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Research

Doctoral Dissertation

Scientific Articles

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  • 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)

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(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.)

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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, 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)