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Nature-based Solutions, Habitat fragmentation, Deforestation, Hunting, Biodiversity, Land-use change, Traits, Nature finance, Conservation Biology, Applied Ecology

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University of Queensland: Brisbane, AU

2023-09-01 to present | Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Rachakonda Sreekar

National University of Singapore: Singapore, SG

2020-09-16 to 2023-09-01 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Biological Sciences)
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Rachakonda Sreekar

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: Ceske Budjevoice, CZ

2019-04-01 to 2020-08-30 | Post-doctoral researcher
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Rachakonda Sreekar

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden: Menglun, Yunnan, CN

2015-01-01 to 2015-06-01 | Research Fellow (Center for Integrative Conservation)
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Rachakonda Sreekar

Agumbe Rainforest Research Station: Agumbe, KA, IN

2010-01-01 to 2011-07-21 | Research Fellow (Research)
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Rachakonda Sreekar

National Centre for Biological Sciences: Bangalore, KA, IN

2009-07-01 to 2010-01-01 | Intern (Quader's lab)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Adelaide: Adelaide, SA, AU

Education
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Rachakonda Sreekar

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden: Menglun, Yunnan, CN

2011-09-01 to 2014-12-01 | MS (Center for Integrative Conservation)
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British Ecological Society: London, London, GB

2019-10-01 to present
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Works (35)

Bird diversity in historical paintings of the Song dynasty (960–1279)

Ecology
2025-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70070
Contributors: Qianyu Chen; Shuihua Chen; Shilu Zheng; Rachakonda Sreekar; Zhijun Ma; Jiajia Liu
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Conservation opportunities through improved management of recently established protected areas in Southeast Asia

Current Biology
2024-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.031
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Lian Pin Koh; Aakash Lamba; Christos Mammides; Hoong Chen Teo; Adrian Dwiputra; Yiwen Zeng
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Priorities for protected area expansion so nations can meet their Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commitments

Integrative Conservation
2023-10-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/inc3.24
Part of ISSN: 2770-9329
Part of ISSN: 2770-9329
Contributors: James Watson; Rubén Venegas-Li; Hedley Grantham; Nigel Dudley; Sue Stolton; Madhu Rao; Stephen Woodley; Marc Hockings; Karl Burkart; Jeremy Simmonds et al.
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Bird preferences for fruit size, but not color, vary in accordance with fruit traits along a tropical elevational gradient

Ecology and Evolution
2023-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9835
Contributors: Richard J. Hazell; Katerina Sam; Rachakonda Sreekar; Samson Yama; Wulan Koagouw; Alan J. A. Stewart; Mika R. Peck
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Large‐scale reforestation can increase water yield and reduce drought risk for water‐insecure regions in the Asia‐Pacific

Global Change Biology
2022-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16404
Contributors: Hoong Chen Teo; Srivatsan V. Raghavan; Xiaogang He; Zhenzhong Zeng; Yanyan Cheng; Xiangzhong Luo; Alex M. Lechner; Matthew J. Ashfold; Aakash Lamba; Rachakonda Sreekar et al.
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The impact of ants and vertebrate predators on arthropods and plants: a meta-analysis

2022-07-02 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.29.498005
Contributors: Katerina Sam; Marketa Tahadlova; Inga Freiberga; Anna Mrazova; Anna Toszogyova; Rachakonda Sreekar
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Great tits (Parus major) flexibly learn that herbivore‐induced plant volatiles indicate prey location: An experimental evidence with two tree species

Ecology and Evolution
2021-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7869
Contributors: Katerina Sam; Eliska Kovarova; Inga Freiberga; Henriette Uthe; Alexander Weinhold; Leonardo R. Jorge; Rachakonda Sreekar
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Land use and elevation interact to shape bird functional and phylogenetic diversity and structure: Implications for designing optimal agriculture landscapes

Journal of Applied Ecology
2021-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13927
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Xingfeng Si; Katerina Sam; Jiajia Liu; Salindra Dayananda; Uromi Goodale; Sarath Kotagama; Eben Goodale
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Endemicity and land‐use type influence the abundance–range‐size relationship of birds on a tropical island

