Book Chapters

  • Promoting coexistence through improved understanding of human perceptions, attitudes, and behavior toward snow leopards

    Kulbhushansingh Ramesh Suryawanshi, Shruti Suresh, Juliette Young, Saloni Bhatia, Charudutt Mishra

  • Snow Leopard In the Stockade

    Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi & Ajay Bijoor (2022)

  • Livestock Predation by Snow Leopards: Conflicts and the Search for Solutions

    Charudutt Mishra, Stephen R. Redpath, Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi (2016)

  • Birds in Relation to Farming and Livestock Grazing in the Indian Trans-Himalayas

    Raman, T. S., Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, & Mishra, C. (2017)

  • Multiple dimensions of human-snow leopard interactions: A Pluralistic Approach to Wildlife conservation.

    Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Timbadia R. (2017)

  • Community Dynamics of Browsing and Grazing Ungulates

    Mishra, C., Khanyari, M., Prins, H. H., & Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi (2019)

  • Conflicts over snow leopard conservation and livestock production

    Mishra C., & Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi (2015)

  • Species Richness and Size Distribution of Large Herbivores in the Himalaya

    Mishra, C., Bhatnagar, Y. V., & Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi (2016)

  • Managing conflicts over livestock depredation by large carnivores

    Mishra C., & Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi (2014)

  • Science, society, and snow leopards

    Mishra, C., Alexander, J. S., Veer, Y., Bhatnagar, Ö. J., Sharma, K., Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi & Ali, M. (2018)

  • Ghost of the Mountains

    Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi (2013)

Kullu's scientific peer-reviewed publications

2024

Sharma, M., Khanyari, M., Khara, A., Bijoor A., Mishra, C., K.R. Suryawanshi. (2024) Can livestock grazing dampen density-dependent fluctuations in wild herbivore populations? Journal of Applied Ecology.

Arias, M., Coals, P., Ardiantiono, Elves-Powell, J., Rizzolo, J.B., Ghoddousi, A., Boron, V., da Silva, M., Naude, V., Williams, V., Poudel, S., Loveridge, A., Payán, E., Suryawanshi, K., Dickman A. (2024) Reflecting on the role of human-felid conflict and local use in big cat trade. Conservation Science and Practice.

Khanyari, M., Oyanedel, R., Khara, A., Sharma, M., Milner-Gulland, E., Suryawanshi, K., ... & Morgan, E. R. (2024). Predicting and reducing potential parasite infection between migratory livestock and resident Asiatic Ibex in Pin Valley, India. Journal of Biosciences.

Patel, J., Sharma, M., Khanyari, M., Bijoor, A., Mishra, C., Harihar, A., & Suryawanshi, K. (2024) Influence of predator suppression and prey availability on carnivore occurrence in western Himalaya. Journal of Zoology.

2023

Zhang, Y., West, P., Thakholi, L., Suryawanshi, K., Supuma, M., Straub, D., ... & Agyei, F. K. (2023). Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48, 559-588.

Khanyari, M., Dorjay, R., Lobzang, S., Bijoor, A., & Suryawanshi, K.R. (2023). Co‐designing conservation interventions through participatory action research in the Indian Trans‐Himalaya. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 4(2), e12232.

Khanyari, M., Dorjay, R., Lobzang, S., Sonam, K., & Suryawanshi, K. R. (2023). An update on the conservation status of Tibetan Argali Ovis ammon hodgsoni (Mammalia: Bovidae) in India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 15(3), 22803-22812.

Piaopiao, T., Suryawanshi, K. R., Lingyun, X., Mishra, C., Zhi, L., & Alexander, J. S. (2023). Factors shaping the tolerance of local Tibetan herders toward snow leopards. Journal for Nature Conservation, 71, 126305.

Alexander, J.S., Murali, R., Mijiddorj, T.N., Agvaantseren, B., Lhamo, C., Sharma, D., Suryawanshi, K.R., Zhi, L., Sharma, K., and Young, J.C. (2023) Applying a gender lens to biodiversity conservation in High Asia. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4: 19.

2022

Khanyari, M., Robinson, S., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Morgan, E. R., Rana, R. S., & Suryawanshi, K. R. (2022). Pastoralism in the high Himalayas: Understanding changing practices and their implications for parasite transmission between livestock and wildlife. Pastoralism, 12(1), 1-16.

Sonam K., Dorjay R., Khanyari M., Bijoor A., Lobzang S, Sharma M., Suresh S., Mishra C. and Suryawanshi K.R. (2022) A community-based conservation initiative for wolves in the Ladakh Trans-Himalaya, India. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.809817

Mendiratta, U., Khanyari, M., Velho, N., Suryawanshi, K.R., NU Kulkarni (2022) Key informant perceptions on wildlife hunting in India during the COVID-19 lockdown. Current Science. (00113891) 122 (4)

Murali, R., Bijoor, A., Thinley, T., Gurmet, K., Chunit, K., Tobge, R., Thuktan, T., Suryawanshi, K.R., Nagendra, H., & Mishra, C. (2022). Indigenous governance structures for maintaining an ecosystem service in an agro-pastoral community in the Indian Trans Himalaya. Ecosystems and People, 18(1), 303-314.

