#10 The Thing about Plants with Krishna Anujan The Thing About Wildlife

Krishna Anujan is a community ecologist and nature enthusiast, and she's is studying the effect of biodiversity on tropical forest functioning in the Andaman Islands for her PhD at Columbia University. She regularly communicates science to the public through popular articles in English and Malayalam.



Twitter: @KrishnaAnujan

Popular Writing:


What does the climate crisis mean for the Andaman Islands?
Ecology and Natural History of the Andaman Islands (8-part series) 
Foraging Food: Eating Wild in the Andaman Islands
Scent of a forest: Inhaling the Wonder of Blooms, Leaves and Fruits
Un-Gorilla, Un-Adventure: The Realities of Fieldwork




Other articles by Krishna, including her series in Mathraboomi (Malayalam)



Publications:


Trophic complexity alters the diversity–multifunctionality relationship in experimental grassland mesocosms
Positive correlations in species functional contributions drive the response of multifunctionality to biodiversity loss
Violet Cuckoo in the Andaman Islands



Shownotes:


IISER-Pune, Divya Vasudev, Ramana Athreya, Nandini Velho, Ajith Kumar
Angela Saini's Superior and Inferior
Island Biogeography Theory
The left-brain & right-brain idea is a myth
Productivity (ecology)
Garjan (Dipterocarpus sp.), Kala Lakdi (Diospyros sp.)
File Drawer Problem (Publication bias / negative results)
Women in ecology mentoring scheme (British Ecological Society)