FACULTY
Prof. Atul Joshi is an Assistant Professor - Environmental Studies and he has has done Ph.D. in forest-grassland vegetation dynamics from National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore and Manipal Academy of Higher Education; M.Sc in Forestry from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun; Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
Prof. Atul has a Post-PhD work experience of over five years. He was associated with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Evolution (ATREE), Bangalore as Fellow in Residence. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at ATREE.
His research interests include Community and ecosystems ecology, Community Forest Management, and Ecological History. His Ph D research focussed on examining the role of climate and humans in the structure and function of forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems in the southern Western Ghats, India.
During his association with ATREE as a Post-doctoral fellow and then as a faculty, he established long term in-situ experiments in tropical savanna ecosystems to investigate the role of grazing and fire in grassland diversity and productivity; he also studied the socio-ecological aspects of community forest management in Central India and conducted outreach activities to facilitate sustainable forest and grassland management by local communities.
During his spare time, Atul enjoys gardening, nature walks, and reading.
Journal Articles
- Lele, S., Mokashi, S., Datye, A., and Joshi, A. (2024) “Community Forest Management.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental Science. Ed. Ellen Wohl. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- Joshi, A. A., Ratnam, J., Paramjyothi, H. and Sankaran, M. (2024). Climate and vegetation collectively drive soil respiration in montane forest-grassland landscapes of the southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Tropical Ecology.
- Sengupta, A., Bhan, M., Bhatia, S., Joshi, A.A., Kuriakose, S., and Sheshadri K. S., (2024). Realizing “30 ´ 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward. Conservation Letters. 17, e13004. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13004
- Date, A. A., Hiremath, A. J., Joshi, A. A., & Lele, S., (2023). Silvicultural Practices in the Management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) Leaf Production: Options and Trade-offs. Economic Botany, 77, 135–152 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09572-z
- Pillay, R., Miller, D. A., Raghunath, R., Joshi, A. A., Mishra, C., Johnsingh, A. J. T., & Madhusudan, M. D., (2021). Using interview surveys and multispecies occupancy models to inform vertebrate conservation. Conservation Biology. 36:e13832. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13832
- Joshi, A.A., Ratnam, J. and Sankaran, M., (2020), Frost maintains forests and grasslands as alternate states in a montane tropical forest‐grassland mosaic; but alien tree invasion and warming can disrupt this balance. Journal of Ecology. 108: 122-132. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13239
- Joshi, A. A., Sankaran, M. and Ratnam, J., (2018). 'Foresting' the grassland: Historical management legacies in forest-grassland mosaics in southern India, and lessons for the conservation of tropical grassy biomes. Biological Conservation, 224, pp.144-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.05.029.
- Joshi, A. A., Mudappa, D. and Raman, T.S., (2015). Invasive alien species in relation to edges and forest structure in tropical rainforest fragments of the Western Ghats. Tropical Ecology, 56(2), pp.233-244. ISSN 0564-329
- Pillay, R., Miller, D. A., Hines, J. E., Joshi, A. A. and Madhusudan, M. D., (2014). Accounting for false positives improves estimates of occupancy from key informant interviews. Diversity and Distributions, 20(2), pp.223-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12151.
- Joshi, A. A., Mudappa, D. and Raman, T.S., (2009). Brewing trouble: coffee invasion in relation to edges and forest structure in tropical rainforest fragments of the Western Ghats, India. Biological invasions, 11(10), p.2387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-009- 9423-6.
Reports
- Raghurama, M., …, Joshi, A., ….& Bawa, K., (2023). Restoring India’s Terrestrial Ecosystems: Needs, Challenges and Policy recommendations. Report, National Mission on Biodiversity & Human Well-Being. Biodiversity Collaborative, Bengaluru, India. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8233376
- Lele, S., Pathak Broome, N., Joshi, A., Chettri, A., Tatpati, M., Mokashi, S., (2020). Critical Wildlife Habitat: What is it, how should it be implemented, and how is it being pushed through? Centre for Environment and Development (ATREE) and Kalpavriksh.