K. Ullas Karanth - Publications

Publications

Dr. Karanth has published over 80 peer reviewed papers including in scientific journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Ecological Applications, Journal of Animal Ecology, PLoS Genetics, Journal of Zoology, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Oryx and scientific books published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge Press, Columbia University Press, Elsevier, Springer and Island Press. He has authored the books The Way of the Tiger (2001) and A view from the Machan (2006) and co-edited Monitoring Tigers and their Prey (2002) and Camera traps in Animal Ecology (2010). He has written over 50 popular articles in English as well as popular articles and 3 books in Kannada language. He serves on the editorial boards of Oryx and Journal of Applied Ecology. Some notable publications include:

• Photographic sampling of elusive mammals in tropical forests (K U Karanth, J D Nichols, N S Kumar) 2004
• Phylogeography and genetic ancestry of tigers (K U Karanth et al. in Public Library of Science Biology Journal) 2004
• Estimation of tiger densities in the tropical dry forests of Panna, Central India, using photographic capture-recapture sampling (K U Karanth, Raghunandan, S Chundawat, J D Nichols, N S Kumar in Animal Conservation) 2004
• Tigers and their prey: Predicting carnivore densities from prey abundance (K U Karanth, J D Nichols, N S Kumar, W A Link, J E Hines in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA) 2004
• Human-carnivore conflict and perspectives on carnivore management worldwide (A Treves and K U Karanth in Conservation Biology) 2003
• Human-carnivore conflict: local solutions with global applications (A Treves and K U Karanth in Conservation Biology) 2003
• The Economics of Protecting Tiger Populations: Linking Household Behavior to Poaching and Prey Depletion (R Damania, R Stringer, K U Karanth, B Stith in Land Economics) 2003
• Tiger ecology and conservation in the Indian subcontinent (in Journal of Bombay Natural History Society) 2003
• Science deficiency in conservation practice: the monitoring of tiger populations in India (K U Karanth et al. in Animal Conservation) 2003
• Estimation of large herbivore densities in the tropical forests of southern India using distance sampling (D Jathanna, K U Karanth, A J T Johnsingh in Journal of Zoological Society of London) 2003
• Conservation and Society (in Conservation and Society) 2003
• Nagarahole limits and opportunities in wildlife conservation (in Making Parks Work) 2002
• Mitigating human-wildlife conflicts in southern Asia (K U Karanth, M D Madhusudhan in Making Parks Work) 2002
• Local hunting and large mammals conservation in India (M D Madhusudhan, K U Karanth in Ambio) 2002
• Behavioral correlates of predation by tiger, leopard and dhole in Nagarahole, India (K U Karanth and M E Sunquist in Journal of Zoology) 2000
• Hunting for an answer: Local hunters and large mammal conservation in India (M D Madhusudhan, K U Karanth in Hunting for sustainability in tropical forests) 2000
• Ecology, behavior and resilience of the tiger and its conservation needs (M E Sunquist, F C Sunquist, K U Karanth in Riding the Tiger) 1999
• Counting tigers with confidence (in Riding the Tiger) 1999
• An ecology based method for defining priorities for large mammal conservation : The tiger case study (K U Karanth et al. in Conservation Biology) 1998
• Avoiding paper tigers and saving real tigers (K U Karanth, M D Madhusudhan in Conservation Biology) 1997
• Prey selection by tiger, leopard and dhole in tropical forests (K U Karanth, M E Sunquist in Journal of Animal Ecology) 1995
• Estimating tiger populations from camera-trap data using capture-recapture models (in Biological Conservation) 1995
• Correcting for overdispersion of prey selectivity (W A Link, K U Karanth in Ecology) 1994
• Conservation prospects for lion-tailed macaques in Karnataka (in Zoo Biology) 1992
• Ecology and management of tiger in tropical Asia (in Wildlife Conservation: Present Trends and Perspectives for the 21st Century) 1991
• Line transect method for censusing elephants in Nagarahole (in Censusing elephants in forests) 1991
• Dry-zone afforestation and its impact on blackbuck populations (K U Karanth, M Singh in Conservation in developing countries: problems and prospects) 1990
• Analysis of predator-prey balance in Bandipur Tiger Reserve with reference to census reports (in Journal of Bombay Natural History Society) 1988
• Tigers in India: a critical review of field censuses (in Tigers of the world: The biology, biopolitics, management and conservation of an endangered species) 1987
• Status of wildlife and habitat conservation in Karnataka (in Journal of Bombay Natural History Society) 1986
• Ecological status of the liontailed macaque and its rainforest habitat in Karnataka (in Primate Conservation) 1985
• Bhadra wildlife sanctuary and its endangered ecosystem (in Journal of Bombay Natural History Society) 1982

Books

• The Way of the Tiger (Hardcover and Paperback, the latter by Orient Longman)
• View from the Machan - How Science Can Save The Fragile Predator (Orient Longman)