Below are lab publications from 2016 (start of lab at IISER Tirupati):
Robin's publications before 2016 are at his page
Robin's publications before 2016 are at his page
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sawant, S,. Arvind, C., Joshi, V., Robin, V.V (2021) Spectrogram cross-correlation can be used to measure the complexity of bird vocalizations. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.30.437665
• Dharmarajan, G., Gupta, P., Vishnudas, C., Robin, VV. (2021) Anthropogenic disturbance increases disease emergence risk through predictable changes in parasite community structure. Preprint. 10.22541/au.161804172.26892012/v1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Viral joshi, Robin VV.(2019) White-bellied sholakili Sholicola albiventris Feeding on Shieldtail snake Uropeltidae sp. IndianBirds 15(4) 127-128
• 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
• 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
• Lele, A., Arasumani, M., Vishnudas, C. K., Jathanna, D., & Robin, V. V. (2019). Local extinction of a montane, endemic grassland bird driven by landscape change across its global distribution. bioRxiv, 695536.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sawant, S,. Arvind, C., Joshi, V., Robin, V.V (2021) Spectrogram cross-correlation can be used to measure the complexity of bird vocalizations. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.30.437665
• Dharmarajan, G., Gupta, P., Vishnudas, C., Robin, VV. (2021) Anthropogenic disturbance increases disease emergence risk through predictable changes in parasite community structure. Preprint. 10.22541/au.161804172.26892012/v1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Viral joshi, Robin VV.(2019) White-bellied sholakili Sholicola albiventris Feeding on Shieldtail snake Uropeltidae sp. IndianBirds 15(4) 127-128
• 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
• 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
• Lele, A., Arasumani, M., Vishnudas, C. K., Jathanna, D., & Robin, V. V. (2019). Local extinction of a montane, endemic grassland bird driven by landscape change across its global distribution. bioRxiv, 695536.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
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).