RAJEEV RAGHAVAN

Rajeev Raghavan was an undergraduate at Department of Aquaculture, St. Albert's College (Kochi-India), completed his MSc from the University of Madras (Chennai-India) and is currently a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.  Rajeev joined his alma mater, the Department of Aquaculture, St. Albert's College (Kochi-India) in 2003 where he has been lecturing and conducting research in freshwater biodiversity. Since 2006, he is on a sabbatical and based at the Laboratory of Fish Physiological Ecology, Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.

 As a NUFFIC-NFP Fellow in 2005, Rajeev was trained at the Institute for Limnology (Mondsee-Austria) and the Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic). He has also been a visiting student at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology University of Kent, UK. Rajeev has also been with Fishing Chimes (national fisheries journal of India) as an executive editor and with Fishbase as a collaborator. 

Although Rajeev's education is as an aquaculturist, his research is mostly on applied ecology and conservation. Much of his work focuses on biodiversity assessments, distribution patterns and conservation priority analysis. Focal taxa are freshwater fishes and focal study region is the southern part of Western Ghats in the state of Kerala (South India).

Through his research work on fish ecophysiology at the Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS, Rajeev still continues to maintain a link with aquaculture and its applied aspects.

 Selected Recent Publications

 1. Rajeev Raghavan, G. Prasad, Anvar Ali & Benno Pereira. Fish fauna of River Chalakudy part of Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot (South India) - patterns of distribution, threats and conservation needs, Biodiversity and Conservation. In Press.

2. Anvar Ali, G. Prasad, Lakshmi C, Balasubramaniam, N & Rajeev Raghavan. Weight Length relationship of the Asian Sun catfish, Horabagrus brachysoma (Gunther) from the Western Ghats rivers of Kerala, India, Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria  In Press.

3. Rajeev Raghavan, G. Prasad, Anvar Ali, Benno Pereira & L. Sujarittanonta. Damsel in distress: the tale of Miss Kerala, Puntius denisonii, Day, an endemic and endangered cyprinid of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, Kerala, India, Aquatic Conservation - Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. In Press

4. Michael Tlusty, Scott Dowd & Rajeev Raghavan. 2008. Saving forests through the fisheries – ornamental fishes as a means to avoid deforestation. OFI Journal. 56, February 2008. 21-25

5. Rajeev Raghavan, G. Prasad, Anvar Ali & Benno Pereira. 2008. Exotic fishes in a global biodiversity hotspot- a case study from River Chalakudy, part of Western Ghats, Kerala, India, Biological Invasions 10: 37-40.

6. Rajeev Raghavan, Michael Tlusty, G. Prasad, Benno Pereira, Anvar Ali & Lavanchawee Sujarittanonta. 2007. Should endemic and threatened ornamental fishes of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot be captive bred for international trade?, Current Science, 93 (9), 1211-1213

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