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Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Dean - School of Environment & Sustainability
Head - Long-Term Urban Ecological Observatory

  • School of Environment & Sustainability
    School of Systems & Infrastructure
  • jagdish dot krishnaswamy at iihs dot ac dot in

Jagdish Krishnaswamy is the Dean – School of Environment & Sustainability (SES). He has a BTech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and an MS in Statistics and Decision Sciences and PhD in Environmental Science with a focus on soils and hydrologic science from Duke University, North Carolina, USA.

As the Dean of SES, Jagdish leads the build-out of the School, providing strategic direction and operational guidance to expand its academic footprint, research activities and network, practice portfolio, and capacity-building initiatives. Jagdish helps in the development of the IIHS, Kengeri Campus and its environs as India’s first Long-Term Urban Ecological Observatory (LTUEO) and strengthen the institution’s profile in ecology and conservation science.

Jagdish’s research has spanned the entire continuum from the semi-wild to the urban covering USA, Costa Rica, Africa, and India in ecohydrology, landscape ecology and biodiversity. His work on conservation science and planning led to the nomination of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot as a UNESCO World Heritage Site besides informing the investment of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) civil society-led pilot projects. His work in ecohydrology, impact of invasive species and ecological flows in rivers has influenced policy and management at the state and centre. He is part of the team that released a report for policymakers on state of the art on ecological restoration in India as well the first ever mapping of priority sites for both biodiversity and ecosystem service both sponsored by the Government of India’s Mission on Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing.

Jagdish’s work in climate science and impact of extreme rain and warming on ecosystems across India using both, densely gauged catchments and remote sensing time-series data as well as his policy relevant work in conservation planning led to his nomination for the scoping and design of the IPCC Special Report on Land and Climate. He was soon nominated as coordinating lead author for the synthesis chapter of this special IPCC report on land and climate, besides contributing as an author to several parts of the entire report and negotiating it acceptance at the plenary with governments. In 2022, he was part of the team of IPCC authors who crafted and wrote the three volume Summary for Urban Policymakers (SUP), a synthesis of the urban relevant parts of all the IPCC AR6 cycle reports. In Bengaluru, his work on the LTUEO, the first of its kind for a mega-city in the Global South includes research, practice and training that connects food, water, ecology and biodiversity in an urbanising context. Jagdish is one of the few scientists who has been involved with IPCC and IPBES as he is now one of the scoping experts for the IPBES Second assessment.

Jagdish has supervised five PhD and over 10 master’s students. Jagdish serves on the editorial board of three interdisciplinary journals Urbanisation; Ecology, Economy and Society, and Water Security, and is on the Board of Trustees of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai.

Thematic areas

Capacity Development, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Ecosystems, Sustainability Science, Urban Science, Water and Sanitation and Ecosystem Services

Education

  • 1999 – PhD in Environmental Science, Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, Durham, USA 

  • 1999 – MS in Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, Durham, USA 

  • 1989 – BTech in Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India 

Teaching

  • Advanced Statistics, MSc, Wildlife Biology and Conservation, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru (2006–Present)
  • Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies, Doctoral Programme, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru (2008–2022)
  • Freshwater Ecology, MSc, Wildlife Biology and Conservation, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru (2016–Present)
  • Ecology and Climate Change, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS, Bengaluru (2022–2025)
  • Urban Biodiversity, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP), IIHS, Bengaluru (2022–2025)

PhD supervision

PhDs supervised – 5
PhDs co-supervised – 2

Training

  • Capacity Building Programmes on Urban Development (DoPT), Urban Practitioners’ Programme (UPP), IIHS (2022–Present)

