Faculty of Science

Department of Biological Sciences
Navjot S SODHI

Professor

Contact Information:
Department of Biological Science
National University of Singapore
14 Science Drive 4
Singapore 117543
Tel: 65162700
Fax: 67792486
email:dbsns@nus.edu.s
Conservation Ecology Laboratory

PhD Saskatchewan, MSc BSc Hons Panjab

Research Areas:

Conservation Biology, Environment Management and Ecology


Research Interests:

My science encompasses descriptive as well as experimental approaches to single or multidisciplinary questions. I have worked in a wide range of habitats and landscapes, which has given me a breadth to ask broad-based questions. I am primarily interested in determining how tropical deforestation is impacting biotas. My research has been funded by the university and various governmental and private organizations.

Current and recent Projects:

  • Effects of tropical forest loss and degradation on animals and ecosystem processes
  • Extinctions
  • Management of birds at airfields

 

Awards:

  • Charles Bullard Fellowship, Harvard University (2002)
  • Outstanding Researcher Award, National University of Singapore (2004)
  • Sarah Hrdy Fellowship in Conservation Biology, Harvard University (2008-2009)
  • Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (2009)

 

Other

  • Associate in Ornithology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

 

Editorial Board Memberships:

  • Conservation Biology (Assigning Editor)
  • Biological Conservation (Editor)
  • Animal Conservation (Associate Editor)
  • The Auk (Associate Editor, 2003-07)
  • Biotropica (Subject Editor, 2005-08)
  • Ornithological Science
  • Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (Associate Editor, 1997-2007)
  • Ecological Research (Handling Editor, 2004-07)

 

Teaching:

  • Global Change Biology (LSM3272) and Tropical Conservation Biology (LSM4262): National University of Singapore
  • Conservation Biology (ESPP 90e): Harvard University (Spring 2009)

 

Selected Publications:

BOOKS

  • Sodhi, N.S. & P.R. Ehrlich. (Editors). 2009. Conservation Biology for All. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (to be published: Dec 09)

  • Sodhi, N.S., G. Acciaioli, M. Erb & A. K.-J. Tan (Editors). 2008. Biodiversity and human livelihoods in protected areas: case studies from the Malay Archipelago. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 478 pp.

  • Sodhi, N.S., B.W. Brook & C.J.A. Bradshaw. 2007. Tropical Conservation Biology. Blackwell, Oxford, UK. 332 pp.

  • Sodhi, N.S. and B.W. Brook. 2006. Southeast Asian biodiversity in crisis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 190 pp.

  • Sodhi, N.S. & I.Sharp. 2006. Winged Invaders: 'Pest' birds of Asia-Pacific. SNP, Singapore. 184 pp.

 

EDITED JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES 

  • Koh, L.P. & N.S. Sodhi. in prep. Conserving Southeast Asia's Imperiled Biodiversity - Scientific, Management, and Policy Challenges. Biodiversity and Conservation.

  • Peres, C.A., J. Barlow, T.A. Gardner & N.S. Sodhi. in prep. Biodiversity Conservation in Human-modified Tropical Forest Landscapes. Biological Conservation.

  • Sodhi, N.S. & K. Eguchi. 2004. Invasive Bird Species. Ornithological Science 3:1-68.

 

PAPERS/CHAPTERS

  • Sodhi, N.S. in press. Birds. Encyclopedia of Invasive Introduced Species (D. Simberloff and M. Rejmanek, eds.). University of California Press.

  • Sodhi, N.S., B.W. Brook & C.A.J. Bradshaw. 2009. Causes and consequences of species extinctions. Pp. 514-520 in Princeton Guide to Ecology (S. A. Levin, ed.). Princeton University Press.

  • Bradshaw, C.J.A., I.G. Warkentin & N.S. Sodhi. 2009. Urgent preservation of boreal carbon stocks and biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution: in press

  • Gardner, T., J. Barlow, R. Chazdon, R. Ewers, C. Harvey, C.A. Peres & N.S. Sodhi. 2009. Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. Ecology Letters 12:561-582.

  • Dunn, R.R., N.C. Harris, R.K. Colwell, L.P. Koh & N.S.Sodhi. 2009. The sixth mass (co)extinction-are most endangered species parasites and mutualists? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276:3037-3045

  • Warkentin, I.G., D. Bickford, N.S. Sodhi & C.J.A Bradshaw. 2009. Eating frogs into extinction. Conservation Biology 23:1056-1059.

  • Bradshaw, C.J.A., N.S. Sodhi & B.W. Brook. 2009. Tropical turmoil - a biodiversity tragedy in progress. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7:79-87.

  • Brook, B.W., N.S. Sodhi & C.J.A. Bradshaw. 2008. Synergies among extinction drivers under global change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23:453-460.

  • Posa, M.R.C., A.C. Diesmos, N.S. Sodhi & T.M. Brooks. 2008. Hope for threatened tropical biodiversity: lessons from the Philippines. BioScience 58:231-240.

  • Tscharntke, T., C.H. Sekercioglu, T.V. Dietsch, N.S. Sodhi, P. Hoehn & J.M. Tylianakis. 2008. Landscape contraints on functional diversity of birds and insects in tropical agroecosystems. Ecology 89:944-951.

  • Lohman, D.L., D. Bickford & N.S. Sodhi. 2007. The burning issue. Science 316:376.

  • Sekercioglu, C.H. & N.S. Sodhi. 2007. Conservation biology: predicting birds' responses to fragmentation. Current Biology 19:R838-R840.

  • Bradshaw, C.A.J., N.S. Sodhi, K.S.-H. Peh & B.W. Brook. 2007. Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world. Global Change Biology 13:2379-2395.

  • Brook, B.W. & N.S.Sodhi. 2006. Rarity bites. Nature 440:555-557

  • Sodhi, N.S., T.M. Brooks, L.P. Koh, G. Acciaioli, M. Erb, A. K.-J. Tan, L.M. Curran, P. Brosius, T.M. Lee, J.M. Patlis, M. Gumal & R.J. Lee. 2006. Biodiversity and human livelihood crises in the Malay Archipelago. Conservation Biology 20:1811-1813.

  • Sodhi, N.S., L.P. Koh & B.W. Brook. 2006. Southeast Asian birds in peril. Auk 123:275-277.

  • Darjono, I. Tinulele, D.P. Putra & T.H.T. Tan. 2005. Land use and conservation value for forest birds in central Sulawesi (Indonesia). Biological Conservation 122:547-558.

  • Koh, L.P., R.R. Dunn, N.S.Sodhi, R.K. Colwell, H.C. Proctor & V.S. Smith. 2004. Species coextinctions and the biodiversity crisis. Science 305:1632-1634.

  • Sodhi, N.S., L.P. Koh, B.W. Brook & P.K.L. Ng. 2004. Southeast Asian biodiversity: an impending disaster. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:654-660.

  • Sodhi, N.S., L.H.Liow & F.A.Bazzaz. 2004. Avian extinctions from tropical and subtropical forests. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 35:323-345.

  • Brook, B.W., N.S. Sodhi and P.K.L. Ng. 2003. Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore. Nature 424:420-423

 

 

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