We seek to understand the processes that allow species to coexist and thus maintain diversity in ecological communities. We use functional traits—heritable characteristics that mediate species’ response to different conditions—to understand patterns and processes that shape biodiversity in different ecosystems.

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Lab 23, National Centre for Biological Sciences

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  • Soumya Prasad, Meghna Krishnadas, Kim R McConkey, Aparajita Datta (2013) The tangled causes of population decline in two harvested plant species: a comment on Ticktin et al.
  • Varun R. Goswami, Divya Vasudev [email protected], Divya Karnad, Yarlagadda Chaitanya Krishna, Meghna Krishnadas, Milind Pariwakam, Tarun Nair, Anish Andheria, Sachin Sridhara, and Imran Siddiqui (2013) Conflict of human–wildlife coexistence
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  • MEGHNA KRISHNADAS, TARUN NAIR and DIVYA KARNAD Equality in Conservation: Comment on Bawa et al. 2011
  • Soumya Prasad, Meghna Krishnadas, Kim R. McConkey, Aparajita Datta (2014) The tangled causes of population decline in two harvested plant species: a comment on Ticktin et al. (2012)
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