Under the umbrella of plant community ecology, my work has two main themes: 1) understanding plant recruitment/plant<>plant facilitation in Borneo’s tropical forests with the goal of helping restoration strategies, and 2) modelling community assembly outcomes using a machine learning approach. The latter will be tested in a salt phytoremediation project in California’s agricultural soils.
Admittance Semester/Year and Program
Fall 2024, Master’s in Rangeland and Wildlife Management
Fall 2024, PhD
Education
BSc, Honours Plant Biology, University of British Columbia, Canada. 2024
Research Lab
Macrosystems Ecology Lab, Ben W. Blonder
Selected Publications
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Raut, R., Garen, J., Michaletz, S. Drivers of variation in plant photosynthetic temperature response. Manuscript in preparation. (Undergraduate thesis work)
Selected Presentations
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Raut, R., Garen, J., Michaletz, S. Facing the heat or losing your cool: How does global environmental variation drive plant photosynthetic temperature tolerance? Annual Botany 2025 Conference; July 2025; Palm Springs, CA, USA. Oral presentation.
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Raut R., Hall D., Samuels A. L. Introducing PpLAC1: A putative Physcomitrium patens (moss) laccase homolog? UBC Botany Symposium; April 2024; Vancouver, BC, Canada. Oral presentation.
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Raut, R., Loesberg, J., Williams, J. Examining Fitness Variation in Annual Plant Plectritis congesta. Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference; March 2023; Vancouver, BC, Canada. Poster presentation.
Selected Honors and Awards
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Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council, Post-graduate scholarship – doctoral (NSERC PGSD) scholar, 2025
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Internship, 2024
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Canadian Horatio Alger Association fellow, 2020
Plant ecology, community assembly, modelling, network theory, sustainable restoration
