Dr. Kartik Shanker

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Education

  • Ph.D., Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science. 1998.
  • Thesis: “Community ecology of small mammals in montane ecosystems of the Upper Nilgiris, southern India”
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Research Interests

  • Biodiversity characterisation and conservation
  • Evolutionary biology of herpetofauna
  • Marine and coastal biology and conservation
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Experience

Projects

  • Molecular genetics of marine turtles on the mainland coast and islands of India
  • Marine turtle conservation along the coast of India: integrated and collaborative conservation programs
  • Marine and coastal policy and governance
  • Evolutionary biology and phylogeography of herpetofauna in the Western Ghats

Professional Record

  • Research Associate, Centre for Herpetology/ Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Tamil Nadu (2002-2003)
  • Project Associate, GOI - UNDP Sea Turtle Project, Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun. (2000-2002)
  • Research Associate, Marine Turtle Genetics project, Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun (1999 –2000)
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Select Publications

  • Shanker, K., Hiremath, A., Bawa, K. (2005) Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in India. PLOS Biology 3: 1878-1880.(Onscreen PDF) (Print PDF)
  • Oommen, M.A. & Shanker, K. (2005) Regional species richess patterns emerge from multiple local scale mechanisms in Himalayan plants. Ecology 86: 3039-3047. (PDF)
  • Shanker, K. & Choudhury, B.C. (2005) (Editors) Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent.Universities Press, Hyderabad, India.
  • 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 (PDF)
  • 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 (PDF)
  • Aggarwal, R.K., Velavan, T.P., Udaykumar, D., Hendre, P.S., Shanker, K. and Singh, L. (2004) Development and characterization of novel microsatellite markers from the olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) . Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 77-79 (PDF)
  • 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. (PDF)
  • Tripathy, B., Shanker, K. & Choudhury, B.C. (2003) Important nesting habitats of olive ridley turtles along the Andhra Pradesh coast of eastern India. Oryx 37: 454 – 463.(PDF)
  • Shanker, K. (2001) The role of competition and habitat in structuring small mammal communities in a tropical montane ecosytem in southern India. Journal of Zoology 253: 15 - 24
  • Shanker, K. (2000) Small mammal trapping in tropical montane forests of the Upper Nilgiris, southern India: an evaluation of Capture-Recapture models in estimating population size. Journal of Biosciences 25: 99-111.(PDF)
  • Shanker, K. & Sukumar, R. (1999) Synchrony in small mammal populations of montane forest patches in southern India. Journal of Animal Ecology 68: 50-59.(PDF)
  • Shanker, K. & Sukumar, R. (1998) Community structure and demography of small mammal populations in insular montane forests in southern India. Oecologia 116: 243-251.(PDF)

Manuals

  • Shanker, K., Choudhury, B.C. & Andrews, H.A. (2003) Sea turtle conservation: Beach Management and hatchery programmes. A GOI UNDP Project Manual. Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Tamil Nadu, India. (PDF)
  • Shanker, K., Pandav, B. & Andrews, H.A. (2003) Sea turtle conservation: Research and management techniques. A GOI UNDP Project Manual. Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Tamil Nadu, India. (PDF)
  • Shanker, K., Pandav, B. & Choudhury, B.C.(2003) Sea turtle conservation: Population Monitoring and Census. A GOI UNDP Project Manual. Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Tamil Nadu, India. (PDF)

Popular Articles (listed from 1999)

  • ‘Birth and Death: The Olive Ridleys in Orissa’ Sanctuary Asia, Vol 19, No. 3, 1999.
  • ‘The odyssey of the Olive Ridley’ Resonance. July 1999.
  • ‘Cool customers: herpetofauna of the Nilgiris’ Sanctuary Asia, April 2001.
  • ‘Solving the ridley riddle’ Sanctuary Asia, August 2001.
  • ‘Tracking turtles through time and space’ Resonance. June 2002.(PDF)
  • ‘Nilgiris: floral paradise’ Sanctuary Asia. October 2002. (PDF)
  • ‘Voyages of the Leatherback’ Sanctuary Asia, April 2003.
  • ‘Hidden treasures of the Nilgiris. Srishti, January 2003.
  • ‘What ails the ridley ?' The Hindu. June 8, 2003.
  • ‘The edge of the world’. Sanctuary Asia December, 2003..
  • ‘Seeking a brighter horizon’. Srishti, September 2003.
  • ‘Using wildlife: farming out the problem’. Down to Earth, August 31, 2003.
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Contact

kartik@atree.org

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