08:00 AM Registration

09:00 AM Long Workshops

Conservation policies and advocacy
Neha Sinha, S. Subramanya & Ritwick Dutta
Satish Dhawan Classroom
Introducing GIS and remote sensing using QGIS
Ravi Bhalla & Srinivas Vaidyanathan
CES Lotka Voltera lab
Conservation Genetics - Advanced
Shomita Mukherjee & Subhankar Chakraborty
CES Seminar Hall
Data Analysis Consultation
Suhel Quader, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Varun Varma & Geetha Ramaswami
CES Reading Room
Social and Ecological Dimensions of Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation
Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Nachiket Kelkar, Tarun Nair & Vidyadhar Atkore
JN Tata Seminar Hall B
The nitty-gritty of writing and presenting research
Yateendra Joshi
Cistup Classroom
An Introduction to Invasion Biology
Rauf Ali & Naveen Namboothri
Rauf Ali and Naveen Namboothri
Study design in ecology and conservation
Advait Edgaonkar & Kavita Isvaran
Materials Engineering
Fundamentals of GIS for ecology, and Species distribution modelling
Alice Hughes
KSCST
Introduction to occupancy sampling, modelling and estimation
Abishek Harihar & Rohit Naniwadekar
CES Seminar Hall
Social Science for Conservation Biologists- An Introduction
Sharachchandra Lele, Seema Purushothaman, E. Somanathan & Sudha Vasan
JN Tata Main Auditorium
Bird and Mammal handling techniques
Uma Ramakrishnan, Gerry Martin, Vishnudas C. K., Vivek Ramachandran,
Krishnapriya Tamma & Amruta Varudkar
Gerry Martins Farm
Walk the wild side (with your best foot forward): forge your indispensable so-
cial and inter-personal tool-kit as a conservation scientist
Shilpi Sarkar
Cistup Workshop Hall
Ecological restoration in a changing world: Insights from a natural
forest-grassland matrix in the Western Ghats
Bob Stewart, Tanya Balcar, Joachim Schmerbeck, Siddharth Krishnan, Suprabha
Seshan, Arundhati Das & Milind Bunyan
JN Tata Seminar Hall A
11:30 AM Refreshments
11:50 AM Long Workshops Continue
01:00 PM Lunch
02:00 PM Long Workshops Continue
04:30 PM Refreshments
04:50 PM Conference Inauguration
05:20 PM Communicating Conservation Science Using Art and Literature:
The Last Wave- An Island Journey
Pankaj Sekhsaria
06:00 PM Saving non-charismatic indicator species: tales of success and failures / Goutam Narayan
07:00 PM Dinner
09:30 PM Dinner Ends
STUDENT CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATION SCIENCE
BANGALORE 2014
Day 1
25 September 2014
08:00 AM Registration
08:30 AM Fortress Conservation: Eviction, Power and Conservation Visions
Daniel Brockington
09:30 AM Refreshments
09:50 AM Group Photo
10:00 AM Ecology and Ecosystem Functioning
Student Talks
Dry Forest Seedlings Do Not Alter Above-Ground Biomass In Response To A Pulsed Watering Regime
Lalitha Krishnan
Amphibian Chytrid: A Test For Conservation?
Guillaume Demare
Understanding The Effects Of Tropical Rainforest Fragmentation On Tree Communities And Carbon Storage:
A Functional Traits Approach
Anand Osuri
Local Adaptations And Distance Away From The Indian Mainland Had Contributed Towards Endemism In Dinopium
Flamebacks In Sri Lanka
Saminda Fernando
Seasonal Variations In Nitrogen Transformations: Comparing Organic And Conventional Agricultural Practices
Manjunatha H C
A Phylogenetic Approach To Measuring Biodiversity In Dry Forest Tree Communities
Divya B
12:00 AM Whos Who In Conservation
01:00 PM Lunch
02:00 PM Short Workshops
How R you doing? Using the R platform for managing and analyzing
ecological datasets
Raman Kumar
CES Lotka Voltera lab
Making Effective Presentations
Yateendra Joshi
Cistup Classroom
Do we need large carnivores in human use landscapes?
