Below are lab publications from 2016 (start of lab at IISER Tirupati):
Robin's publications before 2016 are at his page

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46. Sharma, A., Goyal, N., Shah, D., & Robin, V. V. (2025). Using phylogenetic relationships to assess conservation priorities for birds in India. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.04.668436

45. Vinay, K. L., Goyal, N., Warudkar, A., Arvind, C., & Robin, V. V. (2025). Genome assemblies for seven families of birds from the Global South. bioRxiv, 2025-07. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.31.66786

44. Sawant, S., Arvind, C., Joshi, V., Dutta, I., & Robin, V. V. (2025). Linguistic Rules of Syntax and Sharing in the Complex Songs of a Tropical Passerine. bioRxiv, 2025-07. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.31.666818

43. Jain, A., Arvind, C., Jobin, V., Lele, A., & Robin, V. V. (2025, July 18). Changes in habitat connectivity for range-restricted birds reflect patterns of woodland invasion [Preprint]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.18.665495

42. Ramesh, V., Hariharan, P., Gupte, P. R., Mohan, A. V., Akshay, V. A., Rajan, A., ... & DeFries, R. (2025). Grassland Bird Species Decline With Colonial‐Era Landscape Change in a Tropical Montane Ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 31(7), e70358. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.70358

41. Warudkar, A., Gayathri, R., Arvind, C., Ishtiaq, F., Dharmarajan, G., & Robin, V. V. (2025). Host niche breadth differentially modulates the effects of anthropogenic disturbance across generalist and specialist parasites. bioRxiv, 2025-05. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.11.653240

40. Goyal, N., Sharma, A., Jagati, V., Herur, A., Jain, A., Gopal, A., ... & Robin, V. V. (2025). Spatial patterns of diversity in forest birds of peninsular India. bioRxiv, 2025-04. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.28.650994

39. Jobin, V., Harikrishnan, C. P., Lele, A., Joshi, V., Chanda, R., Lawrence, S., ... & Robin, V. V. (2025). Invasion blurs the biphasic mosaic, amplifies the ‘wicked problem’ through impacts on avian distributions in montane habitats. bioRxiv, 2025-04.  https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.03.646526

38. ​Isha Bopardikar, Danielle Harris, V.V Robin, Holger Klinck. (2024). Comparing visual and acoustic detectability of two coastal cetacean species off Sindhudurg, India, to better inform integrated survey protocol. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5009591/v1

37. KL, Vinay, Chiti Arvind, Naman Goyal, & VV Robin. (2024). High-quality genome assembly of the endemic threatened White-bellied Sholakili Sholicola albiventris (Muscicapidae: Blanford, 1868) from the Shola Sky Islands, India. bioRxiv, 2024-08. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.20.608878

36. Amrutha Rajan, Aditi Neema, Pranav G Trivedi, Sejal Worah, Meera MR, Shomita Mukherjee, V.V. Robin. (2024). Playback-aided surveys and acoustic monitoring ​in the detection of the Endangered Forest Owlet Athene blewitti. Ecology and Evolution. (Accepted).

35. A Lele, M Arasumani, CK Vishnudas, P Koparde, V Joshi, VV Robin. (2024). Ecological niche modelling reveals an elevated threat status for the Nilgiri Pipit (Anthus nilghiriensis). Journal of Ornithology 165 (2), 415-427.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-023-02133-0

34. ​Dawson, M. N., Gillespie, R., Robin, V. V., & Vasconcelos, T. (2023). The Global Biogeography Initiative. ​Journal of Biogeography, Volume 50, Issue 8, Pages 1373-1376. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14680

33. Williams, J. W., Taylor, A., Tolley, K. A., Provete, D. B., Correia, R., Guedes, T. B., ... & Zizka, A. Shifts to open access with high article processing charges hinder research equity and careers. Journal of Biogeography, Volume 50, Issue 9, Pages 1485-1489.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14697

32. Vijay Ramesh, Priyanka Hariharan, V.A. Akshay, Pooja Choksi, Sarika Khanwilkar, Ruth DeFries, V.V. Robin, (2023). Using passive acoustic monitoring to examine the impacts of ecological restoration on faunal biodiversity in the Western Ghats, Biological Conservation, Volume 282, 110071, ISSN 0006-3207, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110071.

