Senior Fellow
Srinivas is a wildlife biologist with particular interest in understanding changes in landscape level processes and structure and how the same affect large mammal populations and distributions. He is a guest faculty at the M.Sc course in Wildlife Biology and Conservation at National Centre for Biological Sciences, where he has been co-guiding students for their Master's thesis. Srinivas's expertise is varied, ranging from using a spatial approach to understanding various ecological and environmental questions to finding innovative and practical solutions to conservation problems.
Ongoing Projects
Completed Projects
Financial Resilience during Covid-19 to Conserve Endangered Species and Critical Habitats in Biodiversity Hotspots of India• Completed:
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Saving the Fish from Mekong to Meghalaya• Completed:
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Elephant on the Zebra Crossing• Completed:
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My Elephant in My Village• Completed:
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The Elephant in the Towns Commons• Completed:
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Grassland and Habitat Mapping Study, Pakke Tiger Reserve• Completed:
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Overcoming Barriers: Restoring Ecological Connectivity Across Linear Intrusions in the Shencottah Gap• Completed:
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Hydrologic and carbon services in the Western Ghats: Response of forests and agro-ecosystems to extreme rainfall events• Completed:
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Exploring Sustainable Landscape Practices in Rubber Plantations in a Critical Wildlife Corridor• Completed:
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Bridging the Shencottah Gap: How Payments for Ecosystem Services Can Restore Biodiversity Outside Protected Areas in india• Completed:
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Baseline Surveys for Designing and Implementing Payment for Ecosystem Services in the Western Ghats • Completed:
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Identifying Critical Areas for Landscape-Level Wildlife Corridor in the Southern Western Ghats, India• Completed:
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UNDP-UNTRS Post-Tsunami Environment initiative -Phase II• Completed:
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Publications
Journal Article
- An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands
- Examining leopard attacks: spatio-temporal clustering of human injuries and deaths in Western Himalayas, India
- Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-beingWLB_Srivathsaetal_2023_NatSustan.pdf (3.28 MB)
- Invasion of natural grasslands by exotic trees increases flood risks in mountainous landscapes in South India
- High frequency of an otherwise rare phenotype in a small and isolated tiger populationWLB_Sagaretal_2021_PNAS.pdf (1.35 MB)
- The Role of Landscape Structure in Primate Crop Feeding: Insights from Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Northern India
- Establishment of Community-Led Fish Conservation Zones in Meghalaya and Manipur, IndiaPintoetal_2021_Oryx.pdf (285.91 KB)
- Efficient Reservoir Management through Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Bits and pieces: Forest fragmentation by linear intrusions in India
- Navigating paved paradise: Evaluating landscape permeability to movement for large mammals in two conservation priority landscapes in India
- Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human–Elephant Interaction
- Looking beyond protected areas: Identifying conservation compatible landscapes in agro-forest mosaics in north-eastern IndiaWLB_Kshettryetal_2020_GlobEcolConsv.pdf (2.37 MB)
- Distortion of inferences and undue exaggeration of study limitations: Response to Shrotriya et al.WLB_Majgaonkaretal_2019_ConsvScsPrac2.pdf (387.59 KB)
- All-Male Groups in Asian Elephants: A Novel, Adaptive Social Strategy in Increasingly Anthropogenic Landscapes of Southern India
- Land-sharing potential of large carnivores in human-modified landscapes of western IndiaWLB_Majgaonkaretal_2019_ConsvScsPrac1.pdf (12.71 MB)
- A fine-scale state-space model to understand drivers of forest fires in the Himalayan foothills
- Maintaining tiger connectivity and minimizing extinction into the next century: Insights from landscape genetics and spatially-explicit simulationsWLB_Thatteetal_2018_BiolConsv.pdf (880.87 KB)
- Diet Selection of Leopards (Panthera pardus) in a Human-Use Landscape in North-Eastern IndiaWLB_Kshettryetal_2018_TropConsvScs.pdf (474.92 KB)
- Fish community responses to stream flow alterations and habitat modifications by small hydropower projects in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India
- Estimating densities of large herbivores in tropical forests: Rigorous evaluation of a dung-based methodWLB_Farshidetal_2018_EcolEvol.pdf (660.31 KB)
- Leopard in a tea-cup: A study of leopard habitat-use and human-leopard interactions in north-eastern IndiaWLB_Kshettryetal_2017_PLOSONE.pdf (14.72 MB)
- Planning connectivity at multiple scales for large mammals in a human-dominated biodiversity hotspot
- Categorizing species by niche characteristics can clarify conservation planning in rapidly-developing landscapesWLB_Gangadharanetal_2016_AnimConsv.pdf (1.41 MB)
- Determinants of dry season habitat use by Asian elephants in the Western Ghats of IndiaWLB_Lakshminarayanann_2015_Jzool.pdf (391.57 KB)
- Non-stationary and non-linear influence of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole on the variability of Indian monsoon rainfall and extreme rain events
- Fire and grazing modify grass community response to environmental determinants in savannas: Implications for sustainable useAGEE_nayak et al 2014.pdf (1.29 MB)
- Connectivity of Tiger (Panthera tigris) Populations in the Human-Influenced Forest Mosaic of Central India
- Usual Populations, Unusual Individuals: Insights into the Behavior and Management of Asian Elephants in Fragmented Landscapes
- Monitoring carnivore populations at the landscape scale: occupancy modelling of tigers from sign surveys
- Moisture and nutrients determine the distribution and richness of India's large herbivore species assemblage
- Patterns of tropical forest dynamics and human impacts: Views from above and below the canopy
- Do mangroves provide an effective barrier to storm surges?