Vidya Athreya, Kalyan Varma and Tiasa Adhya
JN Tata Seminar Hall B
Landscape genetics
Uma Ramakrishnan, Srinivas Vaidyanathan and Prachi Thatte
Cistup Workshop Hall
Conservation Genetics - Basic
Shomita Mukherjee and Subhankar Chakraborty
Choksi Hall
Exploring the media and conservation
Daniel Brockington
JN Tata Seminar Hall C
Conservation Psychology: Attitude and environmental decision-making
V.V. Binoy and Sindhu Radhakrishnan
CES Seminar Hall
Human elephant confict in India: scale, prevention and
management measures
K. K. Sharma, Sushant Chowdhury, Anupam Sarmah and Anil Kumar Singh
JN Tata Seminar Hall A
How to Read a Scientifc Paper?
Nandini Rajamani
IPC Classroom
Thinking Quantitatively
Suhel Quader
KSCST
STUDENT CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATION SCIENCE
BANGALORE 2014
Day 2
26 September 2014
Ecological Monitoring and Conservation of Tropical Insect Biodiversity
Krushnamegh Kunte
Satish Dhawan Classroom
Elements of effective study design
Advait Edgaonkar and Kavita Isvaran
Materials Engineering
Leveraging Citizen Science beyond research
Thomas Vattakaven, Vijay Barve, Yash Sondhi, K.V. Gururaja,
Aravind Madhyasta and Gladwin Joseph
JN Tata Main Auditorium
04:30 PM Refreshments
04:50 PM Ecology and Ecosystem Functioning
Student Posters
A01 A Comparative Study On Aquatic Insect Diversity Of Two Ponds Of Cachar District, Assam And The Role Of Ponds In Bio-
diversity Conservation
Arpita Dalal
A02 Altitudinal Distribution Pattern Of Butterfies In Ne India: A Case Study In Barail Hill Range Monsoon
Jyoti Gogoi
A03 Aquatic Insect Inventory Of A Stream Of Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary, Btc Area, Western Assam, India-
A Seasonal Study.
Bijita Barman
A04 Assessment Of Diversity Of Aquatic Birds In View Of Habitat Conservation At Bhadalwadi Lake, Ujjani
Reservoir, Maharashtra
Shraddha Karikar
A05 Biogeographic Affnities Of The Magpie-Robins And Shamas (Copsychus) Of The Andaman Islands
Nelum Wickramasinghe
A06 Climate And Occurrence Of Small Felids: Three Species, Three Different Responses
Andr Silva
A07 Differences In Activity Budgets Of Migratory And Resident Members Of The Family Anatidae In Lothian, Scotland.
Nisarg Chaudhari
A08 Distribution Of A Caenophidian Snake, Xylophis Captaini (Gower & Winkler, 2007) In The Western Ghats, India.
Jins V J
A09 Diversity And Habitat Utilization Of Lizards In Mulshi Tehsil Of Northern Western Ghats
Vinayak Chavan
A10 Diversity Of Aquatic And Semi-Aquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) Of The Four Lotic Systems Of Cachar
District Of Assam, India.
Anupama Saha
A11 Diversity, Habitat Preference And Phenology Of Odonata Community In Talangama Environmental Protection Area, Sri
Lanka (Work In Progress)
Amila Prasanna Sumanapala
A12 Factors Affecting The Distribution Of The Ganges River Dolphin In Karnali River Of Nepal And India
Gopal Khanal
A13 Geography Is The Problem: On The Relevance Of Local Case Studies To Global Change And Conservation Science
Jared Margulies
A14 Home Gardens, Islands Of Habitats For Acavus In Sri Lanka
Saumya Bandara
A15 Importance Of Mid Country Wet Zone Scattered Forest Areas In Sri Lanka On Behalf Of Winter Migratory Avifauna.
Buddhika Weerakoon
A16 Phylogenetic Position And Origin Of The Capped-Golden Langur Lineage
Kunal Arekar
A17 Spatial Dynamics Of Macrophytes And Associated Macrofauna In Pambala Chillaw Lagoon, Sri Lanka
Iranga Liyanage
A18 Species Composition And Spatial Distribution Of Odonates As A Pollution Level Indicator In A Aquatic Ecosystem
Madupa Hewapathiranage
A19 Status Assessment Of Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista Gangetica Gangetica) In Kulsi River, Assam, India
In Pre-Monsoon Season
Shah Nawaz Jelil
A20 Status, Distribution And Habitat Analysis Of Tokay Gecko (Gekko Gecko) In Assam University And Its Adjoining Villages
Biswajit Singh
A21 Study Of Change Detection Of Mangroves Along Mundra Coast Of Gujarat Using Remote Sensing And Geoinformatics
Abhinav Mehta
A22 Tree Growth Estimates Based On Diameter Change In Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Must Account For
Shrinkage Related Bias.
