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Doctoral Dissertation

• Kadambari Devarajan (2021), "Monitoring Mammals at Multiple Scales: Case Studies from Carnivore Communities", University of Massachusetts Amherst. Doctoral Dissertation. 2301. DOI.

Scientific Articles

(* Corresponding author, † Equal contribution)

• Kadambari Devarajan, Mason Fidino†, Zach J Farris†, Solny A Adalsteinsson, Gabriel Andrade-Ponce, Julia L Angstmann, Whitney Anthonysamy, Jesica Aquino, Addisu Asefa, Belen Avila, Larissa L Bailey, Lyandra Maria de Sousa Barbosa, Marcela de Frias Barreto, Owain Barton, Chloe E Bates, Mayara Guimarães Beltrão, Tori Bird, Elizabeth G Biro, Francesco Bisi, Daniel Bohórquez, Mark Boyce, Justin S Brashares, Grace Bullington, Phoebe Burns, Jessica Burr, Andrew R Butler, Kendall L Calhoun, Tien Trung Cao, Natalia Casado, Juan Camilo Cepeda-Duque, Jonathon D Cepek, Adriano Garcia Chiarello, Merri Collins, Pedro Cordeiro-Estrela, Sebastian Costa, Giacomo Cremonesi, Bogdan Cristescu, Paula Cruz, Anna Carolina Figueiredo de Albuquerque, Carlos De Angelo, Cláudia Bueno de Campos, Liana Mara Mendes de Sena, Mario Di Bitetti, Douglas de Matos Dias, Duane Diefenbach, Tim S Doherty, Thais P Dos Santos, Gabriela Teixeira Duarte, Timothy M Eppley, John Erb, Carolina Franco Esteves, Bryn Evans, Maria LM Falcão, Hugo Fernandes-Ferreira, John R Fieberg, Luiz Carlos Firmino de Souza Filho, Jason Fisher, Marie-Josee Fortin, George A Gale, Travis Gallo, Laken S Ganoe, Rony Garcia-Anleu, Kaitlyn M Gaynor, Tiziana A Gelmi-Candusso, Phillys N Gichuru, Quimey Gomez, Austin M Green, Luiza Neves Guimarães, Jeffrey D Haight, Lavendar R Harris, Zachary D Hawn, Jordan Heiman, Huy Quoc Hoang, Sarah Huebner, Fabiola Iannarilli, María Eugenia Iezzi, Jacob S Ivan, Kodi J Jaspers, Mark J Jordan, Jason Kamilar, Mamadou Kane, Mohammad Hosein Karimi, Marcella Kelly, Michel T Kohl, William P Kuvlesky Jr, Andrew Ladle, Rachel N Larson, Quy Tan Le, Duy Le, Van Son Le, Elizabeth W Lehrer, Patrick E Lendrum, Jesse Lewis, Andrés Link, Diego J Lizcano, Jason V Lombardi, Robert Long, Eva López-Tello, Camile Lugarini, David Lugo, Paula MacKay, Maria Madadi, Rodolfo Assis Magalhães, Seth B Magle, Ludmila Hufnagel Regis Diniz Maia, Salvador Mandujano, Taisiia Marchenkova, Paulo Henrique Marinho, Laurie Marker, Julia Martinez Pardo, Adriano Martinoli, Rodrigo Lima Massara, Juliana Masseloux, Dina Matiukhina, Amy Mayer, Luis Mazariegos, Maureen R McClung, Alex McInturff, Darby McPhail, Amy Mertl, Christopher R Middaugh, David Miller, David Mills, Dale Miquelle, Vivianna Miritis, Remington J Moll, Péter Molnár, Robert A Montgomery, Toni Lyn Morelli, Alessio Mortelliti, Rachael I Mueller, Anna S Mukhacheva, Kayleigh Mullen, Asia Murphy, Vance Nepomuceno, Dusit Ngoprasert, An Nguyen, Thanh Van Nguyen, Van Thai Nguyen, Hoa Anh Nguyen Quang, Rob Nipko, Ana Clarissa Costa Nobre, Joseph Northrup, Megan A Owen, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Meredith S Palmer, Gabriela Palomo-Munoz, Lain E Pardo, Chrystina Parks, Ana Maria de Oliveira Paschoal, Brent Patterson, Agustin Paviolo, Liba Pejchar, Mary E. Pendergast,Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso, Timofei Petrov, Mairi K. P. Poisson, Daiana Jeronimo Polli, Morteza Pourmirzai, Alexander Reebin, Katie R. Remine, Lindsey Rich, Christopher S. Richardson, Facundo Robino, Daniel G. Rocha, Fabiana Lopes Rocha, Flávio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues, Adam T. Rohnke, Travis J. Ryan, Carmen M. Salsbury, Heather A. Sander, Nadia Maria da Cruz Santos-Cavalcante, Cagan H. Sekercioglu, Ivan Seryodkin, Dede Hendra Setiawan, Shabnam Shadloo, Mahsa Shahhosseini, Graeme Shannon, Catherine J. Shier, G. Bradley Smith, Tom Snyder, Rahel Sollmann, Kimberly L. Sparks, Kriangsak Sribuarod, Colleen C. St. Clair, Theodore Stankowich, Robert Steinmetz, Cassondra J. Stevenson, Sunarto Sunarto, Thilina D. Surasinghe, Svetlana V. Sutyrina, Ronald R. Swaisgood, Atie Taktehrani, Kanchan Thapa, Matthew Thorton, Andrew Tilker, Mathias W. Tobler, Van Bang Tran, Jody Tucker, Russell C. Van Horn, Juan S. Vargas-Soto, Karen L. Velásquez-C, Jan Venter, Eduardo M. Venticinque, Stijn Verschueren, Erin Wampole, Darcy J Watchorn, Oliver R. Wearn, Katherine C.B. Weiss, Alejandro Welschen, Febri Anggriawan Widodo, Jacque Williamson, Andreas Wilting, George Wittemyer, Arturo Zavaleta, Amanda J. Zellmer, Brian D. Gerber*† (2025), "When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity", Science Advances.

