SHOLA SKY ISLANDS

Swapna Lawrence

​MASTER'S STUDENT
RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interest in wildlife biology and conservation developed during my years as an undergraduate student in Bangalore. Long hours spent bird watching, observing and documenting biodiversity within green spaces in the campus and the city is what kindled my passion for ecology. Broadly my research interests lie at the interface of conservation and behavioural ecology. I would like to use insights from animal behaviour to address conservation issues. Specifically, I’d like to understand ways in which both direct and indirect impacts of anthropogenic disturbances influence the behaviour of animals and how it ultimately affects populations. I’m also interested in knowing why and how some species fare better than others in changing ecosystems.

​I’m currently doing my Master’s in Ornithology and Conservation Biology at the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History. For my thesis, I’m studying how exotic timber plantations in the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats impacts the distribution and abundance of endemic birds in the landscape. I’m interested in examining how landscape changes due to loss and fragmentation of habitats and, spread of exotic invasives affects the movement and foraging patterns of bird species. 

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Projects Involved: Sky Island Birds
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PERSONAL AND OTHER INTERESTS

In my spare time I like to travel, bird watch, and find new artists and their music (of late, jazz). I also enjoy stand up comedy and discovering new places to eat. 
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  • Home
  • About
    • Shola Sky Islands
    • Sholicola
  • Research Areas
    • Landscape Ecology >
      • Landscape mapping
      • Sky Island Birds
      • Avian Malaria
      • LTEO
    • Bioacoustics >
      • Jerdon's Courser
      • Passive Acoustics of Shola birds
      • Automated bird song detection
      • Detecting rare species with acoustic arrays
      • Forest Owlet
    • Bird Biogeography >
      • Peninsular birds
      • Forest Owlet
    • Citizen Science and Outreach >
      • Tirupati Bird Atlas
      • Capacity building
      • Young Naturalists of Andhra Pradesh
      • Sky Island Photostory
      • Sky Island Beatbox
    • Completed Projects
  • People
    • Interns
  • Publications
  • Opportunities
  • Open Source Data
  • Media Coverage
  • Gallery
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    • Stories from the field