My main research interests are to understand how ecological communities respond to global climate change. More details here: https://madhav-p-thakur.jimdosite.com
Scientific career
2018-Present: Post-doctoral candidate (DFG Research fellow) at Netherlands Institute of Ecology
2018-2021: Co-Principal investigator-Warming Effects on Plant Soil interplay and ecosystem functioning in Wadden Sea Salt marshes (WEPSS), University of Hamburg.
2016- 2018: Post-doctoral candidate in Experimental Interaction Ecology, University of Leipzig
Selected Publications
Thakur, MP, Reich, PB, Hobbie SH,….et al. (2018): Reduced feeding activity of soil detritivores under warmer and drier conditions. Nature Climate Change, 8: 75-78.
Thakur, MP, and Wright, AJ (2017): Environmental filtering, niche construction and trait variability-the missing discussion. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 32: 884-886.
Thakur, MP, Tilman, D, Purschke, O, Ciobanu, M, Cowles, J, Isbell, F, Wragg, P, Eisenhauer, N (2017): Climate warming promotes species diversity, but with greater taxonomic redundancy, in complex environments. Science Advances 3, e1700866.
Thakur, MP, Kuenne, T, Griffin, JN, Eisenhauer, N (2017) Warming magnifies predation and reduces prey coexistence in a model litter arthropod system, Proceedings of Royal Society B 284
Thakur, MP, Milcu, A, Manning, P, Roscher, C,...et al. (2015) Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors, Global Change Biology, 21:4076-4085.
