Dr. Chitra Bahadur Baniya: Reader. Dr. Baniya obtained his M.Sc. degree in Botany from Tribhuvan University in 1994, M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Quantitative Ecology and Biodiversity from Department of Biology, Bergen University, Norway in 2010. His major fields of interest are community ecology, gradient analysis, and statistical analysis through R. He has been involving in several research projects funded by national and international organizations. Dr. Baniya has supervised over a dozen M.Sc. Theses, supervising 1 Ph. D. and co-supervising 4 Ph.D. theses. He has published over two dozen papers in national and international journals/ publications. Email: cb.baniya@cdbtu.edu.np. cbbaniya@gmail.com