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Kohli, Mayank ; Mijiddorj, Tserennadmid Nadia ; Suryawanshi, Kulbhushansingh Ramesh ; Mishra, Charudutt ; Boldgiv, Bazartseren ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; De Frenne, Pieter (2021) Grazing and climate change have site‐dependent interactive effects on vegetation in Asian montane rangelands Journal of Applied Ecology, 58 (3). pp. 539-549. ISSN 0021-8901

Bawa, Kamaljit S. ; Sengupta, Asmita ; Chavan, Vishwas ; Chellam, Ravi ; Ganesan, R. ; Krishnaswamy, Jagdish ; Mathur, Vinod B. ; Nawn, Nandan ; Olsson, Shannon B. ; Pandit, Nitin ; Quader, Suhel ; Rajagopal, Prabhakar ; Ramakrishnan, Uma ; Ravikanth, G. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Shankar, Darshan ; Seidler, Reinmar ; Shaanker, R. Uma ; Vanak, Abi Tamim (2021) Securing biodiversity, securing our future: A national mission on biodiversity and human well-being for India Biological Conservation, 253 . p. 108867. ISSN 0006-3207

Sriramamurthy, Rasikapriyaa Thanalapadi ; Bhalla, Ravinder Singh ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2020) Fire differentially affects mortality and seedling regeneration of three woody invaders in forest–grassland mosaics of the southern Western Ghats, India Biological Invasions, 22 (5). pp. 1623-1634. ISSN 1387-3547

Joshi, Atul A. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Norden, Natalia (2020) Frost maintains forests and grasslands as alternate states in a montane tropical forest–grassland mosaic; but alien tree invasion and warming can disrupt this balance Journal of Ecology, 108 (1). pp. 122-132. ISSN 0022-0477

Hautier, Yann ; Zhang, Pengfei ; Loreau, Michel ; Wilcox, Kevin R. ; Seabloom, Eric W. ; Borer, Elizabeth T. ; Byrnes, Jarrett E. K. ; Koerner, Sally E. ; Komatsu, Kimberly J. ; Lefcheck, Jonathan S. ; Hector, Andy ; Adler, Peter B. ; Alberti, Juan ; Arnillas, Carlos A. ; Bakker, Jonathan D. ; Brudvig, Lars A. ; Bugalho, Miguel N. ; Cadotte, Marc ; Caldeira, Maria C. ; Carroll, Oliver ; Crawley, Mick ; Collins, Scott L. ; Daleo, Pedro ; Dee, Laura E. ; Eisenhauer, Nico ; Eskelinen, Anu ; Fay, Philip A. ; Gilbert, Benjamin ; Hansar, Amandine ; Isbell, Forest ; Knops, Johannes M. H. ; MacDougall, Andrew S. ; McCulley, Rebecca L. ; Moore, Joslin L. ; Morgan, John W. ; Mori, Akira S. ; Peri, Pablo L. ; Pos, Edwin T. ; Power, Sally A. ; Price, Jodi N. ; Reich, Peter B. ; Risch, Anita C. ; Roscher, Christiane ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Schütz, Martin ; Smith, Melinda ; Stevens, Carly ; Tognetti, Pedro M. ; Virtanen, Risto ; Wardle, Glenda M. ; Wilfahrt, Peter A. ; Wang, Shaopeng (2020) General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales Nature Communications, 11 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

Wigley, Benjamin J. ; Augustine, David J. ; Coetsee, Corli ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2020) Grasses continue to trump trees at soil carbon sequestration following herbivore exclusion in a semiarid African savanna Ecology, 101 (5). ISSN 0012-9658

Willemen, Louise ; Barger, Nichole N. ; Brink, Ben ten ; Cantele, Matthew ; Erasmus, Barend F. N. ; Fisher, Judith L. ; Gardner, Toby ; Holland, Timothy G. ; Kohler, Florent ; Kotiaho, Janne S. ; von Maltitz, Graham P. ; Nangendo, Grace ; Pandit, Ram ; Parrotta, John A. ; Potts, Matthew D. ; Prince, Stephen D. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Brainich, Anastasia ; Montanarella, Luca ; Scholes, Robert (2020) How to halt the global decline of lands Nature Sustainability, 3 (3). pp. 164-166. ISSN 2398-9629

Borer, E. T. ; Harpole, W. S. ; Adler, P. B. ; Arnillas, C. A. ; Bugalho, M. N. ; Cadotte, M. W. ; Caldeira, M. C. ; Campana, S. ; Dickman, C. R. ; Dickson, T. L. ; Donohue, I. ; Eskelinen, A. ; Firn, J. L. ; Graff, P. ; Gruner, D. S. ; Heckman, R. W. ; Koltz, A. M. ; Komatsu, K. J. ; Lannes, L. S. ; MacDougall, A. S. ; Martina, J. P. ; Moore, J. L. ; Mortensen, B. ; Ochoa-Hueso, R. ; Olde Venterink, H. ; Power, S. A. ; Price, J. N. ; Risch, A. C. ; Sankaran, M. ; Schütz, M. ; Sitters, J. ; Stevens, C. J. ; Virtanen, R. ; Wilfahrt, P. A. ; Seabloom, E. W. (2020) Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory Nature Communications, 11 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

