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Kartik Shanker is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications spanning several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, such as Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Turtle Biology and Conservation, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Kartik Shanker include:

  • Mixed company: a framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed-species animal groups (2020), published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice (2021), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Mitigation of Elasmobranch Bycatch in Trawlers: A Case Study in Indian Fisheries (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Reflections on sea turtle conservation (2020), published in Oryx
  • Adaptation of sea turtles to climate warming: Will phenological responses be sufficient to counteract changes in reproductive output? (2023), published in Global Change Biology

Frequent collaborators in Kartik Shanker's research include:

  • S.R. Ganesh
  • Achyuthan N. Srikanthan
  • Chetan Rao
  • Shawn Dsouza
  • Ashok Kumar Mallik

Kartik Shanker's work has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zootaxa
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • PLoS ONE
  • Ocean & Coastal Management

Best Publications

  • Global research priorities for sea turtles: informing management and conservation in the 21st century

    M. Hamann;M.H. Godfrey;J.A. Seminoff;K. Arthur

  • Why do birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks? A large-scale synthesis

    Hari Sridhar;Guy Beauchamp;Kartik Shanker

  • Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications

    Bram Büscher;Robert Fletcher;Dan Brockington;Chris Sandbrook

  • Are we working towards global research priorities for management and conservation of sea turtles

    A.F. Rees;J. Alfaro-Shigueto;P.C.R. Barata;K.A. Bjorndal

  • ELEVATIONAL SPECIES RICHNESS PATTERNS EMERGE FROM MULTIPLE LOCAL MECHANISMS IN HIMALAYAN WOODY PLANTS

    Meera Anna Oommen;Kartik Shanker

  • Shelter from the storm? Use and misuse of coastal vegetation bioshields for managing natural disasters

    Rusty A. Feagin;Nibedita Mukherjee;Nibedita Mukherjee;Kartik Shanker;Kartik Shanker;Andrew H. Baird

  • Marine turtles and IUCN Red Listing: A review of the process, the pitfalls, and novel assessment approaches

    Jeffrey A. Seminoff;Kartik Shanker

  • An assessment of the olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting population in Orissa, India

    Kartik Shanker;Bivash Pandav;B.C. Choudhury

  • Phylogeography unplugged: comparative surveys in the genomic era

    Brian W Bowen;Kartik Shanker;Nina Yasuda;Maria Celia (Machel) D Malay

  • Mixed company: a framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed-species animal groups.

    Eben Goodale;Hari Sridhar;Hari Sridhar;Kathryn E. Sieving;Priti Bangal

  • Phylogeography of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) on the east coast of India: implications for conservation theory.

    K. Shanker;J. Ramadevi;B. C. Choudhury;L. Singh

  • Positive relationships between association strength and phenotypic similarity characterize the assembly of mixed-species bird flocks worldwide.

    Hari Sridhar;Umesh Srinivasan;Robert A Askins;Julio Cesar Canales-Delgadillo

  • Glaciations, gradients, and geography: multiple drivers of diversification of bush frogs in the Western Ghats Escarpment.

    S. P. Vijayakumar;Riya Christina Menezes;Aditi Jayarajan;Kartik Shanker

  • Advancing Biodiversity Research in Developing Countries: The Need for Changing Paradigms

    Paul H Barber;Ma Carmen A Ablan-Lagman;Ambariyanto;Roberto Gs Berlinck

  • Lineage delimitation and description of nine new species of bush frogs (Anura: Raorchestes, Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats Escarpment.

    S P Vijayakumar;K P Dinesh;Mrugank V Prabhu;Kartik Shanker

  • THE OLIVE RIDLEY SEA TURTLE (LEPIDOCHELYS OLIVACEA) IN ORISSA : AN URGENT CALL FOR AN INTENSIVE AND INTEGRATED CONSERVATION PROGRAMME

    B. Pandav;B. C. Choudhury;K. Shanker

  • Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice

    Lauren F. Rudd;Shorna Allred;Julius G. Bright Ross;Darragh Hare;Darragh Hare

  • Jurassic frogs and the evolution of amphibian endemism in the Western Ghats

    Sushil Kumar Dutta;Karthikeyan Vasudevan;Kartik Shanker;K Ramesh Aggarwal

  • Development and characterization of novel microsatellite markers from the olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)

    Ramesh K. Aggarwal;T. P. Velavan;D. Udaykumar;P. S. Hendre

  • Science in the wilderness: the predicament of scientific research in India's wildlife reserves

    M. D. Madhusudan;Kartik Shanker;Ajith Kumar;Charudutt Mishra

  • Using intra-flock association patterns to understand why birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks in terrestrial habitats

    Hari Sridhar;Kartik Shanker

  • Mitigation of Elasmobranch Bycatch in Trawlers: A Case Study in Indian Fisheries

    Trisha Gupta;Hollie Booth;William Arlidge;Chetan Rao

Frequent Co-Authors

Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Université Libre de Bruxelles
Nico Koedam
Nico Koedam Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Bram Büscher
Bram Büscher Wageningen University & Research
Brendan J. Godley
Brendan J. Godley University of Exeter
Matthew H. Godfrey
Matthew H. Godfrey Duke University
Lisa M. Campbell
Lisa M. Campbell Duke University
Jeffrey A. Seminoff
Jeffrey A. Seminoff National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Annette C. Broderick
Annette C. Broderick University of Exeter
Jagdish Krishnaswamy
Jagdish Krishnaswamy Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Dan Brockington
Dan Brockington University of Sheffield

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