Dr Deepa Senapathi

Email:
g.d.senapathi@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 4541
Job title:
Associate Professor

Responsibilities:Head of Department of Sustainable Land Management

Areas of interest

My research focusses on the impacts of environmental change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. To date I have worked in both tropical and temperate systems and assessed the effects of climate change and land-use change on avian populations and insect pollinator communities. I also work as knowledge exchange fellow 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 improving ecosystem services. More recently I have begun to explore ecological intensification within small holder communities to enhance biodiversity and improve livelihoods.

Specific areas of interest include:

Quantifying climate change and land-use change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Exploring the interactions between drivers of biodiversity loss
Conservation of threatened and endangered species and populations
Ecological intensification to enhance biodiversity and improve livelihoods
Knowledge Exchange to facilitate link between research and practical conservation

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD Students:

Sophie Cunnington - Impacts of Farming Practice on Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) Populations in Lowland England 2021-2025 (University of Reading Bursary)
Laura Reeves - Climate driven mismatches in fruit pest and natural enemy phenology to mitigate crop damage 2020-2024 (Waitrose CTP)
Chris Wyver: Mitigating risks to pollination services caused by climate change 2019-2023 (Waitrose CTP)
Theresa Robinson: Population ecology of the endangered endemic Mauritius Fody 2016-2022 (University of Reading Bursary)

Completed PhD Students

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 - 2017-2021 (Rothamsted-Reading Alliance)
Elena Cini: New tools for improving Bee Health - 2018-2022 (EU H2020 - PoshBee, co-supervisor)

Teaching

I regularly act as guest lecturer and dissertation supervisor for several postgraduate and undergraduate modules including

GVMRP - MSc Research Project
APMA112 - Issues in Agriculture and the Environment
AP3AE75 - Wildlife and Farming
AP3A81 - BSc Dissertation
AP2A59 – Nature Conservation
AP1A30 – Agricultural Research Skills
AP0AE1 - Foundation Programme: Environment, Ecology and Sustainability
ISLI - International Study and Language Institute's Pre-sessional English Programme

Research centres and groups

Department of Sustainable Land Management

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Research Division

Walker Institute

Centre for Agri-Environmental Research

Research projects

MAMBO – Modern Approaches to Monitoring of BiOdiversity (EU Horizon Europe 2022-2026)
Safeguard - Safeguarding European wild pollinators (EU H2020 2021-2025)
FoodSEqual – Food Systems Equality (Transforming UK Food Systems 2021-2025)
PoshBee - Pan-European assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of stressors on the health of bees (EU H2020 2018-2023)
TROPICAL - Translating Research Opportunities to enhance Pollination benefits to economically Important Crops And improve Livelihoods (GCRF BBSRC NERC 2020-2022)
NERC Knowledge Fellowship - Working together to add value: Enhancing land management for biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services (UKRI NERC 2019- 2022)
SUPER Farm India - SUstainable farming through effective Pollination and pEst Regulation in India (University of Reading GCRF 2019-2021)

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)

Professional bodies/affiliations

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
Associate Editor - Ecological Entomology
British Ecological Society - member of personnel committee
COP26 Universities network ambassador
Walker Institute Ambassador

Publications

Wyver, C. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Edwards, R. , Edwards, M. , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 (2023) Climate driven shifts in the synchrony of apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) flowering and pollinating bee flight phenology. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology , 329 ISSN: 0168-1923 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109281

