Salvador Lyngdoh
Dehradun, Uttarakhand| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Kalam Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships (Research) |
| Project Title: | Understanding climate-driven consumptive and non-consumptive responses between wolves, prey and habitat |
| Field of Study: | Climate |
| Home Institution: | Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand |
| Host Institution: | Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO |
| Grant Start Month: | March 2026 |
| Duration of Grant: | Nine months |
Brief Bio:
Dr. Salvador Lyngdoh, Scientist E and Associate Professor, is a wildlife biologist specializing in carnivore ecology, movement ecology, habitat conservation, and human-wildlife interactions. With extensive research experience in the Indian Himalayas and other biodiverse regions, he has contributed significantly to understanding lesser-known species such as Himalayan wolves, dholes, snow leopards, pangolins and clouded leopards. He is a member of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) specialists’ groups on cats, canids, pangolins and small carnivores.
During his Fulbright-Kalam Fellowship for Academic and Professional Excellence, Dr. Lyngdoh is studying the dynamics of wolf predation, prey behavior and habitat change in the context of climate change. Grey wolves play essential roles in most of their ranges by exercising top-down cascade effects on ecosystems. The proposed study aims to understand how climate change (past, present, and future) can affect predation by wolves (consumptive effects). It also aims to examine, if otherwise, climate-driven manifestations (environmental stressors) of non-consumptive nature can influence predation behavior (bottom-up cascades).