Ali, S., Subhash Chandran, M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Faunal assemblages in Myristica swamps of central Western Ghats, Karnataka, India, In Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing company, New Delhi, Pp 94-112. (PDF)

Amit, S. Yadav, Gururaja K.V., Karthik B., Rao G. R., Vishnu Mukri, Subash Chandran M.D. & Ramachandra T.V., 2008.  Ecological Status of Kali River Flood Plain, ENVIS Technical Report: 29, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore. (PDF)

Boominathan M., Subash Chandran M D., Ramachandra T V., 2008. Economic valuation of bivalves in the Aghnashini Estuary, West Coast, Karnataka, ENVIS Technical Report: 30, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore. (PDF)

Chanakya, H.N., Karthick B. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Nitrogen and carbon flows through Belandur lake – Role of Bellandur lake as a natural wetland treating Bangalore wastewater, In Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing company, New Delhi, Pp25-32. (PDF)

Desai, S. R., Subash Chandran M. D. and Ramachandra, T. V., 2008. Phytoplankton Diversity in Sharavati River Basin, Central Western Ghats(August 11, 2008). The Icfai University Journal of Soil and Water Sciences, I(1): 7-66 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1216302, (PDF)

Gururaja, K.V., Sameer Ali and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Influence of land use changes in river basins on diversity and distribution of amphibians, In Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing company, New Delhi, Pp 33-42. (PDF)

Karanth, P.K. (2008) Primate Numts and reticulate evolutions of capped and golden leaf monkeys (Primates: Colobinae). Journal of Biosciences, 33(5) 761-770. (PDF)

Karanth, P.K., Lalji Singh, Randall V. Collura, and Caro-Beth Stewart (2008) Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of langurs and leaf monkeys of South Asia (Primates: Colobinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46, 683-694. (PDF)

Kodandapani, N., Cochrane, M.A., Sukumar, R. (2008) A comparative analysis of spatial, temporal, and ecological characteristics of forest fires in seasonally dry tropical ecosystems in the Western Ghats, India. Forest Ecology and Management, 256, 607-617. (PDF)

Kumar, U. and Ramachandra T.V. 2008. Endmembers discrimination in MODIS using spectral angle mapper and maximum likelihood algorithms,  International Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2(1): 2-14 (PDF)

Kumar, U.,  Norman Kerle, and Ramachandra T.V., (2008) Contrained linear spectral unmixing technique for regional land cover mapping using MODIS data. In: Innovations and advanced techniques in systems, computing sciences and software engineering / ed by Khaled Elleithy. Berlin : Springer, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8734-9. pp 416-424. (PDF)

Narendra, A. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Remote detection and distinction of ants using nest-site specific LISS-derived Normalised Difference Vegetation Index, Asian Myrmecology Volume 2, 51 – 62 (PDF)

Oommen, M.A. and Shanker, K. (2008) Ecology and behaviour of an endemic tree shrew Tupaia nicobarica Zelebor 1869 on Great Nicobar Island, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 105(1):55-63. (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V and Uttam Kumar, 2008. Wetlands of Greater Bangalore, India: Automatic Delineation through Pattern Classifiers, The Greendisk Environmental Journal. Issue 26 (International Electronic Jour. URL: (http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/index.php/egj/article/view/3171). (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V. 2008. Regional land cover mapping using remote sensing data, Journal of Agricultural, food and environmental sciences, 2(1): http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2008/j_of_agriculture1_2008.htm. (PDF)

Rao,  G.R., Diwakar K. Mesta, Subhash Chandran, M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Wetland flora of Uttara Kannada, In Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing company, New Delhi, Pp 152-159. (PDF)

Seminoff, J.A. and Shanker, K. (2008) Marine turtles and IUCN Red Listing: a review of the process, pitfalls and novel assessment approaches. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 356: 52-68. (PDF)

Sreekantha, K. V.,  Gururaja and T. V. Ramachandra, 2008.  Nestedness pattern in freshwater fishes of the Western Ghats: an indication of stream islands along riverscapes, Current Science, 95 (12):1707-1714. (PDF)

Subash Chandran, M.D., Mesta D.K., Rao G.R., Sameer Ali, Gururaja K.V.  and Ramachandra T.V. 2008.  Discovery of two critically endangered tree species and issues related to relic forests of the Western Ghats, The Open Conservation Biology Journal, 2008, 2, 1-8. http://www.bentham.org/open/toconsbj/openaccess2.htm, doi: 10.2174/1874839200802010001. (PDF)

Sukumar, R. (2008). Elephants in time and space: evolution and ecology. In: Wemmer, C.and Christen, C.A. (eds.). Elephants and ethics: toward a morality of coexistence. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA. Pp.17-39 (Chapter 2). (PDF)

Varma, S., Dang, N.X., Thanh, T.V. and Sukumar, R. (2008). The elephants (Elephas maximus) of Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam: status and conservation of a vanishing population. Oryx, 42: 92-99. (PDF)

Vidya, T N C, Sukumar, R  and  Melnick, D.J. (2008). Range-wide mtDNA phylogeography yields insights into the origins of Asian elephants, Proc. R. Soc. , pp. 1-9 (PDF)

