Meghna Krishnadas

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 969 citations indexed

About

Meghna Krishnadas is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Meghna Krishnadas has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 969 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Meghna Krishnadas's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Plant and animal studies (10 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). Meghna Krishnadas is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Plant and animal studies (10 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). Meghna Krishnadas collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Panama. Meghna Krishnadas's co-authors include Liza S. Comita, Simon A. Queenborough, Stephen J. Murphy, Noelle G. Beckman, Yan Zhu, Jenalle L. Eck, Kaiyang Xu, Divya Vasudev, Varun R. Goswami and Robert J. Fletcher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Ecology and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Meghna Krishnadas

21 papers receiving 960 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta‐analysis of experimental evidence for distance‐ and density‐dependent seed and seedling survival
    2014 484 citations Liza S. Comita, Simon A. Queenborough et al. Journal of Ecology profile →

Peers

Meghna Krishnadas
Nicholas T. Simpson United States
Katja M. Raatikainen Finland
Tim Gardiner United Kingdom
Maud Bernard‐Verdier Germany
Debra M. Wotton New Zealand
Aldo Compagnoni United States
André Maurício Melo Santos Brazil
Greg R. Guerin Australia
Evan C. Fricke United States
Jesse Bellemare United States
Nicholas T. Simpson United States
Meghna Krishnadas
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meghna Krishnadas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Meghna Krishnadas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Meghna Krishnadas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Meghna Krishnadas. Meghna Krishnadas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ali, Irfan, et al.. (2025). Biodiversity effects on seedling growth are modified by light environment across functional groups. Ecological Applications. 35(5). e70087–e70087.
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Sankaran, Mahesh, et al.. (2024). Anatomical traits explain drought response of seedlings from wet tropical forests. Ecology and Evolution. 14(9). e70155–e70155. 1 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna. (2022). Climate and forest loss interactively restructure trait composition across a human‐modified landscape. Ecology and Evolution. 12(11). e9361–e9361. 1 indexed citations
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Osuri, Anand M., et al.. (2022). Small mammals reduce distance dependence and increase seed predation risk in tropical rainforest fragments. Biotropica. 54(6). 1428–1439. 6 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna & Simon Maccracken Stump. (2021). Dispersal limitation and weaker stabilizing mechanisms mediate loss of diversity with edge effects in forest fragments. Journal of Ecology. 109(5). 2137–2151. 6 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna, Mahesh Sankaran, Navendu Page, et al.. (2021). Seasonal drought regulates species distributions and assembly of tree communities across a tropical wet forest region. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(9). 1847–1862. 12 indexed citations
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Shahabuddin, Ghazala, et al.. (2021). Decline in forest bird species and guilds due to land use change in the Western Himalaya. Global Ecology and Conservation. 25. e01447–e01447. 26 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna & Anand M. Osuri. (2020). Environment shapes the spatial organization of tree diversity in fragmented forests across a human‐modified landscape. Ecological Applications. 31(2). e02244–e02244. 7 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna & Liza S. Comita. (2019). Edge Effects on Seedling Diversity Are Mediated by Impacts of Fungi and Insects on Seedling Recruitment but Not Survival. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2. 6 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna, et al.. (2018). Weaker plant-enemy interactions decrease tree seedling diversity with edge-effects in a fragmented tropical forest. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4523–4523. 38 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna, et al.. (2018). Parks protect forest cover in a tropical biodiversity hotspot, but high human population densities can limit success. Biological Conservation. 223. 147–155. 20 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna & Liza S. Comita. (2017). Influence of soil pathogens on early regeneration success of tropical trees varies between forest edge and interior. Oecologia. 186(1). 259–268. 20 indexed citations
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Fotis, Alexander T., Stephen J. Murphy, Meghna Krishnadas, et al.. (2017). Above‐ground biomass is driven by mass‐ratio effects and stand structural attributes in a temperate deciduous forest. Journal of Ecology. 106(2). 561–570. 159 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna, Ajith Kumar, & Liza S. Comita. (2016). Environmental gradients structure tropical tree assemblages at the regional scale. Journal of Vegetation Science. 27(6). 1117–1128. 17 indexed citations
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Vasudev, Divya, Robert J. Fletcher, Varun R. Goswami, & Meghna Krishnadas. (2015). From dispersal constraints to landscape connectivity: lessons from species distribution modeling. Ecography. 38(10). 967–978. 111 indexed citations
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Prasad, Soumya, Meghna Krishnadas, Kim R. McConkey, & Aparajita Datta. (2014). The tangled causes of population decline in two harvested plant species: a comment on Ticktin et al. (2012). Journal of Applied Ecology. 51(3). 642–647. 5 indexed citations
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Velho, Nandini & Meghna Krishnadas. (2011). Post-Logging Recovery of Animal-Dispersed Trees in a Tropical Forest Site in North-East India. Tropical Conservation Science. 4(4). 405–419. 7 indexed citations
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Krishnadas, Meghna, et al.. (2011). The response of the frugivorous lion‐tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) to a period of fruit scarcity. American Journal of Primatology. 73(12). 1250–1260. 8 indexed citations

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