Students
List of PhD students at ATREE
2006
- Bharath Sundaram (degree awarded): Patterns and processes of Lantana camara persistence in South Indian tropical dry forests. bharath@atree.org
- Ravi Ramalingam: Studies on insect community responses to habitat restoration efforts in tropical forests of Western Ghats. raviram@atree.org
- Vivek Ramachandran: Habitat structure and its effects on canopy bird and small mammal communities in a habitat matrix. vivekr@atree.org
2007
- Chetan H. C: Assessing the ecological processes in abandoned tea plantations and its implication for ecological restoration in the Western Ghats, India. chetan@atree.org
- Rajkamal Goswami: Hunting in protected and other forests of Northeast India and its implications on primate conservation. rajkamal@atree.org
- Savitha Swamy: Reshaping neighbourhood parks for biodiversity and people: A study on pocket green spaces in Bengaluru, India. savitha@atree.org
- Kavitha B (part-time): Microbial diversity of earthworm burrow wall. bkavinair@gmail.com
2008
- Anand Gazmer: Response of socio-ecological systems to climate change in temperate and sub-alpine zones of Darjeeling Himalaya. anand.gazmer@atree.org
- Arundhati Das: Potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity of the Western Ghats, India. arundhati.das@atree.org
- Dritiman Das: Diversity and assembly of a sub-tropical grassland community in Eastern Himalaya. dhritiman.das@atree.org
- Paramesha M: A study on functionality and conservation of wildlife corridors in the Mysore-Nilgiri landscape of Western Ghats, India. paramesh@atree.org
- Somajita Paul: Mapping the impact of urbanization on green spaces: The human drivers of land use/land cover change in Delhi. somajita@atree.org
2009
- Amit John Kurien: Causes and consequences of landscape change in shifting cultivation areas of Garo hills in Meghalaya in the Northeast India. Amit.Kurien@atree.org
- Anirban Datta Roy: Local hunting in Upper Siang, Arunachal Pradesh, India: Cultural, ecological and regulatory factors . Anirban@atree.org
- Aniruddha Pravin Marathe: Species richness and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) along an elevation gradient in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Aniruddha.Marathe@atree.org
- Barkha Subba: Distribution and community composition of high altitude amphibians: Conservation implications for Sikkim, Eastern Himalayas. Barkha.Subba@atree.org
- Chandrima Home: Plant-animal interactions, ecology and conservation of small mammals in human dominated/human altered landscapes. Chandrima.Home@atree.org
- Madhura Niphadkar: Mapping invasive species Lantana camara and Chromolaena odorata in high diversity tropical ecosystems of Western Ghats, India. madhura.niphadkar@atree.org
- Radhika Kanade: Assembly of woody plant communities in species-rich forests of the Sikkim Himalaya: An evaluation based on plant functional traits. Radhika.Kanade@atree.org
- Urbashi Pradhan: Ecosystem services and goods provisioned by fragmented forest landscape in a matrix of orange orchards in Sikkim Himalayas, India. Urbashi.Pradhan@atree.org
- Vidyadhar Atkore: Drivers of fish diversity and turnover across multiple spatial scales: Implications for conservation in the Western Ghats, India. vidyadhar.atkore@atree.org
2011
- Hita Unnikrishnan: The changing nature of ecological and social vulnerabilities within the context of an urban lake social–ecological system in India. hita.unnikrishnan@atree.org
- Madhuri Ramesh: Conservation practice, non-equilibrium environments and marine turtles, using insights from ecology, conservation history, anthropology and geography. madhuri.ramesh@atree.org
- Madhushree Munsi: To prioritize freshwater habitats for conservation of biodiversity at national, regional and local level. madhushree@atree.org
- Ovee H Thorat: Process of landscape change with a special focus on arid and semi-arid systems. ovee.thorat@atree.org
- Poorna Balaji: Effect of transnational bauxite mining corporations and other trans-local conservation entities on landscape transformation in Orissa. poorna.balaji@atree.org
- Ronita Mukherjee: Understanding the interplay of ecological and socio-economic dynamics in peri-urban areas to address the question of sustainable eco-friendly practices, a crucial node for effective conservation measures. ronita.mukherjee@atree.org
- Sandeep Sen: Revisiting the history of Piper nigrum L: A combined molecular and historical approach. sandeep.sen@atree.org
- Venkat R. Ramani: Postcolonial change in the adivasi-dominated region of eastern Madhya Pradesh. venkat.ramanujam@atree.org
- Vikram Aditya: Effects of forest fragmentation and degradation on species distribution and diversity patterns. vikram.aditya@atree.org
Self financed/Project based students
- Girijan Gopi: Evaluating land use change in production landscapes: A comparative study of rice and banana cultivation in Wayanad, Kerala. girigangopi@yahoo.co.uk
- Manish Kumar: Understanding the interactions between vegetation and hydrology in the Sikkim Himalayas. manish.kumar@atree.org
- Manjila Sharma: Eco-hydrology, elevational and seasonal changes in vegetation of Sikkim Himalayas. Manjila.sharma@atree.org
- Priti Gururaja: Ecology and conservation genetics of anurans in Myristica swamps of the Central Western Ghats. priti.hebbar@gmail.com
- Shivani Agarwal: Impact of institutions on land cover change and landscape fragmentation in Indian dry tropical forest landscapes. shivani.2909@gmail.com
- Shweta Basnett: Understand the main drivers that govern the flowering pattern and their impact on reproductive biology of Rhododendron species. shweta.basnett@atree.org
- Yangchenla Bhutia: Understanding the spatial pattern of family Fagaceae in Sikkim Himalayas, an approach based on suite of plant functional trait and their phylogenetic relatedness. yangchenla.bhutia@atree.org