Dr. Priyadarsanan Dharmarajan

Senior Fellow - 2 (Professor)

priyan@atree.org

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Professional Preparation:

University of Calicut, Kerala Ph. D. Entomology 1995
Sree Narayana College, Kollam, Kerala M.Sc. (Zoology) 1987
Sree Narayana College, Kollam, Kerala B.Sc. (Zoology) 1985.

Experience

April 2010- Senior Fellow & Program Leader (Ecosystems & Global Change), Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
April 2009- Senior Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
April 1999-March 2009: Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
June1998-March1999: Senior Research Associate, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore.
Nov. 1997-May 98 :Research Associate, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.
Nov.1995-Oct. 97 : Working on the Post PhD publications (monograph, Fig insects of Kerala and other research papers).
Also was working as Hatchery Technician (Part-time consultant) at the BFFDA Shrimp Hatchery at Neendakara (Kollam).
Nov 1989- Oct 95 : Research Scholar. University of Calicut, Kerala.
April 1987-Oct 1989: Lecturer (Jyothy College, Sasthankotta, Kollam and Nalanda Academy, Anchalummood, Kollam.

Programme:

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Planning

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Journal Articles

Marathe, A., Priyadarsanan, D.R., Krishnaswamy, J. 2021 Gamma diversity and under-sampling together generate patterns in beta-diversity Sci Rep 11, 21420 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99830-8

Abstract

Full Text

Aniruddha Marathe, Kartik Shanker, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Dharma Rajan Priyadarsanan 2021 Species and functional group composition of ant communities across an elevational gradient in the Eastern Himalaya Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, ISSN 1226-8615, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aspen.2021.08.009