Kartik Shanker's Complete Publication List

On Sea Turtles

Edited volumes

• Shanker, K., Hiremath, A., Bawa, K. (2005) Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in India. PLOS Biology 3: 1878-1880.(Onscreen PDF) (Print PDF)
• Shanker, K. & Choudhury, B.C. (2005) (Editors) Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent.Universities Press, Hyderabad, India.
• Shanker, K. & Choudhury, B.C (2001) (Editors) Proceedings of the National Workshop for the Development of a National Sea Turtle Conservation Action Plan, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India.
• Shanker, K. (2003)(Series Editor) Manuals on sea turtle conservation. A GOI UNDP Sea Turtle Project. Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Tamil Nadu, India.

• Tripathy, B., Shanker, K. & Choudhury, B.C. (in press) The status of sea turtles and their habitats in the Lakshadweep archipelago, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
• 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. & Pilcher, N. (2003) Marine Turtle Conservation in South and Southeast Asia: Hopeless cause or Cause for Hope? Marine Turtle Newsletter 100: 43 – 51
• Pandav, B., Choudhury, B.C. & Shanker, K. (1998) The Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) in Orissa: an urgent call for an intensive and integrated conservation programme. Current Science 75: 1323-1328.

• Shanker, K. (2003) Conservation of olive ridley turtles in Madras: thirty years and counting. Herpinstance 1(1): 5-6
• Shanker, K. (2003) Thirty years of sea turtle conservation on the Madras coast: a review. Kachhapa 8: 16-19.(PDF)
• Andrews, H. & Shanker, K. (2002) A significant population of leatherback turtles in the Indian ocean. Kachhapa 6: 17
• Shanker, K. (2002) The swampland of sea turtle conservation: in search of a philosophy (Guest Editorial). Marine Turtle Newsletter 95: 3-6.
• Shanker, K. & Mohanty, B. (1999) Operation Kachhapa: In search of a solution for the Olive Ridleys of Orissa (Guest Editorial) Marine Turtle Newsletter 86: 1-3.
• Shanker, K., Pandav, B., & Choudhury, B.C. (1999) Olive Ridleys in Orissa: further comments. Current Science 76: 1522-1523.
• Shanker, K. (1994) Conservation of sea turtles on the Madras Coast. Marine Turtle Newsletter 64:3-6.

• Shanker, K. (in press) A quarter century of sea turtle conservation in India. In: Making Conservation Work (eds. G. Shahabuddin and M. Rangarajan). Permanent Black, New Delhi, India.
• Cornelius, S.E, Arauz, R., Fretey, J., Godfrey, M.H., Márquez-M, R. & Shanker, K. (in press) Effect of land-based harvest of Lepidochelys. In: Biology and Conservation of ridley turtles (eds. P. Plotkin and S. Morreale). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA.
• Frazier, J.G., Arauz, R., Márquez-M, R. & Shanker, K. (in press) Exploitation of Lepidochelys at sea. In: Biology and Conservation of ridley turtles (eds. P. Plotkin and S. Morreale). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA.

• 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)
• Choudhury, B.C., Pandav, B., Tripathy, B. & Andrews, H.A.(2003) Sea turtle conservation: Population Monitoring and Census. A GOI UNDP Project Manual. Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Tamil Nadu, India. (PDF)

Other

• Oommen, M.A. & Shanker, K. (2005) Regional species richess patterns emerge from multiple local scale mechanisms in Himalayan plants. Ecology 86: 3039-3047. (PDF)
• Dutta, S.K. , Vasudevan , K., Chaitra, M.S., Shanker, K., & Aggarwal, R.K. (2003) Jurassic frogs and the evolution of amphibian endemism in the Western Ghats. Current Science 86:211-216. (PDF)
• Chaitra, M.S., Vasudevan , K. and Shanker, K. (2004) The biodiversity bandwagon: the splitters have it. Current Science 86: 897 – 899. (PDF)

On Small Mammals

Research papers

• V. Meena, Shanker, K. and Sukumar, R. (in press) Small mammal communities in different habitats in Mudumalai, southern India. Mammalia
• Shanker, K. (2003) Small mammal communities in montane ecosystems in the Nilgiris, southern India: their ecology and natural history. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 100: 46 - 57.
• 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)
• Shanker, K. (in press) Metapopulation dynamics and landscape effects in small mammal populations in a montane ecosystem in southern India. Proc. National Wildlife Symposium, WII, Dehradun, India.

• Pradhan, M.S., Sharma, R.M. & Shanker, K. (1997) First record of Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew, Feroculus feroculus (Kelaart) from peninsular India. Mammalia, 61: 448-450.
• Shanker, K. (1996) Classifying the Kiwi. Current Science, 71: 6-8.

General Articles

• Shanker, K. (2004) Natal homing and mass nesting in olive ridleys. Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour (ed. Marc Bekoff). Greenwood Press, USA.

Book Reviews

• Shanker, K. (2003) Battles Over Nature. (Eds. V. Saberwal and M. Rangarajan). Seminar 530, October 2003: 71-73.
• Shanker (2003) Animal Behaviour Desk Reference (EM Barrrows). Marine Turtle Newsletter 99:
• Shanker, K (2001) Sea Turtles of the Indo Pacific. Research Management and Conservation (Eds N. Pilcher and G. Ismail). Marine Turtle Newsletter 94: 22-23.
• Shanker, K (2000) Indian Ocean: Images and Realities (SZ Qasim). Current Science 79: 662

• ‘Mosaic of the sholas on the Blue Mountains’. Times of India. September 1995.
• ‘Survival of the Ancient Mariners’. Times of India. October, 1995.
• ‘Selfish Altruism’. Times of India. November, 1995.
• ‘The Blue Ridge Mountains beckon’ . The Economic Times. January, 1996.
• ‘The Ancient Mariners’. Resonance. April, 1996.
• ‘Islands of Forests’ . Science Reporter. June, 1996.
• ‘Sholas and Grasslands’. Sanctuary Asia. Vol.16, No.2. 1996.
• ‘Secrets of the Shieldtails’. Resonance. August, 1996.
• A review of Salim Ali’s `Fall of a Sparrow’. Resonance. January 1997.
• ‘Decline of a Montane Ecosystem’ . Resonance. February 1997.
• ‘Will the meek inherit the earth?’ Resonance. May 1997.
• ‘Rodents of the Nilgiris’ Sanctuary Asia, Vol 17, No. 6, 1997.
• ‘Prisoners dilemma and other Games that animals play’ Resonance, February, 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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