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 Central University of Kerala
19 September 2026

Dr. Palatty Allesh Sinu

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lab


Brief Profile

I have been working on various aspects of terrestrial ecology, plant-animal interactions, and political ecology and working towards the conservation of biodiversity and biotic interactions in tropical regions of India. I began my academic career as a guest faculty to Maharaja's College in Ernakulam, but initiated my research career with ATREE-Bangalore. After a long stay with ATREE, I joined Tea Research Association as a Scientist-C. After serving TRA, I moved to Central University of Kerala in 2012, where I teach Master's and Doctoral Students, guide research scholars and perform research and outreach activities in my favorite areas of research.

Ph.D. in Zoology (Specialization in insect ecology); 

Masters in Applied Zoology (Specialization in Entomology); 

Raman Post-Doctoral Fellow, The University of Arizona; 

Inspired Faculty of Central Varsities, The Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi; 

Mentor for Academy Summer research Fellowship Program; Author of about 80 research publications

Cumulative Impact Factor=about 180

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Ph.D. in Zoology (Specialization in insect ecology)
Masters in Applied Zoology (Specialization in Entomology)
Raman Post-Doctoral Fellow, The University of Arizona
Inspired Faculty of Central Varsities, The Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi
Mentor for Academy Summer research Fellowship Program
Author of 92 research articles
Cumulative Impact Factor=194

120

Publications

8

Projects

13

Students

1

Courses Taught


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Dr. Palatty Allesh Sinu
Associate Professor
Department of Zoology
  
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 Research

Civet Robusta and natural Robusta coffee are different on key fatty acid methyl esters and total fat

Mitra, R., Jose, T., Abhiram Krishnan, P. Hariraveendra, M., Sinu, P.A. Civet Robusta and natural Robusta coffee are different on key fatty acid methyl esters and total fat. Sci Rep 15, 36281 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-21545-x

 Education

DegreeCollege NameYear Of Passing
Ph.D.University of Calicut2006

 Experience

Employer NameDesignationStart FromEnd To
Tea Research AssociationAssistant Entomologist (Scientist-C @GP Rs. 6600)20092012
ATREEPost-Doctoral Fellow20062009
The University of ArizonaPost-Doctoral Fellow20162017
Central University of KeralaAssistant Professor (selection grade)20122021

 Teaching & Research Guidance

    Level Of TeachingSubjects
    Post GraduateZoology

 Recent and Major Publications

    1. Palatty Allesh Sinu, Ashly Baby (2026). "Leafcutter bees and their leaf resources: ecology, behavior, and conservation". Current Opinion in Insect Science, 76 & 101517

    2. Gopika Viswan, Ashly Baby, M. Hariraveendra, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2026). "Wild shade trees override distance to forests in determining predation outcome in tropical agroforests: A study in coffee-forest matrix". Journal of Applied Ecology, 63 & 70461

    3. Bhavya Lakshmi, P. V. Athira, Anju Aravindakshan, Varsha Manohar Pattar, Gopika Viswan, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2026). "Spatial isolation from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot influences caterpillar predation in sacred groves and multi-storied home gardens". Journal of Applied Ecology, 6, 70466

    4. Ramit Mitra, Thomas Jose, P. Abhiram Krishnan, M. Hariraveendra & Palatty Allesh Sinu (2025). "Civet Robusta and natural Robusta coffee are different on key fatty acid methyl esters and total fat". Scientific Reports, 15, 36281

    5. Palatty Allesh Sinu, Krishnan P. Abhiram, Ashly Baby, C. R. Akshatha, K. Aneha, Anjana P. Unni, Harita Nalamati, K. Manoj, A. R. Pooja (2025). "Functional leaf and plant use by leafcutter bees: Implications for management and conservation". Ecological Applications, 35, e3090

    6. Palatty Allesh Sinu, Athira Jose, Sangeetha Varma (2024). "Impact of the annular solar eclipse on December 26, 2019 on the foraging visits of bees". Scientific Reports, 14, 17458

