Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
My name is Garima Gupta and I have a long-standing interest in questions of conservation, and I have been working on understanding the challenges to the global biodiversity and how we can make better progress towards bridging those gaps and make informed decisions to protect our ecosystem and biodiversity. I completed my PhD entitled ‘Data and conservation of Galliformes in the Greater Himalaya’ from Newcastle University, UK. My research focused on addressing biodiversity loss and human linkages in the Greater Himalayan region, a biodiversity hotspot. During my doctoral research, I worked on the importance of existing data in conservation science and decision making. I am also involved in the IUCN Green Status of Species assessments.
Currently, I am working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Beacon Project (https://www.thebeaconproject.net/) at the University of Stirling. The Beacon Project uses hydropower development as a model system and employ interdisciplinary thinking and methods to quantify the trade-offs, conflicts and synergies between SDGs and stakeholders. The overarching aim of The Beacon Project is to identify, forecast, prevent and mitigate conflicts associated with development processes, to achieve equitable sustainable development now and beyond the 2030 sustainable development targets. For the next two years, I will be working directly with local communities, as well as with regional and/or national-level decision-makers in four different countries (India, Scotland, Kazakhstan, and Brazil) to understand how different people approach these difficult SDG trade-off decisions (i.e. renewable energy generation, biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and communities).
My Academic Background
Conservation, Community Based Conservation, Policy, Ecology, Social Science
Article
Gupta G, Kotiyal R & Jones I (2024) Dual ecological and socio-cultural fragmentation induced by hydropower dams: case studies from the Greater Himalayan region of India. Zoological Research Diversity and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2097-3772.2023.008
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Gupta G, Grainger M, Dunn J, Sanderson R & McGowan P (2022) Conservation of Galliformes in the Greater Himalaya: Is there a need for a higher-quality evidence-base?. Bird Conservation International, 32 (3), pp. 360-369. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270921000514
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IUCN Green Status of Species assessment of Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus)
Gupta G & McGowan PJ (2022) IUCN Green Status of Species assessment of Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus). ICUN Red List [IUCN website] 29.09.2022. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22679182/92806166
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IUCN Green Status of Species assessment of Western Tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus)
Gupta G & McGowan PJ (2022) IUCN Green Status of Species assessment of Western Tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus). IUCN Red list [IUCN Website] 29.09.2022. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22679147/112467383#green-assessment-information
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Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact
Grace MK, Akçakaya HR, Bennett EL, Brooks TM, Heath A, Hedges S, Hilton‐Taylor C, Hoffmann M, Hochkirch A, Jenkins R, Keith DA, Long B, Mallon DP, Meijaard E & Gupta G (2021) Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact. Conservation Biology, 35 (6), pp. 1833-1849. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13756
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IUCN Green Status of Species assessment of Cheer Pheasant (Catreus wallichii)
Gupta G & McGowan PJ (2021) IUCN Green Status of Species assessment of Cheer Pheasant (Catreus wallichii). IUCN Red List [IUCN Website] 08.12.2021. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22679312/218835395#green-assessment-information
Article
Boakes EH, Fuller RA, Mace GM, Ding C, Tze Ang T, Auffret AG, Clark NE, Dunn J, Gilbert J, Golovnyuk V, Gupta G, Irlich U, Joachim E, O’ Connor K & Potapov E (2020) GalliForm, a database of Galliformes occurrence records from the Indo-Malay and Palaearctic, 1800–2008. Scientific Data, 7, Art. No.: 344. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00690-0
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A simple method for assessing the completeness of a geographic range size estimate
Gupta G, Dunn J, Sanderson R, Fuller R & McGowan P (2020) A simple method for assessing the completeness of a geographic range size estimate. Global Ecology and Conservation, 21, Art. No.: e00788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00788
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Is planting trees the solution to reducing flood risks?
Carrick J, Abdul Rahim MSAB, Adjei C, Ashraa Kalee HHH, Banks SJ, Bolam FC, Campos Luna IM, Clark B, Cowton J, Domingos IFN, Golicha DD, Gupta G, Grainger M, Hasanaliyeva G & Hodgson DJ (2019) Is planting trees the solution to reducing flood risks?. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 12 (S2), Art. No.: e12484. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12484
