Ecosystem Ecology Research Unit
Prof. Ram Kumar
Our researches focus mainly on freshwater and marine ecology, particularly, the feeding ecology of aquatic organisms like zooplankton and ichthyoplankton, life history strategies in zooplankton subjected to food, predation, pollutants including microplastics, the effect of invasive species, effects of land-driven discharge on marine and freshwater community stricture.Bioremediation of xenobiotic compounds and biocontrol of disease vectors.
Our research program bridges the gap between evolutionary and conservation ecology in freshwater and marine biological research. Thus, the Ecosystem Ecology Research unit engenders research on bioremediation, extraction of value-added compounds from wastewater, natural selection, and community structure impacted by autochthonous and allochthonous-biotic and abiotic contaminants.