Rutuja Chitra Tarak
A23 Water Quality Changes Odonata Assemblages: Habitat Associations And Seasonal Changes In Odonata Assemblages
Across Land-Use Types
Pankaj Koparde
A24 Bird-Habitat Relationships In Modifed Forest Habitats Of Delhi Ridge.
Munish Kumar Gupta
A25 Habitat Occupation Of Butterfies In Natural Forest Patches And Grasslands At Lower Hanthana Sri Lanka
Viyanga Ileperuma
A26 Habitat Study In Kuruka- Rangajan Beel, Golaghat, Assam, India: Study In Context Of Wetland Conservation
Sajidur Rahman
06:00 PM Conserving wildlife and forests in habitats of India: what is the way ahead / Sunita Narain
07:00 PM Dinner
09:30 PM Dinner Ends
08:00 AM Registration
08:30 AM Coexistence with elephants: Innovative and participatory approaches in the management of human-elephant confict
M. Ananda Kumar
09:30 AM Refreshments
09:50 AM Living With Elephants
Film
10:30 AM Human-Wildlife Confict
Student Talks
One Size Need Not Fit All: Dealing With Elephants In The High-Confict Alur Area In Southern India
Subhankar Chakraborty
Predation Dogma: Patterns Of Livestock Depredation By A Free Ranging Commensal In The Upper Spiti Landscape,
Himachal Pradesh
Chandrima Home
Ranging Pattern Of Western Purple-Faced Langurs (Semnopithecus Vetulus Nestor) In Human Modifed Landscapes
Chathuranga Deshapriya
Snow Leopard Population Estimation And Confict Assessment In Eastern Ladakh, India
Radhika Kothari
The Battle Within: Behavioural And Physiological Stress In Asian Elephants In A Human-Dominated Landscape In The
Western Ghats, S. India
Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan
12:00 AM Whos Who In Conservation
01:00 PM Lunch
02:00 PM Short Workshops
Conservation drones for dummies
Lian Pin Koh
JN Tata Seminar Hall B
Challenges of coordination conservation efforts case studies: Asian vultures
and bald ibis
Chris Bowden
Cistup Workshop Hall
Language and Ecology Communicating Nature Through Local Languages
P. Jeganathan and S. Theodore Baskaran
Satish Dhawan Classroom
Applications of Molecular Phylogenetics in Conservation Biology
K. Praveen Karanth
CES Lotka Voltera lab
Bioacoustics
Rohini Balakrishnan
JN Tata Seminar Hall A
Introduction to basic photography
Kalyan Varma
JN Tata Seminar Hall C
Graphics and Visualisation in R
Divya Vasudev
KSCST
Publication Ethics
T.A. Abinandanan and Viswesha Guttal
Materials Engineering
An introduction to choice models: using peoples preferences in biodiversity
conservation
Abishek Harihar and Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar
Management Studies
Gender relations in human-environment research: an introduction to methods,
approaches and analysis
Budhaditya Das
Cistup Classroom
STUDENT CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATION SCIENCE
BANGALORE 2014
Day 3
27 September 2014
Ecotourism: a critical deconstruction
Ian Bride
Choksi Hall
Understanding Decision Making in Conservation Practice
Tarsh Thekaekara
JN Tata Main Auditorium
04:30 PM Refreshments
04:50 PM Human Wildlife Confict / People, Parks and Livelihoods / Environmental Pollution
Student Posters
B01 A Case Study On Leopard Human Confict In Guwahati Metro, Assam, India
Mridul Bora
B02 Conservation Of Critically Endangered Vulture Species Through Creation Of Vulture Safe Zone In Upper Assam
Mayur Bawri
B03 Conservation Programme Of Western Derby Eland: Is There Any Hierarchy In Mixed Herds Of This Critically Endangered
Antelope? Pavla Junkov Vymyslick
B04 Conservation Status Of Bats In And Around Mt. Saramati, Nagaland, India
Pilot Dovih
B05 Dna Barcoding In Lesser Known Threatened Ichthyofauna To Augment Conservation Effort