Bawa, Kamaljit S. ; Nawn, Nandan ; Chellam, Ravi ; Krishnaswamy, Jagdish ; Mathur, Vinod ; Olsson, Shannon B. ; Pandit, Nitin ; Rajagopal, Prabhakar ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Shaanker, R. Uma ; Shankar, Darshan ; Ramakrishnan, Uma ; Vanak, Abi Tamim ; Quader, Suhel (2020) Opinion: Envisioning a biodiversity science for sustaining human well-being PNAS, 117 (42). pp. 25951-25955. ISSN 0027-8424

Osuri, Anand M. ; Machado, Siddarth ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ayyappan, N. ; Muthuramkumar, S. ; Parthasarathy, N. ; Pélissier, Raphaël ; Ramesh, B. R. ; DeFries, Ruth ; Naeem, Shahid (2020) Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human‐dominated landscapes Conservation Letters, 13 (2). ISSN 1755-263X

Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sheth, Chintan ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2019) African and Asian Savannas In: Savanna Woody Plants and Large Herbivores. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 25-49. ISBN 9781119081111

Wigley, Benjamin J. ; Coetsee, Corli ; Kruger, Laurence M. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2019) Ants, fire, and bark traits affect how African savanna trees recover following damage Biotropica, 51 (5). pp. 682-691. ISSN 0006-3606

Veldman, Joseph W. ; Aleman, Julie C. ; Alvarado, Swanni T. ; Anderson, T. Michael ; Archibald, Sally ; Bond, William J. ; Boutton, Thomas W. ; Buchmann, Nina ; Buisson, Elise ; Canadell, Josep G. ; Dechoum, Michele de Sá ; Diaz-Toribio, Milton H. ; Durigan, Giselda ; Ewel, John J. ; Fernandes, G. Wilson ; Fidelis, Alessandra ; Fleischman, Forrest ; Good, Stephen P. ; Griffith, Daniel M. ; Hermann, Julia-Maria ; Hoffmann, William A. ; Le Stradic, Soizig ; Lehmann, Caroline E. R. ; Mahy, Gregory ; Nerlekar, Ashish N. ; Nippert, Jesse B. ; Noss, Reed F. ; Osborne, Colin P. ; Overbeck, Gerhard E. ; Parr, Catherine L. ; Pausas, Juli G. ; Pennington, R. Toby ; Perring, Michael P. ; Putz, Francis E. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Schmidt, Isabel B. ; Schmitt, Christine B. ; Silveira, Fernando A. O. ; Staver, A. Carla ; Stevens, Nicola ; Still, Christopher J. ; Strömberg, Caroline A. E. ; Temperton, Vicky M. ; Varner, J. Morgan ; Zaloumis, Nicholas P. (2019) Comment on “The global tree restoration potential” Science, 366 (6463). eaay7976. ISSN 0036-8075

Sankaran, Mahesh ; Staver, Carla (2019) Droughts and the ecological future of tropical savanna vegetation Journal of Ecology, 107 (4). pp. 1531-1549. ISSN 0022-0477

Krishnan, Lalitha ; Barua, Deepak ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2019) Dry-forest tree species with large seeds and low stem specific density show greater survival under drought Journal of Tropical Ecology, 35 (1). pp. 26-33. ISSN 0266-4674

Ratnam, Jayashree ; Chengappa, S. K. ; Machado, Siddarth J. ; Nataraj, Nandita ; Osuri, Anand M. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2019) Functional Traits of Trees From Dry Deciduous “Forests” of Southern India Suggest Seasonal Drought and Fire Are Important Drivers Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7 . ISSN 2296-701X

Augustine, David J. ; Wigley, Benjamin J. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Kibet, Staline ; Nyangito, Moses ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2019) Large herbivores maintain a two‐phase herbaceous vegetation mosaic in a semi‐arid savanna Ecology and Evolution, 9 (22). pp. 12779-12788. ISSN 2045-7758

Augustine, David J. ; Scogings, Peter Frank ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2019) Mesobrowser Abundance and Effects on Woody Plants in Savannas In: Savanna Woody Plants and Large Herbivores. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 551-583. ISBN 9781119081111

