India, Sonali received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. She has worked with a variety of plant taxa in different ecosystems including subtropical deciduous forests of the Indian subcontinent, subtropical forests of Argentina, the Florida scrub ecosystem and most recently, pine rockland habitats in the Everglades. Sonali served as IRC's Everglades Vegetation Biologist, a cooperative post with Everglades National Park. Saha co-authored a report titled Sea level rise and South Florida coastal forests published in the journal Climate Change. She is currently working was a visiting faculty member at the University of Miami and as Adjunct Faculty at Touro College, South.