Aravind.n.a

Biography

 Fellow: January 2012- Till date with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore. Previous Position Research Associate: September 1998 to March 2001, with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore. Senior Research Associate: April 2001 to December 2006, with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore. Post Doctoral Fellow: 1st January 2007- 30th July, 2009, with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore. Fellow and Coordinator: August 2009- December 2011 with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore. Fellow: January 2012- till date with Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore.

Research Interest

 My interests are very broad. My work ranges biosystematics, ecology and conservation from genes to species to communities to ecosystems. For more than one decade I have been involved in studying taxonomy, diversity, distribution and endemism patterns in terrestrial and freshwater molluscs and amphibians of the Western Ghats. Current work includes molecular phylogeny and phylogeography to assess evolutionary relation and faunal origin of land and freshwater snails of India. I use social media and crowd sourcing extensively to address various questions related to ecology and conservation. I also use data mining and ecological niche modeling tools to address the species distribution and biogeographic patterns in various taxa.