Raja Waqar Ahmed Khan

Raja Waqar Ahmed Khan
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Raja Waqar Ahmed Khan has joined the Department of Botany in August 2019. He is currently serving as Assistant Professor. He received his PhD in Botany from the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad in 2021. During his academic and professional career, he got research skills in Forest Ecology, Climate Change mitigation technology, Natural resource management and Conservation Biology.
Assistant Professor
PhD
Botany
  • Irfan, U., Shaheen, H., Manzoor, M., Nasar, S., Khan, R. W. A., Gillani, S. W., Alrefaei, A. F., Attique, A., Kamal, A., Razak, S. A., & Riaz, M. T. (2025). Population structure, floral diversity, habitat geography, and conservation status of Himalayan horse chestnut (Aesculus indica) in western Himalayan moist temperate forest ecosystems of Kashmir region. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7(2024). https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1388607
  • Khan, R. W. A., Shaheen, H., Qayyum, S., Awan, S. N., Shah, T. A., Alsahli, A. A., Younous, Y. A., & El-Sheikh, M. A. (2025). Predicting habitat refugia of the medicinal plant Dolomiaea costus under two climate change scenarios. Discover Life, 55(2).
  • Manzoor, M., Shaheen, H., Attique, A., Khan, R. W. A., Gillani, S. W., & Khan, M. S. (2024). Distribution pattern, population structure and habitat geography of Betula utilis subalpine forests of Kashmir region in the western Himalayas: Implications for conservation and sustainable management. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1–26.
  • Khan, R. W. A., Nazir, N., Mehmood, A., Qayyum, S., & Shaheen, H. (2024). Spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood consumption and its associated CO2 emissions in Muzaffarabad division, a western Himalayan region. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 14(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-024-00448-1
  • Shaheen, H., Attique, A., Riaz, M. T., Manzoor, M., Khan, R. W. A., & Riaz, M. T. (2024). From biodiversity hotspot to conservation hotspot: assessing distribution, population structure, associated flora and habitat geography of threatened Himalayan Yew in temperate forest ecosystems of Kashmir. Biodiversity and Conservation, 33(2), 553-577.
  • Sohail, M., Shaheen, H., Khan, R. W. A., Siddiqui, M. F., & Ahmad, M. (2023). Dendrochronological investigations reveal declining growth rate of Pinus roxburghii populations from 1840 to 2017 in Kashmir Himalayas. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 55(3), 1075–1081.
  • Khan, R. W. A., & Shaheen, H. (2022). Biomass carbon stock estimation in lesser Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests of Kashmir. Taiwania, 67(1), 47–54.
  • Shaheen, H., Awan, S. N., Khan, R. W. A., Khalid, A. R., Ahmed, W., & Chughtai, F. M. (2021). Variations in soil organic carbon stocks under different land-use categories in subtropical ecosystems of Kashmir. Forest Science, 67(5), 525–536.
  • Khan, R. W. A., Shaheen, H., & Awan, S. N. (2021). Biomass and soil carbon stocks in relation to the structure and composition of Chir Pine dominated forests in the lesser Himalayan foothills of Kashmir. Carbon Management, 12(4), 429–437.
  • Awan, M. S., Dar, M. E. I., Shaheen, H., Khan, R. W. A., Aziz, S., & Habib, T. (2021). Diversity and distribution pattern of alpine vegetation communities from Ratti Gali Lake and its adjacent areas, Kashmir Himalayas, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 53(2), 665–672.
  • Khan, R. W. A., Shaheen, H., Mehmood, A., & Awan, S. N. (2019). Grazing intensity impacts on soil carbon stocks of Western Himalayan Alpine paddocks. Carbon Management, 10(6), 533–540.
  • Aziz, S., Chughtai, F. M., Shaheen, H., Khan, R. W. A., & Dar, M. E. U. I. (2019). Biomass and soil carbon stocks assessment in Western Himalayan alpine and subalpine vegetation zones of Kashmir. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 51(3), 973–978.
  • Dar, M. E. U. I., Gillani, N., Shaheen, H., Firdous, S. S., Ahmad, S., Khan, M. Q., Hussain, M. A., Habib, T., Malik, N. Z., Ullah, T. S., Rafique, S., Aziz, S., Khan, W. A., & Hussain, K. (2018). Comparative analysis of vegetation from eroded and non-eroded areas: A case study from Kashmir Himalayas. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 16(2), 1725–1737.
  • Shaheen, H., Khan, W. A., Hussain, K., Ullah, T. S., Nasir, M., & Mehmood, A. (2016). Carbon stocks assessment in subtropical forest types of Kashmir Himalayas. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 48(6), 2351–2357.
  • Shaheen, H., Azad, B., Mushtaq, A., & Khan, R. W. A. (2016). Fuelwood consumption pattern and its impact on forest structure in Kashmir Himalayas. Bosque, 37(2), 419–424.

Forest Ecology
Conservation Biology
Natural Resource Management
Environmental risk, monitoring and Impact Assessment
CO2 Capture and storage potential Assessment

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