Shamim Rahman
B06 Ecological Responses To Bark Harvesting And Development Of Elite Harvesting Techniques In Four
Overexploited Medicinal Tree Species
N Manika
B07 Effect Of Selective Harvest On Micro-Habitat Shift Of An Endemic And Endangered Plant In Arid Tropical Forest
Harisha Puttahariyappa
B08 Effectiveness Of Low-Cost Deterrents To Protect The Crops From Elephants: A Case Study From North Kanara District,
Karnataka, India
Sangram Parida
B09 Effects Of Agrochemicals On Early Development Of Dawkinsia Srilankensis ; A Point Endemic Critically Endangered Fish
Sureni Sumathipala
B10 Environmental Income And Poverty : Livelihoods In A Central Indian Adivasi Community Affected By
Conservation Induced Displacement
Sakshi Aggarwal
B11 Forests, Institutions And Rural Change: Case Study Of Two Villages In Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh
Yagyashree Kumar
B12 Gender, Work And Livelihoods. A Study Of Buksa Adivasi In The Indian Terai
Karishma Sharma
B13 Importance And Potential Areas Of Urban Landscapes For Biodiversity Conservation In Tropics; Case Study In Sri Lanka
Piyal Karunarathne
B14 Native Ornamental Fishes And Trade: Possibility For Socio Economic Upliftment For Local Fishermen Of Barak Valley,
Assam
Banasree Sharma
B15 Testing The Effcacy Of Low-Cost Crop Protection Measures Against Domestic Elephants In Sakrebyle Camp, Karnataka
Prasanna NS
B16 Towards Fishing Cat Conservation In Hill Country Sri Lanka
Ashan Thudugala
B17 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Uav) As A Field Tool For Monitoring Waterfowl At Kaliveli Wetland, Tamil Nadu, India
Mythri S
B18 Use Of Predictioneer's Game Model In Predicting Indian Policy Outcomes: A Case Study Of National Water Mission And
Green India Mission
Shradha Shreejaya
B19 Using A Participatory Approach To Empower Communities To Manage Coastal Forests In Southwestern Madagascar
Rakotomahazo Cicelin
B20 Why The Range Of The Sahara's Large Mammals Is Regressed?
Abdullah Said
B21 Wildlife Occupancy Study And Conservation Status Assessment In The Buffer Zone Of Sahyadri Tiger Reserve
Shashikiran Hegde
B22 Population Status Of Macaca Munzala In The Nymjangchu Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India: With Special Reference To
Human-Macaque Confict
Bidyut Sarania
B23 Post-Release Monitoring Of Translocated Eastern Hoolock Gibbons In Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh: A
Preliminary Study
Himani Nautiyal
B24 Behavioral Ecology And Threats Of Golden Langurs In Fragmented Habitats Of Assam, India
Joydeep Shil
B25 Wildlife Consumption By Indigenous Communities In Kerala And Its Implications For Conservation In The Western Ghats
Sethu Parvathy
06:00 PM Promoting Conservation Through Health In And Around Protected Areas In Africa / Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
07:00 PM Dinner
09:30 PM Dinner Ends
08:00 AM Registration
08:30 AM Balancing societys priorities Can we have our cake and eat it too?
Lian Pin Koh
09:30 AM Refreshments
09:50 AM People, Diversity and Human Impacts
Student Talks
Conservation In An Institutional Mosaic: People And Forests Within And Outside The Parks Of Central India.
Shivani Agarwal
Forest Governance In Central India: The Case Of The Tendu Leaf Trade In Madhya Pradesh
Venkat Ramanujam Ramani
Historical Contestations Around An Urban Lake: Lessons Learnt For Lake Management In Bangalore City
Hita Unnikrishnan
Do Exclusive Riverine Plants Move Away From The Riverine Forests Of Mahaweli River Basin Due To River Regulation In
Sri Lanka?
