2006-7 annual report - Nature Conservation Foundation

Peer-reviewed publications
1. Arthur, R., Done, T. J., Marsh, H. & Harriott, V. 2006. Local processes strongly influence post-bleaching benthic
recovery in the Lakshadweep Islands. Coral Reefs 25:427-44.
2. Bhatnagar, Y. V., Wangchuk, R., Mishra, C., Prins, H. H. T., & Van Wieren, S. E. 2006. Perceived conflicts between
pastoralism and conservation of the kiang Equus kiang in the Ladakh Trans-Himalaya, India. Environment
Management. 38:934–941.
3. Bhatnagar, Y. V., Wangchuk, R. & Mishra, C. 2006. Decline of the Tibetan gazelle in Ladakh, India. Oryx. 40:
229-232.
4. Bagchi, S. & Mishra, C. 2006. Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard ( Uncia
uncia). Journal of Zoology. 268: 217–224.
5. Chakraborty, D., Ramakrishnan, U., Panor, J., Mishra, C., & Sinha, A. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships and
morphometric affinities of the Arunachal macaque Macaca munzala, a newly described primate from Arunachal
Pradesh, northeastern India. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44: 838–849.
6. Datta, A. & Goyal, S. P. (in press). Responses of diurnal tree squirrels to selective logging in western Arunachal
Pradesh. Current Science.
7. Goswami, V. R., Madhusudan, M. D. & Karanth, K. U. (2007). Application of photographic capture-recapture
modelling to estimate demographic parameters for male Asian elephants. Animal Conservation 10:
391-399
8. Kapoor, V. (in press). Effects of rainforest fragmentation and shade-coffee plantations on spider communities
in the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Insect Conservation. DOI 10.1007/s10841-006-9062-5.
9. Kapoor, V. 2006. An assessment of spider sampling methods in tropical rainforest fragments of the Anamalai
hills, Western Ghats, India. Zoos’ Print Journal 21: 2483-2488.
10. Madhusudan, M. D., Shanker, K., Kumar, A., Mishra, C., Sinha, A., Arthur, R. Datta, A., Rangarajan, M., Chellam,
R., Shahabuddin, G., Sankaran, R., Singh, M., Ramakrishnan, U. & Rajan, P. D. 2006. Science in the wilderness:
the predicament of scientific research in India’s wildlife reserves. Current Science 95: 1015-1019
11. Mishra, C., Madhusudan, M. D., & Datta, A. 2006. Mammals of the high altitudes of Western Arunachal Pradesh,
Eastern Himalaya: an assessment of threats and conservation needs. Oryx 40: 1-7
12. Mishra, C. & Datta, A. 2007. A new bird species from Eastern Himalayan Arunachal Pradesh – India’s biological
frontier. Current Science 92: 1205-1206.
13. Mudappa, D. & Raman, T. R. S. 2007. Rainforest restoration and wildlife conservation on private lands in the
Western Ghats. Pages 210-240 in Shahabuddin, G. & Rangarajan, M. (editors) Making Conservation Work.
Permanent Black, Ranikhet, Uttaranchal.
14. Namgail, T. (in press) Winter habitat partitioning between Asiatic ibex and blue sheep in Ladakh. Journal of
Mountain Ecology.
15. Namgail, T., Fox, J. L & Bhatnagar, Y. V. (in press) Human-Carnivore Conflict: Livestock Mortality Caused by
Large Carnivores in a Trans-Himalayan Wildlife Reserve. Environmental Management.
16. Namgail, T., Fox, J. L & Bhatnagar, Y. V. (in press) Habitat shift and time budget of the Tibetan argali: the Influence
of livestock grazing. Ecological Research.
17. Pawar, S., Birand, A. C., Ahmed, M. F., Sengupta, S. & Raman, T. R. S. 2007. Conservation biogeography in
North-east India: hierarchical analysis of cross-taxon distributional congruence. Diversity and Distributions
13: 53-65.
18. Radhakrishna S., Goswami A. & Sinha A. 2006. Population survey and conservation status of the Bengal slow
loris Nycticebus bengalensis in Assam and Meghalaya, northeastern India. International Journal of Primatology
27: 971-982
19. Raman, T. R. S., Mudappa, D. & Kapoor, V. (in press). Restoring rainforest fragments in the Western Ghats,
India: evaluating survival of planted saplings in different degraded sites. Restoration Ecology (in press).
20. Sharma, S., Dutta, T. & Bhatnagar, Y. V. 2006. Marking-site selection by free ranging Snow leopard ( Uncia
uncia). In: Conservation Biology in Asia (Eds. J. A. McNeely, T. M. McCarthy, A. Smith, L. Olsvig-Whittaker &
E. Wikramanayke). Society of Conservation Biology Asia Section and Resources Himalaya Foundation. Pp.
197-213.
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