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.
Links
- Geisen, S., Heinen, R., Andreou, E., van Lent, T., ten Hooven, F. C., & Thakur, M. P. (2022). Contrasting effects of soil microbial interactions on growth–defence relationships between early- and mid-successional plant communities. New Phytologist, 233(3), 1345-1357. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17609
- Heinen, R., Thakur, M. P., Hiddes De Fries, J. R., Steinauer, K., Vandenbrande, S., Jongen, R., & Bezemer, T. M. (2022). Foliar herbivory on plants creates soil legacy effects that impact future insect herbivore growth via changes in plant community biomass allocation. Functional Ecology, 36(4), 1047-1062. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14006
- Phillips, H. R. P., Bach, E. M., Bartz, M. L. C., Bennett, J. M., Beugnon, R., Briones, M. J. I., Brown, G. G., Ferlian, O., Gongalsky, K. B., Guerra, C. A., König-Ries, B., Krebs, J. J., Orgiazzi, A., Ramirez, K. S., Russell, D. J., Schwarz, B., Wall, D. H., Brose, U., Decaëns, T.,... Eisenhauer, N. (2021). Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties. Scientific data, 8(1), [136]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z
- Thakur, M. P., Künne, T., Unsicker, S. B., Biere, A., Ferlian, O., Pruschitzki, U., Thouvenot, L., Türke, M., & Eisenhauer, N. (2021). Invasive earthworms reduce chemical defense and increase herbivory and pathogen infection in native trees. Journal of Ecology, 109(2), 763-775. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13504
- Thakur, M. P., van der Putten, W. H., Wilschut, R. A., Veen, G. F., Kardol, P., van Ruijven, J., Allan, E., Roscher, C., van Kleunen, M., & Bezemer, T. M. (2021). Plant–Soil Feedbacks and Temporal Dynamics of Plant Diversity–Productivity Relationships. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 36(7), 651-661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.03.011
- Thakur, M. P., van der Putten, W. H., Apon, F., Angelini, E., Vreš, B., & Geisen, S. (2021). Resilience of rhizosphere microbial predators and their prey communities after an extreme heat event. Functional Ecology, 35(1), 216-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13696
- Harvey, J. A., Thakur, M. P., & Ellers, J. (2021). The Tarnished Silver Lining of Extreme Climatic Events. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 36(5), 384-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.02.005
- Harvey, J. A., Heinen, R., Gols, R., & Thakur, M. P. (2020). Climate change-mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns. Global Change Biology, 26(12), 6685-6701. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15377
- Thakur, M. P., Bakker, E. S., Veen, G. F., & Harvey, J. A. (2020). Climate Extremes, Rewilding, and the Role of Microhabitats. One Earth, 2(6), 506-509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.010
- Thakur, M. P. (2020). Climate warming and trophic mismatches in terrestrial ecosystems: the green-brown imbalance hypothesis. Biology Letters, 16(2), [20190770]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0770
- van Langevelde, F., Comor, V., de Bie, S., Prins, H. H. T., & Thakur, M. P. (2020). Disturbance regulates the density–body-mass relationship of soil fauna. Ecological Applications, 30(1), [e02019]. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2019
- Ferlian, O., Thakur, M. P., Castaneda Gonzalez, A., San Emeterio, L. M., Marr, S., Rocha, B. D. S., & Eisenhauer, N. (2020). Soil chemistry turned upside down: a meta-analysis of invasive earthworm effects on soil chemical properties. Ecology, Online, [e02936]. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2936
- Yin, R., Kardol, P., Thakur, M. P., Gruss, I., Wu, G-L., Eisenhauer, N., & Schädler, M. (2020). Soil functional biodiversity and biological quality under threat: Intensive land use outweighs climate change. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 147, [107847]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107847
- Quist, C. W., van der Putten, W. H., & Thakur, M. P. (2020). Soil predator loss alters aboveground stoichiometry in a native but not in a related range-expanding plant when exposed to periodic heat waves. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 150, [107999]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107999
- Thakur, M. P. (2020). The role of predators in driving warming-prey diversity relationships: An invertebrate perspective. Basic and Applied Ecology, 47, 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.06.001
