Deyatima Ghosh

Dr. Ghosh received a Ph.D. from University of Calcutta on Zoology (Ecology) in the year 2021, and looked into the impact of agricultural intensification on herpetofaunal community and their ecosystem service provisioning during her doctoral research.

Ghosh博士于2021获得加尔各答大学动物学（生态学）博士学位，在攻读博士期间研究了农业集约化对爬行动物群落及其生态系统服务提供的影响。

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I am trying to understand how animals do what they do?

我想要试着了解动物们是如何做到的？

My approach towards science is interdisciplinary. I am primarily interested in animal behavior, cognition and how this translates into the ecosystem services they deliver.

 我对待科学研究的方式是跨学科进行的。我主要的兴趣是研究动物的行为、认知，以及这些行为和认知是如何转化为它们所提供的生态系统服务。

In my current project I looked into the biological pest regulation of reptiles using Calotes versicolor as a model animal.  I mainly studied how underlying cognitive processes like learning, remembering, decision-making, discrimination etc. influence the pest regulation ability. I wish to extend this work into studying the cognition of hybridogenetic amphibian species and whether they can make better pest regulators than the parental species. Though my model group is majorly the cold-bloods, my future projects will include birds specifically owls and what roles they play as pest regulators.

在我目前的项目中，我研究了以变色树蜥为模型的爬行动物的生物害虫防治。我主要研究了学习、记忆、决策、辨别等潜在的认知过程如何影响两栖动物对害虫的防治能力。我希望将这项工作扩展到研究学习对杂交两栖动物物种的认知，以及它们是否能比亲本种更好的进行害虫防治。虽然现在我的模型组主要是冷血动物，但我未来的项目将包括鸟类，特别是猫头鹰，以及它们在害虫防治中所扮演的角色。

Another domain I work on is the acoustics of amphibians. My current project looked into the call properties and the sound source perception in the Blue-eyed yellow bush frog or Raorchestes luteolus, an endemic frog in the Western Ghats. In near future I want to explore female decision making in amphibians.

我研究的另一个领域是两栖动物声学。我目前的项目研究了Raorchestes luteolus（树蛙科）的叫声特性和声源感知，这是西高止山脉特有的一种蛙。在不久的将来，我想探索两栖动物中的雌性决策。

My work and projects can be found here https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deyatima-Ghosh

在这儿可以找到我的研究成果和项目：https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deyatima-Ghosh

Currently I am also working as a visiting researcher at University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.

目前，我还在英国林肯大学担任客座研究员。