Krishna Anujan is a community ecologist and nature enthusiast, and she's is studying the effect of biodiversity on tropical forest functioning in the Andaman Islands for her PhD at Columbia University. She regularly communicates science to the public through popular articles in English and Malayalam.

Twitter: @KrishnaAnujan

Popular Writing:

• What does the climate crisis mean for the Andaman Islands?
• Ecology and Natural History of the Andaman Islands (8-part series)
• Foraging Food: Eating Wild in the Andaman Islands
• Scent of a forest: Inhaling the Wonder of Blooms, Leaves and Fruits

• Un-Gorilla, Un-Adventure: The Realities of Fieldwork

• Other articles by Krishna, including her series in Mathraboomi (Malayalam)

Publications:

• Trophic complexity alters the diversity–multifunctionality relationship in experimental grassland mesocosms
• Positive correlations in species functional contributions drive the response of multifunctionality to biodiversity loss
• Violet Cuckoo in the Andaman Islands

Shownotes:

• IISER-Pune, Divya Vasudev, Ramana Athreya, Nandini Velho, Ajith Kumar
• Angela Saini's Superior and Inferior
• Island Biogeography Theory
• The left-brain & right-brain idea is a myth
• Productivity (ecology)
• Garjan (Dipterocarpus sp.), Kala Lakdi (Diospyros sp.)
• File Drawer Problem (Publication bias / negative results)
• Women in ecology mentoring scheme (British Ecological Society)