
Ravi JambhekarIndian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
Ravi Jambhekar
Doctor of Philosophy
Looking for collaborators to work on urban ecology and animal behaviour.
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Introduction
My research focuses on urban ecology, animal behaviour and landscape ecology. For my post-doc I focused on how urbanization affects bird populations in tropical cities. I studied butterflies in the tropical forests of the Western Ghats in Peninsular India as a part of my PhD.
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August 2020 - present
Education
August 2019 - October 2020
August 2013 - August 2019
Publications
Publications (8)
A fundamental question in ecology is to understand how a species is distributed in a landscape. In terrestrial landscapes, the size and isolation of habitat patches, and matrix properties, are thought to drive population density patterns. Yet, given the same set of landscape features, why do species from a single taxon vary so widely in their densi...
Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss and fragmentation (hereafter 'fragmentation') and altered fire regimes are important threats to biodiversity, but their interactions have not been systematically evaluated across the globe. In...
Urbanization is one of the major causes of biodiversity loss worldwide. Some species are able to adapt to urbanization, whereas others perish. Studies on long-term effects of the impact of urbanization on species diversity and abundance patterns are especially lacking from tropical cities. We seek to assess the relationship between urbanization and...
Urbanization poses a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. We focused on birds as a well-studied taxon of interest, in order to review literature on traits that influence responses to urbanization. We review 226 papers that were published between 1979 and 2020, and aggregate information on five major groups of traits that have been widely studied...
The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is a regulatory framework adopted since 1994 in India to evaluate the impact
and mitigation measures of projects, however, even after 25 years of adoption, EIAs continue to be of inferior quality with respect to
biodiversity documentation and assessment of impacts and their mitigation measures. This questions...
The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is a regulatory framework adopted since 1994 in India to evaluate the impact and mitigation measures of projects, however, even after 25 years of adoption, EIAs continue to be of inferior quality with respect to biodiversity documentation and assessment of impacts and their mitigation measures. This questions...
A key problem faced by foragers is how to forage when resources are distributed heterogeneously in space. This heterogeneity and associated trade‐offs may change with spatial scale. Furthermore, foragers may also have to optimize acquiring multiple resources. Such complexity of decision‐making while foraging is poorly understood. We studied the but...
Invasive species are thought to influence native biodiversity through a wide range of direct and indirect effects. We examined the influence of an invasive plant, Lantana camara, on butterfly assemblages in a tropical forest in India. Lantana camara typically dominates the understorey in invaded areas and might therefore reduce the availability of...