SHOLA SKY ISLANDS

Mohammed Mubeen

Project Student
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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I have always been curious about aspects of animal behaviour-especially that of mammals and my interests extend to evolution and conservation biology. I have worked on Diversity of spiders in different types of ecosystems for my Masters thesis. Soon after, at Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), I had the opportunity to study Invasive plants and their impact on the Munnar landscape and got myself addicted to the montane shola grasslands . Alongside this, I had worked on a sociological experiment wherein we made use of the ‘First Question Helpline data’-a platform introduced by KFRI wherein children could call in and ask and get answers to questions that intrigued them- and analysed the ‘age group – question type’ correlation and presented the results in the 32nd Kerala Science Congress.

​In order to transition into animal-oriented research, I interned with Dr. Robin in the Sky Island Project for a few months before being involved in a plant-frugivore interaction study in South Andaman Island with Nature Conservation Foundation, looking into the feeding patterns of frugivorous birds and their seed dispersal effectiveness. At the moment, I am working with Jobin Varughese in the Sky Island Project, assisting him in data collection. I am also trying to figure out ecological questions addressing invasive plant species and native birds.


Projects Involved: Sky Islands Birds

PERSONAL AND OTHER INTERESTS

I am quite religious and my interest in research is primarily motivated by it. I also like to read, mostly works on theology, philosophy and non-fiction. Me, being an introvert, prefer working outdoors, in the wild and secure myself indoors if not working, thereby ensuring least exposure to people at all times. Upon exposure, playing football, watching movies, sharing food and having arguments and debates are preferred.​

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  • Home
  • About
    • Shola Sky Islands
    • Sholicola
  • Research Areas
    • Landscape Ecology >
      • Landscape mapping
      • Sky Island Birds
      • Avian Malaria
      • LTEO
    • Bioacoustics >
      • Jerdon's Courser
      • Passive Acoustics of Shola birds
      • Automated bird song detection
      • Detecting rare species with acoustic arrays
      • Forest Owlet
    • Bird Biogeography >
      • Peninsular birds
      • Forest Owlet
    • Citizen Science and Outreach >
      • Tirupati Bird Atlas
      • Capacity building
      • Young Naturalists of Andhra Pradesh
      • Sky Island Photostory
      • Sky Island Beatbox
    • Completed Projects
  • People
    • Interns
  • Publications
  • Opportunities
  • Open Source Data
  • Media Coverage
  • Gallery
  • Blog
    • Stories from the field