Assessing elephant dung decay rate in a forest-plantation mosaic in the Valparai plateau, Anamalai hills, southern India

Student name: Ms Sushma Sharma B S

Guide: Dr Neeti

Year of completion: 2017

Host Organisation: Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore

Supervisor (Host Organisation): Dr M. Ananda Kumar

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The impact of L. camara establishment on the floral and avifaunal communities of Solan district in the mid Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh

Student name: Ms Shruti Gupta

Guide: Dr Sudipta Chatterjee

Year of completion: 2017

Host Organisation: GIZ, Himachal Pradesh

Supervisor (Host Organisation): Dr Joachim Schmerbeck

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Food consumption score, dietary diversity and how they are impacted by household level characteristics- insights from two blocks of Purulia district

Student name: Ms Smita Chakravarty

Guide: Dr Nirupam Datta

Year of completion: 2017

Host Organisation: Society for Promotion of Wasteland Development (SPWD)

Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr Hardeep Singh

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Impact of sewage mining activities on urban lakes

Student name: Mr Shashank Palur

Guide: Ms Fawzia Tarannum

Year of completion: 2017

Host Organisation: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore

Supervisor (Host Organisation): Dr Veena Srinivasan

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Effect of intraspecific functional traits, soil and competition on tree growth

Student name: Ms Sharada Ramadass

Guide: Dr Sudipta Chatterjee

Year of completion: 2017

Host Organisation: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru

Supervisor (Host Organisation): Dr Mahesh Sankaran

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