Jithin Vijayan
jithin.j.vijayan@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9663-1661 |
Areas of expertise
Biodiversity Conservation, Applied Ecology, Conservation Social Science
Biodiversity Conservation, Applied Ecology, Conservation Social Science
Biography
Jithin is an interdisciplinary researcher in Biodiversity Conservation working at the Department of Biodiversity Sciences. He has obtained a Master's degree in Wildlife Science from the Wildlife Institute of India (2021). He was previously a Research Fellow at the Nature Conservation Foundation, India (2022-2026); and a POBE Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India (2017-19). His previous research include applied ecological studies and conservation social science works connected to Himalayan montane streams, amphibians, place-based education, and rocky outcrops of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot.
Research
Publications
- Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on tadpole occurrence and abundance in seasonal rock pools of rock outcrops, northern Western Ghats (2025)
- Aquatic Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of land-use change and elevation on endemic shrub frogs in a biodiversity hotspot (2025)
- Animal Conservation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of tree plantations on population and roosting ecology of an endemic agamid lizard in the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot (2025)
- Journal of Zoology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Orchards and paddy differentially impact rock outcrop amphibians: Insights from community- and species-level responses (2025)
- Ecological Applications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Between a rock and a hard place: Comparing rock-dwelling animal prevalence across abandoned paddy, orchards, and rock outcrops in a biodiversity hotspot (2023)
- Global Ecology and Conservation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Influence of check dams on the activity pattern and morphometric traits of overwintering tadpoles in the Western Himalaya (2022)
- Limnologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Understanding the influence of check dam and season on habitat use to develop habitat suitability criteria for overwintering tadpoles of Nanorana spp. (2022)
- River Research and Applications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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