Staff Profile:Dr Deepa Senapathi
- Name:
- Dr Deepa Senapathi
- Job Title:
- Senior Research Fellow
- Responsibilities:
- Areas of Interest:
My research focusses on the impacts on environmental change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. To date I have worked in both tropical and temperate systems and focussed on the impacts of climate change and land-use change on avian populations and insect pollinator communities. More recently I have started working with different stakeholder communities including policy makers, non-government organisations, delivery agencies and land managers with a view towards enhancing land management for biodiversity conservation and enhancing ecosystem services.
Specific areas of interest include:
- Quantifying the impacts of climate change and land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Exploring the interactions between drivers of biodiversity loss
- Conservation of threatened and endangered species and populations
- Knowledge Exchange to facilitate link between research and practical conservation
Current Projects:
- NERC Knowledge Fellowship - Working together to add value: Enhancing land management for biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services (UKRI NERC 2019- 2022)
- PoshBee - Pan-European assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of stressors on the health of bees (EU H2020 2018-2023)
Completed Projects:
- SUPER-B - Sustainable Pollination in Europe (EU COST Action, 2014-2018)
- LIBERATION - Linking farmland biodiversity to ecosystem services for effective ecofunctional intensification (EU FP7 2014-2017)
- NERC Knowledge Exchange Impact Accelerator Fellowship - Role of biodiversity in improving and enhancing human health and well-being (2014-2015)
- IPI Agriland - Linking Agriculture and land-use change to pollinator populations (2011-2014)
PhD Students:
- Teresa Robinson: Population ecology of the endangered endemic Mauritius Fody 2016-2021 (Part funded by University of Reading bursary)
- Alice Haughan: Exploring the interaction between climate and land use change and the resulting impact on ecosystems - 2017 -2021 (QMEE CDT)
- Kelly Jowett: Modelling landscape quality and configuration effects on natural enemy communities and the provision of pest regulation services - 2017-2020 (Rothamsted-Reading Alliance)
- Elena Cini: New tools for improving Bee Health - 2018-2021 (EU H2020 - PoshBee)
- Mitigating risks to pollination services caused by climate change 2019-2022 (Waitrose CTP)
Teaching: I regularly act as guest lecturer on several modules including
- AP3AE75 - Wildlife and Farming
- APMA96 - Plants, Greenspace and Urban Sustainability
- AP2A57 - Methods in Ecology and Environmental Management
- ISLI - International Study and Language Institute's Pre-sessional Programme to learn English
- DP1AP - Part I Research Skills
Professional Activities:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of Conservation Science Advisory Council for A Rocha International
- Member & first Policy fellow of British Ecological Society
- Member of University of Reading Athena Swan SAT 2019
- Co-chair - Athena Swan SAT. School of Biological Sciences 2016
- Research groups / Centres:
Centre for Agri-Environmental Research
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 13.
2020
- Senapathi, D., Bradbury, R., Broadmeadow, M., Brown, K., Crosher, I., Diamond, M., Duffield, S., Freeman, B., Harley, M., Hodgson, J., Maclean, I., Morecroft, M., Munday, P., Oliver, T., Pearce-Higgins, J., Riddle, N., Stevenson, M., Vanderpump, J., van Dijk, N. and Watts, O., (2020) Biodiversity 2020: climate change evaluation report. Report. Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), UK Government, London, UK.
2019
- Jowett, K., Milne, A. E., Metcalfe, H., Hassall, K. L., Potts, S., Senapathi, D. and Storkey, J. (2019) Species matter when considering landscape effects on carabid distributions. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 285. 106631. ISSN 0167-8809 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.106631
- Steele, D. J., Baldock, K.C.R., Breeze, T. D., Brown, M.J.F., Carvell, C., Dicks, L.V., Garratt, M. P., Norman, H., Potts, S. G., Senapathi, D. and Vanbergen, A.J., (2019) Management and drivers of change of pollinating insects and pollination services. National Pollinator Strategy: for bees and other pollinators in England, Evidence statements and Summary of Evidence. Technical Report. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK, London.
2018
- Garratt, M. P. D., Bommarco, R., Kleijn, D., Martin, E., Mortimer, S. R., Redlich, S., Senapathi, D., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Świtek, S., Takacs, V., van Gils, S., van der Putten, W. H. and Potts, S. G. (2018) Enhancing soil organic matter as a route to the ecological intensification of European arable systems. Ecosystems, 21 (7). pp. 1404-1415. ISSN 1435-0629 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0228-2
2017
- Gagic, V., Kleijn, D., Báldic, A., Boros, G., Bracht Jorgensen, H., Elek, Z., Garratt, M., De Grootx, A., Hedlund, K., Kovács-Hostyánszki, A., Marini, L., Martin, E., Pevere, I., Potts, S., Redlich, S., Senapathi, D., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Świtek, S., Smith, H., Takács, V., Tryjanowski, P. v. d. P., van Gils, S. and Bommarco, R. (2017) Combined effects of agrochemicals and ecosystem services on crop yield across Europe. Ecology Letters, 20 (11). pp. 1427-1436. ISSN 1461-0248 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12850
- Gillespie, M. A. K., Baude, M., Biesmeijer, J., Boatman, N., Budge, G. E., Crowe, A., Memmott, J., Morton, R. D., Pietravalle, S., Potts, S., Senapathi, D., Smart, S. M. and Kunin, W. E. (2017) A method for the objective selection of landscape-scale study regions and sites at the national level. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8 (11). pp. 1468-1476. ISSN 2041-210X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12779
- Garratt, M. P. D., Senapathi, D., Coston, D. J., Mortimer, S. R. and Potts, S. G. (2017) The benefits of hedgerows for pollinators and natural enemies depends on hedge quality and landscape context. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 247. pp. 363-370. ISSN 0167-8809 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.06.048
- Senapathi, D., Goddard, M. A., Kunin, W. E. and Baldock, K. C. R. (2017) Landscape impacts on pollinator communities in temperate systems: evidence and knowledge gaps. Functional Ecology, 31 (1). pp. 26-37. ISSN 0269-8463 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12809
2015
- Senapathi, D., Biesmeijer, J. C., Breeze, T. D., Kleijn, D., Potts, S. G. and Carvalheiro, L. G. (2015) Pollinator conservation: the difference between managing for pollination services and preserving pollinator diversity. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 12. pp. 93-101. ISSN 2214-5745 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2015.11.002
- Senapathi, D., Carvalheiro, L. G., Biesmeijer, J. C., Dodson, C., Evans, R., McKerchar, M., Morton, R. D., Moss, E., Roberts, S., Kunin, W. E. and Potts, S. (2015) The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 282 (1806). 0294. ISSN 0962-8452 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0294
2011
- Senapathi, D., Nicoll, M., Teplitsky, C., Jones, C.G. and Norris, K. (2011) Climate change and the risks associated with delayed breeding in a tropical wild bird population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 278 (1722). pp. 3184-3190. ISSN 1471-2954 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0212
2010
- Senapathi, D., Underwood, F. M., Black, E. C. L., Nicoll, M. A. C. and Norris, K. J. (2010) Evidence for long-term regional changes in precipitation on the East Coast Mountains in Mauritius. International Journal of Climatology, 30 (8). pp. 1164-1177. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1953
2007
- Senapathi, D., Vogiatzakis, I., Jeganathan, P., Gill, J. A., Green, R. E., Bowden, C. G. R., Rahmani, A. R., Pain, D. and 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 (2). pp. 328-337. ISSN 0019-1019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00634.x