Journal of Animal Ecology
2021-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13379
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Katerina Sam; Salindra K. Dayananda; Uromi Manage Goodale; Sarath W. Kotagama; Eben Goodale; Hannah White
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Combining camera‐trap surveys and hunter interviews to determine the status of mammals in protected rainforests and rubber plantations of Menglun, Xishuangbanna, SW China

Animal Conservation
2020-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/acv.12588
Contributors: G. Huang; R. Sreekar; N. Velho; R. T. Corlett; R.‐C. Quan; K. W. Tomlinson
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Drivers of bird beta diversity in the Western Ghats–Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot are scale dependent: roles of land use, climate, and distance

Oecologia
2020-08-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04671-3
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Lian Pin Koh; Christos Mammides; Richard T. Corlett; Salindra Dayananda; Uromi M. Goodale; Sarath W. Kotagama; Eben Goodale
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Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude

Royal Society Open Science
2018-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181168
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Masatoshi Katabuchi; Akihiro Nakamura; Richard T. Corlett; J. W. Ferry Slik; Christine Fletcher; Fangliang He; George D. Weiblen; Guochun Shen; Han Xu et al.
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Fruiting patterns of macrofungi in tropical and temperate land use types in Yunnan Province, China

Acta Oecologica
2018-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2018.05.008
Contributors: Huili Li; Jiayu Guo; Stefanie D. Goldberg; Rachakonda Sreekar; Lei Ye; Xia Luo; Phongeun Sysouphanthong; Jianchu Xu; Kevin D. Hyde; Peter E. Mortimer
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An ontogenetically stable sexual character in a montane agamid, Salea horsfieldii Gray, 1845 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Nilgiris, India

Journal of Natural History
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1369188
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2-s2.0-85029408888
Contributors: Caleb Daniel, G.; Sreekar, R.; Deepak, V.
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Topography and soil type are critical to understanding how bird and herpetofaunal communities persist in forest fragments of tropical China

Biological Conservation
2017-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.08.034
Contributors: Salindra K. Dayananda; Christos Mammides; Myung-Bok Lee; Jia-Jia Liu; Bonifacio O. Pasion; Rachakonda Sreekar; Mika Yasuda; Rui-Chang Quan; J.W. Ferry Slik; Kyle W. Tomlinson et al.
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Horizontal and vertical species turnover in tropical birds in habitats with differing land use

Biology Letters
2017-05-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0186
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Richard T. Corlett; Salindra Dayananda; Uromi Manage Goodale; Adam Kilpatrick; Sarath W. Kotagama; Lian Pin Koh; Eben Goodale
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Effects of forest fragmentation on nocturnal Asian birds: A case study from Xishuangbanna, China

Dong wu xue yan jiu = Zoological research
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85016438403
Contributors: K Dayananda, S.; Goodale, E.; Lee, M.-B.; Liu, J.-J.; Mammides, C.; O Pasion, B.; Quan, R.-C.; W Ferry Slik, J.; Sreekar, R.; W Tomlinson, K. et al.
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Effects of forests, roads and mistletoe on bird diversity in monoculture rubber plantations

Scientific Reports
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/srep21822
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2-s2.0-84959018911
Contributors: Sreekar, R.; Huang, G.; Yasuda, M.; Quan, R.-C.; Goodale, E.; Corlett, R.T.; Tomlinson, K.W.
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Impacts of hunting on tropical forests in Southeast Asia

Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12785
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2-s2.0-85027929071
Contributors: Harrison, R.D.; Sreekar, R.; Brodie, J.F.; Brook, S.; Luskin, M.; O'Kelly, H.; Rao, M.; Scheffers, B.; Velho, N.
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Morphology, ecology, and behaviour of Hylarana intermedia, a Western Ghats frog

Acta Herpetologica
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-15172
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2-s2.0-84976636270
Contributors: Kamath, A.; Sreekar, R.
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Non-pollinator fig wasp impact on the reproductive success of an invasive fig tree: why so little?

