Research Associate
Wildlife Institute of India
P.O. Box 18, Chandrabani
Dehra Dun, Uttrakhand 248001
INDIA
Email: jhalay at wii.gov.in
Research Interests
Currently conducting research on carnivores in India (Tigers, lions, striped hyenas, wolves, and Indian fox). Mainly ecological studies, long term monitoring, conservation genetics, using radio, GPS, and Satellite telemetry. Research on ungulates (ecology & nutrition of Axis deer, swamp deer, & blackbuck).
Current Research Projects
1) Ecology of wolves, striped hyenas, and Indian fox in Kutch Gujarat
2) Social organization and dispersal in Asiatic lions
3) Ecological Monitoring of Gir Protected Area
4) Monitoring Tigers, Co-predators, Prey and their habitat in all tiger occupied forests of India
5)Ecology and Dispersal of tigers in Kanha Tiger Reserve using satellite and GPs telemetry
6) Ecology and population estimation of tigers in the Sunder Bans.
7) Study of diclofenac in vulture foods in India, and demography of white backed vulture in Kutch.
8) Conservation genetics & phylogeny of wolves, jackals, Indian lions and tigers.
Recent Publications
Jhala, Y. V. (2003). Status, Ecology, and Conservation of the Indian Wolf. J. Bombay Natural History Society 100(2&3):293-307.
Jethva, B. and Y. V. Jhala. (2003). Sample size considerations for food habits studies of wolves from scats. Mammalia t.68,no 4.589-591.
Sharma, D. K., Maldonado, J., Jhala, Y. V. & R. Fleischer. (2004). Ancient wolf lineages in India. Biology Letters. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Suppl. 271, S1-S4. online on September 8, 2003.
Jethva, B. and Y. V. Jhala. (2004). Computing biomass consumption from prey occurrences in wolf scats. Zoo Biology 23(6):513-520.
Sharma, S., Jhala, Y. V., V. B. Sawarkar (2005) Identifying individual tigers from their pugmarks. J. Zoology 267:9-7.
Jhala, Y. V. (2004) (Ed). Monitoring of Gir. A technical consultancy report submitted to the Gujarat Forest Department under the GEF-India Eco-development Program, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. RR-04/002. 157pp.
Jhala, Y. V. & Moehlman. P. (2004). Golden Jackal Canis aureus. Pages 156-161 in C. Sillero-Zubiri, M. Hoffmann and D. Macdonald (Eds.) Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group Gland, Switzerland.
Jhala, Y. V., Q. Qureshi, & R. Gopal (2005). Monitoring tigers co-predators, prey, and their habitat: Field Guide. Rev. second edition. Technical Publication of the Project Tiger Directorate, New Delhi & Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. 52pp. (in nine regional languages).
Qureshi, Q. R. Gopal, Shirish Kyatham, S. Basu, A. Mitra, and Y. V. Jhala (2006). Evaluating tiger habitat: at the tehsil level. Project Tiger Directorate, Govt. of India, New Delhi & Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. TR No. 06/001, 162pp.
Ishtiaq F., E. Gering1, J. S. Beadel, J. H. Rappole, A. R. Rahmani, Y. V. Jhala, C. J. Dove, C. Milensky, M. A. Peirce, R. C. Fleischer (in Press) Prevalence and diversity of avian haematozoan parasites in Asia: A regional survey. Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
Ishtiaq F., J. Beadell, A. Baker, A. Rahmani, Y. Jhala and R. Fleischer (2005). Prevalence and evolutionary relationships of haematozoan parasites in native versus introduced populations of common myna Acridotheres tristis. Biology Letters. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Suppl. doi:10.1098/RSPB 2005.3313
Aiyadurai, A., Jhala, Y. V. 2006. Foraging and habitat use by Golden Jackals (Canis aureus) in the Bhal region, Gujarat, India. J. Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc. 103:5-12.
Updated -11/09/07
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