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Publications: 
Theme I:    Biodiversity and Conservation

Baskaran, N., Das, S. and Sukumar, R. (2009). Population and management of captive asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal, India. The Indian Forester 135: 1545-1555. (PDF)

Karthick B, Toyoda, K., Ramachandra T. V.  and Williams, D.M., 2009. A note on the identity of Ceratoneis iyengarii Gonzalves & Gandhi, Diatom Research, 24(1):233-236 (PDF)

Karthick B., Alakananda B and Ramachandra T.V., 2009. Diatom based pollution monitoring in urban wetlands of Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, ENVIS Technical Report: 31, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore. (PDF)

Mukherjee, N., B. Muthuraman and K. Shanker (2009) Bioshields and ecological restoration in tsunami affected areas in India. In: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (eds. E. Dahl, E. Moskness and J. Stottrup). Wiley Blackwell Publishing. (PDF)

Ramachandra T V, 2009, Conservation and management of urban wetlands: Strategies and challenges, ENVIS Technical Report: 32, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore (PDF)

Ramachandra T V, 2009. Essentials in urban lake monitoring and management, CiSTUP Technical report 1, Urban Ecology, Environment and Policy Research, Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning, IISc, Bangalore. (PDF)

Ramachandra T V, Sitharam T G, Mohan Kumar M S and Prasad S N, 2009. Open source GIS in India: Preseent Scenario, CiSTUP Technical Report 2, Urban Ecology, Environment and Policy Research, Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning, IISc, Bangalore. (PDF)

Ramachandra T V, Subashchandran M D and Anant Hegde Ashisar, 2009. Landslides at Karwar, October 2009: Causes and Remedial Measures, ENVIS Technical Report: 33, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore. (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V. and Karthick B., 2009. Research prospects in Western Ghats stream ecology: Perspectives from river Sharavathi, Pollution Research, 28(1):19-20. (PDF)

Ramachandra, T.V., D.M. Mahapatra, Karthick B. and R. Gordon, 2009. Milking diatoms for sustainable energy: biochemical engineering vs gasoline secreting diatom solar panels [invited]. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 48(19, Complex Materials II special issue, October). (PDF)

Ramesh Maheshwari, Sankara Rao K. and Ramachandra, T. V., 2009. Structural characteristics of a giant tropical liana and its mode of canopy spread in an alien Environment, Current Science, 96(1):58-64. (PDF)

Raselimanana, A.P.  Brice Noonan, K. Praveen Karanth, Jacques Gauthier, and Anne D. Yoder (2009) Phylogeny and evolution of Malagasy plated lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 50, 336-344. (PDF)

Roy, A.D. and Karanth, P.K. (2009) The Out-of-India Hypothesis: What do molecules suggest? Journal of Biosciences, 34 (5) 687-697. (PDF)

Shanker, K. et al. (2009) A little learning …: the price of ignoring politics and history. Marine Turtle Newsletter. (PDF)

Smita Nair, Rohini Balakrishnan, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula and Sukumar, R. (2009). Vocalizations of wild Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Structural classification and social context. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126: 2768–2778. (PDF)

Sridhar, H., G. Beauchamp and K. Shanker (2009) Why do birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks? A large-scale synthesis. Animal Behaviour 78: 337 – 347. (PDF)

Subramanian K.A., Samirali and Ramachandra T.V., 2009. Odonata as indicators of riparian ecosystem health:  A case study from south western Karnataka, India, FRASERIA (N.S.) 7: 83-95. (PDF)

Vidya, T.N.C., Sukumar, R. and Melnick, D.J.  (2009). Range-wide mtDNA phylogeography yields insights into the origins of Asian elephants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276: 893–902. (PDF)

Theme II:

Behaviour and Evolution

Bhaskara R. M., Brijesh C M, Ahmed S. and Borges R. M.  2009. Perception of ultraviolet by crab spiders and its role in selection of hunting sites.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A 195:409–417. (PDF)

Bhadra,A., Jordan,F., Sumana,A., Deshpande,S.A. and Gadagkar,R. (2009). A comparative social network analysis of wasp colonies and classrooms: linking network structure to functioning. Ecological Complexity, 6, 48-55. (PDF)

Gadagkar, R. (2009). Interrogating an Insect Society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106, 10407-10414. (PDF)

Gadagkar,R. (2009). A Review of - The Social Amoebae :The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds' by J.T.Bonner, Princeton University Press, Princeton (2009). Current Science, 97,1675-1676. (PDF)

Gadagkar,R. (2009). In Praise of Organismal Biology. Proceedings of the Platinum Jubilee of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, pp.37-41. (PDF)

Gadagkar,R. (2009). Why are animals (and humans) nice to each other? In: Current Trends in Science – Platinum Jubilee Special, (Ed.) N. Mukunda, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, pp.191-197. (PDF)

Johny,S., Charkaborty,S. Gadagkar,R. and Nagaraju,J. (2009). Polymorphic microsatellite loci for primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9 (4) 1172-1175. (PDF)

Karnad D., Isvaran K., Kar C.S., Shanker K. 2009. Lighting the way: Reducing misorientation of olive ridley hatchlings due to artificial lighting at Rushikulya, India. Biological Conservation 142:2083-2088 (PDF)

Mujumdar, N., Inouye, Kei and Nanjundiah, V. (2009). The trishanku gene and terminal morphogenesis in Dictyoslelium discoideum, Evolution and Development, 11:6, 697-709. (PDF)

