Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy is the Dean – School of Environment and Sustainability (SES) at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements where he leads the programme in Ecosystem services and Human Well-Being.
He is a field ecohydrologist and a landscape ecologist with research and teaching interests in applied statistics, environmental applications of remote sensing and GIS, ecosystem services, ecological restoration, river ecology and climate change. He loves the challenge of understanding complex changes in the environment over time and space. He was the Coordinating Lead Author of the Special IPCC Report on Climate Change and Land.
Dr. Krishnaswamy has collaborated on research projects and co-authored many publications with researchers at FERAL.
Publications
Journal Article
- Invasion of natural grasslands by exotic trees increases flood risks in mountainous landscapes in South India
- Establishment of community-led fish conservation zones in Meghalaya and Manipur, India
- Navigating paved paradise: Evaluating landscape permeability to movement for large mammals in two conservation priority landscapes in India
- Non-stationary and non-linear influence of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole on the variability of Indian monsoon rainfall and extreme rain events
Database
Report
Conference Paper
- La Nina and Indian Ocean Dipole Influence on Distribution of Daily Rain Intensities in India
- Estimating evapotranspiration demands of different land cover using diurnal signals in dry season stream discharge
- Vulnerabilities of Critical Ecosystems and Services in the Western Ghats to Overland Flows and Sedimentation during Extreme Rainfall Events