- Reply to ‘Using remote sensing to assess the protective role of coastal woody vegetation against tsunami waves’Kerr_et_al_2009_IJRS.pdf (209.13 KB)
- Site occupancy of the Indian giant squirrel Ratufa indica (Erxleben) in Kalakad–Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India.giantsq_occupancy_KMTR_2008.pdf (3.75 MB)
- Prioritisation of conservation areas in the Western Ghats, IndiaWLB_Dasetal_2006_BiolConsv.pdf (1.95 MB)
- A large congregation of black-shouldered kite Elanus caeruleus at Ranthambore National Park
- Comments on the current geographical distribution of the Nilgiri langur (Trachypithecus johnii, Fischer) in Kerala, India.
- Comparative analysis of tree diversity and dispersion in the tropical lowland rainforests of Agumbe, Central Western Ghats, India.vaidyanathan_2000.pdf (5.42 MB)
Report
- Elephant on the Zebra Crossing: Predicting human-elephant conflict to inform urban development in and around Bengaluru city.Jayadevanetal_2023_report.pdf (6.16 MB)
- Towards mitigation of human and elephant conflict through fence line expansion – Expansion of community fencingAnandRamuetal_2023_Report.pdf (4.91 MB)
- Hydrological health of the Tuivang river system
- The Khengjang ‐ Yangoulen Fish Conservation Zone, Manipur, India
- Aquatic biodiversity of the Tuivang river system
- Baseline estimates of the presence, distribution, and abundance of wildlife populations in the Kodaikanal Wildlife Sanctuary, southern India
- Climate variability and trends in ecosystem services in the Nilgiri Biosphere ReserveNBR_EcosystemServices_FinalReport.pdf (41.5 MB)
- Defining ecological flows for Karnataka
- A Policy Framework for Connectivity Conservation and Smart Green Linear Infrastructure Development in the Central Indian and Eastern Ghats Tiger Landscape
- Hydrologic and carbon services in the Western Ghats: Response of forests and agro-ecosystems to extreme rainfall eventsCWC_TechReport_lowres_0.pdf (6.43 MB)
- Wildlife Crossing Structures for the Shencottah Wildlife Corridor
- Impact of Linear Intrusions on Large Mammal Movement in the Shencottah GapVaidyanathan_et_al_2016.pdf (2.9 MB)
- Identifying Barriers and Optimizing Restoration of Large Mammal Connectivity Across Linear Intrusions in the Shencottah Gap
- Monitoring changes in ecosystem services in key biodiversity areas in the Western Ghats biodiversity hot-spotWLB_Vaidyanathanetal_2015_report.pdf (2.36 MB)
- Market for eco-certified rubber and rubber wood in IndiaWLB_Rametal_2015_report1.pdf (2.15 MB)
- Experiences and learnings from pilot payments made to local residents to enhance and conserve biodiversity
- Protocols and techniques to monitor habitat use by large mammals in multiple use landscapes
- A guide to establish a natural wind barrierWLB_Rametal_2015_report2.pdf (2.84 MB)
- Influence of land-use and land-cover on carbon stocks: Baseline estimates to develop a PES approach to restore degraded lands
- Grassland and Habitat Mapping of Pakke Tiger ReserveStudy report_PakkeTR_opt.pdf (8.18 MB)
- Insights into individual movement and dispersal using camera trap data and conservation implications at the population-level
- Current ecological and social status of rubber estates in the Shencottah GapWLB_RamVaidyanathan_2015_report1.pdf (1.5 MB)
- Existing guidelines for eco-certification of natural rubber and rubber woodWLB_Rametal_2015_report3.pdf (1.19 MB)
- Rationalizing Protected Area Network in the Periyar‐Agastyamalai Landscape
- Key ecological indicators for developing standards for certification of natural rubberWLB_RamVaidyanathan_2015_report3.pdf (1006.24 KB)
- Ecologically sustainable land-use practices for rubber plantationsWLB_RamVaidyanathan_2015_report2.pdf (5.14 MB)
- Gap analysis of the Periyar Agasthyamalai landscape for arboreal mammal conservation. Final technical report.
