Publications
2026
K.P. Dinesh, Sahil Shikalgar, Basudev Tripathy, Chetan Nag. 2026. “Range extension of the bush frog Raorchestes tuberohumerus (Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003) (Anura: Rhacophoridae) to the Deccan Plateau reveals microclimatic refugia in a semi-arid landscape.. The Herpetological Journal. [Accepted]
Rajesh, P., V M Raj & Nag, K. S. C. (2026). Tracing nocturnal movement across fragmented landscapes: Flight paths, distance, and habitat use of the Kolar leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros hypophyllus) and its congeneric species in an agricultural landscape of Kolar district, southwestern India. Acta Chiropterologica. [Accepted]
Dinesh, K. P., Sachi, S., Shabnam, A., Deepak, P., Hegde, A., & Nag, K. S. C. (2026). Hidden in the Massifs: A novel medium-sized Phrynoderma (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Taprobanica. [Accepted].
Othman, S. N., Mohd. Top Mohd. Tah, M., Ghosh, D., Simon, N., Abdul Aziz, M. F., Mohd Noor, N. H., Mazlan, N. S., & Borzée, A. (2026). Disturbance effects on anuran communities and relative fitness across urban-adjacent forests of Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo. PeerJ, 14, e21482. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21482
Heo, K., D.Ghosh, K. R.Messenger, and S. N.Othman. 2026. “Ocean Romance: Japanese Treefrogs Exploit Coastal Pools for Breeding Under Salinity and Habitat Constraints.” Ecology and Evolution16, no. 6: e73744. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73744.
Ghosh, D., Gayakawad, D. and Borzée, A., 2026. Curious “luteolus”: phonotactic response to simulated threat in territorial Raorchestes luteolus. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 38(1), pp.107–124. https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2026.2630789
Pasul, Y., Ghosh, D. and Aditya, V., 2026. First records of Common Sandboas (Eryx conicus) from Papikonda National Park, northern Eastern Ghats, India. Reptiles & Amphibians, 33(1), e22298. https://doi.org/10.17161/randa.v33i1.22298
Ghosh, D., Prasad, V. K., & Borzée, A. (2026). Life stage and interspecies variation in salamander quantity discrimination, and incipient learning. Behavioural Processes, 237, 105360.
2025
Nag, K. S. C., Prathusha, T. and Amith, S. J. (2025). Species–area relationships in human-modified landscapes: insights from urban and managed golf courses in Karnataka, India. Journal of Animal Diversity, 7 (4): 9–24. https://dx.doi.org/10.22034/JAD.2025.7.4.3
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