Scientific publications

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2023
  • Srivathsa, A., Ramachandran, V., Saravanan, P., Sureshbabu, A., Ganguly, D., Ramakrishnan, U. (2023) Topcats and underdogs: Intraguild interactions among three apex carnivores across Asia’s forestscapes. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.1111/brv.12998
  • Puri, M., Srivathsa, A., Karanth, K. K., Patel, I., Kumar, N. S. (2023) Safe space in the woods: Mechanistic spatial models for predicting risks of human–bear conflicts in India. Biotropica. doi: 10.1111/btp.13204​
  • Srivathsa, A., Vasudev, D., Nair, T., Chakrabarti, S., Chanchani, P., DeFries, R., Deomurari, A., Dutta, S., Ghose, D., Goswami, V.R., Nayak, R., Neelakantan, A., Thatte, P., Vaidyanathan, S., Verma, M., Krishnaswamy, J., Sankaran, M., Ramakrishnan, U. (2023) Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Nature Sustainability. doi: 10.1038/s41893-023-01063-2

2022
  • Srivathsa, A., Banerjee, A., Banerjee, S., Chawla, M.M., Das, A., Ganguly, D., Rodrigues, R.G., Adhya, T., Bhatia, S., Kshettry, A., Majgaonkar, I., Punjabi, G.A., Puri, M., Singh, P., Surve, N. (2022) Chasms in charismatic species research: Seventy years of carnivore science and its implications for conservation and policy in India. Biological Conservation. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109694
  • Punjabi G.A., Havmøller, L.W., Havmøller, R.W., Ngoprasert, D., Srivathsa, A. (2022) Methodological approaches for estimating populations of the endangered dhole Cuon alpinus. PeerJ, 10:e12905.
  • Puri, M., Srivathsa, A., Karanth, K.K., Patel, I., Kumar, N.S. (2022) Links in a sink: Interplay between habitat structure, ecological constraints and interactions with humans can influence connectivity conservation for tigers in forest corridors. Science of the Total Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151106.

2021​
  • Rodrigues, R.G., Srivathsa, A., Vasudev, V. (2021) Dog in the matrix: Envisioning countrywide connectivity conservation for an endangered carnivore. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14048  
  • Polyakov, A. Y., Tietje, W. D., Srivathsa, A., Rolland, V., Hines, J. E., Oli, M. K. (2021) Multiple coping strategies maintain stability of a small mammal population in a resource-restricted environment. Ecology and Evolution. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7997.
  • Chauhan, K., Srivathsa, A., Athreya, V. (2021) Assessing spatio-temporal patterns of human-leopard interactions based on media reports in northwestern India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 13(6): 18453–18478.
  • Srivathsa, A., Rodrigues, R.G., Toh, K.B., Taylor, R.W., Zachariah, A., Oli, M.K., Ramakrishnan, U. (2021) The truth about scats and dogs: Next-generation sequencing and spatial capture–recapture models offer opportunities for conservation monitoring of an endangered social canid. Biological Conservation, 256, 109028. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109028.

2020​
  • Srivathsa, A., Sharma, S., Singh, P., Punjabi, G.A., Oli, M.K. (2020). A strategic road map for conserving the endangered dhole Cuon alpinus in India. Mammal Review. doi: 10.1111/mam.12209.
  • Chawla, M.M., Srivathsa, A., Singh, P., Majgaonkar, I., Sharma, S., Punjabi, G.A., Banerjee, A. (2020) Do wildlife crimes against less charismatic species go unnoticed? A case study of Golden Jackal Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758 poaching and trade in India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 12(4): 15407–15413.
  • Srivathsa, A., Majgaonkar, I., Sharma, S., Punjabi, G.A., Singh, P., Chawla, M.M., Banerjee, A. (2020) Opportunities for prioritizing and expanding conservation enterprise in India using a guild of carnivores as flagships. Environmental Research Letters, 15: 064009. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab7e50.
  • Srivathsa, A., Sharma, S., Oli, M.K. (2020) Every dog has its prey: Range-wide assessment of links between diet patterns, livestock depredation, and human interactions for an endangered carnivore. Science of the Total Environment, 714: 136798. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136798.

