Priya is an ecologist, with an interest in tropical forest diversity, dynamics and biogeography. She did her PhD on the biogeography and macroecology of small mammals in the Indian subcontinent. Her postdoctoral work was on African tropical forest-savanna dynamics. As part of her long-term research, she is interested in understanding forest recovery in northeast India and how human activities influence recovery. Besides research, Priya has been involved with organizing the Student Conference on Conservation Biology in Bangalore, and actively engaged with improving inclusivity in our field.

Twitter: @priya_tamma 

Popular Writing:

Personal Blog: Pangolin prophecies 
Shifting Our Gaze – Towards a Just, Inclusive Approach to Research in the Field


Journal Articles:

Climatic and geographic barriers drive distributional patterns of bird phenotypes within peninsular India  
Past influences present: Mammalian species from different biogeographic pools sort environmentally in the Indian subcontinent
Past climate and species ecology drive nested species richness patterns along an east-west axis in the Himalaya


Shownotes:

Intermediate disturbance hypothesis
Student Conference on Conservation Biology, Bangalore
Policy on Sexual Harassment at Azim Premji University

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