31. Khan, Z. Z., H. S. Sushma, P. Antony B., K. M. Koli, A. Neema, M. Meera, M. Arasumani, V. Robin, R. Jayapal, and S. Mukherjee (2023). Habitat determinants of species occupancy and niche partitioning among sympatric owlets: the paradoxical role of agricultural lands for the endangered Forest Owlet, Athene blewitti. Journal of Field Ornithology 94(2):1. https://doi.org/10.5751/JFO-00244-940201

30. Jobin, V., Das, A., Harikrishnan, C. P., Chanda, R., Lawrence, S., & Robin, V. V. (2023). Patterns of understory invasion in invasive timber stands of a tropical sky island. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e9995. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9995

29. K. L., V., Natesh, M., Mehta, P., Jayapal, R., Mukherjee, S. and Robin, V.V. (2022). Re-assessing the phylogenetic status and evolutionary relationship of Forest Owlet (Athene blewitti (Hume 1873)) using genomic data. Ibis. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13097

28.  Arvind, C., Joshi, V., Charif, R., Jeganathan, P., & Robin, V. (2022). Species detection framework using automated recording units: A case study of the Critically Endangered Jerdon's courser. Oryx, 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0030605321000995

27. Warudkar, A., Goyal, N., Kher, V., Vinay, K. L., Chanda, R., Bandi, R. S., Jenkins, C. N., Robin, V. V., & Pimm, S. L. (2022). Using the area of habitat to assess the extent of protection of India's birds. Biotropica, 00, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13132

26. Ramesh, V., Gupte, P.R., Tingley, M.W., Robin, V.V. and DeFries, R. (2022), Using citizen science to parse climatic and land cover influences on bird occupancy in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Ecography e06075. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06075

25. Sawant, S., Arvind, C., Joshi, V., Robin V. V. (2022) Song Richness Index: A measure to understand the diversity and repetition of notes in a birdsong. bioRxiv 2021.12.18.472638; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.18.472638 

24. Sawant, S., Arvind, C., Joshi, V. and Robin, V.V. (2021), Spectrogram cross-correlation can be used to measure the complexity of bird vocalizations. Methods Ecol Evol. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13765

23. V. V. Robin, James E. Hines , James D. Nichols , Madhusudan Katti and Anindya Sinha (2021). Demographic changes of a tropical understory bird in naturally patchy montane habitats in southern India. bioRxiv. 10.1101/2021.09.17.460862v1

22. Alan Fecchio,Nicholas J. Clark,Jeffrey A. Bell,Heather R. Skeen,Holly L. Lutz,Gabriel M. De La Torre,Jefferson A. Vaughan,Vasyl V. Tkach,Fabio Schunck,Francisco C. Ferreira,Érika M. Braga,Camile Lugarini,Wanyoike Wamiti,Janice H. Dispoto,Spencer C. Galen,Karin Kirchgatter,M. Cecilia Sagario,Victor R. Cueto,Daniel González-Acuña,Mizue Inumaru,Yukita Sato,Yvonne R. Schumm,Petra Quillfeldt,Irene Pellegrino,Guha Dharmarajan,Pooja Gupta,V. V. Robin,Arif Ciloglu,Alparslan Yildirim,Xi Huang,Leonardo Chapa-Vargas,Paulina Álvarez-Mendizábal,Diego Santiago-Alarcon,Serguei V. Drovetski,Olof Hellgren,Gary Voelker,Robert E. Ricklefs,Shannon J. Hackett,Michael D. Collins,Jason D. Weckstein,Konstans Wells. (2021) Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2021;00:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13390

21. Dharmarajan G, Gupta P, Vishnudas CK, Robin VV (2021). Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence. Ecology Letters 2021;00:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13818

20. Arasumani, M., Singh, A., Bunyan, M., Robin, V.V. (2021) Testing the efficacy of hyperspectral (AVIRIS-NG), multispectral (Sentinel-2) and radar (Sentinel-1) remote sensing images to detect native and invasive non-native trees. Biol Invasions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02543-2

19. Gupta, P., Vishnudas, C.K., Robin, V.V. Dharmarajan, G. (2020) Correction to : Host phylogeny matters: Examining sources of variation in infection risk by blood parasites across a tropical montane bird community in India. Parasites Vectors 13, 536. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04404-8

18. Gupta, P., Robin, V.V. & Dharmarajan, G. (2020) Towards a more healthy conservation paradigm: integrating disease and molecular ecology to aid biological conservation. J Genet 99, 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-020-01225-7

17. Gupta, P., Vishnudas, C.K., Robin, V.V. Dharmarajan, G. (2020) Host phylogeny matters: Examining sources of variation in infection risk by blood parasites across a tropical montane bird community in India. Parasites Vectors 13, 536. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04404-8

16. Natesh M, Vinay KL, Ghosh S, Jayapal R, Mukherjee S, Vijay N and Robin VV (2020) Contrasting Trends  of Population Size Change for Two Eurasian Owlet Species—Athene brama and Glaucidium radiatum From South Asia Over the Late Quaternary. Front. Ecol. Evol. 8:608339. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.608339

15. M. Arasumani, Milind Bunyan, V.V. Robin (2020) Opportunities and challenges in using remote sensing for invasive tree species management, and in the identification of restoration sites in tropical montane grasslands. Journal of Environmental Management,111759, ISSN 0301-4797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111759

14. Abhimanyu Lele, M. Arasumani, C. K. Vishnudas, Viral Joshi, Devcharan Jathanna, V. V. Robin (2020) Elevation and landscape change drive the distribution of a montane, endemic grassland bird. Ecology and Evolution. 2020;10:7756–7768

