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Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation by Corlett, Richard T., Primack, Richard B., Devictor, Vincent, Maas, Bea, Goswami, Varun R., Bates, Amanda E., Koh, Lian Pin, Regan, Tracey J., Loyola, Rafael, Pakeman, Robin J., Cumming, Graeme S., Pidgeon, Anna, Johns, David, Roth, Robin

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From dispersal constraints to landscape connectivity: lessons from species distribution modeling by Vasudev, Divya, Fletcher Jr, Robert J., Goswami, Varun R., Krishnadas, Meghna

“…Connectivity plays a crucial role in determining the spread, viability, and persistence of populations across space. Dispersal across landscapes, or the…”
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"In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings": Woodlands in an agricultural matrix maintain functionality of a wintering bird community by Syiem, Biang La Nam, Goswami, Varun R, Vasudev, Divya

“…The agricultural matrix has increasingly been recognized for its potential to supplement Protected Areas (PAs) in biodiversity conservation. This potential is…”
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Patterns and Determinants of Habitat Occupancy by the Asian Elephant in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India by Jathanna, Devcharan, Karanth, K Ullas, Kumar, N Samba, Karanth, Krithi K, Goswami, Varun R

“…Understanding species distribution patterns has direct ramifications for the conservation of endangered species, such as the Asian elephant Elephas maximus…”
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Wild animals enhance climate solutions across social-ecological systems by Goswami, Varun R.

“…Lamba et al. demonstrated the feasibility of explicitly incorporating wild animal conservation into nature-based climate solutions, the multifaceted value of…”
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Survival, recruitment, and population growth rate of an important mesopredator: the northern raccoon by Troyer, Elizabeth M, Cameron Devitt, Susan E, Sunquist, Melvin E, Goswami, Varun R, Oli, Madan K

“…Populations of mesopredators (mid-sized mammalian carnivores) are expanding in size and range amid declining apex predator populations and ever-growing human…”
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A Bayesian hierarchical approach to quantifying stakeholder attitudes toward conservation in the presence of reporting error by Vasudev, Divya, Goswami, Varun R.

“…Stakeholder support is vital for achieving conservation success, yet there are few reliable mechanisms to monitor stakeholder attitudes toward conservation…”
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Conflict of human–wildlife coexistence by Goswami, Varun R, Vasudev, Divya, Karnad, Divya, Krishna, Yarlagadda Chaitanya, Krishnadas, Meghna, Pariwakam, Milind, Nair, Tarun, Andheria, Anish, Sridhara, Sachin, Siddiqui, Imran

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Coupled effects of climatic forcing and the human footprint on wildlife movement and space use in a dynamic floodplain landscape by Goswami, Varun R., Vasudev, Divya, Joshi, Bhavendu, Hait, Prity, Sharma, Pragyan

“…With climate change, terrestrial fauna in riparian floodplain ecosystems must adapt to a predicted increase in frequency and magnitude of fluvial…”
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Mechanistic understanding of human-wildlife conflict through a novel application of dynamic occupancy models by Goswami, Varun R., Medhi, Kamal, Nichols, James D., Oli, Madan K.

“…Crop and livestock depredation by wildlife is a primary driver of human-wildlife conflict, a problem that threatens the coexistence of people and wildlife…”
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Mapping the connectivity-conflict interface to inform conservation by Vasudev, Divya, Fletcher, Jr, Robert J, Srinivas, Nishanth, Marx, Andrew J, Goswami, Varun R

“…Balancing the competing, and often conflicting, needs of people and wildlife in shared landscapes is a major challenge for conservation science and policy…”
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Identifying important connectivity areas for the wide-ranging Asian elephant across conservation landscapes of Northeast India by Vasudev, Divya, Goswami, Varun R., Srinivas, Nishanth, La Nam Syiem, Biang, Sarma, Aishanya

“…Aim Connectivity is increasingly important for landscape‐scale conservation programmes. Yet there are obstacles to developing reliable connectivity maps,…”
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The importance of conflict-induced mortality for conservation planning in areas of human–elephant co-occurrence by Goswami, Varun R., Vasudev, Divya, Oli, Madan K.

“…•We model effects of conflict-induced mortality and core area loss on populations.•We evaluate if human–wildlife conflict devalues co-occurrence…”
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Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being by Srivathsa, Arjun, Vasudev, Divya, Nair, Tanaya, Chakrabarti, Stotra, Chanchani, Pranav, DeFries, Ruth, Deomurari, Arpit, Dutta, Sutirtha, Ghose, Dipankar, Goswami, Varun R., Nayak, Rajat, Neelakantan, Amrita, Thatte, Prachi, Vaidyanathan, Srinivas, Verma, Madhu, Krishnaswamy, Jagdish, Sankaran, Mahesh, Ramakrishnan, Uma

“…Biodiversity conservation and human well-being are tightly interlinked. Yet, mismatches in the scale at which these two priority issues are planned and…”
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Towards a reliable assessment of Asian elephant population parameters: the application of photographic spatial capture–recapture sampling in a priority floodplain ecosystem by Goswami, Varun R., Yadava, Mahendra K., Vasudev, Divya, Prasad, Parvathi K., Sharma, Pragyan, Jathanna, Devcharan

“…The hitherto difficult task of reliably estimating populations of wide-ranging megafauna has been enabled by advances in capture–recapture methodology. Here we…”
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Reliable monitoring of elephant populations in the forests of India: Analytical and practical considerations by Jathanna, Devcharan, Karanth, K. Ullas, Kumar, N. Samba, Goswami, Varun R., Vasudev, Divya, Karanth, Krithi K.

“…•Estimating abundance of Asian elephants critical given threats to populations.•Available site- or region-specific estimates largely unreliable and…”
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Author Correction: Towards a reliable assessment of Asian elephant population parameters: the application of photographic spatial capture–recapture sampling in a priority floodplain ecosystem by Goswami, Varun R., Yadava, Mahendra K., Vasudev, Divya, Prasad, Parvathi K., Sharma, Pragyan, Jathanna, Devcharan

“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper…”
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Community-managed forests and wildlife-friendly agriculture play a subsidiary but not substitutive role to protected areas for the endangered Asian elephant by Goswami, Varun R., Sridhara, Sachin, Medhi, Kamal, Williams, A. Christy, Chellam, Ravi, Nichols, James D., Oli, Madan K.

“…•We assess the conservation value of land uses outside protected areas.•We test for effects of land use and human presence on elephant…”
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Author Correction: Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being by Srivathsa, Arjun, Vasudev, Divya, Nair, Tanaya, Chakrabarti, Stotra, Chanchani, Pranav, DeFries, Ruth, Deomurari, Arpit, Dutta, Sutirtha, Ghose, Dipankar, Goswami, Varun R., Nayak, Rajat, Neelakantan, Amrita, Thatte, Prachi, Vaidyanathan, Srinivas, Verma, Madhu, Krishnaswamy, Jagdish, Sankaran, Mahesh, Ramakrishnan, Uma

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Conservation opportunities and challenges emerge from assessing nuanced stakeholder attitudes towards the Asian elephant in tea estates of Assam, Northeast India by Vasudev, Divya, Goswami, Varun R., Hait, Prity, Sharma, Pragyan, Joshi, Bhavendu, Karpate, Yogita, Prasad, Parvathi K.

“…Interactions between wildlife and people lie at the core of conservation planning in heterogeneous landscapes. Understanding stakeholder perspectives towards…”
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