# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nalini-m-nadkarni
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:59.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nalini-m-nadkarni"
name: "Nalini M. Nadkarni"
slug: "nalini-m-nadkarni"
description: "Nalini Nadkarni is an American forest ecologist who pioneered the study of Costa Rican rain forest canopies. Using mountain climbing equipment to make her ascent, Nadkarni first took an inventory of the canopy in 1981, followed by two more inventories in 1984."
tagline: "American Ecologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nalini_Nadkarni_speaking_at_TED_in_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.01998
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Nalini Nadkarni"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalini_Nadkarni"
    title: "Nalini Nadkarni"
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    title: "Nalini Nadkarni"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalini_Nadkarni"
    title: "Nalini Nadkarni"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalini_Nadkarni"
    title: "Nalini Nadkarni"
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    title: "నలిని నడ్కర్ణి"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump