Recent Select Papers

Seminoff, J.A. and K. Shanker (2008) Marine turtles and IUCN Red Listing: a review of the process, pitfalls and novel assessment approaches. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Oommen, M.A. and K. Shanker. 2008. Ecology and behaviour of an endemic treeshrew (Tupaia nicobarica Zelebor, 1869) on Great Nicobar Island, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 105(1):55-63.

Mukherjee, N., B. Muthuraman and K. Shanker (in press) Bioshields and ecological restoration in tsunami affected areas in India. In: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (eds. E. Dahl, E. Moskness and J. Stottrup). Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

Shanker, K. (2007) Deconstructing sea turtle conservation in India. In: Making Conservation Work  (eds. G. Shahabuddin and M. Rangarajan), pp. 89-110. Permanent Black, New Delhi, India.

Madhusudhan, M.D., K. Shanker et al. (2006) Science in the wilderness: the predicament of scientific research in India’s wildlife reserves. Current Science 91: 1015 – 1019.

Shanker, K., Hiremath, A., Bawa, K. (2005) Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in India. PLOS Biology 3: 1878-1880.

Oommen, M.A. and Shanker, K. 2005. Regional species richness patterns emerge from multiple local scale mechanisms in Himalayan plants. Ecology 86:3039–3047.

Shanker, K. & Kutty, R. (2005) Sailing the flagship fantastic: myth and reality of sea turtle conservation in India. Maritime Studies 3(2) and 4(1): 213-240.

Shanker, K., Aggarwal, R.K, Rama Devi, J., Choudhury, B.C. & Singh, L. (2004) Phylogeography of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) on the east coast of India: implications for conservation theory. Molecular Ecology.

Shanker, K., Pandav, B. & Choudhury, B.C. (2004) An assessment of the olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting population in Orissa, India. Biological Conservation 115: 149 – 160.