    7. Catherine Matilda (Tilly) Collins, Helene Audusseau, Chris Hassall, Nusha Keyghobadi, Palatty Allesh Sinu, Manu E. Saunders (2024). "Insect ecology and conservation in urban areas: An overview of knowledge and needs". Insect Conservation and Diversity, 17, 169-181

    8. Sangeetha Varma, T. P. Rajesh, K. Manoj, G. Asha, T. Jobiraj & Palatty Allesh Sinu (2023). "Dominance and identity of the dominant bee drive bee diversity on flowers". Biodiversity and Conservation, 33, 333-346

    9. R. Roshnath & Palatty Allesh Sinu (2023). "Using ecology-with-cities approaches to guide conservation of urban heronries in India". Urban Ecosystems, 27, 733-740

    10. Palatty Allesh Sinu & V. Aiswarya (2023). "Leafcutter bee preference of plant saplings in plant nurseries: context for future research and conservation". Apidologie, 54, 55

    11. Natapot Warrit, John Ascher, Parthib Basu, Vasuki Belavadi, Axel Brockmann, Damayanti Buchori, James B Dorey, Alice Hughes, Smitha Krishnan, Hien T Ngo, Paul Williams, Chao-Dong Zhu, Dharam Abrol, Kamal Bawa, Chet Bhatta, Renee M Borges, Silas Bossert, Cleofas Cervancia, Nontawat Chatthanabun, Douglas Chesters, Phung Huu Chinh, Kedar Devkota, Hanh Pham Duc, Rafael Ferrari, Lucas Garibaldi, Jin Ge, Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Dunyuan Huang, Chuleui Jung, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Jonathan Berenguer Uhuad Koch, Erin Krichilsky, Krushnamegh Kunte, Tial C Ling, Shanlin Liu, Xiuwei Liu, Arong Luo, Shiqi Luo, Junpeng Mu, Tshering Nidup, ZeQing Niu, A Mustafa Nur-Zati, Shannon B Olsson, Gard W Otis, Fang Ouyang, Yan-Qiong Peng, Windra Priawandiputra, Maxim Proshchalykin, Rika Raffiudin, Anandhan Rameshkumar, Zongxin Ren, Azhagarraja Suruliraj, Sanjay Sane, Xiaoyu Shi, Palatty Allesh Sinu, Deborah R Smith, Zestin WW Soh, Hema Somananthan, Tuanjit Sritongchuay, Alyssa B Stewart, Cheng Sun, Min Tang, Chawata (2023). "Opportunities and challenges in Asian bee research and conservation". Biological Conservation, 285, 110173

    12. Palatty Allesh Sinu, PP Fahira, TP Rajesh, Gopika Viswan, K Manoj, M Hariraveendra, Thomas Jose (2023). "Civet latrines in three habitats of a coffee dominated landscape of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot". Scientific Reports, 13, 22698

    13. G Asha, K Manoj, TP Rajesh, Sangeetha Varma, U Prashanth Ballullaya, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2022). "Dung beetles prefer used land over natural greenspace in urban landscape". Scientific Reports, 12, 22179

    14. Prabitha Mohan, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2022). "Is direct bodyguard manipulation a parasitoid-induced stress sleep? A new perspective". Biology Letters, 18, 20220280

    15. Palatty Allesh Sinu, Mubarak Jamal, Greeshma Shaji, M. Hariraveendra, Gopika Viswan, P. Abhiram Krishnan, Ankita Das, K. Aneha, A. R. Pooja, Spandana Salikity & V. Arathy (2022). "Ornamental roses for conservation of leafcutter bee pollinators". Scientific Reports, 12, 18700

    16. TP Rajesh, K Manoj, U Prashanth Ballullaya, VK Shibil, G Asha, Sangeetha Varma, Prabitha Mohan, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2022). "Urban tropical forest islets as hotspots of ants in general and invasive ants in particular". Scientific Reports, 12, 12003

    17. N Sinu, PA Sinu (2022). "Temporal consistency in foraging time and bouts of a carpenter bee in a specialized pollination system". Current Science, 122, 18520