- Identifying critical areas for a landscape - level wildlife corridor in the southern Western Ghats.
- Economic incentives - Fostering conservationEconomic_incentives_conserv_2010.pdf (1.83 MB)
- Beyond the Tsunami: Trends and Patterns in Hydrology and Water Quality in Coastal Ecosystems and Upstream Catchments in Tamil Nadu, India
- Distribution and Status of the Nilgiri Langur (Semnopithecus johnii) in the Western Ghats, India. Final Technical Report.Ram_Vaidyanathan_2006_NilgiriLangur.pdf (1.81 MB)
- Estimating herbivore densities in the habitat mosaic of Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve. Final Technical Report.
- Resource handbook: Planning and monitoring collective local resource mangement in the Kalivelli WatershedNRM_Pai_etal_2005_ResHandbk.pdf (8.51 MB)
Magazine Article
Book Chapter
- The Rurban Elephant: Behavioural Ecology of Asian Elephants in Response to Large-Scale Land Use Change in a Human-Dominated Landscape in Peri-Urban Southern India
- Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human–Elephant Interactions
- Assessing Threats to Ungulates and Management Responses
- Conservation of Tropical Forest Ungulates: The Way Forward
- Introduction: The Conservation Issue
- Development of Hierarchical Spatial Models for Assessing Ungulate Abundance and Habitat Relationships
- Model-Based Assessment of Ungulate-Habitat Relationships
- Climate Change Impacts on Aquatic Biodiversity
- Accommodating wildlife movement and ecosystem services amidst infrastructure expansion
- Field Practices: Assessing Tiger Habitat Occupancy Dynamics
- Assessing Landscape Connectivity for Tigers and Prey Species: Concepts and Practice
- Impact of the Tsunami on Coastal Ecosystems and Human Communities
- Coastal Bio-shields and their Putative Role During Large Weather Related Disturbance EventsNRM_Bhalla et al_2008_Book_0.pdf (14.64 MB)
Book
- Spatial Dynamics and Ecology of Large Ungulate Populations in Tropical Forests of India
- Studies on Vulnerability and Habitat Restoration along the Coromandel CoastNRM_Bhalla et al_2008_Book_2.pdf (14.64 MB)
- Kalivelli wetlandsKalivelli.pdf (1.71 MB)
- Making Maps with Map Maker: An Introduction to Vector GIS for SchoolsLRN_Bhalla_etal_2004_book.pdf (434.47 KB)
Conference Proceedings
- A Leopard in Your Teacup: Diet and Habitat Use of an Adaptable Felid in a Forest-Production Landscape Mosaic
- How connected will tiger populations be in the future?
- Within and among-individual variation may determine tiger occupancy and connectivity in human-dominated landscapes
- Applications of Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing in Monitoring Elephant Ecology and Behaviour
- Bridging the Shencottah Gap: Status of elephant corridors between the Periyar and Agastyamalai elephant populations
- Monitoring Elephant Populations: Application of Occupancy Based Approach
- Habitat selection by elephants in a multiple-use corridor in the southern Western Ghats.
- Disentangling the effect of linear barriers from other landscape elements to identify potential movement pathways.Vaidyanathan_etal_2012_SCB.pdf (89.26 KB)
- Within site variation in the feeding ecology of the nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) in a human altered landscape
- Modeling population-level linkages for elusive large mammals in the southern Western Ghats, India.
- A comprehensive ground-based framework for quantification of human impacts on wildlife and habitat.ICCB_2010_Vaidyanathan et al.pdf (95.02 KB)
- Landscape scale, ecology-based management of wild tiger populations
Conference Paper
- La Nina and Indian Ocean Dipole Influence on Distribution of Daily Rain Intensities in India
- Estimating evapotranspiration demands of different land cover using diurnal signals in dry season stream discharge
- Vulnerabilities of Critical Ecosystems and Services in the Western Ghats to Overland Flows and Sedimentation during Extreme Rainfall Events