Journal Articles

Year Citation
2022 Gupta, T., Warde, K. , Rao, C. and M. Muralidharan. August, 2022. Composition and biology of elasmobranchs in the shore seine catches of Malvan, Maharashtra. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.
2022 Kottillil, S., Gupta, T., Muralidharan, M., Rao, C. and K. Shanker. July, 2022. Post Capture Survival Rate of Bamboo Sharks, Chiloscyllium arabicum and Chiloscyllium griseum, in Malvan, in Maharashtra. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.
2022 Poti, M., Huge, J., Shanker, K., Koedam, N. and F. Dahdouh-Guebas. July, 2022. Learning from small islands in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO): a systematic review of responses to environmental change. Ocean and Coastal Management.
2022 de Hoop, E., Sridhar, A., da Silva, C.M., & van der Vleuten, E. June, 2022. Historicising Entanglements: Science, Technology and Socio-Ecological Change in the Postcolonial Anthropocene.Global Environment.
2022 Kale, N., Manoharakrishnan, M., Bharti, D.K., Poti, M. and K. Shanker. May, 2022.  The island hoppers: how foraging influences green turtle Chelonia mydas abundance over space and time in the Lakshadweep Archipelago, India. Endangered Species Research.
2022 Vattakaven, T., Barve, V., Ramaswami, G., Singh, P., Jagannathan, S., and Dhandapani, B. April, 2022. Best Practices for Data Management in Citizen Science – An Indian Outlook. Biodiversity Informatics 17: 27-49
2022 Jaini, M., Horo, J. and N. Namboothri. April, 2022. Incidental sightings and local ecological knowledge on Cardisoma carnifex (Herbst,1796) from the Andaman Islands. Journal of Marine Biological Association of India.
2022 Tilley, A., Song, A.M., Menon, A., Cohen, P.J., and M. Manuel. January, 2022. Emerging Information and Communication Technologies for Monitoring India’s Marine Small-Scale Fisheries, Opportunities for Inclusion, Risks of Exclusion. Journal of the Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research.
2022 Theo, A.H. and K. Shanker. January, 2022. Composition and behaviour of mixed-species foraging groups of reef fish in the Lakshadweep Islands, India. Bulletin of Marine Science.
2021 Rudd, L.F., Allred, S., Bright Ross, J.G., Hare, D., Nkomo, M.N., Shanker, K., Allen, T., Biggs, D., Dickman, A., Dunaway, M. and Ghosh, R., November, 2021. Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1962)
2021 Dsouza, S. and C. Rao. September, 2021. Demographics and reproductive biology of Hydrophis schistosus may make it more resilient to bycatch effects than other sea snakes. Regional Studies in Marine Science.
2021 Oommen, M.A. and K. Shanker. August, 2021. Signals from the Hunt: Widening the Spectrum on Male Pursuits of Dangerous Animals. Journal of Anthropological Research.
2021 Dsouza, S., Rao, C., Muralidharan, M. and K. Shanker. August, 2021. Resource use and the impacts of fisheries on two sympatric sea snake species on the west coast of India. Marine Biology 168:146
2021 Sridhar, A. August, 2021. Dignifying ‘Indian’ Environmentalism. Seminar 744
2021 Oommen, M.A., July, 2021. Beasts in the garden: human-wildlife coexistence in India’s past and present. Frontiers in Conservation Science
2021 Rao, C., Dsouza, S., Gupta, T., Muralidharan, M. and A.S. Lobo. July, 2021. Fisheries induced shift in sea snake community assemblages along the Konkan coast, India. Aquatic Conservation.
2021 Pusapati, C., M. Muralidharan, A.D. Phillott, and K. Shanker. June, 2021. Effect of Hatchery Nest Environment on Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) Hatchling Performance.Chelonian Conservation and Biology 20(1), 60-70.
