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Coastal and marine conservation

• Karnad, D., K. Isvaran, C.S. Kar and K. Shanker (2009) Lighting the way: reducing the impact of light on misorientation of olive ridley turtle hatchlings at Rushikulya, India. Biological Conservation142: 2083 – 2088
• Seminoff, J.A. and K. Shanker (2008) Marine turtles and IUCN Red Listing: a review of the process, pitfalls and novel assessment approaches. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 356: 52-68.
• Tripathy, B., K. Shanker & B.C. Choudhury (2006) The status of sea turtles and their habitats in the Lakshadweep archipelago, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 103(1): 33-43
  Shanker, K. & Kutty, R. (2005) Sailing the flagship fantastic: myth and reality of sea turtle conservation in India . Maritime Studies 3(2) and 4(1): 213-240 (PDF)  
• Shanker, K., Aggarwal, R.K, Rama Devi, J., Choudhury, B.C. & Singh, L. (2004) Phylogeography of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) on the east coast of India: implications for conservation theory. Molecular Ecology (PDF)
• Aggarwal, R.K., Velavan, T.P., Udaykumar, D., Hendre, P.S., Shanker, K. and Singh, L. (2004) Development and characterization of novel microsatellite markers from the olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) . Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 77-79 (PDF)
• Shanker, K., Pandav, B. & Choudhury, B.C. (2004) An assessment of the olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting population in Orissa , India . Biological Conservation 115: 149 – 160. (PDF)
• Tripathy, B., Shanker, K. & Choudhury, B.C. (2003) Important nesting habitats of olive ridley turtles along the Andhra Pradesh coast of eastern India . Oryx 37: 454 – 463.(PDF)
• Shanker, K. & Pilcher, N. (2003) Marine Turtle Conservation in South and Southeast Asia: Hopeless cause or Cause for Hope? Marine Turtle Newsletter 100: 43 – 51
• 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.

Book Chapters

• Shanker, K. (2007) Deconstructing sea turtle conservation in India. In: Making Conservation Work  (eds. G. Shahabuddin and M. Rangarajan), pp. 89-110. Permanent Black, New Delhi, India.
• Cornelius, S.E, R. Arauz, J. Fretey, M.H. Godfrey, R. Márquez-M & K. Shanker (2007) Effect of land-based harvest of Lepidochelys. In: Biology and Conservation of ridley turtles (ed. P. Plotkin), pp. 231-251. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA.
  Frazier, J.G., R. Arauz, R. Márquez-M & K. Shanker (2007) Exploitation of Lepidochelys at sea. In: Biology and Conservation of ridley turtles (ed. P. Plotkin), pp. 253-295. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA.
• Shanker, K. & B.C. Choudhury (2006) Marine turtles in the Indian subcontinent: A brief history. In: Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent (eds. K. Shanker and B.C. Choudhury), pp 3-16. Universities Press, Hyderabad, India.
• Tripathy, B., K. Shanker & B.C. Choudhury (2006) Sea turtles and their nesting habitats along the Andhra Pradesh coast. In: Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent (eds. K. Shanker and B.C. Choudhury), pp 68-87. Universities Press, Hyderabad, India.
• Tripathy, B., K. Shanker & B.C. Choudhury (2006) Sea turtles and their habitats in the Lakshadweep Islands. In: Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent (eds. K. Shanker and B.C. Choudhury), pp 119-136. Universities Press, Hyderabad, India.
• Shanker, K., B. Pandav & B.C. Choudhury (2006) A review of olive ridley nesting and mortality in Orissa. In: Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent (eds. K. Shanker and B.C. Choudhury), pp 3-16. Universities Press, Hyderabad, India.

