Publications

Published peer-reviewed manuscripts

  1. Anujan, K., McMahon, S. M., Bunyavejchewin, S., Davies, S. J., Pongpattananurak, N., Muller-Landau, H. C., & Anderson-Teixeira, K. J. (in press). Drought response is not a species trait: Tree growth responses to drought are shaped by drought characteristics, species adaptations and environment. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.175136629.97651139/v1
  2. Anujan, K., Shabnam, A., Ali, I., Gummadi, A. K., Sankaran, M., Krishnadas, M., & Naeem, S. (2025). Biodiversity effects on seedling growth are modified by light environment across functional groups. Ecological Applications, 35(5), e70087. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70087
  3. Higino, G., Anujan, K., Boakye, M., Degano, M. E., Forero-Muñoz, N.-R., & Strydom, T. (2025). Designing a collective prototype of future (sub)tropical science. FACETS. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2024-0113 shared first authorship
  4. Anujan, K., Velho, N., Kuriakose, G., Ebin, P. J., Pandi, V., & Nagendra, H. (2024). Beyond the metropolis: Street tree communities and resident perceptions on ecosystem services in small urban centers in India. Journal of Urban Ecology, 10(1), juae004. https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juae004
  5. Anujan, K., Ratnam, J., & Sankaran, M. (2022). Chronic browsing by an introduced mammalian herbivore in a tropical island alters species composition and functional traits of forest understory plant communities. Biotropica, 54(5), 1248–1258. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13149
  6. Mohanty, N. P., Isaac, S., & Anujan, K. (2022). Diet of the Brackish Frog, Fejervarya moodiei (Anura: Dicroglossidae), on the Andaman Islands, India. Herpetology Notes, 15.
  7. Anujan, K., Heilpern, S. A., Prager, C. M., Weeks, B. C., & Naeem, S. (2021). Trophic complexity alters the diversity–multifunctionality relationship in experimental grassland mesocosms. Ecology and Evolution, 11(11), 6471–6479. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7498
  8. Heilpern, S. A., Anujan, K., Osuri, A., & Naeem, S. (2020). Positive correlations in species functional contributions drive the response of multifunctionality to biodiversity loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1924), 20192501. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2501
  9. Sridharan, B., Mohanty, N. P., Anujan, K., & Nelaballi, S. (2017). Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus in the Andaman Islands. Indian Birds, 13(2).

Preprints in review

  1. Anujan, K., Mardian, J., Luo, C., Ramraj, R., SeasonWatch Citizen Scientist Network, Tasic, H., Akseer, N., & Ramaswami, G. (in revision). Long-term citizen science data reveals environmental controls on tropical tree flowering at the regional scale. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.24.533907
  2. Anujan, K., Mohanbabu, N., Gopal, A., Surendra, A., Krishnan, A., Jayanth, A., Nair, T., Ongole, S., & Sankaran, M. (in review). Harmonising distributed tree inventory datasets across India can fill critical gaps in tropical ecology. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.18.594774

Posters and graphical abstracts

Anujan, K., McMahon, S. M., Bunyavejchewin, S., Davies, S. J., Pongpattananurak, N., Muller-Landau, H. C., & Anderson-Teixeira, K. J.,Sensitivity of tree growth to precipitation in seasonally dry tropical forests using long-term dendrometer band measurements. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union 2024

Anujan K., Ratnam J., and Sankaran M. (2022) Chronic browsing by an introduced herbivore in a tropical island alters composition and functional traits of forest understories, Biotropica. DOI: 10.1111/btp.13149

Anujan K and Naeem S, Interactions between biotic and abiotic controls on evergreen forest regeneration in the Andaman Islands. Annual Meeting of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2019

Anujan K, Heilpern SA, Prager CM, Bruner SG, Lipton S and Naeem S, Trophic complexity alters the diversity-multifunctionality effect in experimental grassland mesocosms. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2018

Anujan K, Ratnam J and Sankaran M, 2016. Effect of introduced chital on forest plant communities in the Andaman Islands. National Centre for Biological Sciences Annual Talks 2016

Anujan K, Ratnam J and Sankaran M, 2015. Effect of introduced chital on forest plant communities in the Andaman Islands. Student Conference for Conservation Sciences, Bangalore, 2015. Best Poster Award