News: Popular Science, Earth.com. Yahoo!News, Mirage News | Press Release: Rhody Today, CSU News | Science News Aggregators: Bioengineer.org 2, Science Daily 2, EurekAlert 2, Scienmag.com, Phys.org 2 | Social Media: USGS YouTube video, USGS Instagram, USGS Twitter, USGS LinkedIn, USGS Facebook

• Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Gisela C Stotz, Javiera Beatriz Chinga Chamorro, Sharon Collinge, Mariana C Chiuffo, Rebecca Kariuki, Hazel Norman, Andrea Monica Ortiz, Helen M Regan, Kristiina Visakorpi, Kadambari Devarajan, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Florian Schnabel, Anni Arponen, Marc Cadotte, Roger Cousens, Ken Ehrlich, Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Lesley Hughes, Heather Kharouba, Tara Martin, Libby Rumpff, Bruno Eleres Soares, Ana Carolina Prado-Valladares, Michael Williams, Marten Winter, Florencia A Yannelli, Menilek Beyene, Yasasi Fernando, Thomas Hart, Minna Santaoja, Nicolás Santos Domínguez (2024), "The Conguillío Statement on the values and responsibilities of ecologists".

• Brian D Gerber, Kadambari Devarajan, Zach J Farris, Mason Fidino (2024), "A model-based hypothesis framework to define and estimate the diel niche via the 'Diel.Niche' R package", Journal of Animal Ecology. (Preprint on biorxiv)

• Gordana Popovic, Tanya Jane Mason, Szymon Marian Drobniak, Tiago André Marques, Joanne Potts, Rocío Joo, Res Altwegg, Carolyn Claire Isabelle Burns, Michael Andrew McCarthy, Alison Johnston, Shinichi Nakagawa, Louise McMillan, Kadambari Devarajan, Patrick Leo Taggart, Alison Wunderlich, Magdalena M Mair, Juan Andrés Martínez‐Lanfranco, Malgorzata Lagisz, Patrice Pottier (2024), "Four Principles for Improved Statistical Ecology", Methods in Ecology and Evolution. (Preprint on arXiv)