2021 Shanker, K. and Oommen, M.A. 2021. The authoritarian biologist reloaded and deep ecology redux: conservation imperialism and the control of knowledge, money and space. A functioning anarchy? Essays for Ramachandra Guha, pp.37-54.
2021 Shanker, K. and Oommen, M.A. 2021. India’s strategies for conservation and sustainability. India’s Marathon : Reshaping the post-pandemic world order, pp.261-277.
2020 Goodale, E., H. Sridhar, K.E. Sieving, P. Bangal, G.J. Colorado, D.R. Farine, E.W. Heymann,H.H. Jones, I. Krams, A.E. Martínez, F. Montaño-Centellas, J. Muñoz, U. Srinivasan, A.Theo and K. Shanker (2020) Mixed company: A framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed-species animal groups. Biological Reviews.
2020 Gupta, T., Booth, H., Arlidge, W., Rao, C., Manoharakrishnan, M., Namboothri, N., Shanker, K. and Milner-Gulland, E. 2020. Mitigation of elasmobranch bycatch in trawlers: A case study in Indian fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science.
2020 Stelfox, M.R., A. Burian, K. Shanker, A.F. Rees, C. Jean, M.S. Willson, N.A. Manik and M.Sweet (2020) Tracing the origin of olive ridley turtles entangled in ghost nets in the Maldives: a phylogeographic assessment of populations at risk. Biological Conservation.
2020 Oommen, M.A. July, 2020. Colonial pig-sticking, imperial agendas and natural history in the Indian subcontinent.The Historical Journal 64(3): 626-649..
2019 Bali, A. and Shanker, K. (2019) Hunting stories and shady tales: the impact of legislation on wildlife conservation and tree preservation in a human dominated landscape in the Western Ghats, India. In: Wildlife Conservation in India: from policy to practice (Eds. Ghazala Shahabuddin and K. Sivaramakrishnan). Orient Blackswan publishers.
2019 Oommen, M.A., Cooney, R., Ramesh, M., Archer, M., Brockington, D., Buscher, B., Fletcher, R., Natusch, D.J., Vanak, A.T., Webb, G., and Shanker, K. The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation.Conservation Biology. Issue 33
2019 Gupta, T, M Manuel, M Manoharakrishnan, N Namboothri, and K Shanker. 2019. Conservation and Livelihood Implications of Trawler Bycatch: Towards Improved Management. The Journal of Governance. January: 55–63.
2019 Oommen, M. A. and Ramesh, M. 2019. Tides of change in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Ecology, Economy and Society—the INSEE Journal 2(1): 145-149.
2018 Ramesh, M. and N. Namboothri. 2018. Maximum sustainable yield: a myth and its manifold effects. Economic and Political Weekly LIII(41): 58-63.
2018 Jojan, A., S. Dsouza, P. Mukerjee, C. Rao and K. Shanker. 2018. Critiquing Narrow Critiques of Convention on Biological Diversity. Economic and Policitcal Weekly Vol: 53 No.44 November 2018
2018 Oommen, M.A. In press. The elephant in the room: histories of place, memory and conflict with wildlife along a southern Indian forest fringe. Environment and History.
2017 Oommen, M.A. 2017. Famine and elephants: remembering place-making along a southern Indian forest fringe. In: Telling Environmental Histories: Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment (Eds. K. Holmes and H. Goodall), Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Palgrave Macmillan pp.241-266.
2017  Shanker, K., S. Krishnan and M. Manuel. 2017. Deconstructing the south: the politics of conservation in India. In: The anthropology of Conservation NGOs: rethinking the boundaries (Eds. P.B. Larsen and D. Brockington). Palgrave pp. 267-273.
2017  Shanker, K., M.A. Oommen and N. Rai. 2017. Changing natures: a democratic and dynamic approach to biodiversity conservation. In: India Futures (Eds. A. Kothari and K.J. Joy). Kalpavriksh.