Risch, A. C. ; Zimmermann, S. ; Ochoa-Hueso, R. ; Schütz, M. ; Frey, B. ; Firn, J. L. ; Fay, P. A. ; Hagedorn, F. ; Borer, E. T. ; Seabloom, E. W. ; Harpole, W. S. ; Knops, J. M. H. ; McCulley, R. L. ; Broadbent, A. A. D. ; Stevens, C. J. ; Silveira, M. L. ; Adler, P. B. ; Báez, S. ; Biederman, L. A. ; Blair, J. M. ; Brown, C. S. ; Caldeira, M. C. ; Collins, S. L. ; Daleo, P. ; di Virgilio, A. ; Ebeling, A. ; Eisenhauer, N. ; Esch, E. ; Eskelinen, A. ; Hagenah, N. ; Hautier, Y. ; Kirkman, K. P. ; MacDougall, A. S. ; Moore, J. L. ; Power, S. A. ; Prober, S. M. ; Roscher, C. ; Sankaran, M. ; Siebert, J. ; Speziale, K. L. ; Tognetti, P. M. ; Virtanen, R. ; Yahdjian, L. ; Moser, B. (2019) Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands Nature Communications, 10 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

Tiruvaimozhi, Yadugiri V. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2019) Soil respiration in a tropical montane grassland ecosystem is largely heterotroph-driven and increases under simulated warming Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 276-27 . p. 107619. ISSN 0168-1923

Coverdale, Tyler C. ; McGeary, Ian J. ; O'Connell, Ryan D. ; Palmer, Todd M. ; Goheen, Jacob R. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Augustine, David J. ; Ford, Adam T. ; Pringle, Robert M. (2019) Strong but opposing effects of associational resistance and susceptibility on defense phenotype in an African savanna plant Oikos, 128 (12). pp. 1772-1782. ISSN 0030-1299

Scogings, Peter Frank ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2019) Woody Plants and Large Herbivores in Savannas Ancient Past – Uncertain Future In: Savanna Woody Plants and Large Herbivores. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 683-712. ISBN 9781119081111

Wigley, Benjamin J. ; Coetsee, Corli ; Augustine, David J. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Hattas, Dawood ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Durigan, Giselda (2019) A thorny issue: Woody plant defence and growth in an East African savanna Journal of Ecology, 107 (4). pp. 1839-1851. ISSN 0022-0477

Koerner, Sally E. ; Smith, Melinda D. ; Burkepile, Deron E. ; Hanan, Niall P. ; Avolio, Meghan L. ; Collins, Scott L. ; Knapp, Alan K. ; Lemoine, Nathan P. ; Forrestel, Elisabeth J. ; Eby, Stephanie ; Thompson, Dave I. ; Aguado-Santacruz, Gerardo A. ; Anderson, John P. ; Anderson, T. Michael ; Angassa, Ayana ; Bagchi, Sumanta ; Bakker, Elisabeth S. ; Bastin, Gary ; Baur, Lauren E. ; Beard, Karen H. ; Beever, Erik A. ; Bohlen, Patrick J. ; Boughton, Elizabeth H. ; Canestro, Don ; Cesa, Ariela ; Chaneton, Enrique ; Cheng, Jimin ; D’Antonio, Carla M. ; Deleglise, Claire ; Dembélé, Fadiala ; Dorrough, Josh ; Eldridge, David J. ; Fernandez-Going, Barbara ; Fernández-Lugo, Silvia ; Fraser, Lauchlan H. ; Freedman, Bill ; García-Salgado, Gonzalo ; Goheen, Jacob R. ; Guo, Liang ; Husheer, Sean ; Karembé, Moussa ; Knops, Johannes M. H. ; Kraaij, Tineke ; Kulmatiski, Andrew ; Kytöviita, Minna-Maarit ; Lezama, Felipe ; Loucougaray, Gregory ; Loydi, Alejandro ; Milchunas, Dan G. ; Milton, Suzanne J. ; Morgan, John W. ; Moxham, Claire ; Nehring, Kyle C. ; Olff, Han ; Palmer, Todd M. ; Rebollo, Salvador ; Riginos, Corinna ; Risch, Anita C. ; Rueda, Marta ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Sasaki, Takehiro ; Schoenecker, Kathryn A. ; Schultz, Nick L. ; Schütz, Martin ; Schwabe, Angelika ; Siebert, Frances ; Smit, Christian ; Stahlheber, Karen A. ; Storm, Christian ; Strong, Dustin J. ; Su, Jishuai ; Tiruvaimozhi, Yadugiri V. ; Tyler, Claudia ; Val, James ; Vandegehuchte, Martijn L. ; Veblen, Kari E. ; Vermeire, Lance T. ; Ward, David ; Wu, Jianshuang ; Young, Truman P. ; Yu, Qiang ; Zelikova, Tamara Jane (2018) Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2 (12). pp. 1925-1932. ISSN 2397-334X