• Nigel Golden, Kadambari Devarajan^*, Cathleen Balantic, Joseph Drake, Michael Hallworth, & Toni Lyn Morelli (2021), "Ten Simple Rules for Productive Lab Meetings", PLOS Computational Biology. (^ Joint first author)

News: Science Board | Press Release: UMass News and Media Relations, Inside UMass | Science News Aggregators: Science Daily 1, EurekAlert 1, Lab Manager, Phys.org 1

• Kadambari Devarajan*, Toni Lyn Morelli, & Simone Tenan (2020), "Multi-species Occupancy Models - Review, Roadmap, and Recommendations", Ecography.

(This paper was a finalist for the E4 Award, published in the special E4 Award edition of Ecography in November 2020, and featured in the Ecography podcast hosted by George Chan and Jodie Harris of Blue Fire Films.)

News: The Wildlife Society, USGS | Press Release: UMass News Office | Science News Aggregators: Science Daily, EurekAlert, Bioengineer.org, Phys.org

• Kadambari Devarajan*, "The Company Canids Confront: Spatiotemporal Partitioning at Local Scales Facilitates Carnivore Coexistence at the Landscape Level", in revision (Preprint available on bioRxiv).

• Prabhu Ramachandran & Kadambari Devarajan^* (2018), "ViXeN: An Open-source Package for Managing Multimedia Data", Methods in Ecology and Evolution. (^ Joint first author) (Online version, PDF 808KB)

• Kadambari Devarajan* (2016), "The Antsy Social Network: Determinants of Nest Structure and Arrangement in Asian Weaver Ants", PLoS ONE. (Online, PDF 24.6MB)

• Kadambari Devarajan*, Rajmonda Sulo, Jennifer Peterson, & Maria A. Echeverry-Galvis (2010), "Unusual Relationships: Python and Weaver Birds", Proceedings of the Conference on Python for Scientific Computing (2010), Austin (TX). (Paper, Talk)

Posters

• Care Anderson, Elsa Cousins, Mariela Garcia Arredondo, Kadambari Devarajan, LeAnn Zuniga, Nigel Golden, Nicole Lee, Benjamin Keisling, Raquel Bryant, Nadia Fernandez, Katherine Chacon-Vargas, Brooke Burrows, RoseAnn Vik, Sungha Kang, & Sarah McCormick (November 2020), "BRiDGE: Enhancing diversity and inclusion in lecture series with broader impacts and mentoring opportunities", Agronomy/Crops/Soils Meeting 2020. (Poster)

• Mariela Garcia Arredondo, Kadambari Devarajan, Carolyn Anderson, Emily Bechtold, Raquel Bryant, Brooke Burrows, Katherine Chacon-Vargas, Elsa Cousins, Adaeze Egwuatu, Nadia Fernandez, Nigel Golden, Srishti Kashyap, Benjamin Keisling, Sarah McCormick, & RoseAnn Vik (December 2019), "BRiDGE: Enhancing lecture series with broader impacts and mentoring opportunities", Centennial Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA. (Abstract1)

• Kadambari Devarajan, Chris Sutherland, Vishwesha Guttal, & Abi Tamim Vanak (August 2018),"The Company Canids Confront: Resource Partitioning in Sympatric Carnivores in an Arid Ecosystem", Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA. (Abstract)

• Kadambari Devarajan, Abi Tamim Vanak & Vishwesha Guttal (November 2015), "The Company Canids Confront: Resource Partitioning in Sympatric Carnivores in an Arid Ecosystem", Conference on People, Pastoralism, and Biodiversity Conservation in Arid Grasslands, Hodka village, Kutch district, India. (PDF 4.9MB)

• Maria A. Echeverry-Galvis, Jennifer K. Peterson, Kadambari Devarajan, and Rajmonda Sulo (August 2010), "Key Factors Determining the Spatial Distribution of Weaver Bird Nests at Mpala Research Station, Laikipia, Kenya", 95th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (PDF 3.5MB)