Arnell, N. , Jönsson, G. , Oliver, T. , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Gambhir, A. (2022) Climate change, ecosystem impacts and systemic risks. Grantham Institute Imperial College and University of Reading
Hodge, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-6933-5253 , Schweiger, O. ORCID: 0000-0001-8779-2335 , Klein, A. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Costa, C. , Albrecht, M. , de Miranda, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-0335-0386 , Mand, M. , De la Rúa, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-0058-1402 , Rundlöf, M. ORCID: 0000-0003-3014-1544 , Attridge, E. , Dean, R. , Bulet, P. ORCID: 0000-0001-9016-265X , Michez, D. ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-1838 , Paxton, R. ORCID: 0000-0003-2517-1351 , Babin, A. ORCID: 0000-0001-8195-1155 , Cougoule, N. , Laurent, M. , Martel, A. , Paris, L. , Rivière, M. , Dubois, E. ORCID: 0000-0003-1035-2782 , Chauzat, M. , Arafah, K. , Askri, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-6741-8044 , Voisin, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-5897-333X , Kiljanek, T. ORCID: 0000-0001-7222-0983 , Bottero, I. , Dominik, C. ORCID: 0000-0001-6310-1632 , Tamburini, G. , Pereira-Peixoto, M. , Wintermantel, D. , Breeze, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-8929-8354 , Cini, E. , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Di Prisco, G. , Medrzycki, P. , Hagenbucher, S. , Knauer, A. , Schwarz, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-2150-8156 , Raimets, R. , Martínez-López, V. , Ivarsson, K. , Hartfield, C. , Hunter, P. , Brown, M. , Stout, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-2027-0863 (2022) Design and planning of a transdisciplinary investigation into farmland pollinators: rationale, co-design, and lessons learned. Sustainability , 14 (17). pp 0. ISSN: 2071-1050 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141710549
Reeves, L. , Garratt, M. , Fountain, M. , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 (2022) Climate induced phenological shifts in pears – a crop of economic importance in the UK. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment , 338 ISSN: 0167-8809 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108109
Jowett, K. , Milne, A. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Storkey, J. (2022) Communicating carabids: engaging farmers to encourage uptake of integrated pest management. Pest Management Science ISSN: 1526-4998 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ps.6878
Gillespie, M. , Baude, M. , Biesmeijer, J. , Boatman, N. , Budge, G. , Crowe, A. , Davies, N. , Evans, R. , Memmott, J. , Morton, R. , Moss, E. , Murphy, M. , Pietravalle, S. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Roberts, S. , Rowland, C. , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Smart, S. , Wood, C. , Kunin, W. (2022) Landscape scale drivers of pollinator communities may depend on land use configuration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 377 (1853). ISSN: 0962-8436 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0172
Haughan, A. , Pettorelli, N. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 (2022) The role of climate in past forest loss in an ecologically important region of South Asia. Global Change Biology , 28 (12). pp. 3883-3901. ISSN: 1365-2486 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16161
Ratto, F. ORCID: 0000-0001-8411-4379 , Breeze, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-8929-8354 , Cole, L. , Garratt, M. , Kleijn, D. , Kunin, B. , Michez, D. , O'Connor, R. , Ollerton, J. , Paxton, R. , Poppy, G. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Shaw, R. , Dicks, L. , Peh, K. (2022) Rapid assessment of insect pollination services to inform decision‐making. Conservation Biology , 36 (4). ISSN: 0888-8892 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13886
Image, M. , Gardner, E. , Clough, Y. , Smith, H. , Baldock, K. , Campbell, A. , Garratt, M. , Gillespie, M. , Kunin, W. , McKerchar, M. , Memmott, J. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Stone, G. , Wackers, F. , Westbury, D. , Wilby, A. , Oliver, T. , Breeze, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-8929-8354 (2022) Does agri-environment scheme participation in England increase pollinator populations and crop pollination services?. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment , 325 ISSN: 0167-8809 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107755

Vanderplanck, M. , Breeze, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-8929-8354 , Cini, E. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 (2021) Monitoring bee health in European agroecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies. One Ecosystem , 6 ISSN: 2367-8194 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/oneeco.6.e63653
Dicks, L. , Breeze, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-8929-8354 , Ngo, H. , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , An, J. , Aizen, M. , Basu, P. , Buchori, D. , Galetto, L. , Garibaldi, L. , Gemmill-Herren, B. , Howlett, B. , Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. , Johnson, S. , Kovács-Hostyánszki, A. , Kwon, Y. , Lattorff, H. , Lungharwo, T. , Seymour, C. , Vanbergen, A. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X (2021) A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline. Nature Ecology & Evolution ISSN: 2397-334X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01534-9
Garratt, M. , de Groot, G. , Albrecht, M. , Bosch, J. , Breeze, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-8929-8354 , Fountain, M. , Klein, A. , McKerchar, M. , Park, M. , Paxton, R. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Pufal, G. , Rader, R. , Senapathi, G. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Andersson, G. , Bernauer, O. , Blitzer, E. , Boreux, V. , Campbell, A. , Carvell, C. , Földesi, R. , García, D. , Garibaldi, L. , Hambäck, P. , Kirkitadze, G. , Kovács-Hostyánszki, A. , Martins, K. , Miñarro, M. , O’Connor, R. , Radzeviciute, R. , Roquer-Beni, L. , Samnegård, U. , Scott, L. , Vereecken, N. , Wäckers, F. , Webber, S. , Japoshvili, G. , Zhusupbaeva, A. (2021) Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect pollinated crop. Ecological Applications ISSN: 0051-0761 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2445
Gardner, E. , Breeze, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-8929-8354 , Clough, Y. , Smith, H. , Baldock, K. , Campbell, A. , Garratt, M. , Gillespie, M. , Kunin, W. , McKerchar, M. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Stone, G. , Wackers, F. , Westbury, D. , Wilby, A. , Oliver, T. (2021) Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass-fowering crops in rotational systems. Journal of Applied Ecology , 58 (10). pp. 2297-2304. ISSN: 0021-8901 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13948
Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Fründ, J. , Albrecht, M. , Garratt, M. , Kleijn, D. , Pickles, B. ORCID: 0000-0002-9809-6455 , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , An, J. , Andersson, G. , Bänsch, S. , Basu, P. , Benjamin, F. , Bezerra, A. , Bhattacharya, R. , Biesmeijer, J. , Blaauw, B. , Blitzer, E. , Brittain, C. , Carvalheiro, L. , Cariveau, D. , Chakraborty, P. , Chatterjee, A. , Chatterjee, S. , Cusser, S. , Danforth, B. , Degani, E. , Freitas, B. , Garibaldi, L. , Geslin, B. , de Groot, G. , Harrison, T. , Howlett, B. , Isaacs, R. , Jha, S. , Klatt, B. , Krewenka, K. , Leigh, S. , Lindström, S. , Mandelik, Y. , McKerchar, M. , Park, M. , Pisanty, G. , Rader, R. , Reemer, M. , Rundlöf, M. , Smith, B. , Smith, H. , Silva, P. , Steffan-Dewenter, I. , Tscharntke, T. , Webber, S. , Westbury, D. , Wickens, J. , Wickens, V. , Winfree, R. , Zhang, H. , Klein, A. (2021) Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 288 (1947). ISSN: 0962-8452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0212
Storkey, J. , Brown, M. , Carvell, C. , Dicks, L. , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 (2021) Wild pollinators in arable habitats: trends, threats and opportunities. In: Hurford, C. , Wilson, P. , Storkey, J. , (eds.) The Changing Status of Arable Habitats in Europe. Springer , Cham, Switzerland. pp. 187-201. ISBN: 9783030598754 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59875-4_13
Faichnie, R. , Breeze, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-8929-8354 , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Garratt, M. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X (2021) Scales matter: maximising the effectiveness of interventions for pollinators and pollination. Advances in Ecological Research , 64 pp. 105-147. ISSN: 0065-2504 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2020.11.003
Jowett, K. ORCID: 0000-0002-3672-7813 , Milne, A. , Garrett, D. , Potts, S. , Senapathi, D. , Storkey, J. (2021) Above‐ and below‐ground assessment of carabid community responses to crop type and tillage. Agricultural and Forest Entomology , 23 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN: 1461-9555 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/afe.12397