Countries

India, Costa Rica, United States of America

States and UTs in India

Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Delhi NCR

Cities in India

Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Dehradun, Bhagalpur

Languages

English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Spanish

  • Richter, D. D., Billings, S. A., Brantley, S. L., Gaillardet, J., Markewitz, D., Schlesinger, W. H., Amundson, R., Ashley, G. M., Bacon, A. R., Bales, R. C., Binkley, D., Brecheisen, Z., Calvo‐Alvarado, J., Cassar, N., Clifford, C., Derry, L. A., Edgeworth, M., Eppes, M., Fan, Y., … Wolf, M. (2024). Earth Sciences Are the Model Sciences of the Anthropocene. Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024CN000237
  • Rege, A., Bhan, M., Krishnaswamy, J., Patil, S., Singh, I., Xu, W. & Zeng, S. (2024). Seeking a multi-dimensional approach to understand agricultural commodity expansion in Asian tropics, Biotropica. e13375. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13375
  • Kumar, M., Sen, S., Kulkarni, H., Badiger, S., Varma, G. R., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2024). Ecohydrological and hydrogeological dynamics of groundwater springs in Eastern Himalaya, India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 27, 101311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2024.101311
  • Sharma, P., Singh, P., Ramachandran, V., Goswami, R., Sondhi, S., Mukherjee, N., Krishnaswamy, J. & Kadur, S. (2024). Ornithological results of the Siang Biodiversity Expedition 2022, Arunachal Pradesh, India. India Birds, 20(2), 33-39.
  • Krishnaswamy, J. (2024). Understanding Human–Environment Interactions Using Multiple Dimensions. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal, 7(2), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v7i2.1400
  • Kumar, M., Bhutia, Y., Varma, G. R., Joseph, G., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2024). Role of transpiration in modulating ecosystem services in secondary tropical montane forests of Eastern Himalaya in India. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, S1642359324000417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2024.04.001
  • Krishnaswamy, J. (2024). 2023: The year that our planet’s environmental signals play loud and clear. Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal, 7(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v7i1.1261
  • Anoop, N, R,, Krishnaswamy, J,, Kelkar, N,, Bunyan, M,, & Ganesh, T, (2023), Factors determining the seasonal habitat use of Asian elephants, Wayanad plateau, Western Ghats, India, The Journal of Wildlife Management, 83(8), https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22477
  • DeFries, R,, Parashar, S,, Neelakantan, A,, Clark, B,, & Krishnaswamy, J, (2023), Landscape connectivity for wildlife and water: The state of the literature, Current Landscape Ecology Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40823-023-00091-0
  • Kumar, M,, Joseph, G,, Bhutia, Y,, & Krishnaswamy, J, (2023), Contrasting sap flow characteristics between pioneer and late-successional tree species in secondary tropical montane forests of Eastern Himalaya, India. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74(17), 5273–5293. Article erad207, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad207
  • Ramakant Nayak, R., Krishnaswamy, J., Vaidyanathan, S., Chappell, N. A., & Singh Bhalla, R. (2023). Invasion of natural grasslands by exotic trees increases flood risks in mountainous landscapes in South India. Journal of Hydrology, 617. Article 128944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128944
  • Srivathsa, A., Vasudev, D., Nair, T., Chakrabarti, S., Chanchani, P., DeFries, R., Deomurari, A., Dutta, S., Ghose, D., Goswami, V. R., Nayak, R., Neelakantan, A., Thatte, P., Vaidyanathan, S., Verma, M., Krishnaswamy, J., Sankaran, M., & Ramakrishnan, U. (2023). Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Nature Sustainability, 6, 568–577. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01063-2
  • Das, D., Banerjee, S., Lehmkuhl, J., Krishnaswamy, J., & John, R. (2022). The influence of abiotic and spatial variables on woody and herbaceous species abundances in a woodland–grassland system in the Eastern Terai of India. Journal of Plant Ecology, 15(1), 155-167. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtab080
  • Deshpande, K., Vanak, A. T., Devy, M. S., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2022). Forbidden fruits? Ecosystem services from seed dispersal by fruit bats in the context of latent zoonotic risk. Okios, Article e0835. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08359
  • Jumani, S., Deitch, M. J., Valle, D., Machado, S., Lecours, V., Kaplan, D., Krishnaswamy, J., Howard, J. (2022). A new index to quantify longitudinal river fragmentation: Conservation and management implications. Ecological Indicators, 136, 1872-7034. Article 108680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108680
