Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India.
+91-8989060502
tanveer [at] wii [dot] gov [dot] in
About
Dr. Tanveer is MSc. M.Phil and Ph.D. in Wildlife Science from Aligarh Muslim University. He has experience of working on fauna of Indian Trans-Himalaya, Terai-Arc landscape, Deccan peninsula, and freshwater ecosystem of India. He is experienced in ecological studies on birds and mammals, biodiversity profiling in terrestrial as well as aquatic ecosystem, assessing the impact of mining, cost- benefit analysis, socio-economics and ecosystem services studies, human-wildlife conflict and preparing management plans.
He pursued his doctoral research in Terai-Arc Landscape on “Effect of landscape heterogeneity on biodiversity and its management implication in Ramnagar Forest Division, Uttarakhand”. Post Phd., he assessed the impact of mining on the biodiversity and tangible and intangible resources in Similipal-Satkosia corridor.
His present area of focus is conservation and management of biodiversity of Indian rivers,
Academic Positions
Scientist - C
Education
PhD. in wildlife Science at Aligarh Muslim University
Research Interest
Wildlife Ecology
Riverscape Management
Landscape Ecology
Human-Dimension In Wildlife Conservation
Human-Wildlife Interaction
Trans-Himalayan Fauna
Publications
P. Chandan, T. Ahmed, A. Anand, A. Khan (2024): Nesting characteristics and habitat selection by Black-necked Crane Grus nigricollis in Ladakh, India. Journal of Asian Ornithology (in press).
Payal, M. T. Ahmed,, S. A. Hussain, S. Badola (2024): Willingness to Pay for forest corridor conservation: A contingent valuation study of Similipal-Satkosia corridor affected by mining in Odisha, India. Trees, Forests and People 16: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100564.
T. Ahmed, and A. Khan (2022): Avifaunal feeding guilds’ response to landscape compositional heterogeneity and their drivers in forest mosaic, Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 38(4): 183 – 193. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467422000049
Badola, R. T. Ahmed, A. K. Gill, P. Dobriyal, G. C. Das, S. Badola, S. A. Hussain (2021): An incentive-based mitigation strategy to encourage coexistence of large mammals and humans along the foothills of Indian Western Himalayas. Scientific Reports 11: 5235. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84119-7
Bargali, H.S. and T. Ahmed (2018): Pattern of livestock depredation by tiger (Panthera tigris) and leopard (Panther pardus) in and around Corbett Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand, India. Plos ONE 13 (5): e0195612.
Ahmed, T., Bargali, H.S., N. Vema, and A. Khan (2021): Mammals Outside Protected Areas: Status and Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance in Western Terai-Arc Landscape. Proceedings of Zoological Society: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12595-020-00360-4
Ahmed, T., A. Khan & P. Chandan (2015). Photographic Key to the microhistological identification of some plants of India Trans-Himalaya. Notica Scientia Biologicae 7(2): 171-176.
Khadija, T. Ahmed, A. Khan (2021): Economics of carnivore depredation: A case study from the northern periphery of Corbett Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand, India. Actan Ecologica Sinica (in press)
Last updated 06-08-2025
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Dr. Tanveer Ahmed
Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India.
+91-8989060502
tanveer [at] wii [dot] gov [dot] in