Publications
Thakur D, Rathore N, Jandová V, Münzbergová Z, Dolezal J (2025). “Shift from acquisitive to conservative plant strategies with increasing drought and temperature extremes in an alpine shrub”. Preprint, BioRxiv. Accepted in Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.26.661801
Banerjee S, Rathore N, Semerád J, Cajthaml T, Münzbergová Z, Thakur D. (2025). “Soil moisture and its interaction with temperature determine root metabolomes of a Himalayan alpine shrub”. Physiologia Plantarum.https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70444
Manavalan, M, Thakur, D, Schaumberger, A, Bahn, M, & Münzbergová, Z. (2025). “Global Change Factors differentially impact Floral and Leaf Economic Traits”. Preprint, BioRxiv. Accepted in Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.15.654190
Thakur, D., & Chawla, A. (2025).“Aspect outweighs elevation in influencing plant functioning at high elevations of Himalaya”, Accepted in Plant Ecology - Coming soon
Bhatt, T., Rathore, N., Semerad, J., Cajthaml, T., Thakur, D., & Munzbergova, Z. (2025). “Drought and methyl jasmonate memory interact to determine plant functioning under current drought stress in a perennial grass”. Preprint, BioRxiv, 2025.08.03.668340. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.03.668340
Bhatt, T., and Thakur, D., and Munzbergova, Z. (2025) “Unveiling the Interactive Dynamics: Recurring Drought, Methyl Jasmonate, and Plant Performance in a Perennial Grass”. BioRxiv Preprint. Also Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5070067.
Daniel Lusk, Sophie Wolf, Daria Svidzinska, Carsten F. Dormann, Jens Kattge, Helge Bruelheide, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Gabriella Damasceno, Álvaro Moreno Martínez, Cyrille Violle, Daniel Hending, Georg J. A. Hähn, Solana Tabeni, Shyam Phartyal, Fernando Gonçalves, Holger Kreft, Marco Schmidt, Han Chen, Behlül Güler, Jiri Dolezal, Remigiusz Pielech, Anaclara Guido, Ciara Dwyer, Francesca Napoleone, Jacob Willie, André Luís Gasper, Manuel J. Macía, Milan Chytry, Jonathan Lenoir, Dinesh Thakur, Jürgen Dengler, Sebastian Świerszcz, Jan Altman, Ladislav Mucina, Ashish N. Nerlekar, Kaoru Kakinuma, Pravin Rawat, Zvjezdana Stančić, Riccardo Testolin, Mohamed Z. Hatim, Flávio Rodrigues, Jürgen Homeier, Marcia C. M. Marques, James K. McCarthy, M. A. El-Sheikh, Teja Kattenborn (2025).“From smartphones to satellites: Uniting crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring and Earth observation to fill the gaps in global plant trait mapping” bioRxiv 2025.03.10.641660; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.10.641660
Rathore, N., Hanzelková, V., Dostálek, T., Thakur, D., & Münzbergová, Z. (2025). “Invasive species are more homogenous in their root morphology and exudate metabolome than non-invasive alien species”. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 229, 106057. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENVEXPBOT.2024.106057
Thakur D. et al. (2024). “Global warming alters Himalayan alpine shrub growth dynamics and climate sensitivity”. Science of the Total Environment, 916:170252. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724003875
Thakur, D. et al. (2023). “Differential effect of climate of origin and cultivation climate on structural and biochemical plant traits”. Functional Ecology. 2023;37:1436–1448.https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14291
Thakur, D., & Münzbergová, Z. (2022). “Rhizome trait scaling relationships are modulated by growth conditions and are linked to plant fitness”. Annals of Botany, 129(5), 529–540. https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/129/5/529/6532026
Thakur, D., Rathore, N., & Chawla, A. (2019). “Increase in light interception cost and metabolic mass component of leaves are coupled for efficient resource use in the high altitude vegetation”. Oikos, 128(2), 254–263.https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/oik.05538
Thakur, D., & Chawla, A. (2019). “Functional diversity along elevational gradients in the high altitude vegetation of the western Himalaya”. Biodiversity and Conservation, 28(8–9), 1977–1996.
Thakur, D. et al. (2021). “Identification of ecological factors affecting the occurrence and abundance of Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D.Don) Soo in the Himalaya”. Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, 20(April 2020), 100286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmap.2020.100286
Thakur, D. Singh, L., & Chawla, A. (2020). “Reliability of leaf functional traits after delayed measurements”. Australian Journal of Botany, 68(2), 100–107. https://doi.org/10.1071/BT19166
Rathore, N., Thakur, D. et al. (2021). “Time-series eco-metabolomics reveals extensive reshuffling in metabolome during transition from cold acclimation to de-acclimation in an alpine shrub”. Physiologia Plantarum, 173(4), 1824–1840.
Rathore, N., Thakur, D., & Chawla, A. (2018). “Seasonal variations coupled with elevation gradient drives significant changes in eco-physiological and biogeochemical traits of a high altitude evergreen broadleaf shrub, Rhododendron anthopogon”. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 132(May), 708–719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.08.009
Singh, L., Thakur, D. et al. (2021). “Dynamics of leaf litter decomposition in the timberline zone of western Himalaya”. Acta Oecologica, 111, 103715.
Thakur, D. et al. (2018) “Enhanced reproductive success revealed key strategy for persistence of devastated populations in Himalayan food-deceptive orchid, Dactylorhiza hatagirea”. Plant Species Biology (2018) 33, 191–202.