Vishesh Leon Diengdoh

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Biological Sciences University of Tasmania, Australia 2017–present (thesis submitted)
-Assessed impacts of habitat and climate change on pollinators — biodiversity surveys (birds, insects, vegetation), spatial analysis of land cover, habitat suitability and functional connectivity.

M.Sc. Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, India 2013–2015
- Project on carbon stock across different land-use types — field survey (soil), wet lab work for measuring different soil properties

B.Sc. Environmental Science North-Eastern Hill University, India 2010–2013
- Project on traffic noise index and vehicular density — field survey (sound and vehicular density)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Landscape Ecology, Impacts of climate change on biodiversity, Remote sensing

Publications

Diengdoh, V. L., S. Ondei, M. Hunt, & B. W. Brook. 2020. A validated ensemble method for multinomial land-cover classification. Ecological Informatics. DOI:


Diengdoh, V. L., Ondei, S., Amin, R.A., Hunt, M., & Brook, B. W. 2022. Landscape functional connectivity for butterflies under different scenarios of land-use, land-cover, and climate change in Australia bioRxiv. DOI:

Diengdoh, V. L., Ondei, S., Hunt, M., & Brook, B. W. 2021. Predicted the impacts of climate change and extreme-weather events on the future distribution of fruit bats in Australia. bioRxiv. DOI:

Diengdoh, V.L., Brook, B.W., Hunt, M. & Ondei, S., 2021. Association between land use, land cover, plant genera, and pollinator abundance in mixed-use landscapes. bioRxiv. DOI:

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Junior Research Fellow North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Umiam, India 18/03/2016 – 08/02/2017

Project Scientist Department of Forest and Environment, Shillong, India 01/09/2015–17/03/2016

Intern n-Dimensional-GIS Solutions, Hyderabad, India 12/05/2014 – 13/06/2014