2017 Buscher, B. R. Fletcher, D. Brockington, C. Sandbrook, W.M. Adams, L. Campbell, C. Corson, W. Dressler, R. Duffy, N. Gray, G. Holmes, A. Kelly, E. Lunstrum, M. Ramutsindela and K. Shanker. 2017. Half Earth or Whole Earth: radical ideas for conservation and their implications. Oryx 51: 407-410 .
2017 Jaini, M., S. Advani, K. Shanker, M.A. Oommen and N. Namboothri. 2017. Worlds apart: How history, culture, infrastructure and export markets shape fisheries in India’s oceanic islands. Environmental Conservation 45: 41-48
2017 Oommen, M.A. 2017. Friction along the fringe. Seminar Special Issue: Nature’s Present: Dilemmas, Conflicts, Opportunities (Eds. M. Rangarajan et al.). Seminar.
2016 Rees, A. et al. including K. Shanker. 2016. Are we working towards global research priorities for management and conservation of sea turtles? Endangered Species Research. 31: 337–382.
2015 Nel, R., K. Shanker and G. Hughes. 2015. Leatherbacks in the Indian Ocean. In: Biology of leatherback turtles (Eds. J.R. Spotila et al.). Johns Hopkins Press, USA.
2014 John, S., A. Jagadish, R. Bhatta, and A. Sridhar. 2014. The State of Subsidies: Small-scale Fisher Perceptions on Subsidies in Karnataka, India. Asian Fisheries Science, 27, 45-60.
2014 Mukherjee, N., K. Shanker, N. Koedam and F. Dahdouh-Guebas. 2014. Governance of coastal plantations in southern India: long term ecological vision or short-term economic opportunity. Acta Oecologica. 57:49.
2012 Shanker, K., N. Namboothri and BC Choudhury. 2012. Marine turtles in India: Research and conservation. In: Coral Reefs in India: status, threats and conservation measures (Eds. J.R. Bhatt, J.K. Patterson Edward, D.J. Macintosh and B.P. Nilaratna). Mangroves for the Future-India. IUCN
2012 Oommen, M. A. 2012. Treeshrews of south Asia. In: Mammals of South Asia (Eds. A.J.T Johnsingh and N. Manjrekar). Universities Press & Orient Longman. 1:615
2010 Feagin, R.A., N. Mukherjee, K. Shanker, A.H. Baird, J. Cinner, A.M. Kerr, N. Koedam, A. Sridhar, R. Arthur, L.P. Jayatissa, D.L. Seen, M. Menon, S. Rodriguez, M. Shamsuddoha and F. Dahdouh-Guebas. 2010. Shelter from the storm? The use and misuse of coastal vegetation bioshields for managing natural disasters. Conservation Letters 3: 1-11.
2010 Oommen, M. A. and K. Shanker. 2010. Shrewd alliances: Context dependant foraging associations between treeshrews, greater racket-tailed drongos and sparrowhawks on Great Nicobar Island. Biology Letters 6(3):304-307.
2010  Mukherjee, N., F. Dahdouh-Guebas, V. Kapoor, R. Arthur, N. Koedam, A. Sridhar & K. Shanker. 2010. From bathymetry to bioshields: a review of post tsunami ecological research on India and its implications for policy. Environmental Management 46(3): 329-339.
2009  Mukherjee, N., B. Muthuraman and K. Shanker. 2009. 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 pp: 131 – 144. 
2008 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.
2008 Carter, J.G., T McDowell and N. Namboodiri. 2008. The Identity of Gastrochaena cuneiformis Spengler, 1783, and the Evolution of Gastrochaena, Rocellaria and Lamychaena (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Gastrochaenoidea). Journal of Palaentology 82(1): 102-117.
2015 Namboothri, N., A. Swaminathan and K. Shanker. 2015. Olive ridley mass nesting at Cuthbert Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Middle Andaman Island. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 21: 7-9.
2015 Nel, R., K. Shanker and G. Hughes. 2015. Leatherbacks in the Indian Ocean. Biology of leatherback turtles (eds. J.R. Spotila et al.). Johns Hopkins Press, USA.