Alexander, J. S., Bijoor, A., Gurmet, K., Murali, R., Mishra, C., & Suryawanshi, K. R. (2022). Engaging women brings conservation benefits to snow leopard landscapes. Environmental Conservation, 1-7.

2021

Suryawanshi K.R., Reddy A., Sharma M., Khanyari M., Bijoor A., Rathore D., Jaggi H., Khara A., Malgaonkar A., Ghoshal A., Patel J., Mishra C. (2021) How many snow leopards are there? Estimating snow leopard and prey populations at large spatial scales. Ecological Science and Evidence. 2(4), e12115

Khanyari, M., Suryawanshi, K. R., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Dickinson, E., Khara, A., Rana, R. S., ... & Morgan, E. R. (2021). Predicting Parasite Dynamics in Mixed-Use Trans-Himalayan Pastures to Underpin Management of Cross-Transmission Between Livestock and Bharal. Frontiers in veterinary science, 1108.

Khara, A., Khanyari, M., Ghoshal, A., Rathore, D., Pawar, U. R., Bhatnagar, Y. V., & Suryawanshi, K. R. (2021). The forgotten mountain monarch? Understanding conservation status of the Vulnerable Ladakh urial in India. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 67(4), 1-10.

Jambhekar, R., Suryawanshi, K., & Nagendra, H. (2021). Relationship between lake area and distance from the city center on lake-dependent resident and migratory birds in urban Bangalore, a tropical mega-city in Southern India. Journal of Urban Ecology, 7(1), juab028.

Bijoor, A., Khanyari, M., Dorjay, R., & Suryawanshi, K. R. (2021) A need for context-based conservation: Incorporating local knowledge to mitigate livestock predation by large carnivores. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 107.

Odonjavkhlan, C., Alexsander, J. S., Mishra, C., Samelius, G., Sharma, K., Lkhagvajav, P., & Suryawanshi, K.R. (2021) Factors affecting the spatial distribution and co‐occurrence of two sympatric mountain ungulates in southern Mongolia. Journal of Zoology.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12889

Sharma, R. K., Sharma, K., Borchers, D., Bhatnagar, Y. V., Suryawanshi, K. R., & Mishra, C. (2021). Spatial variation in population-density of snow leopards in a multiple-use landscape in Spiti Valley, Trans-Himalaya. PloS one, 16(5), e0250900.

Kohli, M., Mijiddorj, T. N., Suryawanshi, K. R., Mishra, C., Boldgiv, B., & Sankaran, M. (2021). Grazing and climate change have site‐dependent interactive effects on vegetation in Asian montane rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(3), 539-549.

Bhatia, S., Suryawanshi, K.R., Redpath, S. M., Namgail, S., & Mishra, C. (2021). Understanding People’s Relationship With Wildlife in Trans-Himalayan Folklore. Frontier in Environmental Science, 9, 595169.

Bhatia, S., Suryawanshi, K.R., Redpath, S. M., & Mishra, C. (2021). Understanding people’s responses toward predators in the Indian Himalaya. Animal Conservation, 24(3), 424-431.

Patankar, S., Jambhekar, R., Suryawanshi, K. R., & Nagendra, H. (2021). Which traits influence bird survival in the city? a review. Land, 10(2), 92.

Suryawanshi K.R. (2021) Nesting behaviour and diet of the Shikra Accipiter badius in Ajanta, Maharashtra. Indian Birds. 17(2), 50-53

2020

Sharma, K., Fiechter, M., George, T., Young, J., Alexander, J. S., Bijoor, A., ... K.R. Suryawanshi & Mishra, C. (2020). Conservation and people: Towards an ethical code of conduct for the use of camera traps in wildlife research. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 1(2).

Khanal, G., Mishra, C., & Suryawanshi K.R. (2020) Relative influence of wild prey and livestock abundance on carnivore caused livestock predation. Ecology and Evolution. 10(20), 11787-11797.

Khanyari, M., Luecke, S., Mishra, C., & Suryawanshi, K. R. (2020). Understanding population baselines: status of mountain ungulate populations in the Central Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan. Mammalia, 85(1), 16-23.

Murali, R., Ikhagvajav, P., Amankul, V., Jumabay, K., Sharma, K., Bhatnagar, Y.V., Suryawanshi, K. and Mishra, C., (2020). Ecosystem service dependence in livestock and crop-based production systems in Asia's high mountains. Journal of Arid Environments, 180, p.104204.

Suryawanshi, KR, Mudappa, D., Khanyari, M., Raman, TRS., Rathore, D., Kumar, A., Patel, J. (2020) Population assessment of the endangered Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) using the Double-observer Survey method in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve. Oryx. 55(1), 66-72.

