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
Saving the Fish from Mekong to Meghalaya
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Elephant on the Zebra Crossing
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My Elephant in My Village
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The Elephant in the Towns Commons
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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 WLB_Shivakumaretal_2023_FrontConsvScs.pdf (3.62 MB)
- Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being WLB_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 population WLB_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, India Pintoetal_2021_Oryx.pdf (285.91 KB)
- Efficient Reservoir Management through Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Bits and pieces: Forest fragmentation by linear intrusions in India Nayaketal_2020_paper_landusepolicy.pdf (6.55 MB)
- 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 India
- Estimating densities of large herbivores in tropical forests: Rigorous evaluation of a dung-based method
- Fish community responses to stream flow alterations and habitat modifications by small hydropower projects in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India
- Non-stationary and non-linear influence of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole on the variability of Indian monsoon rainfall and extreme rain events
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 fencing
- 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 Reserve
- Hydrologic and carbon services in the Western Ghats: Response of forests and agro-ecosystems to extreme rainfall events CWC_TechReport_lowres_0.pdf (6.43 MB)
- Experiences and learnings from pilot payments made to local residents to enhance and conserve biodiversity
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
- Accommodating wildlife movement and ecosystem services amidst infrastructure expansion
Database
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