Publications

Under review and in preparation

26. Manivannan, M., Gurung, N., Edgecombe, G., Joshi, J. 2024 A Passage through India: The Biotic Ferry Model Supports the Build-up of Indo-Australian Biodiversity of an Ancient Soil Arthropod Clade. bioRxiv. Under review

25. Roy, P., and Joshi, J. 2023. Idiosyncrasies unveiled: examining the pace, patterns and predictors of biotic diversification in peninsular India. bioRxiv. Under review

24. Joshi, J., and Kunte, K. 2022 Polytypy and systematics: diversification of Papilio swallowtail butterflies in the biogeographically complex Indo-Australian Region. bioRxiv

Peer-reviewed papers

23. De-Kayne, R., Schley, R., Barth, J.M.I., Campillo, L.C., Chaparro-Pedraza, C., Joshi, J., et al. 2024. Why Do Some Lineages Radiate While Others Do Not? Perspectives for Future Research on Adaptive Radiations. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Link to article

22. Srivastava P., Sanyal P., Bhattacharya S., Mishra P., Dutta S., Chakravarti R., Rai N., Navani N., Ambili A., Karanth, P., Joshi J., Singh S., Sadasivam S. 2023. A need to integrate metagenomics and metabolomics in geosciences and develop deep time digital earth-biome database of India. Current Science 124, 1, 26-37. https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v124/i1/26-37

21. Kulkarni, M., Paripatyadar, S., Naniwadekar, N., Joshi, J. 2023. Local-scale abiotic factors influence the organisation of rock pool arthropod communities in a biodiversity hotspot. Limnology and Oceanography, 68, 10, 2375-2388 https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12427

20. Bharti, D., Pawar, P. Y., Edgecombe, G. D., Joshi, J. 2023 Genetic diversity varies with species traits and latitude in predatory soil arthropods (Myriapoda: Chilopoda). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 1508-1521. doi: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13709 Covered by: India Science Wire; and many national and regional news outlets The New Indian Express, The Hindu, Telangana Today, The Hans India

19. Gopal, A., Bharti, D. K., Page, N., Dexter, K. G., Krishnamani, R., Kumar, A., Joshi, J. 2023. Range restricted old and young lineages show the southern Western Ghats to be both museum and cradle of diversity for woody plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290: 20222513. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2513 Covered by: many national and regional news outlets, including The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Telangana Today, The Hans India, The New Indian Express

18. Bharti, D., Edgecombe, G., Karanth, P., Joshi, J. 2021. Spatial patterns of phylogenetic diversity and endemism in the Western Ghats, India: a case study using ancient predatory arthropods. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 3, 16499-16513. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8119

17. Krishnadas, M., Sankaran, M., Page, N., Joshi, J., Machado, S., Nataraj, N., Chengappa, B., Kumar, V., Kumar, A., Krishnamani, R. 2021. Seasonal drought regulates species distributions and assembly of tree communities across a tropical wet forest region. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, 9, 1847-1862. http://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13350

16. Joshi, J., and Agarwal, I. 2021. Integrative taxonomy in the Indian subcontinent - current progress and prospects. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 101, 125–149 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41745-021-00244-2

15. Naniwadekar, R., Gopal, A., Page, N., Ghuman, S., Ramachandran, V., Joshi, J. 2021. The critical ecological role of an endemic, large-bodied frugivore on a small tropical island. Ecology and Evolution 11, 3, 1399–1412. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7151; Covered by: Birds, Trees and the Narcondam Islands, What 1,000 hornbills contribute to the tiny Narcondam Island

14. Joshi, J., Karanth, P., Edgecombe, G. 2020. The Out-of-India hypothesis: Evidence from an ancient centipede genus, Rhysida (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha), from the Oriental Region, and systematics of Indian species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189, 3, 828–861. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz138

Since the 2020 start of the Evolutionary Ecology Lab at CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad

13. Joshi, J., and Edgecombe, G. 2019. Evolutionary Biogeography of the centipede genus Ethmostigmus from Peninsular India: Testing an Ancient Vicariance Hypothesis for Old World Tropical Speciation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1367-6 Popular article covering the paper On a trail with India's centipedes, 180 million years back in time

12. Joshi, J., and Edgecombe, G. 2018. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the centipede genus Ethmostigmus Pocock, 1898 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from Peninsular India. Invertebrate Systematics 32, 1316-1335. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS18030 Popular article covering the paper Moving continents created new centipede species

11. Gaitonde, N., Joshi, J., Kunte, K. 2018. Exploring evolution of defense ensembles among Papilionidae butterflies Ecology and Evolution 32: 601-611. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4426

Popular article covering the paper The Yin and Yang of ecology and evolution

10. Joshi, J., Prakash, A., Kunte, K. 2017. Evolutionary assembly of butterfly mimetic community in the Western Ghats, India American Naturalist, 189, E58-E76. doi/10.1086/690907 Won the ASN Presidential Award 2018.

9. Joshi, J. and Edgecombe, G. 2017. Tracking the variability of phenotypic traits on a molecular phylogeny: an example from scolopendrid centipedes. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution, 7, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-017-0323-9

8. Verma, V., Ratnam, J.,….Joshi, J.,… et al. 2015. Perceptions of priority issues in the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India. Biological Conservation 187, 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.04.031

7. Joshi, J., and Karanth, P. 2013. Did southern Western Ghats of peninsular India serve as refugia for its endemic biota during the Cretaceous volcanism? Ecology and Evolution 3, 3275-3282. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.603

6. Joshi, J., and Edgecombe, G. 2013. Revision of the scolopendrid centipede Digitipes Attems, 1930, from India: reconciling molecular and morphological estimates of species diversity. Zootaxa 3626, 099–145. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3626.1.5. Popular article covering the paper Looking beyond the hundred legs: finding new centipedes in India requires many tools

5. Joshi, J., & Karanth, P. 2012. The coalescent approach in conjunction with niche modeling reveals cryptic diversity among centipedes in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot of south India. PLoS ONE 7, e42225. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042225

4. Joshi, J., & Karanth, P. 2011. Cretaceous-Tertiary diversification among select Scolopendrid centipedes of South India. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60, 287-294. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.04.024

3. Anand, C., Umranikar, C., Shintre, P., Damle, A., Kale, J., Joshi, J., Watve, M. 2007. Presence of two types of flowers with respect to nectar sugar in two gregariously flowering species. Journal of Bioscience 32, 769-774. DOI: 10.1007/s12038-007-0077-1

2. Kanade, R., Tadwalkar, M., Joshi, J., Shukla, S., Champhekar, K., Bhavalkar, S., Raghavendra, S., Chandrasekar, C., Sardesai, M., Kushalappa, C.G., Patwardhan, A. 2007. Survey of vegetation at Chandoli National Park in Northern Western Ghats. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 31, 769-774.

1. Joshi, J., and Dahanukar, N. (accepted in 2008, published in 2016) Ecology, diversity and distribution of Centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in northern Western Ghats, India in Invertebrate Diversity and Conservation in the Western Ghats, India, Edited by Priyadarsanan, D.R., Soubadra Devy, M., Subramanian, K.A., Aravind, N.A. and Seena, N.K Published by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, Bangalore, India.