2014 Oommen, M.A. and A. Sridhar. 2014. A place for knowledge: tracing natural resource governance from the late colonial to contemporary India. In, Representing Knowledge: LEK and Natural Resource Governance in India. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Dakshin Foundation. 192 pages.
2014 Sridhar, H. and K. Shanker (2014) Importance of intraspecifically gregarious species in heterospecific foraging associations in a tropical bird community. Oecologia 176:763-770.
2014 Mukherjee, N., K. Shanker, N. Koedam & F. Dahdouh-Guebas (2014) Governance of coastal plantations in southern India: long term ecological vision or short term economic opportunity? Acta Oecologica.
2014 Shanker, K. 2014. Warm turtle in cold waters: the leatherback’s journey. Nature Chronicles of India: Essays on Wildlife (edited by Ananda Bannerjee). Rupa Publications, New Delhi. India.
2014 John, S., A. Jagadish, R. Bhatta and A. Sridhar. 2014. The state of subsidies: Small-scale fisher perceptions on subsidies in Karnataka, India. Asian Fisheries Science 27 45-60.
2013 Advani, S. et al. and M. A. Oommen. 2013. Marine Fisheries in the Andaman Islands: An Account of their Emergence and Transformation. Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore and Andaman Nicobar Environment Team, Port Blair.
2013 Oommen, M.A. and M. Adams (eds.) 2013. Special Issue on Indigenous Knowledge, Current Conservation 7(1):32-35.
2013 Samuel, D.K.V., T. Anbalagan, M. Nithyanandan and N. Namboothri. 2013. Watering Pot Shell, Brechites penis (Linnaeus, 1758), a new record to India (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata). Journal of Threatened Taxa. 5 (12).
2013 Shanker, K. and M.H. Godfrey. 2013. A deep diving olive ridley in the Bay of Bengal. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 18: 16-17.
2013 Shanker, K. 2013. Leatherback turtles on the mainland coast of India. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 17: 15-17.
2012 Oommen, M. A. 2012. Treeshrews of south Asia. In: Mammals of South Asia (Eds. A.J.T Johnsingh and N. Manjrekar). Universities Press & Orient Longman.
2012 Shanker, K., N. Namboothri and BC Choudhury (2012) Marine turtles in India: Research and conservation. In: Coral Reefs in India: status, threats and conservation measures (Eds. JR Bhatt, JK Patterson Edward, DJ Macintosh and BP Nilaratna). Mangroves for the Future-India, IUCN.
2012 Namboothri, N., A. Swaminathan and K. Shanker. 2012. A compilation of data from Satish Bhaskar’s sea turtle surveys of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 16: 4-13.
2012 Shanker, K. and N. Namboothri. 2012. Sea turtle surveys and research in the Andamans and Nicobar Islands. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 16: 1-3.
2012 Namboothri, N., A. Swaminathan and K. Shanker. 2012. Post-nesting migratory routes of Leatherback Turtles from Little Andaman Island. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 16: 21-23.
2012 Shanker, K. and Schauble, C. 2012. How it all started. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 15: 1.
2012 Namboothri, N. and S. A. Fernando. 2012. Intertidal distribution of the coral-boring barnacle Lithotrya nicobarica Reinhardt, 1850 in the Great Nicobar Island. In K. Venkataraman, C. Raghunathan and C. Sivaperuman (eds) Ecology of Faunal Communities on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 49-58.
2012 Namboothri, N. and S. A. Fernando. 2012. Coral boring fauna of the Great Nicobar Island. In K. Venkataraman, C. Raghunathan andC. Sivaperuman (eds) Ecology of Faunal Communities on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 59-70.
2012 Shanker, K., N. Namboothri and B. C Choudhury. 2012. Marine turtles in India: Research and conservation. Coral Reefs in India: status, threats and conservation measures (Eds. JR Bhatt, JK Patterson Edward, DJ Macintosh and BP Nilaratna). Mangroves for the Future-India, IUCN.