Goheen, Jacob R. ; Augustine, David J. ; Veblen, Kari E. ; Kimuyu, Duncan M. ; Palmer, Todd M. ; Porensky, Lauren M. ; Pringle, Robert M. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Riginos, Corinna ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ford, Adam T. ; Hassan, Abdikadir A. ; Jakopak, Rhiannon ; Kartzinel, Tyler R. ; Kurukura, Samson ; Louthan, Allison M. ; Odadi, Wilfred O. ; Otieno, Tobias O. ; Wambua, Alois M. ; Young, Hillary S. ; Young, Truman P. (2018) Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE, UHURU, and GLADE experiments Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1429 (1). pp. 31-49. ISSN 0077-8923

Varma, Varun ; Catherin, Arockia M. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2018) Effects of increased N and P availability on biomass allocation and root carbohydrate reserves differ between N‐fixing and non‐N‐fixing savanna tree seedlings Ecology and Evolution, 8 (16). pp. 8467-8476. ISSN 2045-7758

Joshi, Atul Arvind ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ratnam, Jayashree (2018) ‘Foresting’ the grassland: Historical management legacies in forest-grassland mosaics in southern India, and lessons for the conservation of tropical grassy biomes Biological Conservation, 224 . pp. 144-152. ISSN 0006-3207

Wordley, Claire F. R. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Mudappa, Divya ; Altringham, John D. (2018) Heard but not seen: Comparing bat assemblages and study methods in a mosaic landscape in the Western Ghats of India Ecology and Evolution, 8 (8). pp. 3883-3894. ISSN 2045-7758

Anderson, T. Michael ; Griffith, Daniel M. ; Grace, James B. ; Lind, Eric M. ; Adler, Peter B. ; Biederman, Lori A. ; Blumenthal, Dana M. ; Daleo, Pedro ; Firn, Jennifer ; Hagenah, Nicole ; Harpole, W. Stanley ; MacDougall, Andrew S. ; McCulley, Rebecca L. ; Prober, Suzanne M. ; Risch, Anita C. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Schütz, Martin ; Seabloom, Eric W. ; Stevens, Carly J. ; Sullivan, Lauren L. ; Wragg, Peter D. ; Borer, Elizabeth T. (2018) Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient Ecology, 99 (4). pp. 822-831. ISSN 0012-9658

Hautier, Yann ; Isbell, Forest ; Borer, Elizabeth T. ; Seabloom, Eric W. ; Harpole, W. Stanley ; Lind, Eric M. ; MacDougall, Andrew S. ; Stevens, Carly J. ; Adler, Peter B. ; Alberti, Juan ; Bakker, Jonathan D. ; Brudvig, Lars A. ; Buckley, Yvonne M. ; Cadotte, Marc ; Caldeira, Maria C. ; Chaneton, Enrique J. ; Chu, Chengjin ; Daleo, Pedro ; Dickman, Christopher R. ; Dwyer, John M. ; Eskelinen, Anu ; Fay, Philip A. ; Firn, Jennifer ; Hagenah, Nicole ; Hillebrand, Helmut ; Iribarne, Oscar ; Kirkman, Kevin P. ; Knops, Johannes M. H. ; La Pierre, Kimberly J. ; McCulley, Rebecca L. ; Morgan, John W. ; Pärtel, Meelis ; Pascual, Jesus ; Price, Jodi N. ; Prober, Suzanne M. ; Risch, Anita C. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Schuetz, Martin ; Standish, Rachel J. ; Virtanen, Risto ; Wardle, Glenda M. ; Yahdjian, Laura ; Hector, Andy (2018) Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2 (1). pp. 50-56. ISSN 2397-334X

Pillai, Anusree AS ; Anoop, Ambili ; Prasad, Vandana ; Manoj, MC ; Varghese, Saju ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ratnam, Jayashree (2018) Multi-proxy evidence for an arid shift in the climate and vegetation of the Banni grasslands of western India during the mid- to late-Holocene The Holocene, 28 (7). pp. 1057-1070. ISSN 0959-6836

Tiruvaimozhi, Yadugiri V. ; Varma, Varun ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2018) Nitrogen fixation ability explains leaf chemistry and arbuscular mycorrhizal responses to fertilization Plant Ecology, 219 (4). pp. 391-401. ISSN 1385-0237

Prasad, Ayesha ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2018) Rainfall and removal method influence eradication success for Lantana camara Biological Invasions, 20 (12). pp. 3399-3407. ISSN 1387-3547

Joseph, Shijo ; Ongole, Shasank ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Karanth, Krithi K. (2018) Responses of aerial insectivorous bats to local and landscape-level features of coffee agroforestry systems in Western Ghats, India PLoS One, 13 (8). e0201648. ISSN 1932-6203

Wordley, Claire F.R. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Mudappa, Divya ; Altringham, John D. (2017) Bats in the Ghats: Agricultural intensification reduces functional diversity and increases trait filtering in a biodiversity hotspot in India Biological Conservation, 210 . pp. 48-55. ISSN 0006-3207