Reviews, notes, editorials and commentaries

• Shanker, K. and J. Lenin (2009) Peeling the onion: the politics of conservation and corporations at a sea turtle nesting beach. Survey of the Environment
• Shanker, K. et al. (2009) A little learning …: the price of ignoring politics and history. Marine Turtle Newsletter
• Shanker, K. (2008) My way or the highway: where conservationists and corporations meet. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 8: 10–14. (Marine Turtle Newsletter121)
• Sridhar, A. and K. Shanker (2007) Lessons from marine paradigms. Seminar No. 577 (2007) pp 63 – 68.  
• Shanker, K. (2006) The real impact of the 2004 tsunami. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 4: 1-2.
• Shanker, K. & A. Sridhar (2005) Editorial: Surmounting the people vs parks conundrum – conservation lessons from marine resource management. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 2: 1-2
• Sankaran, S., B. Tripathy & K. Shanker (2005) A bibliography for sea turtles on the mainland coast of India. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 2: 15-33.
• Sridhar, A., B. Tripathy & K. Shanker (2005) A review of legislation and conservation measures for sea turtles in Orissa, India. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 1: 1-7
• Tripathy, B., M.A. Oommen, B. Pandav & K. Shanker (2005) A bibliography of literature on sea turtles in Orissa, India. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 1: 28-36.
• Shanker, K. (2003) Thirty years of sea turtle conservation on the Madras coast. Kachhapa 8: 16-19.
• Andrews, H. & K. Shanker (2002) A significant population of leatherback turtles in the Indian ocean. Kachhapa 6: 17
• Shanker, K. (2002) The swampland of sea turtle conservation: in search of a philosophy (Guest Editorial). Marine Turtle Newsletter 95: 3-6.
• Shanker, K. & B. Mohanty (1999) Operation Kachhapa: In search of a solution for the Olive Ridleys of Orissa (Guest Editorial) Marine Turtle Newsletter 86: 1-3.
• Shanker, K., B. Pandav & B.C. Choudhury (1999) Olive Ridleys in Orissa: further comments. Current Science 76: 1522-1523.
• Shanker, K. (1994) Conservation of sea turtles on the Madras Coast. Marine Turtle Newsletter 64:3-6.

Ecology and biogeography

• Oommen, M.A. & K. Shanker (in press) Shrewd alliances: mixed foraging associations between treeshrews, greater racket tailed drongos and sparrowhawks on Great Nicobar Islands, India. . Biology Letters 
• Feagin, R.A., N. Mukherjee, K. Shanker et al. (in press) Shelter from the storm? The use and misuse of coastal vegetation bioshields for managing natural disasters Conservation Letters 
• Sridhar, H., G. Beauchamp and K. Shanker (2009) Why do birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks? A large-scale synthesis. Animal Behaviour78: 337 – 347.
• Oommen, M.A. and K. Shanker (2008) Ecology and behaviour of an endemic tree shrew Tupaia nicobarica Zelebor 1869 on Great Nicobar Island, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 105(1):55-63.
  
• Oommen, M.A. & Shanker, K. (2005) Regional species richess patterns emerge from multiple local scale mechanisms in Himalayan plants. Ecology 86: 3039-3047. (PDF)
  
• V. Meena, K. Shanker and R. Sukumar (2005) Small mammal communities in different habitats in Mudumalai, southern India. Mammalia 63(3-4): 349-358.
  
• Dutta, S.K. , Vasudevan , K., Chaitra, M.S., Shanker, K., & Aggarwal, R.K. (2003) Jurassic frogs and the evolution of amphibian endemism in the Western Ghats. Current Science 86:211-216. (PDF)
  
• Chaitra, M.S., Vasudevan , K. and Shanker, K. (2004) The biodiversity bandwagon: the splitters have it. Current Science 86: 897 – 899. (PDF)
  
• Shanker, K. (2005) Metapopulation dynamics and landscape effects in small mammal populations in a montane ecosystem in southern India. Wildlife Conservation, Research and Management (eds. Y.V. Jhala, R. Chellam and Q. Qureshi) pp. 8-12. A Technical Report of the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. RR-05/001.
• Shanker, K. (2003) Small mammal communities in montane ecosystems in the Nilgiris, southern India: their ecology and natural history. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 100: 46 - 57.
• Shanker, K. (2001) The role of competition and habitat in structuring small mammal communities in a tropical montane ecosystem in southern India. Journal of Zoology 253: 15 - 24
• Shanker, K. (2000) Small mammal trapping in tropical montane forests of the Upper Nilgiris , southern India : an evaluation of Capture-Recapture models in estimating population size. Journal of Biosciences 25: 99-111.(PDF)
• Shanker, K. & Sukumar, R. (1999) Synchrony in small mammal populations of montane forest patches in southern India. Journal of Animal Ecology 68: 50-59.(PDF)
  
• Shanker, K. & Sukumar, R. (1998) Community structure and demography of small mammal populations in insular montane forests in southern India Oecologia 116: 243-251.(PDF)

Notes

• Pradhan, M.S., R.M. Sharma & K. Shanker (1997) First record of Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew, Feroculus feroculus (Kelaart) from peninsular India. Mammalia 61: 448-450.
• Shanker, K. (1996) Classifying the Kiwi. Current Science 71: 6-8.

