Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Fellow

Education

Ph.D Department of Environment of the Graduate School, Duke University, May 1999.
Masters in Statistics, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, May 1999.
Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 1989 .

Research Interests

My research will continue to seek answers to burning questions and needs in forest hydrology, ecosystem services, landscape ecology, protected area management, conservation planning and monitoring, and in general on science-based and socially just conservation. My research in 2007-2008 will continue to address questions such as:

Can we map bio-diversity in tropical forests using remotely sensed data?
Can we quantify and map landscape heterogeneity using remotely sensed data?
What are the impacts of forest degradation and climate change on hydrology of moist and dry forests in the Western Ghats? How does this affect water availability to communities downstream?
What are the synergies between biodiversity conservation and maintenance of hydrologic and other ecosystem services?
What are the biodiversity values of human managed ecosystems and their role in conservation of large mixed-use landscapes?

Experience

Work Experience

Convenor, Suri Sehgal Centre for Conservation Science, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, from February 2008.
Visiting scientist at Department of Systems Ecology and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stcokholm University, Nov 2007 to May 2008.
Fellow/Assistant Professor at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, from August 2001.
Faculty member and Senior Lecturer in Department of Habitat Ecology, Scientist-SD in Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India (www.wii.gov.in), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Environment and Forests from January, 2000 to August, 2001. GIS/Remote Sensing Applications, Statistics, hydrology and soil science.
Visiting Fellow in Remote Sensing and Watershed Hydrology at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE: www.atree.org) Jan 2000 to August 2001.
Post Doctoral Research Associate in Remote sensing and watershed hydrology, at ATREE, Bangalore. (Sep 1999-Jan 2000).
Research Assistant in soil and hydrologic, science, School of the Environment, Duke University, supervised by faculty member, Dan Richter (1992-93).
Worked as a water resources and environmental engineer for a national-level NGO, Development Alternatives, head quarters: New Delhi, India (1989-92).

Training courses attended

Two-month summer course in Tropical Managed Ecosystems, Costa Rica given by the Organization for Tropical studies (OTS), 1993.
Two week Course in Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing Applications in Vegetation Monitoring under the National Natural Resources Management Systems, Department of Space, Government of India (September, 1990).

Current Teaching

Probability, statistics and role of statistics in science, and applied landscape ecology. MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore.
Conservation Science and Research Methodology courses for the Ph.D programmes at National Institute of Advanced Studies and ATREE.

Student Supervision

MSc: Two Masters students at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun have been supervised by me.

The impact of land use change on litter beetle and ant communities in a coffee dominated landscape in Chickmagalur district, Karnataka. Student: Smitha Badrinarayanan. Degree awarded by Saurashtra University. 2002.
Fruit removal patterns in Emblica officinalis in Rajaji National Park, Uttranchal. Student: Soumya Prasad. Degree awarded by Saurashtra University. 2002.
Occupancy and habitat correlates of Four-horned antelope in Bandipur, India. Student: Chaitanya, MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore.
Biodiversity values of Coffee plantations in relation to local and landscape covariates:, M.O. Anand, MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore.
Currently Supervisor of Nachiket Kelkar, MSc student at TIFR-National Centre for Biological Sciences: Habitat use by Gangetic River Dolphin in Vikramshila sanctuary, Bihar.

Ph.D: Currently supervisor of one Ph.D student (Mr. Veerabasawant Reddy to be registered at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE): Ecosystem services from upstream forest conservation: Building knowledge and support for conservation amongst local, beneficiaries by quantification of hydrologic and sediment control services
and Co-supervisor of four Ph.D students in India and one in the USA. Co-supervised Ph.D research on Ecology and conservation of large mammalian herbivores in the tropical deciduous forests of southern India. Student: M.D. Madhusudan. National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, Degree Awarded by Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).
Ph.D. committee member of Mr. Vishal Mehta, Ph.D. candidate in hydrology at Department of Crop and Soil Science, Cornell University, U.S.A. (Graduated)
Co-supevisor of N. Samba Kumar and Vidya Athreya, Ph.D candidates, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).

