Jithin Vijayan
jithin.j.vijayan@utu.fi |
Biodiversity Conservation, Applied Ecology, Conservation Social Science
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.
- Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on tadpole occurrence and abundance in seasonal rock pools of rock outcrops, northern Western Ghats (2025)
- Aquatic Ecology
- Effects of land-use change and elevation on endemic shrub frogs in a biodiversity hotspot (2025)
- Animal Conservation
- Effects of tree plantations on population and roosting ecology of an endemic agamid lizard in the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot (2025)
- Journal of Zoology
- Orchards and paddy differentially impact rock outcrop amphibians: Insights from community- and species-level responses (2025)
- Ecological Applications
- 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
- Influence of check dams on the activity pattern and morphometric traits of overwintering tadpoles in the Western Himalaya (2022)
- Limnologica
- 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
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