ZSI Scientist Profile

Dr Lalit Kumar Sharma

Scientist-E

Highest Academic degree, year

Ph.D.; 2012

Department/Division

Wildlife & Conservation Section

Email Address

lksharma@zsi.gov.in, lalitganga@gmail.com

Phone Number

+91-9756605304

Area of Expertise

Wildlife Conservation and Landscape Ecology

Experience after Ph. D.

11 years

Significant Achievements (max 5 bullet points)

• Evaluated conservation and status of threatened mammals of the Indian Himalayas
• Species redistribution under climate change scenario of Himalayan vertebrates
• Landscape ecology of conservation priority species of the Himalayas
• Ecology of large mammals of Indian Himalayas

Mentorship

Supervising 03 PhD students

Research Focus (max. 5 bullet points)

• Population and habitat ecology
• Landscape conservation and restoration ecology
• Conservation practices and policies
• Forest biodiversity & Management planning
• Geoinformatics and remote sensing 

Publications

• Sharief A, .., Sharma, L.K. et al. (2022) Landscape use and co-occurrence pattern of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) and its prey species in the fragile ecosystem of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh. PLoS ONE 17(7): e0271556. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271556.
• Dutta, R., ..Sharma, L.K. (2022). Climate change may plunder the facultative top predator Yellow-throated Martin from the Hindu-Kush Himalayan Region, Ecological Informatics, Volume 69, 2022, 101622, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101622.
• Maheswaran, G., ..Sharma, L.K.,et al (2021). Save the while-bellied heron from extinction. Science, 373, 6561. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl9682.
• Mukherjee, Sharma, L.K.,et al (2021). Landscape-level habitat management plan through geometric reserve design for critically endangered Hangul (Cervus hangluhanglu), Science of The Total Environment, Volume 777, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146031.
• Bagaria, P., Sharma, L.K.,et al. (2020). Distribution modelling and climate change risk assessment strategy for rare Himalayan Galliformes species using archetypal data abundant cohorts for adaptation planning, Climate Risk Management, 100264, ISSN 2212-0963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2020.100264.

ResearchGate profile

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lalit-Sharma-38

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