Publications

Michael, D., Joshi, K., & Krishna, S*. (2025) Habitat factors and traits shape plant-pollinator interactions in a semi-arid landscape. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 25, 129. (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02463-y)

Hari, T., Bhattacharjee, S. M., & Krishna, S*. (2025). Topology in Motion: Geometry-Driven Defect Dynamics in Social Wasp Nests. bioRxiv, 2025-08.

Somanathan, H., Krishna, S., Kelber, A., & Borges, R.M. (2025). Time is not everything:  spatial segregation of nests in nocturnal and diurnal carpenter bees. Biotropica, 57, 6, e70121. (https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70121)

Sukumar, M., Krishna, S.*, & Shahabuddin, G. (2025). Comparison of bark-gleaning birds in pine and oak forests of the Western Himalaya in Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Asian Ornithology, 41: 26–33.

Kacker, S., Krishna, S.*, Das, A., & Shahabuddin, G. (2024). Patterns of tree regeneration and their implications for succession in Himalayan pine-oak forests, India. Forest Ecology and Management562, 121941. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121941)

Michael, D., Wolde, B., & Krishna, S.* (2024). Impacts of reduced water availability on vegetative and reproductive traits of a Solanum species. Plant Species Biology (https://doi.org/10.1111/1442-1984.12452)

Sengupta, U. & Krishna, S.* (2023). More is not always better: Impact of nutrient-addition on floral traits important for buzz pollination. Acta Oecologica 121, 103957. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2023.103957)

Krishna, S.*, Jos, E. & Somanathan, H. (2022). The adaptive function of touch-sensitive stigmas. Plant Ecology (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-022-01281-2)

Krishna, S.*, Gopinath, A. & Bhattacharjee, S.M. (2022). Ordering and topological defects in social wasps’ nestsScientific Reports 12, 12901 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16836-6)

Krishna, S., Keasar, T. (2021) Generalization of foraging experience biases bees toward flowers with complex morphologies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 291 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.655086)

Somanathan, H., Krishna, S., Jos, E., Gowda,V., Kelber, A., Borges,R.M. (2020) Nocturnal bees feed on diurnal leftovers and pay the price of day-night lifestyle transition. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution,8, 288 (doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.566964).

Krishna, S. & Keasar T. (2019) Bumblebees forage on flowers of increasingly complex morphologies despite low success. Animal Behaviour, 155, 119-130

Nicholls, E., Krishna, S., Wright, O., Stabler, D., Krefft, A., Somanathan, H. & Hempel de Ibarra, N. (2019) A matter of taste: the adverse effect of pollen compounds on the pre-ingestive gustatory experience of sucrose solutions for honeybees. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 205(3), 333-346

Krishna, S. & Somanathan, H. (2018). Intersexual mimicry and flowering phenology facilitate pollination in a dioecious habitat specialist species, Myristica fatua (Myristicaceae). Plant Ecology, 219(10), 1247-1257

Krishna, S. & Keasar T. (2018) Morphological complexity as a floral signal: from perception by insect pollinators to co-evolutionary implications. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 19(6)

Krishna, S. & Somanathan, H. (2016). Spatiotemporal strategies that facilitate recruitment in a habitat specialist tree species. AoB Plants, 8, plw033

Balamurali, G. S.*, Krishna, S.*, & Somanathan, H. (2015). Senses and signals: evolution of floral signals, pollinator sensory systems and the structure of plant-pollinator interactions. Current Science, 108(10), 1852

Krishna, S. & Somanathan, H. (2014). Secondary removal of Myristica fatua (Myristicaceae) seeds by crabs in Myristica swamp forests in India. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 30, 259-263