  • Kelkar, N., Arthur, R., Dey, S., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2022). Flood-pulse variability and climate change effects increase uncertainty in fish yields: Revisiting narratives of declining fish catches in India’s Ganga River. Hydrology, 9(4). Article 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9040053
  • Rao, S., Krishnaswamy, J., & Bhalla, R. S. (2021). Linking flow alteration with fish assemblage structure in a river regulated by a small hydropower project in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. River Research and Applications, 38(1), 138-151. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.388
  • Marathe, A., Priyadarsanan, D. R., Krishnaswamy, J., & Shanker, K. (2021). Gamma diversity and under-sampling together generate patterns in beta-diversity. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 21420. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99830-8
  • Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Greening cities from within: Generating ecosystem services where we live. Urbanisation, 7(1_suppl), S67-S76. https://doi.org/10.1177/24557471211047302
  • Deshpande, K., Kelkar, N., Krishnaswamy, J., & Sankaran, M. (2021). Stretching the habitat envelope: insectivorous bat guilds can use rubber plantations, but need understorey vegetation and forest buffers. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2, Article 751694. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.751694
  • Samad, I., Kelkar, N., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Life at the borderline: Responses of Ganges river dolphins to dry-season flow regulation of river and canal habitats by the Farakka barrage. Aquatic Conservsation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 32(2), 294-308. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3763
  • Momblanch, A., Kelkar, N., Braulik, G., Krishnaswamy, J., & Holman, I. P. (2021). Exploring trade-offs between SDGs for Indus River Dolphin conservation and human water security in the regulated Beas River, India. Sustainability Science, 17, 1619–1637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01026-6
  • Kumar, M., Hodnebrog, Ø., Daloz, A. S., Sen, S., Badiger, S., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Measuring precipitation in Eastern Himalaya: Ground validation of eleven satellite, model and gauge interpolated gridded products. Journal of Hydrology, 599, 126252.
  • Pinto, N., Vaidyanathan, S., Varughese, S., Krishnaswamy, J., Massar, B., & Haokip, J. V. (2021). Establishment of community-led fish conservation zones in Meghalaya and Manipur, India. Oryx, 55(4), 493–494. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605321000338
  • Lapworth, D. J., Dochartaigh, B. Ó., Nair, T., O’Keeffe, J., Krishan, G., MacDonald, A. M., … & Jackson, C. R. (2021). Characterising groundwater-surface water connectivity in the lower Gandak catchment, a barrage regulated biodiversity hotspot in the mid-Gangetic basin. Journal of Hydrology, 594. Article 125923.
  • Bawa, K. S., Sengupta, A., Chavan, V., Chellam, R., Ganesan, R., Krishnaswamy, J., Mathur, V. B., Nawn, N., Olsson, S. B., Pandit, N., Quader, S., Rajagopal, P., Ramakrishnan, U., Ravikanth, G., Sankaran, M., Shankar, D., Seidler, R., Shaanker, R. U., & Vanak, A. T. (2021). Securing biodiversity, securing our future: A national Mission on biodiversity and human well-being for India. Biological Conservation, 253, Article 108867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108867
  • Clark, B., DeFries, R., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). India’s commitments to increase tree and forest cover: Consequences for water supply and agriculture production within the central Indian highlands. Water, 13(7), Article 959. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13070959
  • Marathe, A., Shanker, K., Krishnaswamy, J., & Priyadarsanan, D. R. (2021). Species and functional group composition of ant communities across an elevational gradient in the Eastern Himalaya. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 24(4), 1244-1250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2021.08.009
  • Jumani, S., Deitch, M. J., Kaplan, D., Anderson, E. P., Krishnaswamy, J., Lecours, V., & Whiles, M. R. (2020). River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12), 123009.
  • Bawa, K. S., Nawn, N., Chellam, R., Krishnaswamy, J., Mathur, V., Olsson, S. B., … & Quader, S. (2020). Envisioning a biodiversity science for sustaining human well-being. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(42), 25951-25955.
  • Atkore, V., Kelkar, N., Badiger, S., Shanker, K., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2020). Multiscale investigation of water chemistry effects on fish guild species richness in regulated and nonregulated Rivers of India’s Western Ghats: Implications for restoration. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 149(3), 298-319.
  • Athreya V, Isvaran K, Odden M, Linnell JDC, Kshettry A, Krishnaswamy J, & Karanth UK. (2020). The impact of leopards (Panthera pardus) on livestock losses and human injuries in a human-use landscape in Maharashtra, India. PeerJ 8,e8405 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8405
