Publications
Bharadwaj A., Mhamane S., Bangal P., Menon T., Isvaran K., Quader S. 2024. Assessment of long-term trends in a threatened grassland bird community using daily bird lists. Bird Conservation International, 34, e3.
Rathore A., Isvaran K., Guttal V. 2023. Lekking as collective behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1874), 20220066.
Sharma M., Isvaran K. 2023. Spoilt for choice: Do female mosquitoes experience choice overload when deciding where to lay eggs?. Behavioural Processes, 213, 104963.
Dharmamuthuraja D., Rohini P.D., Iswarya Lakshmi M., Isvaran K., Ghosh S.K., Ishtiaq, F. 2023. Determinants of Aedes mosquito larval ecology in a heterogeneous urban environment-a longitudinal study in Bengaluru, India. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(11), e0011702.
Rawat K., Bhambore A.A., Isvaran K. 2024. Don't Leave the Past Behind: How Larval Experience Shapes Pupal Antipredator Response in Aedes aegypti. bioRxiv, 2024-02.
Sridharan A., Lawrence S., Isvaran K. 2023. Dance or disappear: Strategic sexual signalling in Peninsular rock agama. bioRxiv, 2023-08.
Jha R., Isvaran K. 2023. Grouping dynamics of the northernmost population of blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) in Krishnasaar Conservation Area, Nepal. Nepalese Journal of Zoology 7(2):16-22.
Jha, R. R., & Isvaran, K. 2022. Antelope space‐use and behavior indicate multilevel responses to varying anthropogenic influences in a highly human‐dominated landscape. Ecology and Evolution, 12(10), e9372.
Jambhekar R., Isvaran K. 2022. Habitat specialisation and matrix resistance predict responses of butterfly populations to landscape features in tropical grassland–forest complexes. Oecologia 199:513-525.
Ranade D., Isvaran K. 2022. Inferring Social Interactions Over a Lifespan from Space-Use Patterns in a Tropical Agamid. Journal of Herpetology 56(2):164-171.
Attiwilli S., Karmakar T., Isvaran K., Kunte K. 2022. Habitat preference and functional traits influence responses of tropical butterflies to varied habitat disturbance. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 42(1):855-864.
Ranade D., Karatgi R., Mahishi S., Isvaran K. 2022. Competing females strategically combine signals and physical aggression differently from males in a polygynous tropical lizard. bioRxiv, 2022-09.
Naniwadekar R., Mishra C., Isvaran K., Datta A. 2021. Gardeners of the forest: Hornbills govern the spatial distribution of large seeds. Journal of Avian Biology 52(11) e02748.
Jambhekar R., Isvaran K. 2021. Foraging in nature: Contrasting responses to resource heterogeneity at small-and large-spatial scales. Biotropica, 53(1). 276-286.
Isvaran K. 2021. Lek Territory Size and the Evolution of Leks: A Model and a Test Using an Ungulate With a Flexible Mating System. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8:444.
Minasandra P., Isvaran K. 2020. Truncated power-law distribution of group sizes in antelope. Behaviour 157(6):541-558.
Isvaran, K. 2020. The Lekking Puzzle: The Evolution of Costly Mating Behaviour. Resonance, 25:353-362
Athreya V., Isvaran K., Odden M., Linnell J. D., Kshettry A., Krishnaswamy J., Karanth U. K. 2020. The impact of leopards (Panthera pardus) on livestock losses and human injuries in a human-use landscape in Maharashtra, India. PeerJ, 8, e8405
Sharma M., Quader S., Guttal V., Isvaran K. 2019. The enemy of my enemy: multiple interacting selection pressures lead to unexpected anti-predator responses. Oecologia 192:1-12.
Torsekar, V. R., Isvaran, K., Balakrishnan, R. 2019. Is the predation risk of mate-searching different between the sexes?. Evolutionary Ecology 33(3):329-343.
Karkarey, R., Zambre, A., Isvaran, K., Arthur, R. 2019. Hypothesizing novel mating behaviours in the squaretail grouper based on direct behavioural observations. Rethinking Ecology 4:103.
Deodhar S., Isvaran K. 2018. Why Do Males Use Multiple Signals? Insights From Measuring Wild Male Behavior Over Lifespans. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 6:75.
Bhave R., Deodhar S., Isvaran K. 2017. Intrinsic factors are relatively more important than habitat features in modulating risk perception in a tropical lizard. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71.
Deodhar S., Isvaran K. 2017 Breeding phenology of the Peninsular rock agama (Psammophilus dorsalis): patterns in time, space and morphology. Current Science 113:2120-2126
Chandrasegaran K., Singh A., Laha M., Quader S. 2017. Playing it safe? Behavioural responses of mosquito larvae encountering a fish predator. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 1-18.