Affiliations / Positions / Memberships

Membership and other positions:

Member of Gharial Conservation Alliance
Associate Member, National Insititute of Advanced Studies.
Member of Research Advisory Committee (DSIR), Centre for Wildlife Studies
Guest Faculty, National Centre for Biological Sciences.
Member of National Committee on Social and Economic Welfare
Ecological Society of America
Member of Editorial Board as Subject Editor, Biotropica

Grants / Awards / Honors

Grants received exclusively as Principal Investigator

2002-2003 $ 18100 from UN Foundation (Professionalizing management of World Heritage Sites)
2002-2003 $ 11,450 from Resources for the Future (Estimating biomass using remote sensing data)
2002-2003 $ 73,000 out of a $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation through UNESCO (Hydrology)
2002-2003 $ 6600 from Wildlife Conservation Society, NY through Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore for Sedimentation study in Kudremukh
2002-2005 $ 41,000 from Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. Gap analysis for Western Ghats
2005-2006 $27000 from Dorabjee Tata Trust for Prioritizing proposed World Heritage Sites in Western Ghats, India.
2005-2006 $5000 from UNESCO for Hydrologic Trend Analyses in Western Ghats
2006-2007 $4800 from Cornell University for studying impacts of forest degradation on soil and hydrology
2007-2008 $20,000 from UNDP for hydrological studies under Post-Tsunami assessment project
2008-2009 30,000 $ Grant from Save the Tiger Fund for multi-disciplinary project on "Valuation of Watershed Services of tiger habitat in the Western Ghats".

Scholarships, Awards and Grants

Pew Scholarship and Assistantship, School of the Environment, Duke University, 1992-93.
Travel Grant and Scholarship for summer course in Tropical managed Ecosystems, Costa Rica from Organization for Tropical Studies, summer 1993.
Award from Center for International Studies, Duke University for summer research in Costa Rica.
Tinker Field Research Grant Travel for summer research in Costa Rica, 1994.
Travel grant for summer research from Duke-UNC program in Latin American Studies, 1995.
School Scholarship, School of the Environment, Duke University, 1992-1993.
HRA Scholarship, Office of Student Development, Duke University, 1993-94.
Graduate Scholarship and Assistantship, School of the Environment, Duke University, 1994-98.
International Travel Award from Association for Tropical Biology, 2002.
Edda Sehgal Award for Conference Travel 2004.
International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Award for Travel, 2004.
START Global Young Scientist Award, 2004. Honorable Mention for award for best published paper.
Travel and workshop grant from UNESCO to attend Hydstra workshop in Landcare Institute, New Zealand. 2006 and 2007.

Complete Publications

Conferences and Publications

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Sediment Yield in a Humid Tropical Basin, session: Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Erosion and Sedimentation: Monitoring, Modeling and Management II; presented at the 1997 spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore. EOS, Transactions of American Geophysical Union, Vol. 78, No. 17, 1997 Supplement.
Impact of Forest Conversion on Soil Biogeochemistry in a Humid Tropical Environment, presented at the at Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, October 1997, Anaheim, California, 1997 Agronomy Abstracts, Oct. 1997.
Impact of Forest Conversion on Highly Weathered Soils in a Humid Tropical Environment, presented at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 1998, Baltimore, Maryland. Bulletin of the Ecological society of America, Vol. 79, No. 3, August 1998.
Dynamics of Fluvial Processes in a Humid Tropical Basin: A Statistical-Bayesian Approach, Session, Geomorphic Responses to Environmental Change, poster presentation at 1998 Spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Boston. EOS, Transactions of American Geophysical Union, Vol. 79, No. 17, 1998 Supplement.
Impact of Forest Conversion on Aggregate Stability of Highly Weathered Soils in a Humid Tropical Environment, presented at the Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, October 1998, Baltimore, Maryland, 1998, Agronomy Abstracts, Oct. 1998.
Consequences of forest conversion to coffee plantations on litter beetle and ant communities. Smitha Badrinarayanana, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Sharachchandra Lele and K. Chandrashekhara, page 162-163, Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical ecosystems, Association for Tropical Biology, Bangalore, India, 15-18 July, 2001. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
Fruit removal patterns and dispersal of Emblica officinalis (Euphorbiaceae) at Rajaji National Park, India, page 513-516, Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical ecosystems, Association for Tropical Biology, Bangalore, India, 15-18 July, 2001. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
Use of Remotely Sensed Imagery for Assessment, Conservation and Management of Biodiversity. , page 7. Bawa, Kamal S., Krishnaswamy Jagdish, Ganeshaiah, K.N Barve, N., Kiran M.C and Shaanker R. Uma. Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Forests: Past, Present and Future, Association for Tropical Biology, Panama City, Republic of Panama, Panama, 29 July-3 July, 2002.
Tree-Model Based Eco-climatic Vegetation Classification in Diverse Tropical Deciduous Ecosystems Using Multi-Seasonal NDVI. Krishnaswamy Jagdish, Kiran M.C and Ganeshaiah, K.N. page 144, Proceedings of the International Conference on Tropical Forests: Past, Present and Future, Association for Tropical Biology, Panama City, Republic of Panama, Panama, 29 July-3 July, 2002.
Assessing the effectiveness of PAs in conserving forest biomass: A case study from South India. Centennial Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, March 19, 2004 Philadelphia.
Effects of Forest Degradation on Watershed Processes in the Dry Deciduous Forests of South India. Krishnaswamy Jagdish, Vishal Mehta and Pradeep Joshi. Forests and Water in Warm Humid Asia, Proceedings of a Workshop of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Forest Hydrology Working Group, 10-12 July 2004, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
Impact of iron ore mining in Kudremukh on the Bhadra River ecosystem, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Milind Bunyan, Vishal Mehta, Narendra Patil and S. Naveenkumar. Forests and Water in Warm Humid Asia, Proceedings of a Workshop of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Forest Hydrology Working Group, 10-12 July 2004, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
Dispersal of seeds that ruminants regurgitate: Phyllanthus emblica Linn. (Euphorbiaceae) at Rajaji National Park, India. Page 101. Prasad, S., Krishnaswamy, J. and Chellam, R. (2005). in Proceedings of the IV International Symposium / Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal. Brisbane, Australia.

