Research Areas:Meta data structure modelling for fish species from various river landscapes.
Modelling for linking of species growth with environmental parameters for river landscapes.
Species body shape differentiation from different river ecosystem.
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Current Research Projects:

• Quantifying meta-structure matrices of biodiversity & ecosystem services for the assessment of fish genetic resources (Subproject-2 :Ganga River Basin): PI
• Fish diversity assessment of Ramsar wetlands of Uttar Pradesh by integrating ecological approaches and stakeholder perception under climate change scenario: Co-PI
• Quantifying meta-structure matrices of biodiversity & ecosystem services for the assessment of fish genetic resources (Sub-project3: NEH region): Co-PI
• Assessment of exotic fishes’ prevalence and their impacts on indigenous fish diversity : Co-PI
• Quantifying agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services in Godavari river basin landscape: Co-PI

1. Achal Singh*, Vindhya Mohindra and Kuldeep Kumar Lal (2021). Fish production projection in association with Climate change through use of Artificial Neural Networks Time series. XV Agricultural Science Congress, organized by NAAS at Institute of Agricultural Science (IAS), BHU, Varanasi during Nov 13-16, 2021. Theme 6, Abstract No.731. p.465
2. Chandran R, K Singh R, Singh A*, Ganesan K, Thipramalai Thangappan AK, K Lal K, Mohindra V. (2023). Evaluating the influence of environmental variables on the length-weight relationship and prediction modelling in flathead grey mullet, Mugil cephalus Linnaeus,1758. PeerJ, 11:e14884, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14884,
3. G. Kantharajan, Govindan Krishnan PM, Rajeev K. Singh, Estrada Carmona, Jones Sarah K., Achal Singh, Vindhya Mohindra, N.K. Krishna Kumar, Jai C. Rana, J. K. Jena, and Kuldeep K. Lal (2022). Quantitative Assessment of Sediment Delivery and Retention in four watersheds in the Godavari River Basin, India, using InVEST - An Aquatic Ecosystems Service perspective, Environmental Science and pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24013-5
4. Rejani Chandran, Achal Singh*, Rajeev Kumar Singh, Sangeeta Mandal, Kantharajan G., Priyanka Sah, Pradipta Paul, Abhinav Pathak, Nimisha Dutta, Rama Shankar Sah, Kuldeep Kumar Lal and Vindhya Mohindra (2022). Phenotypic variation of Chitala chitala (Hamilton, 1822) from Indian rivers using truss network and geometric morphometrics. PeerJ. http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13290
5. Sangeeta Mandal, Achal Singh, Priyanka Sah, Rajeev K. Singh, Raj Kumar, Kuldeep K. Lal and Vindhya Mohindra (2020). Genetic and morphological assessment of vulnerable large catfish, Silonia silondia (Hamilton, 1822) in natural populations from India, Journal of Fish Biology, http://doi:10.1111/jfb.14587, 1-15.
6. Priyanka Sah, Sangeeta Mandal, Rajeev K. Singh, Nimisha Dutta, Ramashanker Sah, Abhinav Pathak, J.K. Srivastava, Achal Singh, Kuldeep K. Lal and Vindhya Mohindra (2021). Development of Novel microsatellite marker panel in threatened tetraploid mahseer, Tor tor (Hamilton 1822) for insights into its genetic diversity and population structure. Meta Gene. doi.org/10.1016/j.mgene.2021.100880.
7. Mahender Singh, Teena Jayakumar T.K., T.T. Ajith Kumar, Murali S., Akhilesh Mishra, Achal Singh and Kuldeep K. Lal (2021). Integrative taxonomy reveals Dussumieria modakandai sp. nov. from India. Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14943.
*Corresponding author.

• National Scholarship (1988)
• Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Book prize Award (1995)
• M. Sc. Gold Medallist (1995)
• B.H.U. Fellowship (1996)
• National Eligibility Test (1997)
• Agriculture Research Service, ICAR, Govt. of India (1997)
• Best Citizen Award (2014-15)
• Vishistha Nagarik Samman (2016)
• NBFGR annual award for Best Performer during year 2020-21
• NBFGR Award for Excellent work in Hindi during 2020-21.
• Awarded best poster for abstract by The Academy of Environmental Biology & ICAR-NBFGR, Lucknow during Nov 29-30, 2019.
• Life Time Achievement Award (2022) for contributions in the Field of Environmental Education & Protection by Global Neem Organisation in Felicitation Ceremony of World Neem Festival organised at International Buddha Research Institute, Lucknow, during Aug.6, 2022.