  • Marathe A, Priyadarsanan DR, Krishnaswamy J, Shanker K (2020). Spatial and climatic variables independently drive elevational gradients in ant species richness in the Eastern Himalaya. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227628. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227628
  • Jayadevan, A., Nayak, R., Karanth, K. K., Krishnaswamy, J., DeFries, R., Karanth, K. U., & Vaidyanathan, S. (2020). Navigating paved paradise: Evaluating landscape permeability to movement for large mammals in two conservation priority landscapes in India. Biological Conservation, 247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108613
  • Sebastian, D. E., Ganguly, S., Krishnaswamy, J., Duffy, K., Nemani, R., & Ghosh, S. (2019). Multi-scale association between vegetation growth and climate in India: a wavelet analysis approach. Remote Sensing, 11(22), 2703. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11222703
  • Dey, M., Krishnaswamy, J., Morisaka, T., & Kelkar, N. (2019). Interacting effects of vessel noise and shallow river depth elevate metabolic stress in Ganges river dolphins. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51664-1
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Kelkar, N. & Birkel, C. (2018). Positive and neutral effects of forest cover on dry‐season stream flow in Costa Rica identified from Bayesian regression models with informative prior distributions. Hydrological Processes, 32(24), 3604-3614. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13288
  • Hill, M. J., Hassall, C., Oertli, B., Fahrig, L., Robson, B. J., Biggs, J., … Wood, P. J. (2018). New policy directions for global pond conservation. Conservation Letters, 11(5), e12447. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12447
  • Richter, D. D., Billings, S. A., Groffman, P. M., Kelly, E. F., Lohse, K. A., McDowell, W. H., White, T. S., Anderson, S., Baldocchi, D. D., Banwart, S., Brantley, S., Braun, J. J., Brecheisen, Z. S., Cook, C. W., Hartnett, H. E., Hobbie, S. E., Gaillardet, J., Jobbagy, E., Jungkunst, H. F., Kazanski, C. E., Krishnaswamy, J., Markewitz, D., O’Neill, K., Riebe, C. S., Schroeder, P., Siebe, C., Silver, W. L., Thompson, A., Verhoef, A., & Zhang, G. (2018). Ideas and perspectives: Strengthening the biogeosciences in environmental research networks. Biogeosciences, 15, 4815–4832, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4815-2018.
  • Jumani, S., Rao, S., Kelkar, N., Machado, S., Krishnaswamy, J. & Vaidyanathan, S. (2018). Fish community responses to stream flow alterations and habitat modifications by small hydropower projects in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 28(4), 979-993. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2904
  • Krishnaswamy, J. (2018). Conversations on Climate Change: Editorial Note. Ecology, Economy and Society-the INSEE Journal, 1(2354-2020-1067), 67-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.303751
  • Chappella, N. A., Jonesa, T. D., Tycha, W. & Krishnaswamy, J. (2017). Role of rainstorm intensity underestimated by data-derived flood models: Emerging global evidence from subsurface-dominated watersheds. Environmental Modelling & Software, 88, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.10.009
  • Hamel, P., Riveros-Iregui, D., Ballari, D., Browning, T., Célleri, R., Chandler, D., … Rocha, H. (2017). Watershed services in the humid tropics: Opportunities from recent advances in ecohydrology. Ecohydrology, 11(3), e1921. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1921
  • Rao, S. T., Krishnaswamy, J. & Bhalla, R. S. (2017). Fishy business: Response of stream fish assemblages to small hydro-power plant induced flow alteration in the Western Ghats, Karnataka. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2017, NH33B-0245.
  • Atkore, V., Kelkar, N. & Krishnaswamy, J. (2017). Assessing the Recovery of Fish Assemblages Downstream of Hydrological Barriers in India’s Western Ghats. River Research and Applications, 33(7), 1026-1035. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3163
  • Singh, C., Daron, J., Bazaz, A., Ziervogel, G., Spear, D., Krishnaswamy, J., … & Kituyi, E. (2017). The utility of weather and climate information for adaptation decision-making: current uses and future prospects in Africa and India. Climate and Development, 10(5), 389-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2017.1318744
  • Agarwal, S., Marathe, A., Ghate, R. et al. Forest protection in Central India: do differences in monitoring by state and local institutions result in diverse social and ecological impacts?. Biodivers Conserv 26, 2047–2066 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1344-6
  • Vanak, A. T., Kulkarni, A., Gode, A., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2016). Extent and status of semiarid savanna grasslands in Peninsular India. ENVIS Bulletin on Ecology and Management of Grassland Habitats in India, 17, 192-201.
  • Athreya, V., Odden, M., Linnell, J. D., Krishnaswamy, J., & Karanth, K. U. (2016). A cat among the dogs: leopard Panthera pardus diet in a human-dominated landscape in western Maharashtra, India. Oryx, 50(1), 156-162.
