Debashish Panda

About

Wildlife Ecologist
My research interest focuses on Mammalian scavengers ecology, carnivores ecology, population ecology, community ecology, species interaction, foraging ecology, trophic interaction, trophic cascade, Human-Carnivore interaction and co-existence, ecosystem services

Employment

• WWF-India Associate Coordinator-Species
  2025 - Present
• WWF-India Senior Project Officer
  2024 - 2025
• Amity University Research Fellow
  2019 - 2022

Education

• Amity University Ph.D.
  2020 - Present
• North Orissa University Masters
  2016 - 2018

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)

• Dietary Pattern and Trophic Resource Partitioning Among Sympatric Mesocarnivores in Human-Dominated Semi-Arid Landscape, Madhya Pradesh
  Ecologies 2026 0 citations DOI: 10.3390/ecologies7020058
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• Night is my boon: preliminary observations and temporal activity patterns of the elusive mouse deer Moschiola indica and few other terrestrial mammals along the Moyar River part of Mudumalai, Western Ghats
  MAMMALIA 2026 0 citations DOI: 10.1515/MAMMALIA-2025-0151
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• First photographic evidence of the fishing cat ( Prionailurus viverrinus ) from Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan: extending its western distribution in India
  Biodiversity 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2025.2558596
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• Scavenging Event of Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) in the Semi-arid Landscape of Rajasthan, India
  Proceedings of the Zoological Society 2025 1 citation DOI: 10.1007/s12595-024-00557-x
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• Factors determining the occurrence and spatial association of meso-carnivores in the semi-arid landscape of Madhya Pradesh, India
  MAMMAL RESEARCH 2025 2 citations DOI: 10.1007/S13364-025-00827-9
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• Assessment and prediction of human-elephant conflict hotspots in the human-dominated area of Rajaji-Corbett landscape, Uttarakhand, India
  JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION 2024 20 citations DOI: 10.1016/J.JNC.2024.126601
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• Ecosystem services provided by striped hyenas in the human-dominated landscape of Rajasthan, India
  Science of The Total Environment 2023 5 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166267
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• Dietary preference of striped hyena in the anthropogenic landscape of Rajasthan, India
  Acta Ecologica Sinica 2023 9 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.chnaes.2023.03.002
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• Does the size of a protected area matter? An assessment of leopard population and habitat usage in a protected area of Shiwalik foothills, Himalaya
  MAMMAL RESEARCH 2023 6 citations DOI: 10.1007/S13364-023-00701-6
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• Competitive interactions with dominant carnivores affect carrion acquisition of striped hyena in a semi-arid landscape of Rajasthan, India
  Mammal Research 2022 25 citations DOI: 10.1007/s13364-022-00663-1
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