Peer Reviewed Journal Papers (Published/In Press/Accepted)

Krishnaswamy, J. L. Michael, Richter, D.D and Korfmacher, K. (2000). 'Dynamic Modeling of Long-term Sedimentation in the Yadkin River basin', Advances in Water Resources. 23(8).
Krisaswamy, J. Ricter, D.D., Halpin, P. and Hofmockel, M. (2001). 'Spatial Patterns of Suspended Sediment Yields in a Humid Tropical Watershed in Costa Rica', Hydrological Processes. 15: 2237-2257.
Krishnaswamy, J., Halpin, P.N. and Richter, D. (2001). 'Dynamics of sediment discharge in relation to land-use and hydro-climatology in a tropical, humid watershed', J. of Hydrology. 253, 91-109.
Krishnaswamy, J., Richter, D.D (2002). 'Properties of advanced-weathering stage soils in Tropical Forests and Pastures', J.Soil Science Society of America. 66:244-253.
Krishnaswamy, J., Kiran, M.C. and Ganeshaiah, K.N. (2003). 'Tree model based eco-climatic vegetation classification and fuzzy mapping in diverse tropical deciduous ecosystems using multi-season NDVI', International Journal of Remote Sensing. 25 (6): 1185-1205.
Prasad, S., Chellam, R., Krishnaswamy, J. and Goyal, S.P. (2004). 'Frugivory of Phyllanthus Emblica in Rajaji National Park, North West India', Current Science 87(9): 1188:1190.
Krishnaswamy, J.,Bunyan, M., Mehta, V.K., Jain, N. and Karanth, K.U. (2006). Impact of iron ore mining on suspended sediment response in a tropical catchment in Kudremukh, Western Ghats, India. Forest Ecology and Management. 224:187-198. ForestEcol_Man_paperpubli.pdf
Prasad, S. Krishnaswamy, J. Chellam, R., Goyal, S.P. (2006). Ruminant mediated dispersal of Phyllanthus Emblica in Rajaji National Park, India. Biotropica 38(5):679-682.
Das, A., Krishnaswamy, J., Bawa, K.S., Kiran, M.C., Srinivas, V., Samba Kumar, N., Karanth, K.U. 2006. Prioritization of Conservation areas in the Western Ghats, India. Biological Conservation 133:16:31. prioritisation.pdf
Bali, A., A. Kumar, and J. Krishnaswamy. 2007. The mammalian communities in coffee Plantations around a protected area in the Western Ghats, India. Biological Conservation 139:93-102.
Anand M.O, Krishnaswamy, J* and Das, A. 2008 Proximity to forests drives bird conservation value of shade-coffee plantations: Implications for certification. Ecological Applications *Corresponding author. (In Press)
Krishna Chaitanya, Krishnaswamy, J and N. Samba Kumar. 2008 Habitat factors affecting four horned antelope site occupancy and relative abundance in India. . Journal of Zoology. 1-8.
Mehta, V.K.; Sullivan, Patrick J.; Walter, M. Todd; Krishnaswamy, J and DeGloria, Stephen D. Impacts of disturbance on soil properties in a dry tropical forest in southern India. Ecohydrology. (In Press).
Mehta, Vishal K.; Sullivan, Patrick J.; Walter, M. Todd; Krishnaswamy, J; DeGloria, Stephen D.; Impacts of disturbance on soil properties in a dry tropical forest in southern India. Ecohydrology (In Press).
Y.C. Krishna, P. Clyne, J. Krishnaswamy and N.S. Kumar. Distributional and ecological review of the four horned antelope Tetracerus quadricornis" Mammalia. (Accepted).

Books

Hydrology and watershed services in the Western Ghats, India. 2006. (Ed.) Krishnaswamy, J., Lele, S., Jayakumar, R. Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.

Contact

jagdish@atree.org, jagdish.krishnaswamy@gmail.com