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| Sl No | Name | Year of Award | Advisor | Thesis Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ranjit Daniel, R J | 1990 | Madhav Gadgil | A conservation strategy for the Birds of the Uttara Kannada District. |
| 2 | Arun Venkataraman | 1991 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Studies on the Mechanism of Nestmate Discrimination in a Primitively Eusocial Wasp: Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality. |
| 3 | Chandrashekara, K | 1991 | Raghavendra Gadagkar. | Social Biology of the tropical Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera:Vaspidae). |
| 4 | Murali, K S | 1992 | Raman Sukumar | Vegetative and Reproductive Phenology of a tropical dry Deciduous Forest, Southern India. |
| 5 | Silanjan Bhattacharyya | 1993 | Madhav Gadgil | Ecological organization of Indian Rural Populations. |
| 6 | Milind G. Watve | 1994 | Raman Sukumar | Ecology of Host-Parasite interactions in a Wild Mammalian host community in Mudumalai, Southern India. |
| 7 | Prabhakar, R | 1994 | Madhav Gadgil | Resource use, Culture and Ecological change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India. |
| 8 | Sudha Premnath | 1995 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Dominance relationships in the social organisation of the Primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera:Vespidae). |
| 9 | Mallikarjun Shakarad | 1996 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Colony founding and the evolution of eusociality in a primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. |
| 10 | Ramachandra, T V | 1997 | Subramanian, D.K. and N.V. Joshi | Ecologically Sound Integrated Regional Energy Planning. |
| 11 | Arathi , H S | 1997 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Social organisation and Co-operation Genetically mixed colonies of the Primitively eusocial wasp. |
| 12 | Shri Niwas Singh | 1997 | Madhav Gadgil | Ecogeographical Surveying for in Situ conservation of wild relatives of cultivated plants in Uttara Kannada District of Karnataka State, India. |
| 13 | Dhrubajyothi Naug | 1998 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Organization of work in the Primitively eusocial wasps, Ropalidia marginata. |
| 14 | Kartik Shanker | 1998 | Raman Sukumar | Community Ecology of small Mammals in Montane Ecosystems of the Nilgiris, Southern India. |
| 15 | Harini Nagendra* | 1998 | Madhav Gadgil | Using Satellite Imagery to assess Species Diversity within a Landscape context studies in the Western Ghats of India. |
| 16 | Hans Raj Negi | 1999 | Madhav Gadgil | Co-variation in Diversity and Conservation value across Taxa: A case study from Garhwal Himalaya. |
| 17 | Santosh, J A | 2000 | Raman Sukumar | Behavioural ecology of Asian elephants in Southern India: the role of offspring sex and demography. |
| 18 | Robert John | 2001 | Raman Sukumar | Habitat associations, density- dependence, and tree species diversity in a tropical dry deciduous forest in Mudumalai, Southern India. |
| 19 | T R Shankar Raman | 2002 | Raman Sukumar | Community Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Rain forests Birds in the South Western Ghats, India. |
| 20 | Anuradha Bhat | 2002 | Madhav Gadgil | A Study of the diversity and ecology of the freshwater fishes of four river systems of Uttara Kannada District. |
| 21 | Sumana, A | 2002 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Dominance behaviour and regulation of reproduction in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. |
| 22 | Gopinath, A | 2002 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Intra-Colony Relatedness and Population Genetic Structure in the Queenless, Ponerine Ant, Diacamma. |
| 23 | Sonia Koushik | 2003 | Vidyanand Nanjundiah | To investigate the positional memory in Dictyostelium discoideum |
| 24 | Moushumi Sen Sarma | 2003 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Communication in Honey Bees. |
| 25 | Raamesh, R* | 2003 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | The Social and Genetic Organization of the Queenless Ponerine Ant, Diacamma ceylonense. |
| 26 | Maulishree Agrahari | 2003 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Mechanism of division of labour in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia marginata. |
| 27 | Vidya, T N C * | 2005 | Raman Sukumar | Population Genetic Structure and Phylogeography of the Asian Elepahtn (Elephas maximus) with Special Reference to India. |
| 28 | Sujata Kardile P. | 2006 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | The social biology of Ropalidia cyathiformis and a comparison with Ropalidia marginata. |
| 29 | Ruchira Sen | 2007 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | The biology of two sexes: a study of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. |