  • Godipurge, S. S., Yallappa, S., Biradar, N. J., Biradar, J. S., Dhananjaya, B. L., Hegde, G., … & Hegde, G. (2016). A facile and green strategy for the synthesis of Au, Ag and Au–Ag alloy nanoparticles using aerial parts of R. hypocrateriformis extract and their biological evaluation. Enzyme and microbial technology, 95, 174-184.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Kumar, M., & Badiger, S. (2016). Remote Sensing-Based Rainfall Estimates in Data-Scarce Himalaya: Performance Assessment of TRMM_3B42v7, TRMM_3B42RT v7 & GPM_3IMERGHH v03 Using Ground Rainfall and Stream Hydrographs in Sikkim Himalaya, India. AGU Fall Meeting, 2016, H23F-1648.
  • Kumar, M., Joseph, G., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2016). Diverse Diurnal and Seasonal Sapflux Responses in Three Co-occurring Species from East Himalayan Wet Temperate Forests in Sikkim Himalaya, India. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2016, H31E-1433.
  • Atkore, V., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2016). Exploring freshwater science. Resonance, 21(11), 997-1006. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-016-0410-9
  • Clark, B., DeFries, R., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2016). Intra-annual dynamics of water stress in the central Indian Highlands from 2002 to 2012. Regional Environmental Change, 16(1), 83-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-1017-0
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Vaidyanathan, S., Rajagopalan, B., Bonell, M., Sankaran, M., Bhalla, R. S., & Badiger, S. (2015). Non-stationary and non-linear influence of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole on the variability of Indian monsoon rainfall and extreme rain events. Climate Dynamics, 45, 175-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2288-0
  • Atkore, V. M., Knight, J. M., Devi, K. R., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2015). A new species of Pethia from the western Ghats, India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Copeia, 103(2), 290-296. https://doi.org/10.1643/OT-12-172
  • Varma, V., Ratnam, J., Viswanathan, V., Osuri, A. M., Biesmeijer, J. C., Madhusudan, M. D., … & Sundaram, B. (2015). Perceptions of priority issues in the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India. Biological Conservation, 187, 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.04.031
  • Sundaram, B., Hiremath, A. J., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2015). Factors influencing the local scale colonisation and change in density of a widespread invasive plant species, Lantana camara, in South India. NeoBiota, 25, 27-46. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.25.8354
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Bonell, M., Venkatesh, B., Purandara, B. K., Lele, S., Kiran, M. C., Reddy, V., Badiger, S., & Rakesh, K. N. (2012). The rain–runoff response of tropical humid forest ecosystems to use and reforestation in the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Hydrology, 472–473, 216–237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.09.016
  • Nair, T., Thorbjarnarson, J. B., Aust, P., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2012). Rigorous gharial population estimation in the Chambal: Implications for conservation and management of a globally threatened crocodilian. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49(5), 1046–1054. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02189.x
  • Vira, B., Adams, B., Agarwal, C., Badiger, S., Hope, R. A., Krishnaswamy, J., & Kumar, C. (2012). Negotiating trade-offs: choices about ecosystem services for poverty alleviation. Economic and Political Weekly, 47(9), 67-75.
  • Sandeep, K., Shankar, R., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2011). Assessment of suspended particulate pollution in the Bhadra River catchment, Southern India: An environmental magnetic approach. Environmental Earth Sciences, 62(3), 625–637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-010-0552-0
  • Ranganathan, J., Krishnaswamy, J., & Anand, M. O. (2010). Landscape-level effects on avifauna within tropical agriculture in the Western Ghats: Insights for management and conservation. Biological Conservation, 143(12), 2909-2917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.018
  • Vaidyanathan, S., Krishnaswamy, J., Kumar, N. S., Dhanwatey, H., Dhanwatey, P., & Karanth, K. U. (2010). Patterns of tropical forest dynamics and human impacts: views from above and below the canopy. Biological Conservation, 143(12), 2881-2890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.027
  • Anand, M. O., Krishnaswamy, J., Kumar, A., & Bali, A. (2010). Sustaining biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes in the Western Ghats: remnant forests matter. Biological Conservation, 143(10), 2363-2374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.01.013
  • Bonell, M., Purandara, B. K., Venkatesh, B., Krishnaswamy, J., Acharya, H. A. K., Singh, U. V., … & Chappell, N. (2010). The impact of forest use and reforestation on soil hydraulic conductivity in the Western Ghats of India: Implications for surface and sub-surface hydrology. Journal of Hydrology, 391(1-2), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.07.004