Nanjundiah, V. (2009). Polymath who shared the fun of science. http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/br/2009/04/07/stories/2009040750101500.htm (PDF)

Nanjundiah, V. (2009). The origin of species after 150 years. Resonance, February 2009, pp. 124-153. (PDF)

Nityananda, V. & Balakrishnan, R.(2009). Modeling the role of competition and co-operation in the evolution of katydid acoustic synchrony. Behavioral Ecology 20: 484-489. (PDF)

Ranganathan Y and Borges RM. 2009. Predatory and trophobiont-tending ants respond differently to fig and fig wasp volatiles. Animal Behaviour 77: 1539–1545. (PDF)

Sawarkar, R., Visweshwariah, S.S., Nellen, W. and Nanjundiah, V. (2009). Histone Deacetylases Regulate Multicellular, Development in the social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Journal of Molecular Biology, 391, 833-848. (PDF)

Somanathan H. S., Warrant E. J., Borges R. M., Wallén R., Kelber A. 2009.  Resolution and sensitivity of the eyes of the Asian honeybees Apis florae, Apis cerana and Apis dorsata. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 2448–2453. (PDF)

Somanathan, H. S., Kelber A., Borges, R. M., Wallén R., Warrant E. J. 2009. Visual ecology of Indian carpenter bees II: adaptations of eyes and ocelli to diurnal and nocturnal lifestyles. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 195:571-583. (PDF)

Velho N., Datta A., Isvaran K. 2009. Effect of rodents on seed fate of tree species in a tropical forest in north-east India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25:507–514 (PDF)

Theme III:

Climate change and its impacts

Matilda Palm, Madelene Ostwald, Goran Berndes, N.H. Ravindranath (2009). Application of Clean Development Mechanism to forest plantation projects and rural development in India.  Applied Geography.  29(1), January 2009, Pages 2-11. (PDF)

Ravindranath, N H, Balachandra, P. (2009) Sustainable bioenergy for India: Technical, economic and policy analysis. Energy, Vol. 34, Pages 1003 – 1013. (PDF)

Theme IV:   Human Ecology and Ecodevelopment

Ahalya N,. Kanamadi R.D and T.V. Ramachandra, 2009. Removal of  Hexavalent Chromium using Coffee Husk, International Journal of Biotechnology, 10(9): 17-26. (PDF)

Aithal, B.H., Uttam Kumar, Ramachandra T V, 2009. Fusion of multi resolution remote sensing data for urban sprawl analysis, COSMAR 2009, Orgnised by MS, IISc. (PDF)

Chanakya H.N., Isha Sharma and Ramachandra T.V., 2009. Micro-scale anaerobic digestion of point source components of organic fraction of municipal solid waste, Waste Management, 29 (4): 1306-1312 doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2008.09.014 (PDF)

Kumar, U., Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay, and T. V. Ramachandra, 2009. Pixel based fusion using IKONOS imagery, International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering (Computer Science), 1(1): 178-182. (PDF)

Kumar, U., Mukhopadhaya, C., and Ramachandra T. V., (2009) Fusion of multisensor data: Review and Comparative Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2009 World Research Institutes Global Congress on Intelligent Systems, May 19-21, Xiamen, China, Vol. 2, pp. 418-422. Published by IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA. ISBN 978-0-7695-3571-5, IEEE DOI 10.1109/GCIS.2009.457. (PDF)

Kumar, U., Mukhopadhyay C and Ramachandra T V., 2009. Spatial data mining and modelling for visualisation of rapid urbanisation, SCIT Journal, 9(2): 1-9. (PDF)

Ramachandra T V and Uttam Kumar, 2009. FOSS for Geoinformatics (FOSS4G), Chapter 1, In Open Source GIS in India: Present Scenario, CiSTUP Technical Report 2, pp3-10. (PDF)

Ramachandra T V and Uttam Kumar, 2009. Land surface temperature with land cover dynamics: multi-resolution,spatio-temporal data analysis of Greater Bangalore, International Journal of Geoinformatics, 5 (3):43-53 (PDF)

Ramachandra T V, 2010. Energy Portpolios, Aswathnarayana U and Rao S D (eds), CRC Press, Leiden, The Netherlands, Current Science, 98(8): 1129-1131. (PDF)

Ramachandra T. V., and Uttam Kumar, 2009. Geoinformatics for Urbanisation and Urban Sprawl pattern analysis. Chapter 19, In: Geoinformatics for Natural Resource Management (Eds. Joshi et al.). Nova Science Publishers, NY. Pp- 235-272. (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V. 2009. RIEP: Regional Integrated Energy Plan, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.rser.2007.10.004. 13 (2009) 285–317. (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V. and Shwetmala, 2009. Emissions from India's Transport sector: Statewise Synthesis, Atmospheric Environment, 43 (2009) 5510–5517, DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.07.015 (PDF)

Ramachandra T.V., Uttam Kumar, Diwakar, P.G. and Joshi N V., 2009. Land cover Assessment using À Trous Wavelet fusion and K-Nearest Neighbour classification, In proceedings of the 25th Annual In-House Symposium on Space Science and Technology, 29-30th January 2009, Organised by ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell, IISc, pp 25-32. (PDF)

Sudhira H. S.and Ramachandra T. V., 2009.  A Spatial Planning Support System for Managing Bangalore’s Urban Sprawl, Chapter 9, in S. Geertman, J.C.H. Stillwell (eds.), Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods, 175-190. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-8952-7_9, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009. (PDF)