Publications
2025
Ojha, S., Ghosh, D., Kumara, H. N., Singh, M., & Nag, K. S. C (2025). Fragmented habitats, fragmented knowledge: Tracing 140 years of Nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) research in the changing Western Ghats (1884–2025). Primate Conservation, 39, 1–15.
Ramachandra Rao, G. 2025. Conservation significance of Yelakundli Sacred Grove: a relic population of the endemic dipterocarp Vateria indica L. Journal of Threatened Taxa 17(11): 27954–27959. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.10140.17.11.27954-27959
Krishnan G, Sil M, Aravind N A, Umapathy G, Datta-Roy A. Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Assemblies of Indrella ampulla, a Terrestrial Gastropod Endemic to the Western Ghats. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2025;17(11):evaf199. doi:10.1093/gbe/evaf199.
Ghosh D, Prasad VK, Kohler DB, Borzée A (2025) First evidence of diverse inhibitory control abilities in pre- and post-metamorphic salamanders. Integrative Zoology, 2025; 0:1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.70030
Borzée A, Prasad V K, Neam K, Ghosh D et al. Conservation priorities for global amphibian biodiversity. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 2025, :. doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00101-5.
Aditya, V., Pasul, Y., & Ghosh, D. (2025). At a Crossroads: Impacts of a Major Highway on Mammal Occurrence in a Biodiverse Tropical Forest. Biotropica, 57(6), e70131. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70131
Ojha, S., Chatterjee, A., Mahato, S., Nag K S C., Kumara, H N., Singh, M. 2025. Life in transit: Habitat use, behavioural profile and feeding ecology by Nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) in a fragmented evergreen habitat of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India. Current Science. 128 (8), 766-775. doi: 10.18520/cs/v128/i8/766-775
Meganath ,KV. , Asaf, M., Abraham, M., Bindiya, L S., Nag K S C., Sebastian, N. K., Chandy, R., Meethal, M. E. G., & Anand, L. F. (2025). Mitochondrial cytochrome B gene based phylogenetic analysis of Nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) sampled from Periyar Tiger reserve, Kerala. International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences, 10(1), 10–14. https://doi.org/10.55126/ijzab.2025.v10.i01.002
Mahato, S., Suraj, N., Nag, K S C., Muhashin Asaf, V. N., Deena, P. N., Kumara, H. N., & Singh, M. (2025). Where do the langurs criss-cross? Spatial understanding of group composition and habitat of mixed-species groups of Nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) and tufted grey langur (Semnopithecus priam) across the Western Ghats, India. Mammalia 89(2), 153-157. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2024-0135
2024
2023
Harshakumar, C., R. Puttaswamaiah & Nag, K.S.C. (2024). First sighting record of a Ruddy Mongoose Urva smithii Gray, 1837 feeding on a pipistrelle bat in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 16(10): 26027–26029. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.9347.16.10.26027-26029
Deepak, P., Dinesh, K. P., Ashadevi, J. S., & Nag, K. S. C. (2024). Amphibians of agro-climatic zones of Karnataka with an updated checklist for the state. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 123(4), 361–375. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i4/2023/169220
T.V. Ramachandra, Setturu Bharath, M.D. Subashchandran, G.R. Rao, Vishnu Mukri, B. Prasanna, Chapter 2 – (2024) Monitoring land use dynamics and diversity of flora in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, Central Western Ghats, India, Editor(s): Dipanwita Dutta, Arnab Kundu, N.R. Patel, Vegetation Dynamics and Crop Stress, Academic Press, Pages 21-46, ISBN 9780323956161, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95616-1.00002-X.
Shalini, T., Amith, S. J. and Nag, K. S. C. (2024). A review of Szulkin, M., J. Munshi-South, and A. Charmantier, eds. 2020. Urban Evolutionary Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-883685-8. Journal of Animal Diversity, 6 (1): 21–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22034/JAD.2024.6.1.3
Rao,G.R. 2024. Hunteria zeylanica (Retz.) Gardner ex Thwaites (Magnoliopsida: Gentianales: Apocyanaceae)—new addition and first genus record to the flora of Karnataka. Journal of Threatened Taxa 16(2): 24816 24818. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8798.16.2.24816-24818
Deepak, P., Dinesh, K.P., Nag, K.S.C., Ohler, A., Shanker, K., D Souza, P., Asha Devi, J.S. (2024). Revisionary studies on the genus Sphaerotheca Günther, 1859 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) and description of a new species from the metropolitan suburban area of city Bengaluru, India. Zootaxa 5405 (3): 381–410
Kumara, H. N., Sasi, R., Mahato, S., Kumar, S., Nag, K S C., Suganthasakthivel, R., Ramesh Kumar, P., Umapathy, G., Singh, M., & Singh, M. 2024. Distribution, social organization, and management of Semnopithecus johnii: An umbrella species of fragmented landscape of the Western Ghats. Biotropica, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/ btp.13287
Devi C, Khwairakpam M. 2024. Biodegradable Waste Management Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change. In Varjani, S., Haq, I., Pandey, A., Gupta, V.K., & Bui, X.-T. (Eds.). Waste Management in Climate Change and Sustainability Perspectives: Organic and Medical Waste (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003386902
Kumari K S., Puttaswamaiah R., Nag K S C. 2023. Preliminary analysis indicates dietary similarities in the prey composition of Hipposideros hypophyllus Kock and Bhat, 1994 (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) and sympatric congeneric species. Journal of Animal Diversity. 5 (4). URL: http://jad.lu.ac.ir/article-1-317-en.html
Devi C and Meena Khwairakpam. 2023. Decentralized Composting and Vermicomposting for Agricultural Waste Management: Recycle at Source. In Neelan cherry, R., Gao, B., & Wisniewski, A. (Eds.). Agricultural Waste to Value-Added Products: Technical, Economic and Sustainable Aspects. Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4472-9. Pp 401-419
Nag, K.S.C., Deepak, P. and Hegde, A. 2023. A Rapid Survey of the Anuran Diversity at Nandi Hills and Moodiganahalli village, Chikkaballapur District, Karnataka, India. Hamadryad: 40, 29–36.
Shuvra Kanti Sinha, Santanu Mahat, Pravas Hazari, Sarmistha Ojha, Nandan Jana ,
Niyatee Pandya Amita Hajra, Ujjal Ghosh & Silanjan Bhattacharyya. 2023. Flies in the high for floral hike? Altitudinal variation in species diversity and composition of Diptera (Insecta) in the eastern Himalaya, India.
Bramhi, S C., & Nag, K.S.C. 2023. Identifying the Linnean Shortfalls and the Prominence of DNA Barcodes in Urban Areas: Reviews and Reflections from Indian Cities. In Justin A. Daniels (Ed.), Advances in Environmental Research. Vol 95: 181-198 pp. Nova Science publishers, Inc, USA.
Shalini T, Amith SJ, Nag, KSC. 2023. A Report on A Two-Day Workshop on Communicating Biology Research_CUBEC_Report_1