• Maria A. Echeverry-Galvis, Jennifer K. Peterson, Raymonda Sulo, and Kadambari Devarajan (August 2010), "Key Factors Determining the Spatial Distribution of Weaver Bird Nests at Mpala Research Station, Laikipia, Kenya", Annual Meeting of the Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO 2010), Weber State University at Ogden, UT, USA. (Program -- page 29)

Popular Articles

• Kadambari Devarajan (November 2020), "Ecologically and Culturally Rich Deserts, Swamps and Grasslands Must Not be Labelled Wastelands", The Hindu - Sunday Magazine (Included in the monthly reading list put together by Uneven Earth)

• Kadambari Devarajan (September 2020), "Wildlife and Protected Areas During the Pandemic", That's Life[Science]

• Kadambari Devarajan (May 2020), "The Pandemic That Changed The World: Many Questions and a Few Answers", That's Life [Science]

• Kadambari Devarajan (May 2020), "The Biology of Booze ft. Gin & Tonic". That's Life [Science]

• Kadambari Devarajan (September 2019), "More Tales from Trails", That's Life [Science]

• Kadambari Devarajan (August 2019), "There Is Nary a Pest as Hated as Mesquite in the Desert Flatland of Kutch", The Wire

• Kadambari Devarajan (August 2019), "Tales from Trails - Field Dispatches from Africa", That's Life [Science]

• Kadambari Devarajan (May 2019), "ViXeN - View eXtract aNnotate Multimedia Data", Methods.blog

• Kadambari Devarajan (March 2019), "The Biology of Booze ft. Tequila", That's Life [Science]

• Kadambari Devarajan (July 2018), "Critter Candid Cam", That's Life [Science]

• Kadambari Devarajan (June 2018), "Thara Ticket at the (Probably) Thakara Theatre", Blackbuck

• Kadambari Devarajan (May 2018), "You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours", That's Life [Science]

• Kadambari Devarajan (April 2018), "The Field After Cancer", Fem Field Secrets blog

• Kadambari Devarajan (September 2017), "A Salt County Almanac", Saevus (Issue: September 2017)

• Kadambari Devarajan (July 2017), "Journeys Through Six Continents", Fundamatics (Issue: 3Q 2017)

• Kadambari Devarajan (February 2017), "Stories in the Sand", Celebrating Natural Heritage Souvenir (2017)

• Kadambari Devarajan (October 2016), "The Restaurant at the Edge of the Reef", Fundamatics (Issue: 4Q 2015).

• Kadambari Devarajan (December 2015), "Thara Ticket at the (Probably) Thakara Theatre", Fundamatics (Issue: 2Q 2015).(In the media 1)

• Kadambari Devarajan (December 2015), "Of Rains and Other Such Precipitation", Fundamatics (Issue: 2Q 2015).

• Kadambari Devarajan (September 2014), "Something Fishy - Emptying India’s Seas”, Conservation India.

Workshops

• Kadambari Devarajan, "Making Sense of Data", Workshop on Data Science with R for Women in Software Engineering (WiSE) students at Sri Vishnu Engineering College for Women, India. (January 2017) (Slides 4.9MB)

• Kadambari Devarajan, "An Introduction to R for Data Analysis", Workshop on R for Data Science, for Women in Software Engineering (WiSE) students at BVRIT College of Engineering for Women, Hyderabad, India. (January 2017) (Slides 2.9MB)

• Kadambari Devarajan, "Watching Wildlife", Workshop on Observing Wildlife for MDes students (Course: Animation) at the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. (March 2016)

• Kadambari Devarajan, “Making Sense of Data”, Workshop on using the R programming language for M.Phil and PhD students at IIT Bombay (Elective: Planning and Development, Module: Statistics). (September 2015) (Slides 4.3MB)

• Prabhu Ramachandran, Kadambari Devarajan, and Christopher Burns, "Introduction to Python, IPython, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Mayavi", Scipy 2010 (Workshop at the Conference on Python for Scientific Computing), Austin, Texas.

