Professor Dr. Indraneil Das
Professor Dr. Indraneil Das is a conservation biologist at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
Current research interest includes systematic zoology, community ecology, conservation biology, biogeography, history of natural history, palaeontology
- Understanding principles and processed determining species assemblages in natural communities.
- Understanding spatial and temporal aspects of the diversity of tropical amphibian and reptiles.
- Using amphibian and reptile models for understanding tropical ecology and evolution.
- Tracing history of natural history, especially history of herpetology and vertebrate studies.
- Understanding diversity and patterns of vertebrate (especially, turtle) evolution during the Holocene.
- Using amphibians and reptiles as models for explaining ecological processes and as surrogates for conservation and management.
Areas of expertise: Systematic zoology, community ecology, conservation biology, biogeography
Selected publication
- 2019. Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: doi:10.1111/geb.12868. (A. Slavenko, A. Feldman, A. Allison, A.M. Bauer, M. Böhm, L. Chirio, G.R. Colli, I. Das, T.M. Doan, M. LeBreton, M. Martins, D. Meirte, Z.T. Nagy, C. de C. Nogueira, O.S.G. Pauwels, D. Pincheira-Donoso, U. Roll, P. Wagner, Y. Wang & S. Meiri.)
- 2019. Amphibians of western Sarawak (Borneo). Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak/Sarawak Forestry Corporation, Kota Samarahan. 99 pp. (I. Das, Y.M. Pui, S.T. Pang, T. Wahab, S. Mokhtar, S.T. Hertwig & A. Haas.)
- 2019. Uncovering karst endemism within Borneo: two new karst-dwelling Cyrtodactylus species from Sarawak, Malaysia. Zootaxa 4614:331–352. (H.R. Davis, A.M. Bauer, T.R. Jackman, I. Nashriq & I. Das.)
- 2019. The advertisement call of Ansonia latidisca, the Bornean Rainbow Toad. Herpetological Review 50(3):445–449. (J.J. Ong & I. Das.)
- 2020. Multilocus phylogeny of Bornean Bent-toed Geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) reveals hidden diversity, taxonomic disarray, and novel biogeographic patterns. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 147: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106785. (H.R. Davis, K.O. Chan, I. Das, I.G. Brennan, B.R. Karin, T.R. Jackman, R.M. Brown, D.T. Iskandar, I. Nashriq, L.L. Grismer & A.M. Bauer.)
- 2020. Snakes, snakebites, and humans. In: Problematic wildlife II. New conservation and management challenges in the human-wildlife challenges. pp:561–580. F.M. Angelici & L. Rossi (Eds.). Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland. (G. Perry, M. Lacy & I. Das.)
- 2020. The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: doi.org/10.1111/geb.13124. (S. Meiri, L. Avila, A. Bauer, D. Chapple, I. Das, T. Doan, P. Doughty, R. Ellis, L. Grismer, F. Kraus, M. Morando, P. Oliver, D. Pincheira-Donoso, M.A. Ribeiro-Junior, G. Shea, O. Torres-Carvajal, U. Roll & A. Slavenko.)
- 2020. A little frog leaps a long way: compounded colonizations of the Indian Subcontinent discovered in the tiny Oriental frog genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Microhylidae) PeerJ 8:e9411 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9411. (V.A Gorin, E.N Solovyeva, M. Hasan, H. Okamiya, D.M.S. Suranjan Karunarathna, P. Pawangkhanant, A. de Silva, W. Juthong, K.D Milto, L.T. Nguyen, C. Suwannapoom, A. Haas, D.P Bickford, I. Das & N.A Poyarkov.)
- 2020. Snakes and other reptiles of Borneo. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 144 pp. (I. Das.)
- 2020. Snakes and other reptiles of India. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 144 pp. (I. Das.)
- 2020. Gene flow creates a mirage of cryptic species in a Southeast Asian spotted stream frog complex. Molecular Ecology 29:3970–3987. doi.org/10.1111/mec.15603. (K.O. Chan, C.R. Hutter, P.L. Wood, Jr., L.L. Grismer, I. Das & R.M. Brown.)
- 2020. The first frog logo in advertising. Herpetological Review 51(4):749–752. (I. Das.)
- 2020. New herpetofaunal records from the Kingdom of Bhutan obtained through citizen science. Herpetological Review 51(4):792–800. (J.T. Wangyal, D. Bower, S. Tshewang, Y. Phuntsho, S.D. Jamtsho, D. Tshering, B.K. Koirala, B.B. Ghalley, C. Tashi, D. Wangdi, Gyeltshen, J. Tenzin, K. Rinchen, S. Phuntsho, S.G.S. Bhandari, R. Tshewang & I. Das.)
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Professor
Department:
Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation
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