2019
  • Puri, M., Srivathsa, A., Karanth, K.K., Patel, I., Kumar, N.S. (2019) The balancing act: Maintaining leopard–wild prey equilibrium could offer economic benefits to people in a shared forest landscape of central India. Ecological Indicators, 110: 105931. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105931. 
  • Singh, P., Srivathsa, A., Macdonald, D.W. (2019) Conservation status of the dhole Cuon alpinus in north-east India, with a focus on Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram. Oryx, 1–5. doi: 10.1017/S0030605319000255.
  • Srivathsa, A., Puri, M., Karanth, K.K., Patel, I., Kumar, N.S. (2019) Examining human–carnivore interactions using a socio-ecological framework: Sympatric wild canids in India as a case study. Royal Society Open Science, 6: 182008.
  • Majgaonkar, I., Vaidyanathan, V., Srivathsa, A., Shivakumar, S., Limaye, S., Athreya, V. (2019) Land-sharing potential of large carnivores in human-modified landscapes of western India. Conservation Science and Practice, 1(5): e34.
  • Srivathsa, A., Karanth, K.U., Kumar, N.S., Oli, M.K. (2019) Insights from distribution dynamics inform strategies to conserve a dhole Cuon alpinus metapopulation in India. Scientific Reports, 9(3081): 1–12.
  • Srivathsa, A., Tietje, W., Rolland, V., Polyakov, A., Oli, M.K. (2019) Climatic drivers of pinyon mouse Peromyscus truei population dynamics in a resource-restricted environment. Population Ecology, 61: 122–131. 

2018
  • Srivathsa, A., Puri, M., Kumar, N.S., Jathanna, D., Karanth, K.U. (2018) Substituting space for time: Empirical evaluation of spatial replication as a surrogate for temporal replication in occupancy modelling. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55: 754–765.

2017
  • Panthi, S., Khanal, G., Acharya, K.P., Aryal, A., Srivathsa, A. (2017) Large anthropogenic impacts on a charismatic small carnivore: Insights from distribution surveys of red panda Ailurus fulgens in Nepal. PloS One, 12(7): e0180978. 
  • Punjabi, G.A., Edgaonkar, A., Srivathsa, A., Ashtaputre, S., Rao, M.K. (2017) Distribution of the dhole in its northern range limits in the Western Ghats, India. Canid Biology & Conservation, 20(3): 7–13.
  • Dey, S., Delampady, M., Parameshwaran, R., Kumar, N.S., Srivathsa, A., Karanth, K.U. (2017) Bayesian methods for estimating animal abundance at large spatial scales using data from multiple sources. Journal of Agricultural, Biological & Environmental Statistics, 22: 111–139.
  • Karanth, K.U., Srivathsa, A., Vasudev, D., Puri, M., Parameshwaran, R., Kumar, N.S. (2017) Spatio-temporal interactions facilitate large carnivore sympatry across a resource gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society: B, 284: 20161860. 
  • Srivathsa, A., Kumar, N.S., Karanth, K.U. (2017) Home-range size of the dhole Cuon alpinus estimated from camera-trap surveys. Canid Biology & Conservation, 20(1): 1–4.

2016
  • Karanth, K.K., Sankararaman, V., Dalvi, S., Srivathsa, A., Parameshwaran, R., Sharma, S., Robbins, P., Chhatre, A. (2016) Producing diversity: Agroforests sustain avian richness and abundance in India's Western Ghats. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4: 111. 
  • Duangchantrasiri, S., Umponjan, M., Simcharoen, S., Pattanavibool, A., Chaiwattana, S., Maneerat, S., Kumar, N.S., Jathanna, D., Srivathsa, A., Karanth, K.U. (2016) Dynamics of a low-density source population of tigers in Southeast Asia in the context of improved law enforcement. Conservation Biology, 30: 639–648. 

2015
  • Athreya, V., Srivathsa, A., Puri, M., Karanth, K.K., Kumar, N.S., Karanth, K.U. (2015) Spotted in the news: Using media reports to examine leopard distribution, depredation and management practices outside protected areas in southern India. PLoS One, 10(11): e0142647. 
  • Srivathsa, A., Parameshwaran, R., Sharma, S., Karanth, K.U. (2015) Estimating population sizes of leopard cats in the Western Ghats using camera surveys. Journal of Mammalogy, 96(4): 742–750.
  • Puri, M., Srivathsa, A., Karanth, K.K., Kumar, N.S., Karanth, K.U. (2015) Multiscale distribution models for conserving widespread species: The case of sloth bear Melursus ursinus in India. Diversity and Distributions, 21: 1087–1100. 

2014
  • Srivathsa, A., Karanth, K.K., Jathanna, D., Kumar, N.S., Karanth, K.U. (2014) On a dhole trail: Examining ecological and anthropogenic correlates of dhole habitat occupancy in the Western Ghats of India. PLoS One, 9(6): e98803. 

2012
  • Srivathsa, A., Mathew, J. (2012) Thomas Caverhill Jerdon. Current Conservation, 6(3): 20–21.
  • Karanth, K.K., DeFries, R., Srivathsa, A., Sankaraman, V. (2012) Wildlife tourists in India’s emerging economy: Potential for a conservation constituency? Oryx, 46: 382-390.

2011
  • Katdare, S., Srivathsa, A., Joshi, A., Panke, P., Pande, R., Khandal, D., Everard, M. (2011) Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) populations and human influences on habitat on the River Chambal, India. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 21: 364–371.