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Research Interests:
I have an inordinate fondness for furry creatures –mammals of all shapes and sizes. My work has focused on impacts of humans on large mammalian herbivores and their predators, especially issues related to pastoralism. I have studied the influence of livestock grazing on the ecology and conservation of tigers (in deciduous forests of western India), snow leopards (in high-altitude deserts of northern India) and their prey species. For future research I am interested in how plant communities of high-altitude cold deserts respond to herbivory. I joined the Ritchie lab in Fall-2003, and am developing this research program to investigate the role of herbivore diversity in maintaining key ecosystem-functions in high-altitude cold deserts.
Publications:
Bagchi, S., S.P. Goyal, & K. Sankar (2008). Social organisation and population structure of ungulates in a dry tropical forest in western India. Mammalia, 72: 44-49..
Namgail, T., S. Bagchi, C. Mishra, & Y.V. Bhatnagar (2008). Distributional correlates of the Tibetan gazelle in northern India: Towards a recovery program. Oryx, 42:107-112.
Bhatnagar, Y.V., C.M. Seth, J. Takpa, S. Ul-Haq, T. Namgail, S. Bagchi, & C. Mishra (2007). A Strategy for Conservation of Tibetan Gazelle Procapra picticaudata in Ladakh. Conservation and Society5: 262-276
Bagchi, S. (2007). Relation between size-hierarchy and density of trees in a tropical dry-deciduous forest of western India. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 389-394.
Namgail, T., Y.V. Bhatnagar, C. Mishra & S. Bagchi (2007). Pastoral nomads of the Indian Changthang: production system, landuse and socio-economic changes. Human Ecology 35: 497-504.
Bagchi, S. (2006). Assembly rules in large herbivores ? a null model analysis of local and regional diversity patterns of ungulates in dry tropical forests of western India. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52: 634-640, (Invited feature).
Bagchi, S., & C. Mishra (2006). Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard (Uncia uncia). Journal of Zoology 268: 217-224, (Cover feature).
Bagchi, S., T. Namgail, & M.E. Ritchie (2006). Small mammalian herbivores as mediators of plant community dynamics in the high-altitude arid rangelands of Trans-Himalayas. Biological Conservation 127: 438-442.
Namgail, T., S. Bagchi, Y.V. Bhatnagar & R. Wangchuk (2005). Occurrence of the Sand Fox (Vulpes ferrilata) in Ladakh: A new record for the Indian Sub continent. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 102: 217-219.
Bagchi, S., C. Mishra & Y.V. Bhatnagar (2004). Conflicts between traditional pastoralism and conservation of Himalayan Ibex (Capra sibirica) in the Trans-Himalayan mountains. Animal Conservation 7: 121-128.
Bagchi, S., S.P. Goyal & K. Sankar (2004a). Herbivore density and biomass in a semi-arid tropical dry-deciduous forest of western India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 475-478
Bagchi, S., S.P. Goyal & K. Sankar (2004b). Habitat separation among ungulates in dry tropical forests of Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan. Tropical Ecology 44: 175-181.
Bagchi, S., S.P. Goyal & K. Sankar (2003a). Niche relationships of an ungulate assemblage in a dry tropical forest. Journal of Mammalogy 84: 981-988.
Bagchi, S., S.P. Goyal & K. Sankar (2003b). Prey abundance and prey selection by tigers (Panthera tigris) in a semi-arid, dry deciduous forest in western India. Journal of Zoology 260: 285-290.
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