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Dr Deepa Senapathi   DR DEEPA SENAPATHI

Research Fellow


Room: GU 15 (new Agriculture building)

Tel: +44 (0)118 378 4541
Email: g.d.senapathi@reading.ac.uk

Butterfly
Career

1996 - 1999

1999 – 2001

2002

2003 – 2004

2005 – 2009

2010

2011 – date

BSc Zoology and Biotechnology, Women's Christian College, Chennai, India

MSc Zoology, University of Madras, Chennai, India

Visiting researcher in Molecular Ecology, University of Cambridge, UK

MSc Applied Ecology and Conservation, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

PhD CAER, University of Reading

Research Assistant, CAER, University of Reading

Research Fellow, CAER, University of Reading

Research Interests
  • Climate and environmental change impacts on populations and communities
  • Conservation of endangered and re-introduced species and populations
  • Applications of GIS and remote-sensing in ecology


CÆR Project
  • Linking agriculture and land use change to pollinator populations (LWEC Insect Pollinator Initiative)
Professional Memberships
  • Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)
  • British Ecological Society (BES)
Recent publications
  • Senapathi, D., Nicoll, M. A. C., Teplitsky, C., Jones, C. G. & Norris, K. (2011) Climate change and the risks associated with delayed breeding in a tropical wild bird population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 278: 3184-3190
  • Senapathi, D., Underwood, F., Black, E., Nicoll, M. A. C. & Norris, K. (2010) Evidence for long-term regional changes in precipitation on the East Coast mountains in Mauritius. International Journal of Climatology, 30: 1164-1177.
  • Senapathi, D. (2010) Climate Change and Birds: Adaptation, Mitigation & Impacts on Avian Populations. A report on the BOU’s Annual Conference held at the University of Leicester, 6–8 April 2010. Ibis, 152: 869-872.
  • Senapathi, D., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Jeganathan, P., Gill, J. Green, R. Bowden, C., Rahmani, A., Pain, D., Norris, K. (2007) Use of remote sensing to measure change in the extent of habitat for the critically endangered Jerdon's Courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus in India. Ibis, 149, 328-337.
  • Seddon, N., Amos, W., Adcock, G., Johnson, P., Kraaijeveld, K., Kraaijeveld-Smit, F.J.L., Lee, W., Senapathi, G.D., Mulder, R.A. & Tobias, J.A. (2005). Mating system, philopatry and patterns of kinship in the cooperatively breeding subdesert mesite Monias benschi. Molecular Ecology, 14: 3573-83
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