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Nilanjan Chatterjee

Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota
Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, CFANS
Minneapolis
Minnesota, United States of America
nchatter@umn.edu; nilanjanchatterjee7@email.com

Research

My fundamantal interest lies in Quantitative and Statistical Ecology.

For my doctoral disseration, I estimated population of species lacking natural marks or patterns using terrestrial mammals as a model organisms. I utilised dataset collected through camera-traps for the population modelling. I used some existing methods and developed some new quantitative methods for the modelling. Also, I have compared the efficacies of the exisitng methods and comment on their applicability.

Apart from my doctoral work, I am also interested in Biogeography and Macro-evolutionary studies. I believe both fine scale and coarse scale factors are equally important for delimiting species ecological niche.

Selected Publications

A Full list of published article can be found at my Google schloar profile>

Community assembly, functional traits, and phylogeny in Himalayan river birds. (2022) Ankita Sinha,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Ramesh Krishnamurthy,Steve J. Ormerod. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9012

Drivers of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity of Himalayan riverine birds. (2022) Ankita Sinha, Rohan Menzies, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Megha Rao, & Rohit Naniwadekar. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.788184.

Population estimation of Asiatic Black Bear in the Himalayan region of India using camera traps (2021)Ankita Bhattacharya, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Kunal Angrish, Bitapi. C. Sinha, & Bilal Habib; Ursus. doi: 10.2192/URSUS-D-21-00002.2

Deciphering the rarity-detectability continuum: optimizing survey design for terrestrial mammalian community (2021) Nilanjan Chatterjee, Stephanie Schuttler,Parag Nigam, & Bilal Habib; Ecosphere.doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3748

Population Estimate, Habitat-Use and Activity Patterns of the Honey Badger in a Dry-Deciduous Forest of Central India (2020) Nilanjan Chatterjee, Parag Nigam, & Bilal Habib; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:585256. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.585256

Integrating large mammal behaviour and traffic flow to determine traversability of roads with heterogeneous traffic on a Central Indian Highway (2020) Akanksha Saxena, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Asha Rajvanshi, Bilal Habib; Scientific Reports, 10:18888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75810-2

Population density and habitat use of two sympatric small cats in a central Indian reserve (2020) Nilanjan Chatterjee, Parag Nigam, & Bilal Habib; PLoS ONE 15(6): e0233569. https://10.1371/journal.pone.0233569

First Photographic Evidence of Himalayan Brown Bear from Lippa- Asrang Wildlife Sanctuary, Himachal Pradesh, India (2020) Ankita Bhattacharya, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Kunal Angrish, Shivam Shrotriya, Bitapi. C. Sinha, & Bilal Habib; International Bear News Spring 2020 vol. 29 Pp 23-25

Blue Sheep Resource Selection in Alpine Grasslands of a Western Himalayan Landscape – A Point Process Approach (2020) Ankita Bhattacharya, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Gopal Singh Rawat, & Bilal Habib; Zoological Studies; 59 http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/59

Casual analysis and short-sighted inferences: A response to Majgaonkar et al. 2019. (2019) Shivam Shrotriya, Nilanjan Chatterjee,& Bilal Habib; Conservation Science and Practice. ; e124. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.124

Testing performance of large-scale surveys in determining trends for the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps (2019); Shaheer Khan, Nilanjan Chatterjee & Bilal Habib; Scientific Reports, 9:11627. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48193-2

Local- and catchment-scale influences on Himalayan river birds: developing indicators of resource use and biodiversity protection (2019); Ankita Sinha, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Steve Ormerod, Bhupendra Adhikari,& Ramesh Krishnamurty; Ecosystem and People, 15:1, 90-101.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2019.1591508

Recent records of Rusty-spotted cat in dry-deciduous forest of Tadoba, Maharashtra, India (2015) Madhura Davate, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Anil Dashahre, Bilal Habib, Parag Nigam, Mukul Trivedi, G. P. Garad, A Kalaskar & Pallavi Ghaskadbi; Cat News 62, 62-64

Work Experience

Post-Doctoral Associate, University of Minnesota (April 2022- Ongoing)
Consultant, Zoological Society of London (July 2021- Jan 2022)
Senior Research Fellow, Wildlife Institute of India (June 2019- June 2021)
Junior Research Fellow, Wildlife Institute of India (January 2014- June 2019)
Senior Business Analyst, Tata Consultancy Services (July 2013- January 2014)

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Movement Ecology Workshop at ATBC meeting - 2022, India
Applied Population Ecology Module- Diploma Trainees at WII, 2019
Spatial Analysis using R-Workshop at ATBC-ASIA PACIFIC chapter meeting - 2019, Sri Lanka
Basics of R and Occupancy Modelling - PhD Students at WII 2019
Ecological Data Analysis - MSc Wildlife Science Students 2017
Applied Population Ecology Module- Diploma Trainees at WII, 2017

Education

Post-Doc: 2022-Ongoing at University of Minnesota

PhD: 2017-2021 (submitted) 2022 Awarded

Post-graduation: Masters in Statistics: Indian Statistical Institute 2011-13

Graduation: Bachelor in Statistics: Indian Statistical Institute 2008-11

Co-curricular Activities

Overall student winner of British Ecological Society Photography contest, Capturing Ecology in 2019 for the photograph "Flames in flumes"

Sanctury Asia Magazine (Kids) Cover March 2019

British Ecological Society Best Photograph for Capturing Ecology "Individual and Populations" category in 2017 for the photograph "Crossing the line"

Basic Photography Course: Photography Association of Dumdum 2011-2012
First ascent of Spankrak-Ri (6,100 meters)in Ladakh Himalaya
Basic Mountaineering Course: Atal Vihari Bajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports 2011 July