Isvaran K., Sankaran S. 2017 Do extra-group fertilisations consistently increase the potential for sexual selection in male mammals? Biology Letters 13:20170313
Bhattacharya M., Isvaran K., Balakrishnan R. 2017. A statistical approach to understanding reproductive isolation in two sympatric species of tree crickets. Journal of Experimental Biology 220(7):1222-1232.
Karkarey R., Zambre A., Isvaran K., Arthur R. 2017 Alternative reproductive tactics and inverse size-assortment in a high-density fish spawning aggregation. BMC ecology 17(1):10
Jambhekar R.M., Isvaran K. 2016 Impact of the invasive weed Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) on butterfly behaviour and habitat use in a tropical forest in India. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 70(4):302-310.
Krishna YC., Kumar A., Isvaran K. 2016. Wild ungulate decision-making and the role of tiny refuges in human-dominated landscapes. Plos one 11(3): e0151748.
Murthy A., Sharma M., Amith-Kumar UR., Isvaran K. 2016. Groups constrain the use of risky habitat by individuals: a new cost to sociality. Animal Behaviour 113:167-175
Naniwadekar R., Shukla U., Isvaran K., Datta A. 2015. Reduced hornbill abundance associated with low seed arrival and altered recruitment in a hunted and logged tropical forest. PloS one 10(3) e0120062
Varma V., Ratnam J., Viswanathan V., Osuri A.M., Biesmeijer J.C., Madhusudan M.D., Sankaran M., Krishnadas M., Baruah D., Budruki M., Isvaran K., Jayapal R., Joshi J., Karanth K.K., Krishnaswamy J., Kumar R., Mukherjee S., Nagendra H., Niphadkar M., Owen N., Page N., Prasad S., Quader S., Nandini R., Robin V.V., Sait S.M., Shah M.A., Somanathan H., Srinivasan U., Sundaram B. 2015. Perceptions of priority issues in the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India. Biological Conservation 187:201-211
Naniwadekar R., Mishra C., Isvaran K., Madhusudan M.D., Datta A. 2014. Looking beyond parks: conservation value of "unprotected areas" for hornbills in Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya. Oryx 49:303-311
Isvaran K., Ponkshe A. 2013. How general is a female mating preference for clustered males in lekking species? A meta-analysis. Animal Behaviour 86:417-425
Jadeja S., Prasad S., Quader S., Isvaran K. 2013. Antelope mating strategies facilitate invasion of grasslands by a woody weed. Oikos 122:1441-1452
Velho N., Isvaran K., Datta A. 2012. Rodent seed predation: effects on seed survival, recruitment, abundance and dispersion of bird-dispersed tropical trees. Oecologia 169:995–1004
Rachakonda S, Deodhar S, and Kulkarni Y. 2010. Predation on Hemidactylus treutleri (Squamata: Gekkonidae) by the peninsular rock agama Psammophilus dorsalis (Squamata: Agamidae) in Rishi Valley, Andhra Pradesh, India. Herpetology Notes 3: 33–5.
Velho N., Datta A., Isvaran K. 2009. Effect of rodents on seed fate of tree species in a tropical forest in north-east India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25:507–514
Karnad D., Isvaran K., Kar C.S., Shanker K. 2009. Lighting the way: Reducing misorientation of olive ridley hatchlings due to artificial lighting at Rushikulya, India. Biological Conservation 142: 2083–2088
Clutton-Brock T.H., Isvaran K. 2007. Sex differences in ageing in natural populations of vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 274:3097–3104
Isvaran K. 2007. Intraspecific variation in group size in the blackbuck antelope: the roles of habitat structure and forage at different spatial scales. Oecologia 154:435–444
Isvaran K., Clutton-Brock T.H. 2007. Ecological correlates of extra-group paternity in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 274:219–224
Clutton-Brock T.H., Isvaran K. 2006. Paternity loss in contrasting mammalian societies. Biology Letters2:513–516
Isvaran K. 2005. Variation in male mating behaviour within ungulate populations: patterns and processes. Current Science 89:1192–1199
Isvaran K. 2005. Female grouping best predicts lekking in blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57:283–294
Quader S., Isvaran K., Hale R., Miner B., Seavy N. 2004. Nonlinear relationships and phylogenetically independent contrasts. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:709–715
Isvaran K., St.Mary C.M. 2003. When should males lek? Insights from a dynamic state variable model.Behavioral Ecology 14:876–886
Isvaran K., Jhala Y.V. 2000. Lekking costs in blackbuck: relationship to lek-territory position and female mating patterns. Behaviour 137:547–563
McCauley S.J., Bouchard S.S., Farina B.J., Isvaran K., Quader S., Wood D.M., St Mary C.M. 2000. Energetic dynamics and anuran breeding phenology: insights from a dynamic game. Behavioral Ecology 11 (4):429–436