Assistant Professor
Centre for Conservation of Natural Resources
Mail: chetan.hc@tdu.edu.in
Dr. Chetan’s ResearchGate profile

An ecologist who enjoys using an interdisciplinary approach to explore and address challenges posed by natural resource utilization, ecosystem restoration, and biodiversity conservation, Chetan was previously a Teacher Educator at Azim Premji Foundation and University. He completed his Ph.D., from Manipal University, Before his Ph.D., he has worked on several ecological projects of plant-animal interaction viz. seed dispersal, seed predation, pollination-biology, floral-phenology, human-wildlife conflicts using a camera trapping. He is Masters’ from Bangalore University and undergraduate studies from Kuvempu University.

Expertise:

• Principle of Ecology
• Restoration Ecology
• Interdisciplinary approach to explore and address challenges in Environment and Society
• Environmental Education

Current Interests:

Research Interests

• Forest ecology
• Restoration Ecology
• Plant-animal Interactions
• Political ecology of natural resource utilization and biodiversity conservation

Education/Outreach Interests

• Principle of Ecology
• Restoration Ecology
• Environment and Society
• Environmental Education

Ongoing Research/Education/Outreach Projects:

• Facilitating BMCs in Education, Awareness, and Skill Development and preparation of People’s Biodiversity Registers (PBRs) by them – funded by Haryana State Biodiversity Board
• People Biodiversity Registry – documentation, and awareness- Funded by Manipur State Biodiversity Board, Manipur.
• Documentation of Textual Literature on Ecology & Biodiversity of Chhattisgarh State, Funded by Chhattisgarh State Biodiversity Board.
• Assessment of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant species (including collection, usage, demand, markets, price trends & life cycle) focusing on landscapes in Sikkim, with special reference to RETs – funded by UNDP, New Delhi.

Publications:

• Devasigamani, L., Devarajan, R., Loganathan, R., Rafath, H., Padman, M., Raju, G., Giridhar, L., Chetan, H.C. and Kuppan, N.K., 2020. Lavandula angustifolia L. plants regeneration from in vitro leaf explants-derived callus as conservation strategy. Biotecnología Vegetal, 20(2), pp.75-82.
• Chetan, H. C., R. Ganesan, and T. Ganesh.2020. Seed and seedling establishment in abandoned tea plantations role of ecological and edaphic factors, southern Western Ghats, India. Tropical Ecology. 1-15.
• Chetan H.C 2019. Ecological restoration of abandoned tea plantations: Challenges and Prospects in Southern India. Educreation Publishing 144 pp

(Name has been changed since 2014 onwards from Chetana HC to Chetan HC)

• Chetana, H. C & T. Ganesh. 2013. Reconciling natural history and species ecology: Myristica beddomei (Myristicaceae) in the Western Ghats of India. Tropical conservation science 6 (5): 663-673.
• Chetana, H. C & T. Ganesh. 2012. Importance of shade trees (Grevillea robusta) in the dispersal of forest tree species in managed tea plantations of the southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Tropical Ecology 28:187-197.
• Chetana, H. C, Siddartha Krishnan & T. Ganesh. 2012. Biodiversity regain in abandoned tea plantations. Current Science 102:8 1089-1090.
• Chetana, H. C & T. Ganesh. 2007. Survey and activity patterns of nocturnal mammals in a fragmented dry deciduous forest of Karnataka. Zoo print journal. 22: 2644-2647.

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Membership of Professional Bodies:

• World Agroforestry

MSc by Research Students:

• Samarth Karanth
• Yashwanth Gopal
• Tiasa Adhya
• Rajaram MR