| 30 | Cheryl D. Nath | 2008 | Raman Sukumar | Tree Diameter Growth: variations and Demographic Niches in a Tropical Dry Forest of Southern India. |
| 31 | Anindita Bhadra | 2008 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Queens and their successors: The story of power in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. |
| 32 | Vivek Nityananda | 2008 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Sensory Ecology of Acoustic Communication in the Tropical Bushcricket Genus Mecopoda: Mechanisms and Evolution of Synchrony. |
| 33 | Swati Diwakar | 2008 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Call diversity, saptio-temporal patterning and masking interference in an assemblage of acoustically communicating ensiferan species of a tropical evergreen forest in southern India. |
| 34 | Megha Shenoy* | 2008 | Renee M. Borges | Spatial Variation in Interactions of the semi- myrmecophyte Humboldtia brunonis (Fabaceae) with ants and other invertebrates. |
| 35 | Natasha Mahatre* | 2008 | Rohini Balakrishnan | The prediction of field cricket phonotaxis in complex acoustic environments. |
| 36 | Alok Ashok Bang | 2010 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Determinants of Behavioural and Reproductive Dominance in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata. |
| 37 | Soumya Prasad | 2010 | Raman Sukumar | Seed dispersal in the Tropical Dry Forests of Mudumalai, Southern India. |
| 38 | Ratna Ghosal | 2010 | Raman Sukumar | Studies on Endocrine and Behavioral Assessment of Reproductive Status in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus).(Jointly advised with Prof. PB Seshagiri, MRDG |
| 39 | Manjari Jain | 2011 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Habitat acoustics and microhabitat selection in an ensiferan assemblage of a tropical Evergreen Forest. |
| 40 | Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi | 2011 | Ravindranath, N. H. & R. Sukumar | Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Indian Forests. |
| 41 | Aniruddha Mitra | 2011 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Attributes of Royalty in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata: Pheromone, Ovaries and Behaviour. |
| 42 | Mahua Ghara | 2012 | Renee M. Borges | Resource partitioning among non-pollinating fig wasps: Ficus racemosa as a case study. |
| 43 | Yuvaraj, R.* | 2012 | Renee M. Borges | Ants, figs, fig wasps: the chemical ecology of a multitrophic system. |
| 44 | Shantanu Pramod Shukla | 2012 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Reproductive caste differentiation in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. |
| 45 | Jahnavi Ganesh Joshi | 2012 | Praveen Karanth | Biogeography and systematics of select Scolopendrids (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) of the Western Ghats, India. |
| 46 | Rohini Bansal | 2012 | Praveen Karanth | Phylogeny and biogeography of Hemidactylus (Gray, 1845) geckos of the Indian subcontinent. |
| 47 | Sathe Santosh Lahu | 2012 | Vidyanand Nanjundiah | Trade-offs and social behaviour in the cellular slime moulds. |
| 48 | Ranjana Jaiswara | 2013 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Systematics, phylogeny and acoustic evolution in field crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Gryllinae) |
| 49 | Geetha, R. | 2013 | Raman Sukumar | The ecology of the invasive plants Lantana camara and chromolaena odorata in a tropical dry deciduous forest. |
| 50 | Sandhya Sekar | 2013 | Praveen Karanth | Comparitive phylogeography and population genetics of selected butterflies in Western Ghats. |
| 51 | Nandita Mondal | 2014 | R. Sukumar | Fire ecology of a seasonally dry tropical forest in southern India |
| 52 | Hari Sridhar | 2014 | Kartik Shanker | Causes and consequences of heterospecific foraging associations in terrestrial bird communities. |
| 53 | S.P. Vijayakumar | 2014 | Kartik Shanker | Insights into an evolutionary radiation: causes and consequences of diversification in the Western Ghats bush frogs. |
| 54 | Joyshree Chanam | 2014 | Renee M. Borges | A farewell to arms: dynamics of interactions between the unique semi-myrmecophyte Humboldtia brunonis (Fabaceae) and its domatia inhabitants in the absence of a universal protection mutualism. |
| 55 | Ishan Agarwal | 2014 | Praveen Karanth | Biogeography and Systematics of bent-toed geckos (Squamata;Gekkonidae) |
| 56 | Samira Agnihotri | 2015 | Rohini Balakrishnan | The structure and function of the vocal repertoire of the greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus): insights into avian vocal mimicry |
| 57 | Karpagam Chelliah | 2015 | R. Sukumar | Sexual Selection on elephants tusks |
