Dr. K. Praveen Karanth is a professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He earned his Ph.D. in ecology, evolution and behavior from the Department of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York, USA. Dr. Karanth has numerous publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals, and has given lectures at various conferences. He is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of Molecular evolution and Frontiers of Biogeography