Griffith, Daniel M. ; Lehmann, Caroline E. R. ; Strömberg, Caroline A. E. ; Parr, Catherine L. ; Pennington, R. Toby ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Still, Christopher J. ; Powell, Rebecca L. ; Hanan, Niall P. ; Nippert, Jesse B. ; Osborne, Colin P. ; Good, Stephen P. ; Anderson, T. Michael ; Holdo, Ricardo M. ; Veldman, Joseph W. ; Durigan, Giselda ; Tomlinson, Kyle W. ; Hoffmann, William A. ; Archibald, Sally ; Bond, William J. (2017) Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes” Science, 358 (6365). eaao1309. ISSN 0036-8075

Pillai, Anusree A.S. ; Anoop, Ambili ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Sanyal, Prasanta ; Jha, Deepak K. ; Ratnam, Jayashree (2017) Mid-late Holocene vegetation response to climatic drivers and biotic disturbances in the Banni grasslands of western India Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 485 . pp. 869-878. ISSN 0031-0182

Dohn, Justin ; Augustine, David J. ; Hanan, Niall P. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2017) Spatial vegetation patterns and neighborhood competition among woody plants in an East African savanna Ecology, 98 (2). pp. 478-488. ISSN 0012-9658

Iyengar, Siddharth Bharath ; Bagchi, Sumanta ; Barua, Deepak ; Mishra, Charudutt ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2017) A dominant dwarf shrub increases diversity of herbaceous plant communities in a Trans-Himalayan rangeland Plant Ecology, 218 (7). pp. 843-854. ISSN 1385-0237

Osuri, Anand M. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Varma, Varun ; Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia ; Hurtado Astaiza, Johanna ; Bradford, Matt ; Fletcher, Christine ; Ndoundou-Hockemba, Mireille ; Jansen, Patrick A. ; Kenfack, David ; Marshall, Andrew R. ; Ramesh, B. R. ; Rovero, Francesco ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2016) Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics Nature Communications, 7 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

Varma, Varun ; Iyengar, Siddharth B. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2016) Effects of nutrient addition and soil drainage on germination of N-fixing and non-N-fixing tropical dry forest tree species Plant Ecology, 217 (8). pp. 1043-1054. ISSN 1385-0237

Ahrestani, Farshid S. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2016) Introduction: The Large Herbivores of South and Southeast Asia—A Prominent but Neglected Guild Part of the Ecological Studies book series (ECOLSTUD, volume 225), 225 . Springer Nature Switzerland AG., Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 1-13. ISBN 978-94-017-7570-0

Rasquinha, Dina N. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2016) Modelling Biome Shifts in the Indian Subcontinent under Scenarios of Future Climate Change Current Science, 111 (1). p. 147. ISSN 0011-3891

Wordley, Claire F.R. ; Foui, Eleni K. ; Mudappa, Divya ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Altringham, John D. (2016) Range extension of the endangered Salim Ali’s Fruit Bat Latidens salimalii (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Anamalai Hills, Tamil Nadu, India Journal of Threatened Taxa, 8 (12). p. 9486. ISSN 0974-7893

Ratnam, Jayashree ; Tomlinson, Kyle W. ; Rasquinha, Dina N. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2016) Savannahs of Asia: antiquity, biogeography, and an uncertain future Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371 (1703). p. 20150305. ISSN 0962-8436

Osuri, Anand M. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Baeten, Lander (2016) Seed size predicts community composition and carbon storage potential of tree communities in rain forest fragments in India's Western Ghats Journal of Applied Ecology, 53 (3). pp. 837-845. ISSN 0021-8901

Wordley, Claire F.R. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Mudappa, Divya ; Altringham, John D. (2015) Landscape scale habitat suitability modelling of bats in the Western Ghats of India: Bats like something in their tea Biological Conservation, 191 . pp. 529-536. ISSN 0006-3207

Marthews, Toby Richard ; Nelaballi, Swapna ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2015) Meeting Report: Ecosystem monitoring and forest census studies in South Asia Current Science, 108 (10). pp. 1779-1782. ISSN 0011-3891

Krishnaswamy, Jagdish ; Vaidyanathan, Srinivas ; Rajagopalan, Balaji ; Bonell, Mike ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Bhalla, R. S. ; Badiger, Shrinivas (2015) Non-stationary and non-linear influence of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole on the variability of Indian monsoon rainfall and extreme rain events Climate Dynamics, 45 (1-2). pp. 175-184. ISSN 0930-7575

Varma, Varun ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Viswanathan, Vinatha ; Osuri, Anand M. ; Biesmeijer, Jacobus C. ; Madhusudan, M.D. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Krishnadas, Meghna ; Barua, Deepak ; Budruk, Megha ; Isvaran, Kavita ; Jayapal, Rajah ; Joshi, Jahnavi ; Karanth, Krithi K. ; Krishnaswamy, Jagdish ; Kumar, Raman ; Mukherjee, Shomita ; Nagendra, Harini ; Niphadkar, Madhura ; Owen, Nisha ; Page, Navendu ; Prasad, Soumya ; Quader, Suhel ; Nandini, R. ; Robin, V.V. ; Sait, Steven M. ; Shah, Manzoor A. ; Somanathan, Hema ; Srinivasan, Umesh ; Sundaram, Bharath (2015) Perceptions of priority issues in the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India Biological Conservation, 187 . pp. 201-211. ISSN 0006-3207

