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Luxuriant evergreen forests of Mt. Harriet National Park

Lateritic plateaus of northern Western Ghats - we are trying to study impacts of land-use change on amphibians here

Moist deciduous forests of the Western Himalaya - we are trying to understand the effects of alien invasive Lantana camara on native plant-frugivore interactions

Sahyadri team (Nayantara, Vishal, Yukti and Siddharth) collected data from 120 vegetation plots spread across disturbance and climate gradient. PC: Siddharth Biniwale

Forest camp in Namdapha where Rintu & Himanshu spent six months studying plant-frugivore interactions. PC: Rintu Mandal

Diversity of seeds that the Andaman team (Arpitha, Aditya, Michael and Sujith) got in their seed traps to determine the role of dispersal limitation in driving transitions between evergreen and deciduous forest types. PC: Evan Nazareth

Lab retreat in Amboli in September 2022 (L-R: Vishal, Nayantara, Siddharth, Rohan, Ninad, Rohit, Himanshu, Arpitha, Yukti, Rintu, Pooja & Jithin)

Siddharth, Vishal and Nayantara (L-R) walking the 100 bird transect in Sahyadri 

Mubeen, Karthikayan and Michael (L-R) laying vegetation plots in Andamans

And thats the end of field season in Andamans - Arpitha, Michael, Sujith and Zankhna (L-R)

Yukti measuring fruit crop size of the invasive Lantana camara in the Western Himalaya site

Himanshu, Ninad and Vishal (L-R in camos) after helping Milind Patil and his team plant native evergreen trees on his land in northern Western Ghats

Jithin walking one of his last transects. His study aimed at determining impacts of land-use on herpetofauna on lateritic plateaus in Maharashtra