    18. G Asha, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2022). "Molecular phylogeny of the dung beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot.". Current Science, 122, 623-628

    19. Asha G, K.K. Navya, T.P. Rajesh, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2021). "Roller dung beetles of dung piles suggest habitats are alike, but that of guarding pitfall traps suggest habitat are different.". Journal of Tropical Ecology, 37, 209-213

    20. KM Rajesh, Palatty Allesh Sinu, M Nasser (2021). "Eleocharis dulcis (Burm. f) as a promising trap plant for the biocontrol of rice white stem borer, Scirpophaga innotata (Walker)". Biological Control, 160, 104676

    21. Palatty Allesh Sinu , Gopika Viswan , P.P. Fahira , T.P. Rajesh , K. Manoj , M. Hariraveendra , Thomas Jose (2021). "Shade tree diversity may not drive prey-predator interaction in coffee agroforests of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India". Biological Control, 160, 104674

    22. G Asha, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2021). "DNA barcode and phylogenetic analysis of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India". International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 41, 1419-1425

    23. Asha G, K. Manoj, P.P. Megha, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2021). "Spatiotemporal effects on dung beetle activities in a tropical lowland: effect of habitat, season, and diel periods.". Scientific Reports, 11, 17398

    24. TP Rajesh, AP Unni, UP Ballullaya, K Manoj, PA Sinu (2021). "An insight into the quality of sacred groves–an island habitat–using leaf-litter ants as an indicator in a context of urbanization". Journal of Tropical Ecology, 37, 82-90

    25. R. Roshnath & Palatty Allesh Sinu (2021). "Co-breeding involving herons and a potential egg predator, the Indian House Crow (Corvus splendens), in Peninsular India". Ecological Complexity, 46, 100922

    26. Anjana Pisharody Unni, Sajad Hussain Mir, TP Rajesh, U Prashanth Ballullaya, Thomas Jose, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2021). "Native and invasive ants affect floral visits of pollinating honey bees in pumpkin flowers (Cucurbita maxima)". Scientific Reports, 11, 4781

    27. TP Rajesh, U Prashanth Ballullaya, Anjana P Unni, Surendran Parvathy, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2020). "Interactive effects of urbanization and year on invasive and native ant diversity of sacred groves of South India". Urban Ecosystems, 23, 1335-1348

    28. Poovoli Amina, Keloth Rajmohana, KP Dinesh, Gopalan Asha, Palatty Allesh Sinu, Jobin Mathew (2020). "Two new species of an Indian endemic genus Krishnacapritermes Chhotani (Isoptera: Termitidae) from the Kerala part of the Western Ghats, India". Oriental Insects, 54, 496-513

    29. M Hariraveendra, TP Rajesh, Anjana P Unni, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2020). "Prey–predator interaction suggests sacred groves are not functionally different from neighbouring used lands". Journal of Tropical Ecology, 5, 220-224

    30. Sangeetha Varma, TP Rajesh, K Manoj, G Asha, T Jobiraj, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2020). "Nectar robbers deter legitimate pollinators by mutilating flowers". Oikos, 129, 868-878

    31. Prabitha Mohan, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2020). "Does the solitary parasitoid Microplitis pennatulae use a combinatorial approach to manipulate its host?". Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 168, 295-303

    32. Félix Landry Yuan, U Prashanth Ballullaya, Ramesh Roshnath, Timothy C Bonebrake, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2020). "Sacred groves and serpent‐gods moderate human–snake relations". People and Nature, 2, 111-122

    33. Palatty Allesh Sinu, AR Pooja, K Aneha (2019). "Overhead sprinkler irrigation affects pollinators and pollination in pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima)". Scientia Horticulturae, 258, 108803

    34. UP Ballullaya, KS Reshmi, TP Rajesh, K Manoj, M Lowman, PA Sinu (2019). "Stakeholder motivation for the conservation of sacred groves in south India: An analysis of environmental perceptions of rural and urban neighbourhood communities". Land Use Policy, 89, 104213