Seabloom, Eric W. ; Borer, Elizabeth T. ; Buckley, Yvonne M. ; Cleland, Elsa E. ; Davies, Kendi F. ; Firn, Jennifer ; Harpole, W. Stanley ; Hautier, Yann ; Lind, Eric M. ; MacDougall, Andrew S. ; Orrock, John L. ; Prober, Suzanne M. ; Adler, Peter B. ; Anderson, T. Michael ; Bakker, Jonathan D. ; Biederman, Lori A. ; Blumenthal, Dana M. ; Brown, Cynthia S. ; Brudvig, Lars A. ; Cadotte, Marc ; Chu, Chengjin ; Cottingham, Kathryn L. ; Crawley, Michael J. ; Damschen, Ellen I. ; Dantonio, Carla M. ; DeCrappeo, Nicole M. ; Du, Guozhen ; Fay, Philip A. ; Frater, Paul ; Gruner, Daniel S. ; Hagenah, Nicole ; Hector, Andy ; Hillebrand, Helmut ; Hofmockel, Kirsten S. ; Humphries, Hope C. ; Jin, Virginia L. ; Kay, Adam ; Kirkman, Kevin P. ; Klein, Julia A. ; Knops, Johannes M. H. ; La Pierre, Kimberly J. ; Ladwig, Laura ; Lambrinos, John G. ; Li, Qi ; Li, Wei ; Marushia, Robin ; McCulley, Rebecca L. ; Melbourne, Brett A. ; Mitchell, Charles E. ; Moore, Joslin L. ; Morgan, John ; Mortensen, Brent ; O'Halloran, Lydia R. ; Pyke, David A. ; Risch, Anita C. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Schuetz, Martin ; Simonsen, Anna ; Smith, Melinda D. ; Stevens, Carly J. ; Sullivan, Lauren ; Wolkovich, Elizabeth ; Wragg, Peter D. ; Wright, Justin ; Yang, Louie (2015) Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands Nature Communications, 6 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

Wordley, Claire F. R. ; Foui, Eleni K. ; Mudappa, Divya ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Altringham, John D. (2014) Acoustic Identification of Bats in the Southern Western Ghats, India Acta Chiropterologica, 16 (1). pp. 213-222. ISSN 1508-1109

Osuri, Anand M. ; Kumar, Vijay S. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2014) Altered stand structure and tree allometry reduce carbon storage in evergreen forest fragments in India’s Western Ghats Forest Ecology and Management, 329 . pp. 375-383. ISSN 0378-1127

Hautier, Yann ; Seabloom, Eric W. ; Borer, Elizabeth T. ; Adler, Peter B. ; Harpole, W. Stanley ; Hillebrand, Helmut ; Lind, Eric M. ; MacDougall, Andrew S. ; Stevens, Carly J. ; Bakker, Jonathan D. ; Buckley, Yvonne M. ; Chu, Chengjin ; Collins, Scott L. ; Daleo, Pedro ; Damschen, Ellen I. ; Davies, Kendi F. ; Fay, Philip A. ; Firn, Jennifer ; Gruner, Daniel S. ; Jin, Virginia L. ; Klein, Julia A. ; Knops, Johannes M. H. ; La Pierre, Kimberly J. ; Li, Wei ; McCulley, Rebecca L. ; Melbourne, Brett A. ; Moore, Joslin L. ; O’Halloran, Lydia R. ; Prober, Suzanne M. ; Risch, Anita C. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Schuetz, Martin ; Hector, Andy (2014) Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands Nature, 508 (7497). pp. 521-525. ISSN 0028-0836

Lehmann, C. E. R. ; Anderson, T. M. ; Sankaran, M. ; Higgins, S. I. ; Archibald, S. ; Hoffmann, W. A. ; Hanan, N. P. ; Williams, R. J. ; Fensham, R. J. ; Felfili, J. ; Hutley, L. B. ; Ratnam, J. ; San Jose, J. ; Montes, R. ; Franklin, D. ; Russell-Smith, J. ; Ryan, C. M. ; Durigan, G. ; Hiernaux, P. ; Haidar, R. ; Bowman, D. M. J. S. ; Bond, W. J. (2014) Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents Science, 343 (6170). pp. 548-552. ISSN 0036-8075

Osuri, Anand M. ; Madhusudan, M.D. ; Kumar, Vijay S. ; Chengappa, Sannuvanda K. ; Kushalappa, Chepudira G. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2014) Spatio-temporal variation in forest cover and biomass across sacred groves in a human-modified landscape of India’s Western Ghats Biological Conservation, 178 . pp. 193-199. ISSN 0006-3207

Kohli, Mayank ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Suryawanshi, Kulbhushansingh R. ; Mishra, Charudutt (2014) A penny saved is a penny earned: lean season foraging strategy of an alpine ungulate Animal Behaviour, 92 . pp. 93-100. ISSN 0003-3472

Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ratnam, Jayashree (2013) African and Asian Savannas Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Volume 1 In: African and Asian Savannas. In ‘Encyclopedia of Biodiversity’ 2nd Edition. Elsevier Press, 58 - 74.