2011 Fatima, E., H. Andrews, S. John and K. Shanker. 2011. Status of Marine Turtles in Cuthbert Bay, Middle Andaman Islands. Marine Turtle Newsletter 130: 6-9.
2011 Swaminathan, A., N. Namboothri and K. Shanker. 2011. Post-tsunami status of leatherback turtles on Little Andaman Island. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 14: 5-9.
2011 Shanker, K., N. Namboothri and A. Swaminathan. 2011. Tracking the voyage of the leatherback: the research programme in the Andaman Islands. Survey of the Environment 2010: 79-82.
2010 Hamann, M. et al. (including K. Shanker) (2010) Priorities for research to inform effective sea turtle conservation. Endangered Species Research 11:245-269
2010 Shanker, K. 2010. The endangered world of sea turtles. Survey of the Environment 2010: 42-45.
2010 Shanker, K. 2010. Special profile: Satish Bhaskar. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 12: 23.
2010 Shanker, K. and J. Lenin. 2010. Satish Bhaskar’s publications and surveys. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 12: 29-32.
2010 Sridhar, A. 2010. Globalisation, the state and coastal space: Of games and rules. Urmilesh (Ed) Udharikaran aur Vikash ka Sach (Hindi), Anamika Publishing and Distribution Limited. New Delhi.
2010 Feagin, R.A., N. Mukherjee, K. Shanker, A.H. Baird, J. Cinner, A.M. Kerr, N. Koedam, A. Sridhar, R. Arthur, L.P. Jayatissa, D.L. Seen, M. Menon, S. Rodriguez, M. Shamsuddoha & F. Dahdouh-Guebas. 2010. Shelter from the storm? The use and misuse of coastal vegetation bioshields for managing natural disasters.Conservation Letters, 3:1 – 11.
2010 Mukherjee. N., F. Dahdouh-Guebas, V. Kapoor, R. Arthur, N. Koedam, A. Sridhar & K. Shanker. 2010. From bathymetry to bioshields: A review of post tsunami ecological research on India and its implications for policy.Environmental Management
2010 Oommen, M.A. & K. Shanker. 2010. Shrewd alliances: mixed foraging associations between treeshrews, greater racket tailed drongos and sparrowhawks on Great Nicobar Islands, India. Biology Letters, (6), 304-307.
2010 Oommen, M.A. & K. Shanker. 2008. Ecology and behaviour of an endemic tree shrew (Tupaia nicobarica Zelebor 1869) on Great Nicobar Island, India.Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 105(1), 55-63.
2009 Karnad, D., K. Isvaran, C.S. Kar and K. Shanker (2009) Lighting the way: reducing the impact of light on misorientation of olive ridley turtle hatchlings at Rushikulya, India. Biological Conservation 142: 2083 – 2088.
2009 Berlie T., A. Mohan, N. Namboothri and K. Shanker. 2009. Patterns in distribution of intertidal sandy shore megafauna along the Tamil Nadu coast. (In Prep).
2009 Mohan A., T. Berlie, N. Namboothri and K. Shanker. 2009. Diversity and distribution patterns of intertidal sandy shore macrofauna along the Tamil Nadu coast. (In Prep).
2009 Shanker, K. 2009. Ridleys in Orissa: Another reply to Mohanty Hejmadi. Marine Turtle Newsletter 126: 20.
2009 Shanker, K., J. Lenin and A. Fernandez. 2009. Peeling the onion: the politics of conservation and corporations at a sea turtle nesting beach. Survey of the Environment 2009: 96-99.
2008 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 356: 52-68.
2008 Carter, J. G., T. McDowell and N. Namboodiri. 2008. The Identity of Gastrochaena cuneiformis Spengler, 1783, and the Evolution of Gastrochaena, Rocellaria and Lamychaena (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Gastrochaenoidea). Journal of Palaeontology. 82 (1): 102-117.