Other

• Madhusudhan, M.D., K. Shanker et al. (2006) Science in the wilderness: the predicament of scientific research in India’s wildlife reserves. Current Science  91: 1015 – 1019.
• Shanker, K., Hiremath, A., Bawa, K. (2005) Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in India. PLOS Biology 3: 1878-1880.(PDF)  

Book Chapters

• Mukherjee, N., B. Muthuraman and K. Shanker (2009) Bioshields and ecological restoration in tsunami affected areas in India. In: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (eds. E. Dahl, E. Moskness and J. Stottrup). Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

General Articles

• Shanker, K. (2004) Natal homing and mass nesting in olive ridleys. Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour (ed. Marc Bekoff). Greenwood Press, USA.
• Mukherjee, N., N. Namboodiri, S. Rodriguez, A. Sridhar, D. Subramaniam and K. Shanker (2008) Making Disasters: Post-Tsunami Coastal Rehabilitation and Management. Hindu Survey of the Environment

 Book Reviews  

• Shanker, K. (2006) ‘Biology of Mangrove Ecosystems’ (K. Kathiresan and S.Z. Qasim). Conservation and Society 3: 537-539
• Shanker, K. (2003) ‘Battles Over Nature. (Eds. V. Saberwal and M. Rangarajan)’. Seminar 530, October 2003: 71-73.
• Shanker (2003) Animal Behaviour Desk Reference (EM Barrows). Marine Turtle Newsletter 99:
• Shanker, K (2001) Sea Turtles of the Indo Pacific. Research Management and Conservation (Eds N. Pilcher and G. Ismail). Marine Turtle Newsletter 94: 22-23.
• Shanker, K (2000) Indian Ocean: Images and Realities (S.Z. Qasim). Current Science 79: 662
• Shanker K. (1997) `Fall of a Sparrow (Salim Ali)’. Resonance, January 1997. (PDF)

Popular Articles

• Into the Woods. Tehelka Magazine 5(39)Oct 04, 2008.
• Much ado about the nothing. The Week, September, 2006
• Sher Khan Needs his Share. Outlook, January 16, 2006.
• Lets look Beyond Tigers. Times of India, December 20, 2005. (PDF)
• The edge of the world. Sanctuary Asia, December 2003.
• Seeking a brighter horizon. Srishti, September 2003.
• Conservation of olive ridley turtles in Madras. Herpinstance 1, 2003.
• What ails the ridley ?.The Hindu, June 8, 2003 .
• Voyages of the Leatherback. Sanctuary Asia, April 2003.
• Hidden treasures of the Nilgiris. Srishti, January 2003.
• Nilgiris: floral paradise. Sanctuary Asia, October 2002. (PDF)
• Tracking turtles through time and space. Resonance. June 2002. (PDF)
• Solving the ridley riddle. Sanctuary Asia, August 2001.
• Cool customers: herpetofauna of the Nilgiris. Sanctuary Asia, April 2001.
• The odyssey of the Olive Ridley. Resonance, July 1999. (PDF)
• Birth and Death: The Olive Ridleys in Orissa. Sanctuary Asia , Vol 19, No. 3, 1999.
• Prisoners dilemma and other Games that animals play. Resonance, March, 1999. (PDF)
• Will the meek inherit the earth?. Resonance, May 1997. (PDF)
• Decline of a Montane Ecosystem. Resonance, February 1997. (PDF)
• Rodents of the Nilgiris. Sanctuary Asia , Vol 17, No. 6, 1997.
• Secrets of the Shieldtails. Resonance, August, 1996.
• Islands of Forests. Science Reporter, June, 1996.
• The Ancient Mariners. Resonance, April, 1996. (PDF)
• Sholas and Grasslands. Sanctuary Asia, Vol.16, No.2. 1996.
• Selfish Altruism. Times of India. November, 1995.
• Survival of the Ancient Mariners. Times of India. October, 1995.
• Mosaic of the sholas on the Blue Mountains. Times of India. September 1995.

Down to Earth

• They lived with Dinosaurs. Down to Earth, December 31, 2008.
• Fenced out: wildlife research in India. Down to Earth, November 15, 2006.
• Urban areas can support biodiversity. Down to Earth, October 31, 2006 .
• Can good science help conservation?. Down to Earth, September 15, 2006.
• Small empty patches are important. Down to Earth, June 15, 2006.
• An island away. Down to Earth, April 30, 2006. 
• For a common environmental ethic. Down to Earth, March 15, 2006. (PDF)
• Taxonomic debates are important. Down to Earth, February 15, 2006. (PDF)
• The holy book and the sacred list. Down to Earth, December 31, 2005. (PDF)
• Lessons from Norse mythology. Down to Earth, November 15, 2005. (PDF)  
• Reconciliation: Lessons from marine ecology. Down to Earth August 31, 2005. (PDF)  
• Using wildlife: farming out the problem. Down to Earth, August 31, 2003.