- Thakur, M. P., Phillips, H. R. P., Brose, U., De Vries, F. T., Lavelle, P., Loreau, M., Mathieu, J., Mulder, C., van der Putten, W. H., Rillig, M. C., Wardle, D. A., Bach, E. M., Bartz, M. L. C., Bennett, J. M., Briones, M. J. I., Brown, G., Decaëns, T., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O.,... Cameron, E. K. (2020). Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity. Biological Reviews, 95(2), 350-364. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12567
- Giling, D. P., Beaumelle, L., Phillips, H. R. P., Cesarz, S., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Gottschall, F., Guerra, C., Hines, J., Sendek, A., Siebert, J., Thakur, M. P., & Barnes, A. D. (2019). A niche for ecosystem multifunctionality in global change research. Global Change Biology, 25(3), 763-774. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14528
- Siebert, J., Eisenhauer, N., Poll, C., Marhan, S., Bonkowski, M., Hines, J., Koller, R., Ruess, L., & Thakur, M. P. (2019). Earthworms modulate the effects of climate warming on the taxon richness of soil meso- and macrofauna in an agricultural system. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 278, 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.03.004
- Siebert, J., Thakur, M. P., Reitz, T., Schaedler, M., Schulz, E., Yin, R., Weigelt, A., & Eisenhauer, N. (2019). Extensive grassland-use sustains high levels of soil biological activity, but does not alleviate detrimental climate change effects. In RESILIENCE IN COMPLEX SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (Vol. 60, pp. 25-58). (Advances in Ecological Research; Vol. 60). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.02.002
- Phillips, H. R. P., Guerra, C. A., Bartz, M. L. C., Briones, M. J. I., Brown, G., Crowther, T. W., Ferlian, O., Gongalsky, K. B., van den Hoogen, J., Krebs, J., Orgiazzi, A., Routh, D., Schwarz, B., Bach, E. M., Bennett, J., Brose, U., Decaëns, T., König-Ries, B., Loreau, M.,... Eisenhauer, N. (2019). Global distribution of earthworm diversity. Science, 366(6464), 480-485. https://doi.org/10.1101/587394, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax4851
- Thakur, M. P., Quast, V., van Dam, N. M., Eisenhauer, N., Roscher, C., Biere, A., & Martinez-Medina, A. (2019). Interactions between functionally diverse fungal mutualists inconsistently affect plant performance and competition. Oikos, 128(8), 1136-1146. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.06138
- Yin, R., Gruss, I., Eisenhauer, N., Kardol, P., Thakur, M. P., Schmidt, A., Xu, Z., Siebert, J., Zhang, C., Wu, G-L., & Schädler, M. (2019). Land use modulates the effects of climate change on density but not community composition of Collembola. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 138, [107598]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107598
- Thakur, M. P., van der Putten, W. H., Cobben, M. M. P., Van Kleunen, M., & Geisen, S. (2019). Microbial invasions in terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology, Online, 621-631. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-019-0236-z
- Thakur, M. P., Del Real, I. M., Cesarz, S., Steinauer, K., Reich, P. B., Hobbie, S., Ciobanu, M., Rich, R., Worm, K., & Eisenhauer, N. (2019). Soil microbial, nematode, and enzymatic responses to elevated CO2, N fertilization, warming, and reduced precipitation. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 135, 184-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.04.020
- Thakur, M. P., & Geisen, S. (2019). Trophic regulations of the soil microbiome. Trends in Microbiology, 27(9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2019.04.008
- Thakur, M. P., Griffin, J. N., Künne, T., Dunker, S., Fanesi, A., & Eisenhauer, N. (2018). Temperature effects on prey and basal resources exceed that of predators in an experimental community. Ecology and Evolution, 8(24), 12670-12680. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4695
- Eisenhauer, N., Herrmann, S., Hines, J., Buscot, F., Siebert, J., & Thakur, M. P. (2018). The Dark Side of Animal Phenology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33(12), 898-901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.09.010
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- Thakur, M. P. (2019). Beauty of collaborative experiments. http://www.oikosjournal.org/blog/beauty-collaborative-experiments
