Sukumar, R. (1990). Ecology of the Asian elephant in southern India. II. Feeding habits and crop raiding patterns. Journal of Tropical Ecology6: 33-53.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400004004

Sukumar, R. and Ramesh, R. (1992). Stable carbon isotope ratios in Asian elephant collagen: Implications for dietary studies. Oecologia91: 536-539.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00650328

Vidya, T.N.C., Fernando, P., Melnick, D.J. and Sukumar, R. (2005). Population genetic structure and conservation of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) across India. Animal Conservation, 8: 377-388.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1367943005002428

Chelliah, K., and Sukumar, R. ¬(2013). The role of tusk, musth and body size in male-male competition among Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Animal Behaviour 86: 1207-1214.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.022

Sharma, N., Prakash, V., Kohshima, S. and Sukumar, R. (2020). Asian elephants modulate their vocalizations when disturbed. Animal Behaviour160: 99-111.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.12.004

Khan, A., Sil, M., Thekaekera, T., Garg, K.M., Sinha, I., Khurana, R., Sukumar, R. and Ramakrishnan, U. (2024) Divergence and serial colonization shape genetic variation and define conservation units in Asian elephants. Current Biology 34:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.062

Sukumar, R., Ramesh, R., Pant, R.K. and Rajagopalan, G. (1993). A 13C record of late Quaternary climate change from tropical peats in southern India. Nature, 364: 703-706.https://doi.org/10.1038/364703a0

Joshi, J. and Sukumar, R. (2021). Improving prediction and assessment of global wildfires using multi-layer neural networks. Scientific Reports 11:3295 https:// doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81233-4

Kavil, S.P., Ramya Bala, P., Ghosh, D., Kumar, P. and Sukumar, R. (2021). Climate change and the migration of a pastoralist people c. 3500 cal. years BP inferred from palaeofire and lipid biomarker records in the montane Western Ghats, India. Environmental Archaeology. https:// DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1959188

Sukumar, R., Dattaraja, H.S., Suresh, H.S., Radhakrishnan, J., Vasudeva, R., Nirmala, S. and Joshi, N.V. (1992). Long term monitoring of vegetation in a tropical deciduous forest in Mudumalai, southern India. Current Science, 62: 608-616.https://www.jstor.org/stable/24094449

Dattaraja, H.S., Pulla, S., Suresh, H.S., Nagaraja, M.S., Srinivasamurthy, C.A. and Sukumar, R. (2018). Woody-plant diversity in relation to environmental factors in a seasonally dry tropical forest landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science29: 704-714. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12652

Pulla, S., Suresh, H.S., Dattaraja, H.S. and Sukumar, R. (2021). Plant dynamics in a tropical dry forest are strongly associated with climate and fire and weakly associated with stabilizing neighbourhood effects. Oecologia197:699-713.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05066-8

Books
Sukumar, R. (1989). The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management. Cambridge Studies in Applied Ecology and Resource Management. CambridgeUniversity Press, Cambridge, U. K. 255 pp.
Sukumar, R. (1994). Elephant Days and Nights: Ten Years with the Indian Elephant. OxfordUniversity Press, New Delhi. 184 pp.
Sukumar, R. (2003). The Living Elephants: Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior and Conservation. OxfordUniversity Press, New York. 478 pp.
Sukumar, R. (2011). The Story of Asia’s Elephants. The Marg Foundation, Mumbai.

Aguirre, A.A. and Sukumar, R. (eds.) (2016).Tropical Conservation: Perspectives on Local and Global Priorities. Oxford University Press, New York. 491 pp.