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Projected Climate Change Effects on Nuthatch Distribution and Diversity Across Asia (with M. Zafar-ul Islam and A. Townsend Peterson), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (2009)
We used ecological niche modeling approaches to explore climate change implications for one family of...
 

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Preliminary Analysis of the Ecology and Geography of the Asian Nuthatches (Aves: Sittidae) (with Zafar-Ul Islam, Jorge Soberon, and A. Townsend Peterson), Wilson Journal of Ornithology (2008)

We explored distributions of Asian nuthatch species in ecological and geographic space using ecological niche...

 

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Identifying Conservation-Priority Areas in the Tropics: A Land-Use Change Modeling Approach (with R. Gil Pontius Jr., Joseph Rose, M. L. Khan, and Kamaljit S. Bawa), Conservation Biology (2001)
Most quantitative methods for identifying conservation-priority areas require more detailed knowledge about the extent and...
 

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Deforestation in the Tropics: Reconciling Disparities in Estimates for India (with Kamaljit S. Bawa), Ambio (1998)
Here we examine recent disparate estimates of deforestation obtained for India. We discuss the sources...
 

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A Vegetation Based Approach to Biodiversity Gap Analysis in the Agastyamalai Region, Western Ghats, India (with B. R. Ramesh and Kamaljit S. Bawa), Ambio (1997)

Protected areas in India have historically been established on an ad hoc basis with little...

 

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Cloning and Conservation of Biological Diversity: Paradox, Panacea, or Pandora's Box? (with Kamaljit S. Bawa and Leah R. Gorman), Conservation Biology (1997)

The success of a Scottish team in cloning a mammal from an adult tissue cell...

 

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Applications of Geographic Information Systems, Remote-Sensing, and a Landscape Ecology Approach to Biodiversity Conservation in the Western Ghats (with Kamaljit S. Bawa), Current Science (1997)
The mountains along the west coast of peninsular India, the Western Ghats, constitute one of...
 

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Biodiversity Monitoring: The Missing Ingredient (with Kamaljit S. Bawa), Trends in Ecology and Evolution (1997)

With mounting losses in biological diversity, inventorying and monitoring of biodiversity to assess the magnitude...

 

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Effectiveness of the Protected Area Network in Biodiversity Conservation: A Case-study of Meghalaya State (with M. Latif Khan and Kamaljit S. Bawa), Biodiversity and Conservation (1997)

The North-Eastern region of India is significant for biodiversity conservation because of its floristic richness...

 

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Lion-tailed Macaques (Macaca silenus) in a Disturbed Forest Fragment: Activity Patterns and Time Budget (with Frank E. Poirier), International Journal of Primatology (1996)

We describe the activity patterns and time budget of a feral group of lion-tailed macaques...