Peer-reviewed publications

Ramya Roopa, S., Brack, I.V, Freire, M.D., Santos, V., da Silva Menezes, L., Martins, M.B., & Verrastro, L.(in press). Trees, grass and sand grain size influence occupancy of an endangered and endemic sand lizard (Liolaemus arambarensis) of southern Brazil. Herpetologica. [Code here]

Ramya Roopa, S., Chaudhuri, A., Dey, S., & Mendiratta, U. (2024). Calipee trade: a pervasive yet under-recognized threat to softshell turtles in South Asia. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 23(2), 153–160. https://doi.org/10.2744/CCB-1636.1

Ramya Roopa, S., Mendis, A., Sultan, N., Shukla, S., Chaudhuri, A., & Mendiratta, U. (2024). From pets to plates: network analysis of trafficking in tortoises and freshwater turtles representing different types of demand. Oryx, 58(1), 78–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605323000376. [Code here]

Aditya, V., Goswami, R., Mendis, A., & Ramya Roopa, S. (2021). Scale of the issue:Mapping the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on pangolin trade across India. Biological Conservation, 257, 109136. https://doi.org/10.1016j.biocon.2021.109136

Sagar, H. S. S. C., Mabano, A., Ramya Roopa, S., Sharmin, M., Richard, F.J., & Clause, J. (2019). India in the Oil Palm Era: Describing India’s Dependence on Palm Oil, Recommendations for Sustainable Production, and Opportunities to Become an Influential Consumer. Tropical Conservation Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082919838918

Ramya Roopa, S., Selvakumar, C., Subramanian, K. A., & Sivaramakrishnan, K. G. (2017). A new species of Prosopistoma Latreille, 1833 and redescription of P. indicum Peters, 1967 (Ephemeroptera: Prosopistomatidae) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 4242(3), 591-599. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4242.3.10

Technical reports and Pre-prints

Ramya Roopa, S. & Kelkar, N. (2024). FLOWIDER 1.0: a web-based interface to track flood-season water levels of large rivers of India’s Gangetic plains. EarthArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5NM41. [Code here]

Mendis, A., Nikita, V.M., Ramya Roopa, S., Sultan, N., Shukla, S., Lewis, R., Deshpande, K., Balaji, K., Karve, A., & Mendiratta, U. (2021). Media-reported wildlife poaching and illegal trade in India: 2020. Wildlife Conservation Society-India Report. https://doi.org/10.19121/2021.Report.40773