Area(s) of Expertise

Interdisciplinary Ecology

Education

Ph.D. (Biology) University of California, San Diego (1997)

M.Sc. (Wildlife Sciences, first class) Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun (1989)

B.Sc. (Zoology, first class) The Institute of Science, University of Bombay, India (1987)

Research Interests

The evolutionary ecology of vertebrate responses to human modification of habitats, and on the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems.

Publications

• The phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional breeding bird assemblages is reduced and constricted through urbanization (2018)
• The influence of structural conditions and cultural inertia on water usage and landscape decision-making in a California metropolitan area (2017)
• Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools (2016)

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