- Shanker, K. (1994) Conservation of sea turtles on the Madras Coast. Marine Turtle Newsletter, No. 64.

- Shanker, K. (1996) Classifying the Kiwi. Current Science, 71: 6-8.

- Pradhan, M.S., Sharma, R.M. & Shanker, K. (1997) First record of Kelaart's long-clawed shrew, Feroculus feroculus (Kelaart) from peninsular India. Mammalia, 61: 448-450.

- Shanker, K. & Sukumar, R. (1999) Synchrony in small mammal populations of montane forest patches in southern India. Journal of Animal Ecology.

- Shanker, K. & Sukumar, R. (1998) Community structure and demography of small mammal populations in insular montane forests in southern India. Oecologia 116: 243-251.

- Pandav, B., Choudhury, B.C. & Shanker, K. (1998) The Olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) in Orissa: an urgent call for an intensive and integrated conservation programme. Current Science 75: 1323-1328.

- Shanker, K., Pandav, B., & Choudhury, B.C. (1999) Further comments: the Olive Ridley in Orissa. Current Science, 76, 1522-1523.

- Shanker, K. (in review) Trapping in the tropics: estimation of abundance of small mammal populations in tropical forests

- Shanker, K. (in review) The role of competition and habitat in structuring small mammal communities in a tropical montane ecosytem in southern India

- Shanker, K., Sukumar, R. and V. Meena (in prep.) Small mammal communities of natural and man-made tropical habitats in the Nilgiris in southern India .