13. Viral joshi, Robin VV.(2019) White-bellied sholakili Sholicola albiventris Feeding on Shieldtail snake Uropeltidae sp. IndianBirds 15(4) 127-128

12. Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar, Ruby An, Ramana Athreya, Udayan Borthakur, Pranav Chanchani, Dilip Chetry, Aparajita Datta, Abishek Harihar, Krithi K. Karanth, Dincy Mariyam, Dhananjai Mohan, Malvika Onial, Uma Ramakrishnan, V.V. Robin, Ajai Saxena, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Prachi Thatte, Varsha Vijay, Kristen Wacker, Vinod B. Mathur, Stuart L. Pimm, Trevor D. Price. 2019. Protected areas and biodiversity conservation in India. Biological Conservation 237 (2019) 114–124​

11. Gupta P, Vishnudas CK, Ramakrishnan U, *Robin V. V. , *Dharmarajan G. 2019. Geographical and host species barriers differentially affect generalist and specialist parasite community structure in a tropical sky-island archipelago. Proc. R. Soc. B 20190439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0439. *Equal authors

10. Arigela RK, Singh RKR, Kabeer KAA, GVS Murthy, and V. V Robin. Phytodiversity Inventorisation and Mapping of Shola grasslands of Kodaikanal Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India. Indian Forester, 145 (3) : 214-226, 2019

9. Koparde P, Mehta P, Mukherjee S, Robin V. V. Quaternary climatic fluctuations and resulting climatically suitable areas for Eurasian owlets. Ecology & Evolution. 2019;00:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5086

8. Arasumani M., Danish Khan, C.K. Vishnudas, M. Muthukumar, Milind Bunyan*, V.V. Robin*. 2019. Invasion compounds and ecosystem-wide loss to afforestation in the tropical grasslands of the Shola Sky Island. Biological Conservation. 230 (2019) 141-150. 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.12.019. *Equal authors

7. Buxton R. T., Agnihotri S., Robin V. V., Goel A., and Balakrishnan R. 2018. Acoustic indices as rapid indicators of avian diversity in different land-use types in an Indian biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Ecoacoustics. 2: #GWPZVD. https://doi.org/10.22261/JEA.GWPZVD

6. Koparde, P., Prachi Mehta, Sushma Reddy, Uma Ramakrishnan, Shomita Mukherjee* and V. V. Robin*. 2018. The critically endangered forest owlet Heteroglaux blewitti is nested within the currently recognized Athene clade: A century-old debate addressed. PLoS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192359. *Equal authors

5. Arasumani M., Danish Khan, Arundhati Das, Ian Lockwood, Robert Stewart, Ravi A Kiran, M. Muthukumar, Milind Bunyan*, V.V. Robin*. 2018. Not seeing the grass for the trees: Timber plantations and agriculture shrink tropical montane grassland by two-thirds over four decades in the Palani Hills, a Western Ghats Sky Island. PLoS ONE 10.1371/journal.pone.0190003

4. Wickramasinghe N, Robin V. V., Ramakrishnan U, Reddy S, Seneviratne SS. 2017. Non-sister Sri Lankan white-eyes (genus Zosterops) are a result of independent colonizations. PLoS ONE12(8): e0181441. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181441

3. V.V. Robin, C.K. Vishnudas, P. Gupta, F.E. Rheindt, D. Hooper, U. Ramakrishnan and S. Reddy. 2017. Two new avian genera of songbirds represent endemic radiations from the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats, India. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17:31. DOI 10.1186/s12862-017-0882-6 http://rdcu.be/oKUS

2. Chetana Purushottam and V.V. Robin. 2016. Sky Island bird populations isolated by ancient genetic barriers are characterized by different song traits than those isolated by recent deforestation. Ecology and Evolution. 6: 7334–7343. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2475

1. Ramachandran, V*, V.V. Robin* , Krishnapriya Tamma and U. Ramakrishnan. 2016. Climatic and geographic barriers drive distributional patterns of bird phenotypes within peninsular India. Journal of Avian Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jav.01278

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​Other Lab Publications (without Robin):

• Viral Joshi. 2021. New Sightings of Nagarjunasagar Racers, Platyceps bholanathi (Sharma, 1976) from Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. Reptiles & Amphibians, 28(1):63-64.
• Viral Joshi. 2020. Sightings of Sociable Lapwing in Saurashtra, Gujarat, India. Jalaplavit, Vol 10, No 3. 
• Vinay K L, Naman Goyal & Ashwin Warudkar,. 2020. An aberrant White-rumped Shama Copsychus malabaricus with a white throat. Indian BIRDS Vol 16 No. 3: 95-96
• Sawant, S. 2019 Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia in Andhra Pradesh. Indian BIRDS Vol 15 No (2).
• Lele, A., C.K. Vishnudas, 2019 On the elevational range of the Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus.  Indian BIRDS  Vol 14 No (6).