    35. Sangeetha Varma, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2019). "Nectar robbing in bellflower (Sesamum radiatum) benefited pollinators but unaffected maternal function of plant reproduction". Scientific Reports, 9, 8357

    36. R Roshnath, K Athira, PA Sinu (2019). "Does predation pressure drive heronry birds to nest in the urban landscape?". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 12, 311-315

    37. Sinu Palatty Allesh, Sangeetha Varma, KS Reshmi, K Aswathi, PP Megha, TV Jasna, MV Nikhila Reshmi, VC Sibisha (2019). "Effect of flower sex ratio on fruit set in pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima)". Scientia Horticulturae, 246, 1005-1008

    38. S Badrinarayan, Bhavisha P Sheth, Kavita Pal, Kshama Lakshman, Palatty Allesh Sinu, K Manjari, Viswas Konasagara Nagaleekar, Wairokpam Premi Devi (2019). "Overhauling the communicational inconsistencies in Indian science.". Current Science, 116

    39. G Kuriakose, PA Sinu, KR Shivanna (2018). "Floral traits predict pollination syndrome in Syzygium species: a study on four endemic species of the Western Ghats, India". Australian Journal of Botany, 66, 575-582

    40. G Kuriakose, PA Sinu, KR Shivanna (2018). "Ant pollination of Syzygium occidentale, an endemic tree species of tropical rain forests of the Western Ghats, India". Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 12, 647-655

    41. PA Sinu, JL Bronstein (2018). "Foraging preferences of leafcutter bees in three contrasting geographical zones". Diversity and Distributions, 24, 621-628

    42. R Roshnath, Palatty Allesh Sinu (2017). "Are the heronry birds adapting to urbanization?". Zoo's Print, 32, 27-33

    43. R Roshnath, PA Sinu (2017). "Nesting tree characteristics of heronry birds of urban ecosystems in peninsular India: implications for habitat management". Current zoology, 63, 599-605

    44. Palatty Allesh Sinu, VC Sibisha, MV Nikhila Reshmi, KS Reshmi, TV Jasna, K Aswathi, PP Megha (2017). "Invasive ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) disrupts pollination in pumpkin". Biological Invasions, 19, 2599-2607

    45. MD Lowman, PA Sinu (2017). "Can the spiritual values of forests inspire effective conservation?". BioScience, 67 (8), 688-690


 Group Members

 Research Projects Undertaken

Project TitleProject TypeCommencement YearCompletion YearFunding Agency
Pollination in CoffeeExtramural20212026Tata Coffee Pvt Ltd
Leaf resources of leafcutter beesExtramural20242027ANRF
Raman Post-Doctoral FellowshipExtramural20162017UGC
Habitat management for biodiversity conservation in agroecosystemsExtramural20142017Kerala State Economic and Planning Affairs
Role of flower constancy predicts pollination efficiency of beesExtramural20182021SERB
Himalayan Bee Museum and Demonstration PlotExtramural20182022National Mission on Himalayan Studies
Biodiversity of Sacred GrovesExtramural20122015SERB
Conservation of sacred grovesExtramural20132015UGC

 Patents

    None

 Miscellaneous

 Membership/Fellowship of other institutions/professionals societies : 
Fellowship, Royal Entomological Society
Executive Member, The Indian Pollinator Initiative (www.inpollin.com)
Editor, The InPollin Buzz
 Student related co-curricular, extension and field based activities and counseling. 
Faculty Advisor
Mentor of Academy Summer Fellowship Programs
 Contribution to corporate sector-management of the department and institution through participation in academic and administration,committees and responsibilities. 
Peer reviewer and adhoc editor of many international journals
 Other activities/Responsibilities :
 Any other relevant information, if not given above : 
Promotional video of project https://youtu.be/4MLuOjcEqjE

 Contact

Full Name
 Dr. Palatty Allesh Sinu
Address
 Department of Zoology Godavari Bldg. Rm. 105 Periya Kasaragod
Telphone Number
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PinCode
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