Talks

• LEST Talk (Let's Enjoy Science Together video podcast) - Season 2 speaker

Monitoring Species Distribution in Zambia and India | LEST Talk S2 Ep 9

Cancer diagnosis did not stop my dream of becoming a scientist | LEST Talk S2 Ep 8

• Kadambari Devarajan, Women in the Field Seminar Part I - "Field research: Fantastic beasts and how to study them" and Part II - "Female in the field: 10 simple rules for women field researchers", Invited panelist for the 2nd Annual Women in the Field Panel (December 2021).

• Kadambari Devarajan, IDS Seminar Part I - "Desert Dog Dynamics: Multispecies Models for Monitoring Mammals at Multiple Scales" and Part II - "Conservation Conversation: Communities and Camera Traps", Invited seminar as part of the UMass Institute of Diversity Sciences Seminar Series (November 2021)

• Paige Warren and Kadambari Devarajan, "Ecology & Evolution's Hidden Figures: A Community Learning Exercise Around Recent Articles on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice", Invited webinar as part of the UMass OEB Seminar Series (November 2020).

• Kadambari Devarajan and Prabhu Ramachandran, "View eXtract aNnotate (ViXeN) Media Files: A Project Manager for Multimedia Data", (virtual) Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA 2020).

• Kadambari Devarajan and Prabhu Ramachandran, "View eXtract aNnotate (ViXeN) Media Files: A Multimedia Project Manager", (virtual) North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB 2020).

• Kadambari Devarajan and Prabhu Ramachandran, "View eXtract aNnotate (ViXeN) Multimedia Data", (virtual) International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC 2020).

• Kadambari Devarajan in conversation with John Rowan, "Paleontology: New Insights from Old Bones", Life Science Café

• Kadambari Devarajan, Chris Sutherland, and Simone Tenan, "Study design and statistical inference in multi-species models: The story so far", Department of Environmental Conservation Graduate Student Symposium, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. (January 2018) (Slides 4MB)

• Kadambari Devarajan, "Urban Wildlife: Big Cats in Bigger Cities", Invited talk as part of a series of talks and discussions organized by the Animal Welfare Group, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. (February 2017)

• Kadambari Devarajan, Abi Tamim Vanak, and Vishwesha Guttal, "The Company Canids Confront: Resource Partitioning in Sympatric Carnivores in an Arid Ecosystem", Conference on People, Pastoralism, and Biodiversity Conservation in Arid Grasslands, Hodka village, Kutch district, India. (November 2015) (Slides 23MB)(Meeting Report)

• Kadambari Devarajan, "The Company Canids Confront: Resource Partitioning in Sympatric Carnivores in an Arid Ecosystem", Thesis Seminar, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. (November 2015) (Slides 15MB)

• Kadambari Devarajan, “Factors Affecting the Distribution and Landscape Use of Sympatric Carnivores in an Arid Ecosystem”, Meeting with the Gujarat Forest Department - Kutch Circle, at Khamir, Bhuj, India. (February 2015) (Slides 10MB)

• Kadambari Devarajan, “Factors Affecting the Distribution and Landscape Use of Sympatric Carnivores in an Arid Ecosystem”, Annual meeting of the Research and Monitoring in the Banni LandscapE (RAMBLE) project in Hodka, Gujarat, India. (February 2015) (Slides 10MB)

• Kadambari Devarajan and Pankaj Joshi, “India’s Wild West : The Faunal Biodiversity of Banni”, Public talk at the Banni Pashu Ucherak Maldhari Sangathan (Banni Pastoralist Association), Hodka, Gujarat, India. (December 2014)

• Dipti Hamraskar, Sunetro Ghosal and Kadambari Devarajan, "Living with Leopoards", Public talk at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (May 2013; Mumbai, India). (May 2013) (In the media 2)

• Kadambari Devarajan, "FOSS for Interdisciplinary Research and World Domination!", Invited talk and panel discussion at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing (December 2011; Bangalore, India). (Slides 1.2MB)

• Maria Echeverry, Jennifer Peterson, Rajmonda Sulo, and Kadambari Devarajan (May 2010), "Weavers' nest spatial distribution at Mpala Research Station, Laikipia - Kenya", Workshop for Princeton-UIChicago Compopbio Course Projects at Princeton University. (Slides)