Auge, Harald ; Moustakas, Aristides ; Kunin, William E. ; Cameron, Tom C. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2013) Facilitation or Competition? Tree Effects on Grass Biomass across a Precipitation Gradient PLoS One, 8 (2). e57025. ISSN 1932-6203

Sankaran, Mahesh ; Augustine, David J. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Dyer, Andy (2013) Native ungulates of diverse body sizes collectively regulate long-term woody plant demography and structure of a semi-arid savanna Journal of Ecology, 101 (6). pp. 1389-1399. ISSN 0022-0477

Seabloom, Eric W. ; Borer, Elizabeth T. ; Buckley, Yvonne ; Cleland, Elsa E. ; Davies, Kendi ; Firn, Jennifer ; Harpole, W. Stanley ; Hautier, Yann ; Lind, Eric ; MacDougall, Andrew ; Orrock, John L. ; Prober, Suzanne M. ; Adler, Peter ; Alberti, Juan ; Michael Anderson, T. ; Bakker, Jonathan D. ; Biederman, Lori A. ; Blumenthal, Dana ; Brown, Cynthia S. ; Brudvig, Lars A. ; Caldeira, Maria ; Chu, Chengjin ; Crawley, Michael J. ; Daleo, Pedro ; Damschen, Ellen I. ; D'Antonio, Carla M. ; DeCrappeo, Nicole M. ; Dickman, Chris R. ; Du, Guozhen ; Fay, Philip A. ; Frater, Paul ; Gruner, Daniel S. ; Hagenah, Nicole ; Hector, Andrew ; Helm, Aveliina ; Hillebrand, Helmut ; Hofmockel, Kirsten S. ; Humphries, Hope C. ; Iribarne, Oscar ; Jin, Virginia L. ; Kay, Adam ; Kirkman, Kevin P. ; Klein, Julia A. ; Knops, Johannes M. H. ; La Pierre, Kimberly J. ; Ladwig, Laura M. ; Lambrinos, John G. ; Leakey, Andrew D. B. ; Li, Qi ; Li, Wei ; McCulley, Rebecca ; Melbourne, Brett ; Mitchell, Charles E. ; Moore, Joslin L. ; Morgan, John ; Mortensen, Brent ; O'Halloran, Lydia R. ; Pärtel, Meelis ; Pascual, Jesús ; Pyke, David A. ; Risch, Anita C. ; Salguero-Gómez, Roberto ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Schuetz, Martin ; Simonsen, Anna ; Smith, Melinda ; Stevens, Carly ; Sullivan, Lauren ; Wardle, Glenda M. ; Wolkovich, Elizabeth M. ; Wragg, Peter D. ; Wright, Justin ; Yang, Louie (2013) Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology, 19 (12). pp. 3677-3687. ISSN 1354-1013

Sankaran, Mahesh ; McNaughton, Samuel J. (2013) Terrestrial Plant-Herbivore Interactions: Integrating Across Multiple Determinants and Trophic Levels In: Vegetation Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 233-259. ISBN 9781118452592

Velho, Nandini ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Srinivasan, Umesh ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2012) Shifts in community structure of tropical trees and avian frugivores in forests recovering from past logging Biological Conservation, 153 . pp. 32-40. ISSN 0006-3207

Moustakas, Aristides ; Wiegand, Kerstin ; Meyer, Katrin M. ; Ward, David ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2012) perspective: Learning new tricks from old trees: revisiting the savanna question Frontiers of Biogeography, 2 (2). pp. 47-53. ISSN 1948-6596

Ratnam, Jayashree ; Bond, William J. ; Fensham, Rod J. ; Hoffmann, William A. ; Archibald, Sally ; Lehmann, Caroline E. R. ; Anderson, Michael T. ; Higgins, Steven I. ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2011) When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20 (5). pp. 653-660. ISSN 1466-822X

Higgins, Steven I. ; Scheiter, Simon ; Sankaran, Mahesh (2010) The stability of African savannas: insights from the indirect estimation of the parameters of a dynamic model Ecology, 91 (6). pp. 1682-1692. ISSN 0012-9658