Gardner, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-1669-7151 , Breeze, T. , Clough, Y. , Smith, H. , Baldock, K. , Campbell, A. , Garratt, M. , Gillespie, M. , Kunin, W. , McKerchar, M. , Memmott, J. , Potts, S. , Senapathi, D. , Stone, G. , Wackers, F. , Westbury, D. , Wilby, A. , Oliver, T. (2020) Reliably predicting pollinator abundance: challenges of calibrating process-based ecological models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution , 11 (12). pp. 1673-1689. ISSN: 2041-210X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13483
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. , Watts, O. (2020) Biodiversity 2020: climate change evaluation report. Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), UK Government , London, UK.

Steele, D. , Baldock, K. , Breeze, T. , Brown, M. , Carvell, C. , Dicks, L. , Garratt, M. , Norman, H. , Potts, S. , Senapathi, D. , Vanbergen, A. (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. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK , London.
Jowett, K. , Milne, A. , Metcalfe, H. , Hassall, K. , Potts, S. , Senapathi, D. , Storkey, J. (2019) Species matter when considering landscape effects on carabid distributions. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment , 285 ISSN: 0167-8809 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.106631

Garratt, M. , Bommarco, R. , Kleijn, D. , Martin, E. , Mortimer, S. , Redlich, S. , Senapathi, D. , Steffan-Dewenter, I. , Świtek, S. , Takacs, V. , van Gils, S. , van der Putten, W. , Potts, S. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0228-2

Gagic, V. , Kleijn, D. , Báldic, A. , Boros, G. , Bracht Jorgensen, H. , Elek, Z. , Garratt, M. , De Grootx, G. , Hedlund, K. , Kovács-Hostyánszki, A. , Marini, L. , Martin, E. , Pevere, I. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X , Redlich, S. , Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Steffan-Dewenter, I. , Świtek, S. , Smith, H. , Takács, V. , Tryjanowski, P. , van der Putten, W. , van Gils, S. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12850
Garratt, M. , Senapathi, D. , Coston, D. , Mortimer, S. , Potts, S. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.06.048
Gillespie, M. , Baude, M. , Biesmeijer, J. , Boatman, N. , Budge, G. , Crowe, A. , Memmott, J. , Morton, R. , Pietravalle, S. , Potts, S. , Senapathi, D. , Smart, S. , Kunin, W. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12779
Senapathi, D. , Goddard, M. , Kunin, W. , Baldock, K. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12809

Senapathi, D. , Biesmeijer, J. , Breeze, T. , Kleijn, D. , Potts, S. , Carvalheiro, L. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2015.11.002
Senapathi, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-8883-1583 , Carvalheiro, L. , Biesmeijer, J. , Dodson, C. , Evans, R. , McKerchar, M. , Morton, R. , Moss, E. , Roberts, S. , Kunin, W. , Potts, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-2045-980X (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). ISSN: 0962-8452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0294

Senapathi, D. , Nicoll, M. , Teplitsky, C. , Jones, C. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0212

Senapathi, D. , Underwood, F. , Black, E. , Nicoll, M. , Norris, K. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1953

Senapathi, D. , Vogiatzakis, I. , 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 (2). pp. 328-337. ISSN: 0019-1019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00634.x

Dr Deepa Senapathi

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