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Ankila Hiremath has a PhD in Botany (Ecology) from the University of Florida (1999). She currently coordinates collaborations in forest ecology and conservation at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.
Her research has been on questions related to conservation, restoration, and sustainable resource use, at the interface of human and natural systems. She has worked over the past two and a half decades in forests and savannas of the Biligiri Rangan Hills in Karnataka and the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, and in the Banni grasslands of Kutch. Much of this work has been on the ecological, socioeconomic, and human-wellbeing impacts of invasive alien species and their management for habitat restoration, and the role of invasive alien species in novel social-ecological systems. She is also interested in the ecology of fires, and the potential role of historical fire regimes, especially cultural burning, in savannas, in the context of climate change.
Apart from her research she is interested in how conservation science can be communicated to wider audiences. She had the privilege of working with the conservation magazine, Current Conservation, in its early years and to help co-start the magazine’s children’s supplement, CC Kids. She currently collaborates with colleagues on a citizen science project, Mapping Invasive Alien Plants, to create an Indian atlas of invasive plants and to raise awareness about invasive species with the involvement of interested volunteers.
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