Scientific publications

PhD:
Nerlekar, A. N., Chorghe, A. R., Dalavi, J. V., Kusom, R. K., Karuppusamy, S., Kamath, V., Pokar, R., Rengaian, G., Sardesai, M. M., & Kambale, S. S. (2022). Exponential rise in the discovery of endemic plants underscores the need to conserve the Indian savannas. Biotropica, 00, 1–13. link here. Media coverage here, here , here

Nerlekar, A. N., Mehta, N., Pokar, R., Bhagwat, M, Misher, C., Joshi, P. & Hiremath, A. J. (2021) Removal or utilisation? Testing alternative approaches to the management of an invasive woody legume in an arid Indian grassland. Restoration Ecology: rec.13477. Link here. Media coverage here

Nerlekar, A.N. and J.W. Veldman (2020). High plant diversity and slow assembly of old-growth grasslands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 117 (31): 18550-18556. pdf here, media coverage here, selected as Editor's choice at Science

Veldman, J. W., Aleman, J. C., Alvarado, S. T., ....Nerlekar, A. N.... (+ 42 co-authors)
(2019) Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”. Science 366(6463): eaay7976. full text, media coverage here, here and here. Picked up by 38 news outlets (see all)

Post Masters and pre- PhD:
Nerlekar, A.N., Das, S., Onkar, A. A., Bhagwat, M., Mhaisalkar, P., Lapalikar, S. A., Chavan, V. D., and Mahajan, M. C.. (2019). India needs long-term biodiversity monitoring in urban landscapes. Current Science 117(2): 181-182. pdf

Nerlekar, A.N., Kamath, Saravanan, A., V., and Ganesan R. (2019). Successional dynamics of a regenerated forest in a plantation landscape in Southern India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 35: 57-67. pdf. See media coverage here, here, and here.

Masters work: Ecology, taxonomy and conservation of Jatropha nana:

Nerlekar, A. N. (2018). Seasonally dependent relationship between insect herbivores and host plant density in Jatropha nana- a tropical perennial herb. Biology Open (in press). pdf.
Featured 'first person' interview here.

Nerlekar, A.N., Kumar, A. and P. Venu (2016). Jatropha nana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e. T88425992A88425995. See popular media coverage here

Nerlekar, A. N. and R. S. Kumar (2016). Occurrence of Trissolcus jatrophae Rajmohana, Narendran Manoharan (Hymenoptera :Platygastridae) in Pune city, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(4): 8736-8738. pdf.

Nerlekar, A. N. (2015). Lectotypification of Jatropha nana (Euphorbiaceae) with notes on its threats, and the status of Jatropha nana var. bengalensis. Phytotaxa 213(2): 155-158. pdf. See popular media coverage here and here

Undergraduate work: Fergusson Biodiversity project:

Nerlekar, A. N., Lapalikar, S. A., Onkar, A. A., Laware, S. L. and M. C. Mahajan (2016). Flora of Fergusson
College campus, Pune, India: monitoring changes over half a century. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(2):
8452-8487. pdf, Popular media coverage here.

Nerlekar, A. N. (2016). Herbarium collections of the Botany Department, Fergusson College, Pune,
India. Taprobanica 8(1): 24-32. pdf. Popular media coverage here.

Nerlekar, A. N., Warudkar, A. M., Gowande, G. G., Salve, S. S., Raut, A. and S. B. Nalavade (2016). A
review of the faunal diversity of the Fergusson College campus, Pune, India. Zoo’s Print (31)10: 4-25. pdf.

Nerlekar, A. N., G. G. Gowande and P. S. Joshi (2014). Diet of the Spotted Owlet Athene brama in an
urban landscape. Indian Birds. 9(2): 45–48. pdf.

Nerlekar, A. N., Gowande, G. G. and P. S. Joshi (2014). Behavioural ethogram of Spotted Owlet Athene
brama (Temminck, 1821). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 111(3): 172-179. pdf.

Natural history and taxonomy:
Mane, R. N., Nerlekar, A. N., Lapalikar, S. A., Kambale, S. S. and S. R. Yadav (2017). The taxonomic status
of two geophytic Euphorbia species (Euphorbiaceae) from Maharashtra, India . Phytotaxa 307(2): 141-146. pdf.

Page, N. V. and A. N. Nerlekar (2016). A new species of Miliusa (Annonaceae) from the Western Ghats
of Karnataka, India. Phytotaxa 245(1): 079-083. pdf.

Onkar, A. A. and A. N. Nerlekar (2015). Buchanania cochinchnensis (Lour.) M.R. Almeida: A new host
plant for Scutellera Perplexa (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae) Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 112(3): 179-180. pdf

Thite, V. K. and A. N. Nerlekar (2012). Checkered keelback water snake Xenochropis piscator (Schneider,
1799) in the diet of Garden Calotes Calotes versicolor (Daudin, 1802). Herpetology Notes 5: 518. pdf

Nerlekar, A. N. (2012). An instance of inter species interaction between Hanuman Langur Semnopithecus
entellus and Rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta. Zoo’s Print. 27(8): 27-28.

Scutellera nobilis nymphs

S. nobilis on leaves of Buchanania lanzan