  • Kelkar, N., Krishnaswamy, J., Choudhary, S., & Sutaria, D. (2010). Coexistence of fisheries with river dolphin conservation. Conservation Biology, 24(4), 1130-1140. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01467.x
  • Kelkar, N., & Krishnaswamy , J. ( 2010 ). Keeping rivers alive . Seminar, (613), 29 – 33.
  • Vanak, A. T., Karanth, K. K., Hedges, S., Di Minin, E., Slotow, R., Thaker, M., Shanker, K., Rai, N., Tyson, M. J., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2014). Potholes in the global-road map? Response to Laurance et al.
  • Athreya, V., Odden, M., Linnell, J. D., Krishnaswamy, J., & Karanth, U. (2013). Big cats in our backyards: Persistence of large carnivores in a human dominated landscape in India. PloS One, 8(3). https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057872
  • Krishnaswamy, J., John, R., & Joseph, S. (2014). Consistent response of vegetation dynamics to recent climate change in tropical mountain regions. Global Change Biology, 20(1), 203–215. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12362
  • Nayak, R. R., Vaidyanathan, S., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2014). Fire and grazing modify grass community response to environmental determinants in savannas: Implications for sustainable use. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 185, 197–207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.01.002
  • ‪The groundwater recharge response and hydrologic services of tropical humid forest ecosystems to use and reforestation: Support for the “infiltration-evapotranspiration trade-off hypothesis”. (2023). Journal of Hydrology, 498, 191–209.
  • Krishnaswamy, J. (2015). Saving India’s rivers and riverine ecosystems. Fundamatics.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., & Srinivas, V. (2015, December). La Nina and Indian Ocean Dipole Influence on Distribution of Daily Rain Intensities in India. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2015, pp. A13A-0298).
  • Kiran, M. C., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2010). Ghats Occidentales: biodiversidad, endemismo y conservación.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Bawa, K. S., Ganeshaiah, K. N., & Kiran, M. C. (2009). Quantifying and mapping biodiversity and ecosystem services: Utility of a multi-season NDVI based Mahalanobis distance surrogate. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113(4), 857-867.
  • Krishna, Y., Clyne, P., Krishnaswamy, J. & Kumar, N. (2009). Distributional and ecological review of the four horned antelope, Tetracerus quadricornis. Mammalia, 73(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1515/MAMM.2009.003
  • Revi, A., Krishnaswamy, J., Prakash, S., Mehotra, R., Mangrulkar, A., Ganesh, K., Kulkarni, M., Satish, R. & Sebastian, D. E. (2024). Adaptive practices in design: Surface water systems. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Revi, A., Krishnaswamy, J., Mehrotra, R., Prakash, S., Patil, S., John, S., Sagar, P. & Khare, N. A. (2024). Sustainable Urban Agriculture. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Mangrulkar, A., Bakhale, G., Krishnaswamy, J., Deshpande, K., Kulkarni, M., Khare, N. A., Jambhekar, R., Satish, R., & Atri, S.R. (2024). In A. Revi, J. Krishnaswamy, R. Mehrotra, & S. Prakash (Eds.), Natural history of IIHS campus: A future of urban biodiversity. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Kumar, N. S., Karanth, U. K., Nichols, J. D., Vaidyanathan, S., Gardner, B., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Spatial dynamics and ecology of large ungulate populations in tropical forests of India. Springer.
  • Kumar, N. S., Karanth, U. K., Nichols, J. D., Vaidyanathan, S., Gardner, B., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Conservation of tropical forest ungulates: The way forward. In Spatial dynamics and ecology of large ungulate populations in tropical forests of India (pp. 185-195). Springer.
  • Kumar, N. S., Karanth, U. K., Nichols, J. D., Vaidyanathan, S., Gardner, B., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Assessing threats to ungulates and management responses. In Spatial dynamics and ecology of large ungulate populations in tropical forests of India (pp. 167-184). Springer.
  • Kumar, N. S., Karanth, U. K., Nichols, J. D., Vaidyanathan, S., Gardner, B., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Development of hierarchical spatial models for assessing ungulate abundance and habitat relationships. In Spatial dynamics and ecology of large ungulate populations in tropical forests of India (pp. 35-82). Springer.
  • Kumar, N. S., Karanth, U. K., Nichols, J. D., Vaidyanathan, S., Gardner, B., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Introduction: The conservation issue. In Spatial dynamics and ecology of large ungulate populations in tropical forests of India (pp. 1-33). Springer.
  • Kumar, N. S., Karanth, U. K., Nichols, J. D., Vaidyanathan, S., Gardner, B., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Model-based assessment of ungulate-habitat relationships. In Spatial dynamics and ecology of large ungulate populations in tropical forests of India (pp. 83-165). Springer.