Behaviour and Evolution

Bhadra,A. and Gadagkar, R. (2008). We know that the wasps ‘know’: cryptic successors to the queen in Ropalidia marginata. Biol. Lett., 4, 634-637. (PDF)

Borges, R. M, Bessière, J-M, Hossaert-McKey M. (2008). The chemical ecology of seed dispersal in monoecious and dioecious figs.  Functional Ecology 22: 484–493. (PDF)

Borges, R.M. (2008). Annual Review of Entomology. Vol.52, 2007. M.R. Berenbaum, R.T. Carde and G.E. Robinsom (eds). Current Science, 95, 675-677. (PDF)

Gadagkar, R. (2008). Why are animals nice to each other? In:The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World, (Ed.) M.J. Benton, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, pp.225-228. (PDF)

Gadagkar,R. (2008). Cooperation. In: Behavioural Ecology.Vol.1 of Encyclopedia of Ecology, (Eds.) S.E.Jorgensen and Fath,B.D., Elsevier Ltd., Oxford, pp.776-777. (PDF)

Gadagkar,R. (2008). Open-access more harm than good in developing world. Nature, 453, p.450 (PDF)

Gadagkar,R. (2008). What’s happening at the Centre for Contemporaries Studies and Why? Voices, No.6, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. (PDF)

Gadagkar,R. (2008). Why I do not discourage my students from “wasting” their time with the “theatre”? MOITREE, The Bangla Theatre Festival in Bengaluru, 3-4. (PDF)

Karanth, P.K. (2008). Primate numts and reticulate evolution of capped and golden leaf monkeys (Primates: Colobinae) J. Biosci. 33(5), December 2008, 761–770. (PDF)

Karanth, P.K., Singh, L.,Collura, R.V., Stewart, C.V. (2008). Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of langurs and leaf monkeys of South Asia (Primates: Colobinae), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46 (2008) 683–694. (PDF)

Lamba,S., Chandrasekhar,K. and Gadagkar,R. (2008). Signalling hunger through aggression – the regulation of foraging in a primitively eusocial wasp.  Naturwissenschaften, 95, 677-680. (PDF)

Mhatre, N.  and  Balakrishnan, R. (2008). Predicting acoustic orientation in complex real-world environments. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 211, 2779-2785. (PDF)

Nanjundiah, V. (2008). Co-discoverer. Current Science, 83(9), pp. 277-282. (PDF)

Nanjundiah, V. (2008). Running scientific institutions. Current Science, 94(7), April 2008, pp. 841. (PDF)

Nityananda, V.  & Balakrishnan, R. (2008). Leaders and followers in katydid choruses in the field: call intensity, spacing and consistency. Animal Behaviour, 2008, 76, 723-735. (PDF)

Shenoy, M and Borges, R. M.  (2008). A novel mutualism between an ant-plant and its resident pollinator.  Naturwissenschaften 95:61–65. (PDF)

Somanathan H, Borges, R. M., Warrant E. J., and Kelber, A. (2008). Visual ecology of Indian carpenter bees I: Light intensities and flight activity.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A 194:97–107. (PDF)

Somanathan H., Borges, R. M., Warrant, E. J., Kelber, A.  (2008). Nocturnal bees learn landmark colours in starlight. Current Biology 18:R996–997. (PDF)

Sumana,A., Deshpande S.A., Bhadra,A. and Gadagkar, R. (2008). Workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata do not perceive their queen across a wire mesh partition. Journal of Ethology, 26, 207-212. (PDF)

Climate change and its impacts

Chaturvedi, R.K.  Tiwari, R and Ravindranath, N.H.  (2008). Climate change and forests in India, International forestry review Vol 10(2). (Climate change) (PDF)

Ravindranath, N.H., Chaturvedi, R.K. and Murthy, I.K. (2008). Forest conservation, Afforestation and reforestation in India: Implications for forest carbon stocks. Current Science, 95(2), 25th July 2008. (PDF)

Sukumar, R. (2008). Forest Research for the 21st Century, Science, Vol. 320 13 June 2008. (PDF)

Ahalya N., Kanamadi R D and Ramachandra T V., 2008. Biosorption of Chromium (VI) by Tamarindus indica pod shells, Journal of Environmental Science Research International, 1 (2):77-81 (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V. and Nagarathna A V, 2008. Community-based Natural Resource Management: Issues and Cases from South Asia. A. Menon et al. Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, Current Science, 95(5): 678-679 (Book Review) (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, In Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing company, New Delhi, Pp1-13. (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Regional Integrated Energy Plan, In  Shakti: Workshop on Renewable Energy Resource Assessment, 16th Oct 2008, Organised by Tezpur University, pp 1-2. (PDF)

Ramachandra TV, Ahalya N and Kanamadi RD,  2008. Biosorption: Techniques and Mechanisms, CES Technical Report 110, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. (PDF)

Ramachandra, T. V. and Kumar Uttam, 2008. Decision Support System for Land Use Planning. The Icfai University Journal of Environmental Sciences, II ( 3): 7-19, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1187983. (PDF)

Subashchandran M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Social and ethical dimensions of environmental conservation (Invited Lecture), In the proceedings of Environmental challenges of 21st Century – the role of academic instituitions, UGC sponsored state level seminar, 17-18th Oct 2008, Organised by Government Arts and Science College, Karwar, pp-19-32. (PDF)