Srivastava, Diane S. ; Cardinale, Bradley J. ; Downing, Amy L. ; Duffy, J. Emmett ; Jouseau, Claire ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Wright, Justin P. (2009) Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition Ecology, 90 (4). pp. 1073-1083. ISSN 0012-9658

Sankaran, Mahesh (2009) Diversity patterns in savanna grassland communities: implications for conservation strategies in a biodiversity hotspot Biodiversity and Conservation, 18 (4). pp. 1099-1115. ISSN 0960-3115

Cardinale, Bradley J. ; Srivastava, Diane S. ; Duffy, J. Emmett ; Wright, Justin P. ; Downing, Amy L. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Jouseau, Claire ; Cadotte, Marc W. ; Carroll, Ian T. ; Weis, Jerome J. ; Hector, Andy ; Loreau, Michel ; Michener, W. K. (2009) Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems: a summary of 164 experimental manipulations of species richness Ecology, 90 (3). p. 854. ISSN 0012-9658

Ratnam, Jayashree ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Hanan, Niall P. ; Grant, Rina C. ; Zambatis, Nick (2008) Nutrient resorption patterns of plant functional groups in a tropical savanna: variation and functional significance Oecologia, 157 (1). pp. 141-151. ISSN 0029-8549

Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Hanan, Niall (2008) Woody cover in African savannas: the role of resources, fire and herbivory Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17 (2). pp. 236-245. ISSN 1466-822X

Grace, James B. ; Michael Anderson, T. ; Smith, Melinda D. ; Seabloom, Eric ; Andelman, Sandy J. ; Meche, Gayna ; Weiher, Evan ; Allain, Larry K. ; Jutila, Heli ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Knops, Johannes ; Ritchie, Mark ; Willig, Michael R. (2007) Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecology Letters, 10 (8). pp. 680-689. ISSN 1461-023X

Ojima, D. S. ; Wall, Diana H. ; Moore, John ; Galvin, Kathy ; Hobbs, N. T. ; Hunt, William H. ; Paustian, Keith ; Swift, David ; Boone, Randall B. ; Conant, Richard T. ; Klein, Julia ; Christensen, Lindsey ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Ayres, Ed ; Steltzer, Heidi ; Simmons, Breana ; Williams, Gary (2006) Don't Sell Social Science Short Science, 312 (5779). 1470b-1470b. ISSN 0036-8075

Cardinale, Bradley J. ; Srivastava, Diane S. ; Emmett Duffy, J. ; Wright, Justin P. ; Downing, Amy L. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Jouseau, Claire (2006) Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems Nature, 443 (7114). pp. 989-992. ISSN 0028-0836

Sankaran, Mahesh ; Hanan, Niall P. ; Scholes, Robert J. ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Augustine, David J. ; Cade, Brian S. ; Gignoux, Jacques ; Higgins, Steven I. ; Le Roux, Xavier ; Ludwig, Fulco ; Ardo, Jonas ; Banyikwa, Feetham ; Bronn, Andries ; Bucini, Gabriela ; Caylor, Kelly K. ; Coughenour, Michael B. ; Diouf, Alioune ; Ekaya, Wellington ; Feral, Christie J. ; February, Edmund C. ; Frost, Peter G. H. ; Hiernaux, Pierre ; Hrabar, Halszka ; Metzger, Kristine L. ; Prins, Herbert H. T. ; Ringrose, Susan ; Sea, William ; Tews, Jörg ; Worden, Jeff ; Zambatis, Nick (2005) Determinants of woody cover in African savannas Nature, 438 (7069). pp. 846-849. ISSN 0028-0836

Sankaran, Mahesh (2005) Fire, Grazing and the Dynamics of Tall-Grass Savannas in the Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, South India Conservation and Society, 3 (1). pp. 4-25. ISSN 0972-4923

Bunker, D. E. ; DeClerck, Fabrice ; Bradford, Jason C. ; Colwell, Robert K. ; Perfecto, Ivette ; Phillips, Oliver L. ; Sankaran, Mahesh ; Naeem, Shahid (2005) Species Loss and Aboveground Carbon Storage in a Tropical Forest Science, 310 (5750). pp. 1029-1031. ISSN 0036-8075

Sankaran, Mahesh ; Augustine, David J. (2004) Large Herbivores Suppress Decomposer Abundance In A Semiarid Grazing Ecosystem Ecology, 85 (4). pp. 1052-1061. ISSN 0012-9658

Sankaran, Mahesh ; Ratnam, Jayashree ; Hanan, Niall P. (2004) Tree-grass coexistence in savannas revisited - insights from an examination of assumptions and mechanisms invoked in existing models Ecology Letters, 7 (6). pp. 480-490. ISSN 1461-023X

Sankaran, Mahesh ; McNaughton, S. J. (1999) Determinants of biodiversity regulate compositional stability of communities Nature, 401 (6754). pp. 691-693. ISSN 0028-0836