  • Shukla, P. R., Skea, J., Slade, R., Diemen, R. V., Haughey, E., Malley, J., Pathak, M., Portugal, J., F Agus, P., Arneth, A., Netto, P. E. A., Barbosa, H., Barioni, L. G., Benton, T. G., Bhadwal, S., Calvin, K., Calvo, E., Krishnaswamy, J … & Zommers, Z et al. (2019). Technical summary. In Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Cambridge University Press.
  • Arneth, A., Barbosa, H., Benton, T., Calvin, K., Calvo, E., Connors, S., Cowie, A., Davin, E., Denton, F., Dieman, R. V., Driouech, F., Elbehri, A., Evans, J., Ferrat., M., Horald, J., Haughey, E., Herrero, M., House, J., Howden, M., Krishnaswamy, J … Zommers, Z. et al. (2019). Summary for policymakers. In Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Cambridge University Press.
  • Hurlbert, M., J. Krishnaswamy, E. Davin, F.X. Johnson, C.F. Mena, J. Morton, S. Myeong, D. Viner, K. Warner, A. Wreford, S. Zakieldeen, Z. Zommers, Baillis, R., Baptiste, B., Bowman, K., Byers, E., Calvin, K., Diaz-Chavez, R., Evans, J., … Warner , A. et al. (2019). Risk management and decision making in relation to sustainable development. In Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Cambridge University Press.
  • Lele, S., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2019). Climate change and India’s forests. In N. K. Dubash (Ed.), India in a warming world: Integrating climate change and development (pp. 478-497). Oxford University Press, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199498734.001.0001
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Kelkar, N., Aravind, N. A., & Vaidyanathan, S. (2018). Climate change impacts on aquatic biodiversity. In J. R. Bhatt, A. Das, & Shanker, K (Eds.), Biodiversity and climate change: An Indian perspective (pp. 163-190). Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.
  • Vissa, N., Bonell, M., Chappell, N.A., Tych, W., Trevor, P., Krishnaswamy, J., Bhalla, R. S. & Vaidyanathan, S. (2017). Synoptic typology of rain storms in the Western Ghats: Hydrologic implications. In Hydrologic and carbon services in the western Ghats: Response of forest and agro-ecosystems to extreme rainfall events (pp. 11-18). Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI.
  • Chappel, N., Jones, T., Tych, W. & Krishnaswamy, J. (2017). Modelling storm flow in sub-surface flow dominated systems of the Western Ghats. In Hydrologic and carbon services in the western Ghats: Response of forest and agro-ecosystems to extreme rainfall events (pp. 19-24). Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Chappel, N., Sankaran, M. & Singh, R. (2017). Syntheses and conclusions. In Hydrologic and carbon services in the western Ghats: Response of forest and agro-ecosystems to extreme rainfall events (pp. 67-68). Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI.
  • Krishnaswamy, J. & Vaidyanathan, S. (2017). Spatial and temporal dimensions of extreme rain events in India. In Hydrologic and carbon services in the western Ghats: Response of forest and agro-ecosystems to extreme rainfall events (pp. 1-10). Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Vaidyanathan, S., Bhalla, R. S. & Badiger, S. (2017). Impacts of land-cover on catchment hydrology. In Hydrologic and carbon services in the western Ghats: Response of forest and agro-ecosystems to extreme rainfall events (pp. 25-42). Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI.
  • Krishnaswamy, J. (2018). Adaptations to climate change: Water management and security. In N. Nataraja Karaba, N. R. Gangadharappa, & V. V. Belavadi (Eds.), Agriculture under climate change: Threats, strategies and policies. Allied Publishers.
  • Krishnaswamy, J. (2017). Forest management and water in India. In Forest management and the impact on water resources: A review of 13 countries. Montevideo, Paris.
  • Reddy, G. V., Karanth, K. U., Kumar, N. S., Krishnaswamy, J., & Karanth, K. K. (2016). Synthesis, discussion and conclusions. In Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests (pp. 85–91). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0911-2_5
  • Reddy, G. V., Karanth, K. K., Kumar, N., Krishnaswamy, J., & Karanth, K. K. (2016). Results and findings. In Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests (pp. 43–84). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0911-2_4
  • Reddy, G. V., Karanth, K. U., Kumar, N. S., Krishnaswamy, J., Karanth, K. K., Reddy, G. V., … & Karanth, K. K. (2016). Study Species, Habitats and Hypotheses. In Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests (pp.13-21). Springer.
  • Reddy, G. V., Karanth, K. U., Kumar, N. S., Krishnaswamy, J., Karanth, K. K., Reddy, G. V., … & Karanth, K. K. (2016). Role of wildlife protected areas in India. In Recovering biodiversity in Indian forests (pp. 1-11). Springer.
  • Reddy, G. V., Karanth, K. U., Kumar, N. S., Krishnaswamy, J., Karanth, K. K., Reddy, G. V., … & Karanth, K. K. (2016). Survey Design, Field and Analytical Methods. In Recovering Biodiversity in Indian Forests (pp. 23-41). Springer.
