Previous Projects


2003

Visitor to the Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India: working on a project concerning kin recognition and dispersal in a social spider Stegodyphus sarasinorum (in association with Dr. Yael Lubin, Ben Gurion University, Israel and Trine Beilde, Arhus University, Denmark)

 

1999-2000

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.

Research Associate for the following projects:

 

* Assessment of biodiversity of lesser-known and functionally important groups in Nagarahole National park. Funded by World Bank through Karnataka Forest Department.

 

* Mapping of rare endangered and threatened medicinal plant resources in medicinal plant conservation areas (MPCA), Karnataka. Funded by Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions Bangalore.

 

* ‘Assessing the impact of anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity of a tropical forest ecosystem in India. Funded by Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia.

 

* Impact of invasive species on the diversity, health and productivity of ecosystems: A study in the tropical forests of South India. Funded by Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia.

 

* Mapping of birds and butterfly diversity of Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary

 

1999

GREEN Foundation, Bangalore.

* Writer and coordinator for the production of a CD ROM entitled “Cultivating Seed Links - An interactive CDROM on bio-diversity and its conservation

 

1999

Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

* Research Assistant for a project involving the use of plantations for carbon sequestration