PEER REVIEWED:
2024
Ravikanthachari, Nitin, Rachel A. Steward, and Carol L. Boggs. “Patterns of genetic variation and local adaptation of a native herbivore to a lethal invasive plant.” Molecular Ecology (2024): e17326. (link)
Ravikanthachari, Nitin, Libby L. Burch, Rachel E. Powell, Danielle M. Scott, Charlotte R. Wayne, Kristjan Niitepõld, Risa H. Rosenberg, and Carol L. Boggs. “Impacts of assisted migration: An introduced herbivore has short‐term and long‐term effects on its native host plant population.” Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (2024). (link)
Ravikanthachari, Nitin, and Carol L. Boggs. “Genetic Mechanisms underlying Preference-Performance Mismatches: Insights from a Specialized Native Herbivore on an Invasive Toxic Plant.” bioRxiv (2024): 2024-02. (link)
Attiwilli, Suman, Nitin Ravikanthachari, and Krushnamegh Kunte. “A comparison between time‐constrained counts and line transects as methods to estimate butterfly diversity and monitor populations in tropical habitats.” Insect Conservation and Diversity 17, no. 1 (2024): 88-101. (link)
2023
Olson, Malia M., Nitin Ravikanthachari, Meredith Blackwell, and Carol L. Boggs. “The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies.” Ecological Entomology 4 (2023). (link)
Ravikanthachari, Nitin, and Carol L. Boggs. “Gene family evolution in brassicaceous-feeding insects: Implications for adaptation and host plant range.” bioRxiv (2023): 2023-06. (link)
2019
Lu Yang, Nitin Ravikanthachari, Ricardo Mariño-Pérez, Riddhi Deshmukh, Mariana Wu, Adam Rosenstein, Krushnamegh Kunte, Hojun Song, Peter Andolfatto. Predictability in the evolution of Orthopteran cardenolide insensitivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374.1777 (2019): 20180246. (link)
PC Sujitha, G Prasad, R Nitin, Krushnamegh Kunte Dipendra Nath Basu, Kalesh Sadasivan. Current distribution of Nilgiri grass yellow Eurema nilgiriensis Yata (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), with an updated taxonomic key to Eurema of Western Ghats, India. Entomon 44.1 (2019): 23-31. (link)
2018
Tarun Karmakar, R Nitin, Vivek Sarkar, Sarika Baidya, Subhajit Mazumder, VK Chandrasekharan, Rudraprasad Das, GS Girish Kumar, Swapnil Lokhande, Joyce Veino, Lightson Veino, Rakoveine Veino, Zeeshan Mirza, Rajesh V Sanap, Bimal Sarkar, Krushnamegh Kunte. Early stages and larval host plants of some northeastern Indian butterflies. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10.6 (2018): 11780-11799. (link)
Ravikanthachari Nitin, VC Balakrishnan, Paresh V Churi, S Kalesh, Satya Prakash, Krushnamegh Kunte. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10.4 (2018): 11495-11550. (link)
BOOKS, BROCHURES & TECHNICAL REPORTS:
2020
Krushnamegh Kunte, and Nitin Ravikanthachari. 2020. Butterflies of Bengaluru. Karnataka Forest Department (Research Wing), National Centre for Biological Sciences, and Indian Foundation for Butterflies, Bengaluru, India. 196 pp. (Sample pages)
2018
Nitin, R., A. Sengupta, and K. Kunte. 2018. Butterflies of Bengaluru. (Sample)
2013
KS Sheshadri, MB Krishna, S Balakrishna, MS Kumar, BS Prabhakar, R Nitin, SB Kishan, KS Vinay, GS Gautham, V Narayan, S Potdar, P Daga, TP Kumar. Ruining the ecology of Hesaraghatta Lake – the role of bird photographers. Conservation India (2013). (link)