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Jagdish Krishnaswamy is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Recent publications by Krishnaswamy illustrate their multidisciplinary approach across environmental research. Notable papers include:

  • "Prioritizing India's landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being" (2023, Nature Sustainability)
  • "Measuring precipitation in Eastern Himalaya: Ground validation of eleven satellite, model and gauge interpolated gridded products" (2021, Journal of Hydrology)
  • "River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research" (2020, Environmental Research Letters)
  • "Securing biodiversity, securing our future: A national mission on biodiversity and human well-being for India" (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • "Envisioning a biodiversity science for sustaining human well-being" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Krishnaswamy frequently collaborates with several researchers. Prominent co-authors include Nachiket Kelkar, Srinivas Vaidyanathan, Mahesh Sankaran, Uma Ramakrishnan, and Manish Kumar.

Their work has been published repeatedly in key venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Hydrology, Nature Sustainability, Biological Conservation, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Big cats in our backyards: Persistence of large carnivores in a human dominated landscape in India

    Vidya Athreya;Morten Odden;John Durrus Linnell;Jagdish Krishnaswamy

  • The utility of weather and climate information for adaptation decision-making: current uses and future prospects in Africa and India

    Chandni Singh;Joseph Daron;Amir Bazaz;Gina Ziervogel

  • Prioritisation of conservation areas in the Western Ghats, India

    Arundhati Das;Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Kamaljit S. Bawa;M.C. Kiran

  • The Impact of forest use and reforestation on soil hydraulic conductivity in the Western Ghats of India: Implications for surface and sub-surface hydrology

    M. Bonell;B.K. Purandara;B. Venkatesh;Jagdish Krishnaswamy

  • A cat among the dogs: leopard Panthera pardus diet in a human-dominated landscape in western Maharashtra, India

    Vidya Athreya;Morten Odden;John D. C. Linnell;Jagdish Krishnaswamy

  • Consistent response of vegetation dynamics to recent climate change in tropical mountain regions.

    Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Robert John;Shijo Joseph

  • Quantifying and mapping biodiversity and ecosystem services : Utility of a multi-season NDVI based Mahalanobis distance surrogate

    Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Kamaljit S. Bawa;K.N. Ganeshaiah;M.C. Kiran

  • New policy directions for global pond conservation

    Matthew J. Hill;Christopher Hassall;Beat Oertli;Lenore Fahrig

  • Sustaining biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes in the Western Ghats: Remnant forests matter

    M.O. Anand;M.O. Anand;Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Ajith Kumar;Archana Bali

  • Non-stationary and non-linear influence of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole on the variability of Indian monsoon rainfall and extreme rain events

    Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Srinivas Vaidyanathan;Balaji Rajagopalan;Mike Bonell

  • The mammalian communities in coffee plantations around a protected area in the Western Ghats, India

    Archana Bali;Archana Bali;Ajith Kumar;Jagdish Krishnaswamy

  • Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being

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  • Measuring precipitation in Eastern Himalaya: Ground validation of eleven satellite, model and gauge interpolated gridded products

    Manish Kumar;Øivind Hodnebrog;Anne Sophie Daloz;Sumit Sen

  • Proximity to forests drives bird conservation value of coffee plantations: implications for certification.

    Mandyam Osuri Anand;Mandyam Osuri Anand;Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Arundhati Das;Arundhati Das

  • Properties of Advanced Weathering-Stage Soils in Tropical Forests and Pastures

    Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Daniel D. Richter

  • Coexistence of Fisheries with River Dolphin Conservation

    Nachiket Kelkar;Nachiket Kelkar;Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Sunil Choudhary;Dipani Sutaria

  • Tree model based eco-climatic vegetation classification and fuzzy mapping in diverse tropical deciduous ecosystems using multi-season NDVI

    J. Krishnaswamy;M. C. Kiran;K. N. Ganeshaiah

  • The rain-runoff response of tropical humid forest ecosystems to use and reforestation in the Western Ghats of India

    Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Michael Bonell;Basappa Venkatesh;Bekal K. Purandara

  • River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research

    Suman Jumani;Matthew J Deitch;David Kaplan;Elizabeth P Anderson

  • Dynamics of sediment discharge in relation to land-use and hydro-climatology in a humid tropical watershed in Costa Rica

    Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Patrick N. Halpin;Daniel D. Richter

  • Spatial patterns of suspended sediment yields in a humid tropical watershed in Costa Rica

    Jagdish Krishnaswamy;Daniel D. Richter;Patrick N. Halpin;Michael S. Hofmockel

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Ullas Karanth
K. Ullas Karanth Wildlife Conservation Society
Krithi K. Karanth
Krithi K. Karanth Duke University
James D. Nichols
James D. Nichols United States Geological Survey
Beth Gardner
Beth Gardner University of Washington
Mahesh Sankaran
Mahesh Sankaran University of Leeds
Daniel Richter
Daniel Richter Duke University
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Kartik Shanker
Kartik Shanker Indian Institute of Science
Kamaljit S. Bawa
Kamaljit S. Bawa University of Massachusetts Boston
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

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