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Overview

K. Ullas Karanth is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States and has contributed research primarily within the field of Environmental Science.

Their main subfields of study include Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The primary topics of their research work encompass:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Frequent publication venues reflect their focus and include:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Global Ecology and Conservation

Regular collaborators in their research efforts are:

  • N. Samba Kumar
  • Krithi K. Karanth
  • Anisha Jayadevan
  • Rajat Nayak
  • Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Key recent papers authored or contributed to by K. Ullas Karanth include:

  • "Tigers against the odds: Applying macro-ecology to species recovery in India" (2020) published in Biological Conservation
  • "Navigating paved paradise: Evaluating landscape permeability to movement for large mammals in two conservation priority landscapes in India" (2020) published in Biological Conservation
  • "Rigorous assessment of a unique tiger recovery in Southeast Asia based on photographic capture-recapture modeling of population dynamics" (2024) published in Global Ecology and Conservation

Best Publications

  • Human-Carnivore Conflict and Perspectives on Carnivore Management Worldwide

    Adrian Treves;K. Ullas Karanth

  • ESTIMATION OF TIGER DENSITIES IN INDIA USING PHOTOGRAPHIC CAPTURES AND RECAPTURES

    K. Ullas Karanth;James D. Nichols

  • Tigers and their prey: Predicting carnivore densities from prey abundance

    K. Ullas Karanth;James D. Nichols;N. Samba Kumar;William A. Link

  • Prey selection by tiger, leopard and dhole in tropical forests

    K. Ullas Karanth;Melvin E. Sunquist

  • Camera Traps in Animal Ecology

    Allan F. O’Connell;James D. Nichols;K. Ullas Karanth

  • Behavioural correlates of predation by tiger (Panthera tigris), leopard (Panthera pardus) and dhole (Cuon alpinus) in Nagarahole, India

    K. Ullas Karanth;Melvin E. Sunquist

  • ASSESSING TIGER POPULATION DYNAMICS USING PHOTOGRAPHIC CAPTURE-RECAPTURE SAMPLING

    K. Ullas Karanth;James D. Nichols;N. Samba Kumar;James E. Hines

  • Estimating tiger Panthera tigris populations from camera-trap data using capture-recapture models

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  • Bringing the Tiger Back from the Brink—The Six Percent Solution

    Joe Walston;John G. Robinson;Elizabeth L Bennett;Urs Breitenmoser

  • Bayesian inference in camera trapping studies for a class of spatial capture–recapture models

    J. Andrew Royle;K. Ullas Karanth;Arjun M. Gopalaswamy;N. Samba Kumar

  • Monitoring carnivore populations at the landscape scale: occupancy modelling of tigers from sign surveys.

    Kota Ullas Karanth;Arjun M. Gopalaswamy;Arjun M. Gopalaswamy;Narayanarao Samba Kumar;Srinivas Vaidyanathan

  • Tigers on trails: occupancy modeling for cluster sampling.

    J. E. Hines;J. D. Nichols;J. A. Royle;D. I. MacKenzie

  • Spatio-temporal interactions facilitate large carnivore sympatry across a resource gradient

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  • A hierarchical model for estimating density in camera‐trap studies

    J. Andrew Royle;James D. Nichols;K. Ullas Karanth;Arjun M. Gopalaswamy

  • Population structure, density and biomass of large herbivores in the tropical forests of Nagarahole, India

    K. Ullas Karanth;Melvin E. Sunquist

  • Diet and prey profiles of three sympatric large carnivores in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, India

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  • Carnivore conservation at the crossroads

    K. Ullas Karanth;Ravi Chellam

  • Estimation of tiger densities in the tropical dry forests of Panna, Central India, using photographic capture–recapture sampling

    K. Ullas Karanth;Raghunandan S. Chundawat;James D. Nichols;N. Samba Kumar

  • Translocation as a tool for mitigating conflict with leopards in human-dominated landscapes of India

    Vidya Athreya;Morten Odden;Morten Odden;John D. C. Linnell;K. Ullas Karanth

  • The shrinking ark: patterns of large mammal extinctions in India.

    Krithi K. Karanth;Krithi K. Karanth;James D. Nichols;K. Ullas Karanth;James E. Hines

  • Prioritisation of conservation areas in the Western Ghats, India

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

  • Evaluation of non-invasive genetic sampling methods for estimating tiger population size

    Samrat Mondol;K. Ullas Karanth;N. Samba Kumar;Arjun M. Gopalaswamy

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Krithi K. Karanth
Krithi K. Karanth Duke University
James D. Nichols
James D. Nichols United States Geological Survey
Jagdish Krishnaswamy
Jagdish Krishnaswamy Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Beth Gardner
Beth Gardner University of Washington
Uma Ramakrishnan
Uma Ramakrishnan National Centre for Biological Sciences
James E. Hines
James E. Hines United States Geological Survey
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
J. Andrew Royle
J. Andrew Royle United States Geological Survey
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

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