Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India.
+91-0135-2646283
bh [at] wii [dot] gov [dot] in
About
I am a conservation biologist interested in the integration of quantitative and interdisciplinary approaches to conservation challenges. With the interest in nature conservation, human-wildlife interactions, larger carnivore conservation, and other megafauna in human-dominated landscapes. I have been involved in field research since 2001. My doctoral research was on the ecology of the Indian wolf in the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary, Maharashtra, India. Before joining the Wildlife Institute of India, I worked as Wildlife Survey Program Manager for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Afghanistan Biodiversity Project and was involved in the design and coordination of wildlife surveys in the Wakhan Corridor (Pamirs), capacity building in the environment sector and development of the Red List. My research species and system range from Wolves in semi-arid and trans-Himalayan landscapes, Leopards from the Himalayas to Central India, Dholes from low density to high-density areas, Marco polo sheep and Snow Leopard in the Afghan Pamirs to understanding movement of large carnivores in a human-dominated landscape in response to Anthropocene. My research interest includes integrating science-based solutions to developmental activities especially linear infrastructure.
I continuously aim to generate scientific knowledge, even integrating innovative perspectives and technologies, to inform managers, policy-makers, interested stakeholders, and the general public, for effective conservation and management of nature.
Publications
2020 Joshi, B., Lyngdoh, S., Singh, S. K., Sharma, R., Kumar, V., Tiwari, V. P., Dar. S. A., Maheshwari, A., Pal. R., Bashir, T., Reshamwala, H. S., Shrotriya, S., Sathyakumar, S., Habib, B., Kvist, L., and Goyal, S. P. (2020). Revisiting the Woolly wolf (Canis lupus chanco) phylogeny in Himalaya: Addressing taxonomy, spatial extent and distribution of an ancient lineage in Asia. Plos one, 15(4), e0231621
2020 Chatterjee, N., Nigam, P., & Habib, B. (2020). Population density and habitat use of two sympatric small cats in a central Indian reserve. Plos one, 15(6), e0233569
2020 Bhattacharya, A., Chatterjee, N., Rawat, G. S., & Habib, B. (2020). Blue Sheep Resource Selection in Alpine Grasslands of a Western Himalayan Landscape–A Point Process Approach. Zoological Studies, 59
2020 Noor, A., Mir, Z. R., Veeraswami, G. G., & Habib, B. (2020). Density of leopard in a moist-temperate forest of western Himalaya, India. Tropical Ecology, 1-10
2020 Balajeid Lyngdoh, S., Habib, B., & Shrotriya, S. (2020). Dietary spectrum in Himalayan wolves: comparative analysis of prey choice in conspecifics across high‐elevation rangelands of Asia. Journal of Zoology, 310(1), 24-33
2020 Bhattacharya, A., Chatterjee, N., Angrish, K., Shrotriya, S., Sinha, B. C. & Habib, B. (2020). First Photographic Evidence of Himalayan Brown Bear from Lippa- Asrang Wildlife Sanctuary, Himachal Pradesh, India. International Bear News Vol. 29 No. 1
2019 Khan, S., Chatterjee, N., & Habib, B. (2019). Testing performance of large-scale surveys in determining trends for the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-8
2019 Sadhukhan, S., Hennelly, L., & Habib, B. (2019). Characterising the harmonic vocal repertoire of the Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes). PloS one, 14(10), e0216186
2019 Saxena, A., Lyngdoh, A., Rajvanshi, A., Mathur, V., & Habib, B. (2019). Saving wildlife on India’s roads needs collaborative and not competitive efforts. Current Science, 117(7), 1137
2019 Shrotriya, S., Chatterjee, N., & Habib, B. (2019). Casual analysis and short‐sighted inferences: A response to Majgaonkar et al. 2019. Conservation Science and Practice, 1(12), e124
2019 Paul, S., Ghosh, T., Pandav, B., Mohan, D., Habib, B., Nigam, P., & Mondol, S. (2019). Rapid molecular assays for species and sex identification of swamp deer and other coexisting cervids in human-dominated landscapes of the Terai region and upper Gangetic plains, northern India: implications in understanding species distribution and population parameters. Journal of genetics 98, no. 2: 44
2019 Biswas, S., Bhatt, S., Paul, S., Modi, S., Ghosh, T., Habib B., Nigam, P., Talukdar, G., Pandav, B., & Mondol, S. (2019) A practive faeces collection protocol for multidisciplinary research in wildlife science. Current Science, 116(11), 1878
2019 Bhattacharya, A., Chatterjee, N., Angrish K., Shrotriya, S., Sinha, B. C., and Habib, B. (2019). First photographic evidence of snow leopard from Lippa Asrang Wildlife Sanctuary, India. CATnews 69
2019 Read, D. J., Mawaskar, R. G., & Habib, B. (2019). Translating legitimacy: Perspectives on institutions for human-wildlife coexistence in central India. Geoforum, 101, 38-48.
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Dr. Bilal Habib
Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India.
+91-0135-2646283
bh [at] wii [dot] gov [dot] in