Shalini Rajakaruna
Effect Of Inter-Habitat Matrix On Tropical Evergreen Forest Remnants: A Test Of Matrix Tolerance Hypothesis
On Butterfies Of Kodagu
Deepak C K
11:10 AM Habitat Ecology / Ecosystem Functioning / Restoration Ecology
Student Posters
C01 An Inventory Of Spiders & Microhabitat Utilization In Nilachal Hill, Guwahati Metro, Assam, India
Bibekananda Kakoti
C02 An Occupancy Modeling Study To Explore The Factors Infuencing The Distribution Of House Sparrow
(Passer Domesticus) In Delhi.
Nawin Tiwary
C03 Are Payments For Ecosystems Services (Pes) Alone Effective In Halting Conversion Of Forests Into Agricultural Land?
Ter Yang Goh
C04 As Green As It Gets? Turfgrass Lawn Ecosystems In Bangalore
Neesha Dutt
C05 Austroeupatorium Inulifolium Invasion Favours Tree Seedling Establishment On Highly-Degraded Grasslands
Nishanthi Haluwana
C06 Cameratrap Survey Of Amur Leopard In The National Park Land Of The Leopard (Russia, Far East)
Anna Vitkalova
C07 Characterizing Patchiness And Scale Of Interactions In Semi-Arid Vegetation Patterns
Sumithra Sankaran
C08 Conservation Of Otter Habitats In Goa
Atul Sinai Borker
C09 Conservation Of Private Forests In The Coridore Of Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary And Chandoli National Park Of
Maharashtra Western Ghats
Sunil Kale
C10 Effect Of Changing Habitat On Indian Gazelle
Sunanda Sharma
C11 Exploring Inclusive Ecological Restoration: A Case Study In Mining Restoration At Bolani, Odisha
Meenakshi Singh
C12 Habitat Use Of Dung Beetles In Village Ecosystem Of North Kerala
Asha G
C13 Local And Landscape Level Conservation Challenges To Tiger Population In Manas Tiger Reserve, India
Dipankar Lahkar
STUDENT CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATION SCIENCE
BANGALORE 2014
Day 4
28 September 2014
C14 Restoration Of Degraded Sites: Use Of Vegetative Propagation To Raise Nurseries Of Two Native Tree Species
Anjalee Weerakoon
C15 Seasonal Variation In Diet And Activity Budget Of The Northern Yellow-Cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus
Annamensis, North-Eastern Cambodia
Naven Hon
C16 Seed Biology Of Symplocos Cochinchinensis, Towards Reforestation Of Degraded Submontane Forests In Sri Lanka
Yasoja Athugala
C17 The Development To Spatial Model To Assess The Habitat Suitability For Reintroduced Eastern Sarus Crane Population
Nuchjaree Purchkoon
01:00 PM Lunch
02:00 PM Short Workshops
Thinking Quantitatively
Suhel Quader
KSCST
Trust, Instinct, Common sense: Managing people & teams
Gopakumar Menon and Vena Kapoor
Management Studies
Story-telling Through Images
Kalyan Varma
JN Tata Seminar Hall C
Observational study of animal behaviour and its importance for
animal conservation
Nishant M.S, Shreekant Deodhar and Karpagam Chelliah
JN Tata Seminar Hall B
Conservation Biotechnology
Kartikeyan Vasudevan, G. Umapathy, Ajay Gaur, Sadanand Sontakke and B.
Sambasiva Rao
JN Tata Main Auditorium
Getting the Measure of Diversity: A Macro-ecological Perspective
Kartik Shanker, Navendu Page and S.P. Vijaykumar
Satish Dhawan Classroom
Research on the interface of environment and society: An introduction to a
mixed methods toolbox
Asmita Kabra
Cistup Classroom
Multivariate Statistics
Varun Varma and Anand M. Osuri
CES Lotka Voltera lab
Science Journalism and Communicating-Positioning Research for
Conservation
Ananda Banerjee
Cistup Workshop Hall
How To Tell A Conservation Story
Pavithra Sankaran
IPC Classroom
Elements of effective study design
Advait Edgaonkar and Kavita Isvaran
Materials Engineering
Building support for conservation from different sectors
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
JN Tata Seminar Hall A
04:30 PM Refreshments
04:50 PM Rainforest Etiquette in a World Gone Mad / Suprabha Seshan
06:00 PM Closing Remarks and Student Awards
07:00 PM Conference Ends