Scientific Publications

  • Po-Ju Ke, Gaurav S. Kandlikar, Suzanne Xianran Ou, Gen-Chang Hsu, Joe Wan, Meghna Krishnadas (2025) Time will tell: The temporal and demographic contexts of plant–soil microbe interactions
  • Krishna Anujan, Alisha Shabnam, Irfan Ali, Ashok Kumar Gummadi, Mahesh Sankaran, Meghna Krishnadas, Shahid Naeem (2025) Biodiversity effects on seedling growth are modified by light environment across functional groups
  • Mustaqeem Ahmad, Sonia Rathee, Meghna Krishnadas (2025) From low to high elevations, flowers adapt traits and phenology to climate, but phenology-trait relationships weak
  • Meghna Krishnadas, Bandaru Peddiraju, Snehalatha Vadigi, Ashish Nambiar (2025) Unraveling the relationship between environment and plant functional traits

Other Publications

  • Krishnadas M, Sridhara S. 2017 Harvesting Non-timber Forest Products poses a conservation quandary. Seminar. March 2018
  • Krishnadas M, Velho N. 2015 Misconstrued dichotomies. Seminar Annual Issue. 2014. 102-106
  • Velho N, Krishnadas M, Srinivasan U, Sridhara S. 2014 Sidestepping science: India’s notional board for wildlife. Economic and Political Weekly. 49(38):10-12
  • Karnad D, Krishnadas M, Nair T. 2013 Budgeting for nature: economic growth and ecosystem conservation in India. Economic and Political Weekly. 48(25):23-26

Outreach Articles

  • Staff writer for Yale Environment Review (2015-2017)

  • From fungus to forest: a tale of tropical tree diversity. 2018. Harvard Arnoldia.

  • Why Diverting Yettinahole River is Both Ecologically Damaging and Economically Unsound:

  • Without Proper Impact Assessment, Small Dams Could Cause Great Ecological Damage:

  • An Ecologist in a Tea Estate.

  • Going Nowhere? Roads and Conservation in India: with S. Sridhara

  • Energy and environment in 21st century India

  • The environment-development divide – is there room for dialogue: with D. Karnad

  • Green rules – old debates new dialogue: with D. Karnad

  • A short journey along an Indian river. Blogpost

  • En route to getting lost. Blogpost.

  • Retreating Jungle. Daily Pioneer. September 2013.

  • Re-thinking forest clearances in India: time to tighten up. With T. Nair. Daily Pioneer. August 2013.

  • Much ado over a hotspot. Daily Pioneer. October 2012.

  • It’s not just about a good holiday: with D. Karnad. Down to Earth. October 2012.

  • Mine your business: ecological impacts of mining in forests. Survey of the Environment (Annual Magazine by The Hindu): June 2012.

  • The mentor who did not become a tormentor: with N. Velho. NCBS news. June 2012.

  • Permitting wildlife science: Down to Earth. February 2012

  • Eco-tourism: Opportunity or costs to Indian parks? Survey of the Environment (Annual Magazine by The Hindu): (August 2011, hard copy)

  • Critical Wildlife Habitats: civil society and conservation. Survey of the Environment (Annual Magazine by The Hindu): (August 2011, hard copy)

  • Feasts, Famines and a Tale of Two Primates: Sanctuary Asia Magazine (June 2011, hard copy)

  • Grasslands in Western Ghats diverted for luxury resorts: Down to Earth. May 2011.

  • Human-leopard conflict guidelines

  • The Feast at the Fig: Science Reporter, January 2011 issue (Hard copy)

  • Whither Rainforests?

  • Of the vanishing wild

  • Refrain to a rainmaker

  • Revisiting two cultures with Jairam Ramesh

  • Wrong Shades of Green

  • The long hop

  • Resort to disaster

  • Fire in the mountain

  • Hills of holy beauty: Spectrum, Deccan Herald, 2006 (Hard copy)

  • Whither flows the Cauvery: Spectrum, Deccan Herald, 2005 (Hard copy)

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Outreach Articles

  • Staff writer for Yale Environment Review (2015-2017)

  • From fungus to forest: a tale of tropical tree diversity. 2018. Harvard Arnoldia.

  • Why Diverting Yettinahole River is Both Ecologically Damaging and Economically Unsound:

  • Without Proper Impact Assessment, Small Dams Could Cause Great Ecological Damage:

  • An Ecologist in a Tea Estate.

  • Going Nowhere? Roads and Conservation in India: with S. Sridhara

  • Energy and environment in 21st century India

  • The environment-development divide – is there room for dialogue: with D. Karnad

  • Green rules – old debates new dialogue: with D. Karnad

  • A short journey along an Indian river. Blogpost

  • En route to getting lost. Blogpost.

  • Retreating Jungle. Daily Pioneer. September 2013.

  • Re-thinking forest clearances in India: time to tighten up. With T. Nair. Daily Pioneer. August 2013.

  • Much ado over a hotspot. Daily Pioneer. October 2012.

  • It’s not just about a good holiday: with D. Karnad. Down to Earth. October 2012.

  • Mine your business: ecological impacts of mining in forests. Survey of the Environment (Annual Magazine by The Hindu): June 2012.

  • The mentor who did not become a tormentor: with N. Velho. NCBS news. June 2012.

  • Permitting wildlife science: Down to Earth. February 2012

  • Eco-tourism: Opportunity or costs to Indian parks? Survey of the Environment (Annual Magazine by The Hindu): (August 2011, hard copy)

  • Critical Wildlife Habitats: civil society and conservation. Survey of the Environment (Annual Magazine by The Hindu): (August 2011, hard copy)

  • Feasts, Famines and a Tale of Two Primates: Sanctuary Asia Magazine (June 2011, hard copy)

  • Grasslands in Western Ghats diverted for luxury resorts: Down to Earth. May 2011.

  • Human-leopard conflict guidelines

  • The Feast at the Fig: Science Reporter, January 2011 issue (Hard copy)

  • Whither Rainforests?

  • Of the vanishing wild

  • Refrain to a rainmaker

  • Revisiting two cultures with Jairam Ramesh

  • Wrong Shades of Green

  • The long hop

  • Resort to disaster

  • Fire in the mountain

  • Hills of holy beauty: Spectrum, Deccan Herald, 2006 (Hard copy)

  • Whither flows the Cauvery: Spectrum, Deccan Herald, 2005 (Hard copy)