| 58 | Anusha Krishnan* | 2015 | Renee M. Borges | The role of nursery size and plant phenology on the reproduction and relationships with a fig-fig wasp nursery pollination system. |
| 59 | Rittik Deb | 2015 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Mate choice, mate sampling and baffling behaviour in the tree cricket Oecanthus henryi. |
| 60 | Saikat Chakraborty | 2015 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Molecular ecology of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginta: relatedness, queen succession and population genetics. |
| 61 | Sneha Vijayakumar | 2015 | Kartik Shanker | Understanding patterns of bird species distribution in the Western Ghats. |
| 62 | Paromita Saha | 2016 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Queen succession in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata |
| 63 | Monisha Bhattacharyya | 2016 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Investigating pattern recognition and bi-coordinate sound localization in the tree cricket species Oecanthus henryi |
| 64 | Diptarup Nandi* | 2016 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Acoustic signals, mate choice and mate sampling strategies in a field cricket. |
| 65 | Navendu Page | 2016 | Kartik Shanker | Species ranges, richness and replacement of trees in the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats. |
| 66 | Rutuja Chitra Tarak | 2016 | R. Sukumar | Eco-hydrology of a seasonally dry tropical forest: tree growth, below ground water dynamics and drought-vulnerability (Jointly advised with Prof. Nagesh Kumar, Dept. of Civil Engineering) |
| 67 | Souvik Mandal | 2017 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Finding the way back home: a study of orientation, navigation and homing behaviour in the social wasp Ropalidia marginata |
| 68 | Lakshya Katariya* | 2017 | Renee M Borges | Ecology of fungus-farming by termites: fungal population genetics and defensive mechanisms of termites against the parasitic fungus Pseudoxylaria |
| 69 | Pratibha Yadav* | 2017 | Renee M Borges | Oviposition strategies of non-pollinating fig wasps. |
| 70 | Deodhar Shreekant Jayant | 2017 | Kavita Isvaran | Sexual selection and mate-choice in Psammophilus dorsalis. |
| 71 | Anindita Brahma | 2018 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | Game of thrones: Direct fitness through nest foundation in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata |
| 72 | Anuradha Batabyal | 2018 | Maria Thaker | Urbanisation and shifting phenotypes: behavioural, physiological and cognitive strategies of the Indian rock agama Psammophilus dorsalis |
| 73 | Jaideep Joshi | 2018 | Vishwesha Guttal | Spatial and coevolutionary dynamics of cooperation |
| 74 | Sabiha Majumder | 2018 | Vishwesha Guttal | Multiple stable states and abrupt transitions in ecosystems (Jointly advised with Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy, Dept. of Physics) |
| 75 | Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel | 2018 | R.Sukumar | Stress physiology of free-ranging Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): influence of ecological and anthropogenic stressors (Jointly advised with Prof. PB Seshagiri, MRDG) |
| 76 | Suman Attiwalli | 2018 | Kavita Isvaran | Investigating the impact of habitat disturbance and the role of functional traits in butterflies in a tropical forest |
| 77 | Sruthi Unnikrishnan | 2018 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | For queen and country: reproductive and non-reproductive division of labour in the primitively eusocial wasp, Ropalidia cyathiformis |
| 78 | Aparna Lajmi | 2018 | Praveen Karanth | Systematics and diversification in a continental radiation of Hemidactylus geckos |
| 79 | Manvi Sharma* | 2018 | Kavita Isvaran | On trait evolution in a heterogeneous environment: Oviposition site selection in a mosquito in response to multiple risk factors. |
| 80 | Sandeep Pulla | 2018 | R.Sukumar | The Structure And Dynamics Of A Tropical Dry Forest Plant Community |
| 81 | Ashok Kumar Malik | 2018 | Kartik Shanker | Systematics and Comparative Biogeography of Vine Snakes (Genus: Ahaetulla, Family: Colubridae) and Pit vipers (Genus: Trimeresurus, Family: Viperidae) in Peninsular India. |
| 82 | Rayees Ahmad Malik | 2019 | R.Sukumar | Climate-Growth Relationships of West Himalayan Fir (Abies pindrow) along an Altitudinal Gradient in Northwestern Himalaya |
| 83 | Sumithra Sankaran | 2019 | Vishwesha Guttal | Local Interactions, Spatial Patterns and Ecosystem Stability |
| 84 | V.Vignesh* | 2019 | Renee M Borges | The evolutionary ecology of dispersal in fig wasp communities |
| 85 | Torsekar Varun Raghunandan | 2019 | Kartik Shanker | Lineage delimitation and diversification in Nyctibatrachus, an endemic frog genus from the Westeren Ghats |
| 86 | D.K.Bharti | 2019 | Kartik Shanker | Dispersal Patterns and Processes in Littorinid Snails Along the Indian Coastline |
