Publications
Krishnan, A. (2024). The Legacy of R.C.L. Perkins and the Fauna Hawaiiensis. Resonance 29: 305-320.
Krishnan, A. (2024). The Life of R.C.L. Perkins, and His Work with the Sandwich Islands Committee. Resonance 29: 297-303.
Madabhushi, A.J., Wewhare, N., Binwal, P., Agarwal, V. and Krishnan, A. (2023). Higher-order dialectic variation and syntactic convergence in the complex warble song of budgerigars. Journal of Experimental Biology 226 (20): jeb245678.
Madabhushi, A.J., Bhat, A.S. and Krishnan, A. (2023). Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77:109.
Krishnan, A. (2023). The global butterfly effect of wing pattern convergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 120 (40): e2314443120.
Chhaya, V., Reddy, S. and Krishnan, A. (2023). Bill shape imposes biomechanical tradeoffs in cavity-excavating birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20222395.
Krishnan, A. (2023). Biomechanics illuminates form-function relationships in bird bills. Journal of Experimental Biology 226(Suppl_1): jeb245171.
Mohan, R., Chhaya, V. and Krishnan, A. (2022). Seasonality and interspecific temporal partitioning in a semiarid grassland bat assemblage of northwestern India. Journal of Arid Environments 205: 104818.
Bhat, A.S., Sane, V.A., Seshadri, K.S. and Krishnan, A. (2022). Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes. Animal Behaviour 184: 111-129.
Krishnan, A. (2021). Scientific Curiosity and the Natural World: the Legacy of Peter Marler's research. Resonance 26: 1613-1627.
Krishnan, A. (2021). Lessons learned from the Study of Animal Behaviour: the Life of Peter Marler. Resonance 26: 1607-1612.
Chakravarty, R., Mohan, R., Voigt, C.C., Krishnan, A. and Radchuk, V. (2021). Functional diversity of Himalayan bat communities declines at high elevation without the loss of phylogenetic diversity. Scientific Reports 11:22556.
Chhaya, V., Lahiri, S., Jagan, M.A., Mohan, R., Pathaw, N.A. and Krishnan, A. (2021). Community Bioacoustics: Studying acoustic community structure for ecological and conservation insights. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:706445.
Lahiri, S., Pathaw, N.A. and Krishnan, A. (2021). Convergent acoustic community structure in South Asian dry and wet grassland birds. Biology Open 10:bio058612.
Krishnan, A., Singh, A and Tamma, K. (2020). Visual signal evolution along complementary color axes in four bird lineages. Biology Open 9: bio052316.
Chatterjee, P., Mohan, U., Krishnan, A. and Sane, S.P. (2020). Evolutionary constraints on flicker fusion frequency in Lepidoptera. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 206: 671-681.
Chitnis, S.S., Rajan, S., and Krishnan, A. (2020). Sympatric wren-warblers partition acoustic signal space and song perch height. Behavioral Ecology 31(2): 559-567.
Krishnan, A. (2019). Acoustic community structure and seasonal turnover in tropical South Asian birds. Behavioral Ecology 30(5): 1364-1374.
Lee, W.-J., Falk, B., Chiu, C., Krishnan, A., Arbour, J.H. and Moss, C.F. (2017). Tongue-driven sonar beam steering by a lingual-echolocating fruit bat. PLoS Biology 15(12): e2003148.
Krishnan, A., and Tamma, K. (2016). Divergent Morphological and Acoustic Traits in Sympatric Communities of Asian Barbets. Royal Society Open Science 3:160117.
Warnecke, M., Lee, W.-J., Krishnan, A. and Moss, C.F. (2016) Dynamic echo information guides flight in the big brown bat. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 10: 81.
Danilovich, S., Krishnan, A., Lee, W.-J., Borrisov, I., Eitan, O., Kosa, G., Moss, C.F. and Yovel, Y. (2015) Bats regulate biosonar based on the availability of visual information. Current Biology 25, R1124-R1125.
Krishnan, A., and Sane, S.P. (2015). Antennal mechanosensors and their evolutionary antecedents. Advances in Insect Physiology 49, 59-99.
Krishnan, A., and Sane, S.P. (2014). Visual feedback influences antennal positioning in flying hawk moths. Journal of Experimental Biology 217, 908-917.
Krishnan, A., Prabhakar, S., Sudarsan, S., and Sane, S.P. (2012). The neural mechanisms of antennal positioning in flying moths. Journal of Experimental Biology 215, 3096-3105.
Mukherjee, S., Krishnan, A., Tamma, K., Home, C., Navya, R., Joseph, S., Das, A., and Ramakrishnan, U. (2010). Ecology Driving Genetic Variation: A Comparative Phylogeography of Jungle Cat (Felis chaus) and Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in India. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13724.
Preprints
Abhijith, A.V., Agnihotri, S., Bangal, P. and Krishnan, A. (2024). Contrasting morphological and acoustic trait spaces suggest distinct benefits to participants in mixed-species bird flocks. bioRXiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.15.589677
Wewhare, N., and Krishnan, A. (2024). Individual-specific associations between behavioral events and song notes shape budgerigar vocal sequences. bioRXiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.25.581929
Chhaya, V., Reddy, S. and Krishnan, A. (2022). Climate influences bill shape diversification in cavity-excavating birds. bioRXiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.20.508664
Tamma, K., Krishnan, A. and Reddy, S. (2021). Patterns of morphological diversification in the Ramphastoidea reveal the dramatic divergence of toucans from a conserved morphotype. bioRXiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.29.454288.
Krishnan, A. (2019). Simultaneously vocalizing Asian barbets adopt different frequencies without coordinating temporal rhythms. bioRXiv https://doi.org/10.1101/754580.