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Wordley CFR, Sankaran M, Mudappa D, Altringham JD.
2017. Bats in the Ghats: Agricultural intensification reduces functional diversity and increases trait filtering in a biodiversity hotspot in India. Biological Conservation. 210:48-55.
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Koerner SE, Smith MD, Burkepile DE, Hanan NP, Avolio ML, Collins SL, Knapp AK, Lemoine NP, Forrestel EJ, Eby S et al..
2018. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity.. Nat Ecol Evol.
Anujan K, Ratnam J, Sankaran M.
2022. Chronic browsing by an introduced mammalian herbivore in a tropical island alters species composition and functional traits of forest understory plant communities. BIOTROPICA .
Bardgett RD, Bullock JM, Lavorel S, Manning P, Schaffner U, Ostle N, Chomel M, Durigan G, Fry EL, Johnson D et al..
2021. Combatting global grassland degradation. NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT.
Griffith DM, Lehmann CER, Strömberg CAE, Parr CL, R Pennington T, Sankaran M, Ratnam J, Still CJ, Powell RL, Hanan NP et al..
2017. Comment on "The extent of forest in dryland biomes".. Science. 358(6365)
Veldman JW, Aleman JC, Alvarado ST, T Anderson M, Archibald S, Bond WJ, Boutton TW, Buchmann N, Buisson E, Canadell JG et al..
2019. Comment on "The global tree restoration potential".. Science. 366(6463)
Goheen JR, Augustine DJ, Veblen KE, Kimuyu DM, Palmer TM, Porensky LM, Pringle RM, Ratnam J, Riginos C, Sankaran M et al..
2018. Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE, UHURU, and GLADE experiments.. Ann N Y Acad Sci.
Osuri AM, Ratnam J, Varma V, Alvarez-Loayza P, Astaiza JHurtado, Bradford M, Fletcher C, Ndoundou-Hockemba M, Jansen PA, Kenfack D et al..
2016. Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics.. Nat Commun. 7:11351.
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Iyengar SB, Sumanta B., Barua D, Mishra C, Sankaran M.
2017. A dominant dwarf shrub increases diversity of herbaceous plant communities in a Trans-Himalayan rangeland. Plant Ecology. 218(7):843–854.
Sankaran M, Staver C.
2019. Droughts and the ecological future of tropical savanna vegetation. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. 107(4):1531-1549.
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Varma V, Catherin AM, Sankaran M.
2018. Effects of increased N and P availability on biomass allocation and root carbohydrate reserves differ between N-fixing and non-N-fixing savanna tree seedlings.. Ecol Evol. 8(16):8467-8476.
Varma V, Iyengar SB, Sankaran M.
2016. Effects of nutrient addition and soil drainage on germination of N-fixing and non-N-fixing tropical dry forest tree species . Plant Ecology. 217(1043–1054):1043–1054.
Daleo P, Alberti J, Chaneton EJ, Iribarne O, Tognetti PM, Bakker JD, Borer ET, Bruschetti M, MacDougall AS, Pascual J et al..
2023. Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass.. Nat Commun. 14(1):1809.
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Sriramamurthy R.T., Bhalla R.S, Sankaran M.
2020. Fire differentially affects mortality and seedling regeneration of three woody invaders in forest-grassland mosaics of the southern Western Ghats, India. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS.
Joshi AA, Ratnam J, Sankaran M.
2019. Frost maintains forests and grasslands as alternate states in a montane tropical forest–grassland mosaic; but alien tree invasion and warming can disrupt this balance. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY.
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Hautier Y, Zhang P, Loreau M, Wilcox KR, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Byrnes JEK, Koerner SE, Komatsu KJ, Lefcheck JS et al..
2020. General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales.. Nat Commun. 11(1):5375.
Wigley BJ, Augustine DJ, Coetsee C, Ratnam J, Sankaran M.
2020. Grasses continue to trump trees at soil carbon sequestration following herbivore exclusion in a semi-arid African savanna.. Ecology. :e03008.
Kohli M, Mijiddorj TNadia, Suryawanshi KRamesh, Mishra C, Boldgiv B, Sankaran M.
2020. Grazing and climate change have site-dependent interactive effects on vegetation in Asian montane rangelands. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY.
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Wordley CFR, Sankaran M, Mudappa D, Altringham JD.
2018. Heard but not seen: Comparing bat assemblages and study methods in a mosaic landscape in the Western Ghats of India.. Ecol Evol. 8(8):3883-3894.
Willemen L, Barger NN, Brink Bten, Cantele M, Erasmus BFN, Fisher JL, Gardner T, Holland TG, Kohler F, Kotiaho JS et al..
2020. How to halt the global decline of lands. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY.
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Augustine DJ, Wigley BJ, Ratnam J, Kibet S, Nyangito M, Sankaran M.
