About
Shawkat Sohel is a Research Fellow at the School of Science, Technology, and Engineering. He has a wide-ranging research focus encompassing forest-water interaction, the effects of disturbances on forest and aquatic ecosystems, agroforestry systems, community-based forest management, carbon cycling, restoration ecology, and ecosystem services. He is currently engaged in the Forest Restoration and Climate Experiment (FoRCE) project. This research project will utilise vegetation plot data together with other available remote sensing data to analyse and model the dynamic interplay between trees, lianas, climate factors, and human disturbances, aiming to understand the global and regional impacts on forest biomass and successional pathways. Before his tenure at UniSC, Shawkat was actively teaching within the Department of Environmental Science and Management at North South University (NSU) in Bangladesh.
Research interest:
Socio-ecological system analysis
Ecohydrology (Hydrological modeling; forest water use)
Ecosystem service quantification and mapping
Stable isotopes in Ecology
Habitat suitability modelling
Species distribution modelling
Remote sensing application in ecology
Carbon storage dynamics
Forest disturbance and recovery
Socio-ecological system analysis
Ecohydrology (Hydrological modeling; forest water use)
Ecosystem service quantification and mapping
Stable isotopes in Ecology
Habitat suitability modelling
Species distribution modelling
Remote sensing application in ecology
Carbon storage dynamics
Forest disturbance and recovery