We seek to understand the processes that allow species to coexist and thus maintain diversity in ecological communities. We use functional traits—heritable characteristics that mediate species’ response to different conditions—to understand patterns and processes that shape biodiversity in different ecosystems.

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  • Krishnadas, M., Sankaran, M., Page, N., Joshi, J., Machado, S., Nataraj, N., Chengappa, S. K., Kumar, V., Kumar, A., and Krishnamani, R. (2021). Seasonal drought regulates species distributions and assembly of tree communities across a tropical wet forest region. Global Ecology and Biogeography, July, geb.13350.
  • Krishnadas, M., and Stump, S. M. (2021). Dispersal limitation and weaker stabilizing mechanisms mediate loss of diversity with edge effects in forest fragments. Journal of Ecology, 109(5), 2137–2151.
  • Shahabuddin G, Goswami R, Krishnadas M, Menon T. 2021. Decline in forest bird species and guilds due to land use change in the Western Himalaya. Global Ecology and Conservation 25: e01447.
  • Krishnadas M and Osuri A.M. 2020. Environment shapes the spatial organization of tree diversity in fragmented forests across a human-modified landscape. Ecological Applications Online early: e02244.

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