Biocontrol Science and Technology
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09583157.2016.1214862
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2-s2.0-84988485944
Contributors: Kong, Y.; Wang, R.; Yang, D.-R.; Sreekar, R.; Peng, Y.-Q.; Compton, S.G.
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Terrestrial Species in Protected Areas and Community-Managed Lands in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India

Land
2016-10-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/land5040035
Contributors: Nandini Velho; Rachakonda Sreekar; William Laurance
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Flight initiation distance as behavioral indicator of hunting pressure: A case study of the Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) in Xishuangbanna, SW China

Tropical Conservation Science
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84933526845
Contributors: Sreekar, R.; Goodale, E.; Harrison, R.D.
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The effect of land-use on the diversity and mass-abundance relationships of understory avian insectivores in Sri Lanka and southern India.

Scientific reports
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/srep11569
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MEDLINE:26108368
Contributors: Sreekar, Rachakonda; Srinivasan, Umesh; Mammides, Christos; Chen, Jin; Manage Goodale, Uromi; Wimalabandara Kotagama, Sarath; Sidhu, Swati; Goodale, Eben
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Yet Another Empty Forest: Considering the Conservation Value of a Recently Established Tropical Nature Reserve

PLoS ONE
2015-02-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117920
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Kai Zhang; Jianchu Xu; Rhett D. Harrison; Ricardo Bomfim Machado
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The use of species-area relationships to partition the effects of hunting and deforestation on bird extirpations in a fragmented landscape

Diversity Distrib.
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12292
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Guohualing Huang; Jiang-Bo Zhao; Bonifacio O. Pasion; Mika Yasuda; Kai Zhang; Indika Peabotuwage; Ximin Wang; Rui-Chang Quan; J. W. Ferry Slik et al.
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Drivers of reptile and amphibian assemblages outside the protected areas of Western Ghats, India

Journal for Nature Conservation
2014-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2014.03.004
Contributors: Divya Balaji; Rachakonda Sreekar; Siddharth Rao
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REPTILES OF THE CENTRAL WESTERN GHATS, INDIA - A REAPPRAISAL AND REVISED CHECKLIST, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE AGUMBE PLATEAU

Russian Journal of Herpetology
2013 | Journal article
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WOS:000329412500003
Contributors: Ganesh, S. R.; Chadramouli, S. R.; Sreekar, R.; Shankar, P. Gowri
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Influence of gaze and directness of approach on the escape responses of the Indian rock lizard, Psammophilus dorsalis (Gray, 1831)

J Biosci
2013-11-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12038-013-9378-8
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Suhel Quader
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Natural Windbreaks Sustain Bird Diversity in a Tea-Dominated Landscape

PLoS ONE
2013-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070379
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar; Anand Mohan; Sandeep Das; Prerna Agarwal; Ramachandran Vivek; Lee A. Newsom
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Photographic Capture-Recapture Sampling for Assessing Populations of the Indian Gliding Lizard Draco dussumieri

2013-02-13 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055935
Contributors: Rachakonda Sreekar
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Discovery and first description of male Cnemaspis heteropholis Bauer, 2002 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Agumbe, central Western Ghats, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa
2011 | Journal article
WOSUID:

BIOSIS:PREV201100622003
Contributors: Ganesh, S. R.; Sreekar, Rachakonda; Pal, Saunak P.; Ramchandra, Gautam; Srinivasulu, C.; Srinivasulu, Bhargavi
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Predicting lizard gender: Sexual dimorphism in Calotes rouxii (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Agumbe, Karnataka, India

2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79955820842
Contributors: Sreekar, R.; Saini, K.; Rao, S.N.; Purushotham, C.B.
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Predation on Hemidactylus treutleri (Squamata: Gekkonidae) by the peninsular rock agama Psammophilus dorsalis (Squamata: Agamidae) in Rishi Valley, Andhra Pradesh, India

Herpetology Notes
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-77953111022
Contributors: Sreekar, R.; Deodhar, S.; Kulkarni, Y.
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Vertebrate assemblage at a fruiting fig (Ficus caulocarpa) in Maliau basin, Malaysia

Tropical Conservation Science
2010 | Journal article
WOSUID:

WOS:000208242100009
Contributors: Sreekar, Rachakonda; Nghiem Thi Phuong Le; Harrison, Rhett D.
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