2019. Large herbivores maintain a two-phase herbaceous vegetation mosaic in a semi-arid savanna.. Ecol Evol. 9(22):12779-12788.
Coverdale TC, O'Connell RD, Hutchinson MC, Savagian A, Kartzinel TR, Palmer TM, Goheen JR, Augustine DJ, Sankaran M, Tarnita CE et al..
2021. Large herbivores suppress liana infestation in an African savanna.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118(41)
Hautier Y, Isbell F, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, W Harpole S, Lind EM, MacDougall AS, Stevens CJ, Adler PB, Alberti J et al..
2018. Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality.. Nat Ecol Evol. 2(1):50-56.
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Rasquinha DN, Sankaran M.
2016. Modelling biome shifts in the Indian subcontinent under scenarios of future climate change . Current Science. 111(1):147-156.
Riedel N, Fuller DQ, Marwan N, Poretschkin C, Basavaiah N, Menzel P, Ratnam J, Prasad S, Sachse D, Sankaran M et al..
2021. Monsoon forced evolution of savanna and the spread of agro-pastoralism in peninsular India.. Sci Rep. 11(1):9032.
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Tognetti PM, Prober SM, Báez S, Chaneton EJ, Firn J, Risch AC, Schuetz M, Simonsen AK, Yahdjian L, Borer ET et al..
2021. Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118(28)
Varma V, Sankaran M.
2021. Nutrient deposition enhances post-fire survival in non-N-fixing savanna tree seedlings. JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE. 32(2):e13020.
Ebeling A, Strauss AT, Adler PB, Arnillas CA, Barrio IC, Biederman LA, Borer ET, Bugalho MN, Caldeira MC, Cadotte MW et al..
2021. Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY .
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Bawa KS, Nawn N, Chellam R, Krishnaswamy J, Mathur V, Olsson SB, Pandit N, Rajagopal P, Sankaran M, R Shaanker U et al..
2020. Opinion: Envisioning a biodiversity science for sustaining human well-being.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
Arnillas CAlberto, Borer E, Seabloom E, Alberti J, Báez S, Bakker J, Boughton E, Buckley Y, Bugalho MNuno, Donohue I et al..
2021. Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and jonnondominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION .
Arnillas CAlberto, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, Alberti J, Báez S, Bakker JD, Boughton EH, Buckley YM, Bugalho MNuno, Donohue I et al..
2021. Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and nondominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally.. Ecol Evol. 11(24):17744-17761.
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Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Buckley YM, Cleland EE, Davies KF, Firn J, W Harpole S, Hautier Y, Lind EM, MacDougall AS et al..
2015. Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands.. Nat Commun. 6:7710.
Srivathsa A, Vasudev D, Nair T, Chakrabarti S, Chanchani P, DeFries R, Deomurari A, Dutta S, Ghose D, Goswami VR et al..
2023. Prioritizing India's landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY .
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Ongole S, Sankaran M, Karanth KK.
2018. Responses of aerial insectivorous bats to local and landscape-level features of coffee agroforestry systems in Western Ghats, India.. PLoS One. 13(8):e0201648.
Raghurama M, Sankaran M.
2021. Restoring tropical forest–grassland mosaics invaded by woody exotics. Restor Ecol .
Smith MD, Koerner SE, Avolio ML, Komatsu KJ, Eby S, Forrestel EJ, Collins SL, Wilcox KR, Ahumada R, Morgan JW et al..
2022. Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents.. Oecologia. 199(3):649-659.
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Ratnam J, Tomlinson KW, Rasquinha DN, Sankaran M.
2016. Savannahs of Asia: antiquity, biogeography, and an uncertain future.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 371(1703)
Krishnadas M, Sankaran M, Page N, Joshi J, Machado S, Nataraj N, Chengappa SK, Kumar V, Kumar A, Krishnamani R et al..
2021. Seasonal drought regulates species distributions and assembly of tree communities across a tropical wet forest region. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY.
Bawa KS, Sengupta A, Chavan V, Chellam R, Ganesan R., Krishnaswamy J, Mathur VB, Nawn N, Olsson SB, Pandit N et al..
2021. Securing biodiversity, securing our future: A national mission on biodiversity and human well-being for India. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION. 253(108867)
Tiruvaimozhi YV, Sankaran M.
2019. Soil respiration in a tropical montane grassland ecosystem is largely heterotroph-driven and increases under simulated warming. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 276-277
Karkarey R, Arthur R, Nash KL, Pratchett MS, Sankaran M, Graham NAJ.
2022. Spatial decoupling of ? and ? diversity suggest different management needs for coral reef fish along an extensive mid-oceanic ridge GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION. 36(e02110)