Mahesh Sankaran
working group
faculty
Professor
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Email: mahesh@ncbs.res.in
Mahesh Sankaran heads the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Ecology Research group at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. His research focuses on understanding interactions and feedbacks between climate, biogeochemistry, fires and herbivory, and ecosystem properties. He works across a range of ecosystems from grasslands and savannas to forests.
Keywords: savanna ecology, grasslands, tropical forests, climate change, carbon cycling, tree demography, plant-herbivore interactions
Study sites: Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, Western Himalayas, Eastern Himalayas, Andaman Islands.