Bhatia, S., Redpath, S., Suryawanshi, KR., Mishra C. (2020) Beyond conflict: exploring the spectrum of human-wildlife interactions and their underlying mechanisms. Oryx. 54(5), 621-628.

Samelius G, Suryawanshi KR, Frank J, Agvaantseren B, Baasandamba E, Mijidorj T, Johansson Ö, Tumursukh L, & Mishra C (2020) Keeping predators out: testing fences as a means to reduce livestock depredation at night-time corrals. Oryx. 55(3), 466-472.

Suryawanshi K.R., Ingle B. (2020) Communal roosting of Black-winged Kites Elanus caeruleus and possible influence of rainfall and wheat cultivation. Indian Birds. 16(5) 143-145.

2019

Murali, R., Suryawanshi, KR., Redpath, S., Nagendra, H., Mishra, C. (2019) Changing Use of Ecosystem Services along rural-urban continuum in the Indian Trans-Himalayas. Ecosystem Services. 40-101030.

Suryawanshi, KR., Sundar, G., (2019) Breeding ecology of the Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) in a managed urban wetland. Indian Birds, 15(2), 33-37

Suryawanshi, KR., Khanyari, M., Sharma, K., Lkhagvajav, P., Mishra C (2019) Sampling Bias in snow leopard population estimation studies. Population Ecology. 61(3), 268-276.

Roy, S., Ghoshal, A., Bijoor, A., & Suryawanshi, K. (2019). Distribution and activity pattern of stone marten Martes foina in relation to prey and predators. Mammalian Biology, 96(1), 110-117.

2018

Ghoshal, A., Sonam, K., Namgail, S., Suryawanshi, K.R., Mishra, C., & Fiechter, M. (2018). Local community neutralizes traditional wolf traps and builds a stupa. Oryx, 52(4), 614-615.

2017

Ghoshal A., Bhatnagar YV., Pandav B., Sharma K., Mishra C., Raghunath R., & K.R. Suryawanshi (2017) Assessing changes in distribution of the Endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia and its wild prey over 2 decades in the Indian Himalaya through interview-based occupancy surveys. Oryx 1-13  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605317001107

Suryawanshi, K.R., Redpath SM, Bhatnagar YV, Ramakrishnan U, Chaturvedi V, Smout SC, Mishra C. (2017) Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards. Royal Society Open Science. 4: 170026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170026

Home, C., Pal, R., Sharma, R.K., Suryawanshi, K.R., Bhatnagar, Y.V., & Vanak, A.T. (2017). Commensal in conflict: Livestock depredation patterns by free-ranging domestic dogs in the Upper Spiti Landscape, Himachal Pradesh, India. Ambio, 1-12.

2016

Khanal, G., Suryawanshi, K.R., Awasthi, K. D., Dhakal, M., Subedi, N., Nath, D., ... & Kelkar, N. (2016). Irrigation demands aggravate fishing threats to river dolphins in Nepal. Biological Conservation, 204, 386-393.

Bhatia, S., Redpath, S. M., Suryawanshi, K., & Mishra, C. (2016). The Relationship Between Religion and Attitudes Toward Large Carnivores in Northern India?. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 1-13.

Ghoshal, A., Bhatnagar, Y. V., Mishra, C., & Suryawanshi, K. (2016). Response of the red fox to expansion of human habitation in the Trans-Himalayan mountains. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 62(1), 131-136.

2015

Tumursukh L, Suryawanshi KR, Mishra C, McCarthy TM, Boldgiv B (2015) Status of the mountain ungulate prey of the endangered snow leopard in the Tost Local Protected Area, South Gobi, Mongolia. Oryx: doi:10.1017/S0030605314001203

2014

Suryawanshi, K. R., Bhatia, S., Bhatnagar, Y. V., Redpath, S., & Mishra, C. (2014). Multiscale factors affecting human attitudes toward snow leopards and wolves. Conservation Biology, 28(6), 1657-1666. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12320

Kohli M, Sankaran M, Suryawanshi KR, Mishra C (2014) A penny saved is a penny earned: Lean season foraging strategy of an alpine ungulate. Animal Behaviour, 92, 93-100.

Pre-2013

Suryawanshi, K. R., Bhatnagar, Y. V., Redpath, S., & Mishra, C. (2013). People, predators and perceptions: patterns of livestock depredation by snow leopards and wolves. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50(3), 550-560. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12061

Suryawanshi, K. R., Bhatnagar, Y. V., & Mishra, C. (2012). Standardizing the double-observer survey method for estimating mountain ungulate prey of the endangered snow leopard. Oecologia, 169(3), 581-590. DOI 10.1007/s00442-011-2237-0

Suryawanshi KR, Bhatnagar YV, Mishra C (2010) Why should a grazer browse? Livestock impact on winter resource use by bharal Pseudois nayaur. Oecologia. 162:453-462