| 87 | Divya B | 2019 | Praveen Karanth | A Phylogenetic Persective on the Phytogeography of Western Ghats |
| 88 | Jambhekar Ravi Madhav | 2019 | Kavita Isvaran | The influence of landscape composition on butterfly populations; A behavioural ecological approach |
| 89 | Ekta Choudhary | 2019 | Large Herbivore Dung Decomposition: Effects on nutrient cycling in a tropical forest of southern India | |
| 90 | Rayees Ahmad Malik | 2019 | Climate-growth relationships of west Himalayan Fir (Abies pindrow) along an altitudinal gradient in northwestern Himalaya | |
| 91 | Karthik Murthy | 2020 | Sumanta Bagchi | Spatial and temporal patterns of vegetation-climate interactions |
| 90 | Mehreen Khaleel | 2020 | Sumanta Bagchi | Distribution, activity budget and feeding ecology of Himalayan gray langur (Semnopithecus ajax) in Kashmir Himalaya. |
| 91 | Md Shakilur Kabir * | 2020 | Maria Thaker | Patterns and drivers of multimodal signalling in diurnal geckos |
| 92 | Devica Ranade | 2020 | Kavita Isvaran | Intrasexual competition in females of a polygynous lizard, Psammophilus dorsalis |
| 93 | Debarshi Dasgupta (MSc) | 2020 | Sumanta Bagchi | Impact of the invasive shrub Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae) on carbon and nitrogen stocks in a seasonally dry tropical forest. |
| 94 | Jitesh Jhawar | 2020 | Vishwesha Guttal | Intrinsic noise in collective dynamics |
| 95 | Sambita Modak * | 2020 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Condition dependent signalling and mating behaviour in the tree cricket Oecanthus henryi |
| 96 | Aswathy Nair | 2020 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Multimodal duetting and pair formation in a paleotropical false leaf katydid (Onomarchus uninotatus) |
| 97 | Harish Prakash | 2020 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Foraging decisions of the lesser false vampire bat, Megaderma Spasma in a heterogeneous landscape |
| 98 | Priti Bangal | 2020 | Kartik Shanker | Understanding Rules of Assembly and Species Interactionsin Mixed-species Bird Flocks |
| 99 | Nitika Sharma | 2020 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | A Place for Everything and Everything in its place: Spatial Organization of Individuals on the Nests of Ropalidia marginata. |
| 100 | Nikita Zachariah | 2020 | Renee M. Borges | Brick-laying to Building Mud Castles: Ecology and Engineering of Mound Construction by the Fungus-farming Termite Odontotermes obesus |
| 101 | Satyajeet Gupta * | 2021 | Renee M. Borges | Through the looking glass: Phoresy as seen in the light of mutualism |
| 102 | Akanksha Rathore | 2021 | Vishwesha Guttal and Kavita Isvaran | Collective escape dynamics of blackbuck herds during predation-like events |
| 103 | Ananya Jana | 2021 | Praveen Karanth | Diversity from the Gut to Species: Phylogeny, Population genetics and Microbiome of Antilope cervicapra |
| 104 | Chinta Sidharthan | 2021 | Praveen Karanth | Understanding the origins and diversification of Indian blindsnakes |
| 105 | Shamik Roy | 2021 | Sumanta Bagchi | Soil microorganisms and biogeochemical cycles in a grazing ecosystem: Interactions between producers,consumers and decomposers |
| 106 | Jayabharathy R | 2021 | ||
| 107 | Anne Heloise Theo | 2022 | Kartik Shanker | Diversity and distribution of mixed-species groups of reef fish in the Lakshadweep islands |
| 108 | Pronoy Baidya | 2022 | Sumanta Bagchi | Ground-dwelling arthropods across human land use: Interpreting the spatial and temporal dimensions of beta diversity |
| 109 | Pritha Kundu (MSc) | 2022 | Vishwesha Guttal | Effect of Boundary On Collective Movement of Animal Groups |
| 110 | Vibhuti Shastri (MSc) | 2022 | Maria Thaker | Space-use patterns in predator-prey systems |
| 111 | Jayabharathy R | 2021 | Kavita Isvaran | Territorial and mating strategies of males in a lekking population of blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) |
| 112 | Kasturi Saha | 2024 | Rohini Balakrishnan | Risks of finding mates in the wild: Ecological and Behavioural Determinants of Sex-biased Predation |
| 113 | Madhura Sham Amdekar | 2019 | Maria Thaker | Dynamic colour change in Psammophilus dorsalis: role of natural and sexual selection |
| 114 | Md Shakilur Kabir | 2020 | Maria Thaker | Patterns and drivers of multimodal signalling in diurnal geckos |
| 115 | Maitreya Sil | 2019 | Praveen Karanth | Biogeography and comparative phylogeography of freshwater snails of India |
| 116 | Rashmi | 2024 | Kartik Sunagar | Venomics of medically important yet neglected elapid snakes of India and the antivenomic potential of plant extracts |
| 117 | Senji Laxme | 2024 | Kartik Sunagar | Pandora’s box: Deciphering the evolutionary ecology of snake venoms and its impact on snakebite therapy in India |
* Integrated Ph.D. Programme