  • Krishnaswamy, J. (2013). Assessing canopy processes at large landscape scales in the western ghats using remote sensing. In M. Lowman, S. Devy, & T. Ganesh (Eds.), Treetops at Risk (pp. 289–294). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7161-5_28
  • Elmqvist, T., Tuvendal, M., Krishnaswamy, J., & Hylander, K. (2013). Managing trade-offs in ecosystem services. In Values, payments and institutions for ecosystem management. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (pp. 70–89). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=i34tAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA70&dq=info:szerErLJNUkJ:scholar.google.com&ots=h2EGojcOM_&sig=e5Tj55C6T9YsZVjRO5o3RzEYTnw
  • Elmqvist, T., Tuvendal, M., Krishnaswamy, J., & Hylander, K. (2010). Ecosystem services: Managing trade-offs between provisioning and regulating services. In P. Kumar, M. D. Wood (Eds.), Valuation of regulating services of ecosystems: methodology and applications (pp. 27-24). Wiley.
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Daniel, D., Sen, S., & Khanna, J (2023, April 24-28). Emerging ecological and environmental hazards in the Himalayas [Paper presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2023. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11871
  • Chappell, N. A., Jones, T., Young, P., & Krishnaswamy, J. (2015, December). Demonstrating the Value of Fine-resolution Optical Data for Minimising Aliasing Impacts on Biogeochemical Models of Surface Waters. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2015, pp. B14D-02).
  • Bhalla, R. S., Srinivas, V., Krishnaswamy, J., Chappell, N. A., & Jones, T. (2015, December). Estimating Evapotranspiration Demands of Different Land Cover Using Diurnal Signals in Dry Season Stream Discharge. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2015, pp. H31D-1445).
  • Sebastian, D., Ghosh, S. & Krishnaswamy, J. (4-13 April, 2018). Influence of climate variables on phenology of Indian forests. Proceedings of EGU General Assembly Conference (p.997). Vienna, Austria.
  • Grafton, R. Q., Krishnaswamy, J., & Revi, A. (2023). Technical report: The water cycle and the economy. Global Commission on the Economics of Water.
  • Raghurama, M., Dutta, S., Nair, T., Sankaran, M., Raman, T. R. S., Mudappa, D., Osuri, A. M., Krishnaswamy, J., Ramakrishnan, U., Pandit, N., Krishen, P., Nerlekar, A., Agrawal, I., Blanchflower, P., Borawake, N., Bosco, G. V., Das, A., Datar, M. N., Datta, A … Bawa, K. (2023). Restoring India’s terrestrial ecosystems: Needs, challenges and policy recommendations. National Mission on Biodiversity & Human well-being; Biodiversity Collaborative.
  • Grafton, Q., Gupta, J., Revi, A., Mazzucato, M., Okonjo-Iewala, N., Rockström, J., Shanmugaratnam, T., Aki-Sawyerr, Y., Bárcena Ibarra, A., Cantrell, L., Espinosa, M. F., Ghosh, A., Ishii, N., Jintiach, J. C., Qui, B., Ramphele, M., Urrego, M. R., Serageldin, I., Damania, R., … Réalé, I. (2023). The what, why and how of the world water crisis: Global Commission on the Economics of Water phase 1 review and findings. https://doi.org/10.25911/GC7J-QM22
  • Gallardo, L., Hamdi, R., Islam, A. K. M. S., Klaus, I., Klimont, Z., Krishnaswamy, J., Pinto, I., Otto, F., Raghavan, K., Revi, A., Sörensson, A. A., & Szopa, S. (2022). What the latest physical science of climate change means for cities and urban areas. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV108.2022
  • Adelekan, I., Cartwright, A., Chow, W., Colenbrander, S., Dawson, R., Garschagen, M., Haasnoot, M., Hashizume, M., Klaus, I., Krishnaswamy, J., Lemos, M. F., Ley, D., McPhearson, T., Pelling, M., Kodira, P. P., Revi, A., Sara, L. M., Simpson, N. P., Singh, C., … Trisos, C. (2022). What the latest science on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability means for cities and urban areas. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV209.2022
  • Babiker, M., Bazaz, A., Bertoldi, P., Creutzig, F., De Coninck, H., De Kleijne, K., Dhakal, S., Haldar, S., Jiang, K., Kılkış, Ş., Klaus, I., Krishnaswamy, J., Lwasa, S., Niamir, L., Pathak, M., Pereira, J. P., Revi, A., Roy, J., Seto, K. C., … Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2022). What the latest science on climate change mitigation means for cities and urban areas. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV310.2022
  • Revi, A., Roberts, D., Klaus, I., Bazaz, A., Krishnaswamy, J., Singh, C., Eichel, A., Kodira, P. P., Seth, S., Adelekan, I., Babiker, M., Bertoldi, P., Cartwright, A., Chow, W., Colenbrander, S., Creutzig, F., Dawson, R., De Coninck, H., De Kleijne, K., … Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2022). The summary for urban policymakers of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV511.2022
  • Krishnaswamy, J., Bunyan, M., Solomon, D., Duraisamy, V., Bazaz, A., Thomas, R., Masundire, H., Molefe, C., Tebboth, M., Assen, M., Adnew, M., Thompson-Hall, M., Totin, E., Sidibe, A., & Mensah, A. (2019). Changing ecosystem services are increasing people’s vulnerability in semi-arid regions : an ASSAR cross-regional insight. ASSAR.

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