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Ecology and Evolution
India
2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
14830
World Ranking
3955
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award
  • 1991 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society
  • Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society

Overview

Madhav Gadgil is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, plant science, ecology, and political science and international relations.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
  • Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

Madhav Gadgil's recent publications include:

  • "Indigenous knowledge: From local to global", 2021, AMBIO
  • "Ecosystem People, Biosphere People, Ecological Refugees", 2023, Social Change
  • "The Role of Green Supply Chain Management in Enhancing Corporate Sustainability Performance", 2024, Universal Research Reports
  • "Sunderlal Bahuguna (1927-2021)", 2021, Social Change
  • "Deploying Modern ICT Tools to Develop Gramsabha Level Plans for Conserving and Managing Community Forest Resources", 2021, Journal of Ecological Society

Frequent co-authors of Gadgil include:

  • Fikret Berkes
  • Carl Folke
  • Vijay Edlabadkar

The most common publication venues for Madhav Gadgil are:

  • Social Change
  • AMBIO
  • Universal Research Reports
  • Journal of Ecological Society

Madhav Gadgil has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research:

  • Pitting man against nature, 2022

Among the awards received, Madhav Gadgil was made a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1991 and was elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences the same year. The scientist is also an Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society.

Best Publications

  • Life Historical Consequences of Natural Selection

    Madhav Gadgil;William H. Bossert

  • Indigenous Knowledge for Biodiversity Conservation

    Madhav Gadgil;Fikret Berkes;Carl Folke

  • The Concept of r- and K-Selection: Evidence from Wild Flowers and Some Theoretical Considerations

    Madhav Gadgil;Otto T. Solbrig

  • This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India

    Madhav Gadgil;Ramachandra Guha

  • Dispersal: Population Consequences and Evolution

    Madhav Gadgil

  • Growth Form and Reproductive Effort in Goldenrods (Solidago, Compositae)

    Warren G. Abrahamson;Madhav Gadgil

  • CARBON FLOW IN INDIAN FORESTS

    N. H. Ravindranath;B. S. Somashekhar;Madhav Gadgil

  • Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

    Madhav Gadgil;Ramachandra Guha

  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Biodiversity, Resilience and Sustainability

    Fikret Berkes;Carl Folke;Madhav Gadgil

  • Male Dimorphism as a Consequence of Sexual Selection

    Madhav Gadgil

  • The Sacred Groves of Western Ghats in India

    Madhav Gadgil;V. D. Vartak

  • NEW MEANINGS FOR OLD KNOWLEDGE: THE PEOPLE'S BIODIVERSITY REGISTERS PROGRAM

    Madhav Gadgil;P. R. Seshagiri Rao;G. Utkarsh;P. Pramod

  • Growth form and reproductive effort in goldenrods

    Warren G. Abrahamson;M. Gadgil

  • Male-female differences in foraging on crops by Asian elephants

    R. Sukumar;Madhav Gadgil

  • Minireviews: Exploring the Basic Ecological Unit: Ecosystem-like Concepts in Traditional Societies

    Fikret Berkes;Mina Kislalioglu;Carl Folke;Madhav Gadgil

  • Diversity without representation

    Michel Loreau;Alfred Oteng-Yeboah;M.T.K. Arroyo;Didier Babin

  • Demographic history of India and mtDNA-sequence diversity.

    Joanna L. Mountain;Joan M. Hebert;Silanjan Bhattacharyya;Peter A. Underhill

  • Traditional Resource Management Systems

    Madhav Gadgil;Fikret Berkes

  • INTERNATIONAL ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT

    Edward Ayensu;Daniel R. van Claasen;Mark Collins;Andrew Dearing

  • Ecological conflicts and the environmental movement in India.

    Madhav Gadgil;Ramachandra Guha

  • Exploring the Basic Ecological Unit: Ecosystem-like Concepts in Traditional Societies

    Fikret Berkes;Mina Kislalioglu;Carl Folke;Madhav Gadgil

Frequent Co-Authors

Fikret Berkes
Fikret Berkes University of Manitoba
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Sulochana Gadgil
Sulochana Gadgil Indian Institute of Science
N. H. Ravindranath
N. H. Ravindranath Indian Institute of Science
Harini Nagendra
Harini Nagendra Azim Premji University
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Stanford University
Warren G. Abrahamson
Warren G. Abrahamson Bucknell University
Charles Perrings
Charles Perrings Arizona State University
Peter A. Underhill
Peter A. Underhill Stanford University
Harold A. Mooney
Harold A. Mooney Stanford University

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