Research Interests:
Population Biology, Life History, Animal Migrations, Movement Modelling, Landscape Ecology, Behavioural Ecology, Population Monitoring, Socio-Ecological Systems, Sustainable Management of Wildlife Populations.
Current project:
My current project is focussed at linking ecological, evolutionary and geographical databases to identify patterns and answer novel questions in population biology and life history evolution.
 
Education:
2004-2008: PhD Ecology, 'Animal - Habitat relationships in High altitude rangelands', University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
2000-2002: MSc Environmental Management, Research Institute & University, Dehradun, India
1997-2000: BSc (Hons) Botany, University of Delhi, Sri Venkateswara College, India
Professional history:
October 2010 onwards: Consultant - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2AZ.
October 2010 onwards: Consultant – Snow Leopard Conservation Programme, Panthera, (Leaders in Wild Cat Conservation).
September 2008 to September 2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate –Conservation Science Group with Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland and Population Biology Group with Prof. Tim Coulson, Imperial College London, London, U.K.
October 2009- May 2010: International Consultant on Biodiversity - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Uzbekistan- Pilot project on ‘Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Uzbekistan’s Oil & Gas sector’.
January 2009 –October 2009: Consultant – Imperial College London, U.K.
August 2004 onwards: Research Associate – Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
August 2004 – September 2008: PhD Student - University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
August 2002 – July 2004: Project Manager - Energy & Environment, GTZ- ASEM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit - Advisory Services in Environment Management), New Delhi, India.
January 2002 – July 2002: Intern - Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd. India.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
In press
Singh, N.J., Milner-Gulland, E. J. (In press) Monitoring ungulates in Central Asia: current constraints and future potentials. Oryx.
2010
Singh, N.J., Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2010) Conserving a moving target: planning protection for a migratory species as its distribution changes. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01905.x.
Singh, N.J., Grachev, I.A., Bekenov, A.B. & Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2010) Tracking greenery in central Asia - the migration of the saiga antelope. Diversity and Distributions, 16, 663–675.
Singh, N.J., Grachev, I.A., Bekenov, A.B. & Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2010) Saiga antelope calving site selection is increasingly driven by human disturbance. Biological Conservation, 143, 1770-1779.
Singh, N.J., Yoccoz, N.G., Cote, S.D., Lecomte, N., Fox, J.L. (2010) Scale and selection of habitat and resources: Tibetan argali in High altitude rangelands. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 88, 436-447.
Singh, N.J., Bonenfant, C., Yoccoz, N.G., Cote, S.D. (2010) Sexual segregation in Eurasian wild sheep. Behavioral Ecology, 21, 410–418.
Struve, J., Lorenzen, K., Blanchard, J., Borger, L., Bunnefeld, N., Edwards, C., Hortal, J., MacCall, A., Matthiopoulos, J., Van Moorter, B., Ozgul, Ap., Royer, F., Singh, N.J., Yesson, C., Bernard, R. (2010) Lost in space? Searching for directions in the spatial modelling of individuals, populations and species ranges. Biology Letters. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0338.
Aiyadurai, A., Singh, N. J., Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2010) Wildlife hunting by indigenous tribes: a case study from Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. Oryx. doi:10.1017/S0030605309990937.
2009
Singh, N.J., Yoccoz, N.G., Bhatnagar, Y.V., Fox, J.L. (2009) Using habitat suitability models to sample rare species in high-altitude ecosystems: A case study with Tibetan argali. Biodiversity and Conservation, 18: 2893-2908.
Popular articles:
2010
Ito, T.Y., Shinoda1, M., Esipov, A., Grachev, Y., Singh, N. J. and Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2010). Satellite tracking of saigas in Ustyurt. Saiga News 10: 10-11.
Leon, J., Singh, N. J., Arylov, Y.N., Obgenova, O.B., Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2010) Can we use local knowledge to map saiga distributions? Saiga News 10: 13-14.
Singh, N.J., Amgalabaatar, S., Reading, R.P. (2010) Temporal dynamics of group size and sexual segregation in Ibex. Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia (Halle/Saale, Germany)/ Erforsch. biol. Ress. Mongolei (Halle/Saale), 11.
Book chapters:
In press
Bhatnagar, Y.V. & Singh, N.J. (In press) Nomadism in the Indian Changthang: changes and implications on society and biodiversity.
2010
Singh, N.J., Bhatnagar Y.V. & Fox, J.L. (2010) Tibetan argali in India, other Himalayan areas and nearby areas in the western Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Argali Biology and Conservation Edited by Richard Reading. Denver Zoological Foundation.
Contact details:
Division of Biology
Imperial College London
Silwood Park
Ascot
SL5 7PY
UK
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