Overview
Background
Sreekar’s research focuses on using ecological theory to inform conservation decision making. He is interested in a broad range of topics, including spatial conservation planning, evidence-based conservation policy, community assembly rules, extinction synergies, and land-use management. A big question that drives his research is how to address the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. His current research is centred around studying the environmental risks associated with mining and mineral processing.
He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Ecology and has spent the past 15 years at universities across Australia, China, Czechia, India and Singapore. Sreekar is an avid birder and enjoys this aspect of his work both professionally and recreationally.
Availability
- Dr Sreekar Rachakonda is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Masters (Extended) of Ecology, University of the Chinese Academy of Science
- Doctor of Philosophy of Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, University of Adelaide
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Insectivorous birds and bats outperform ants in the top‐down regulation of arthropods across strata of a Japanese temperate forest
Sivault, Elise, Kollross, Jan, Jorge, Leonardo Re, Finnie, Sam, Diez‐Méndez, David, Fernandez Garzon, Sara, Maraia, Heveakore, Lenc, Jan, Libra, Martin, Murakami, Masashi, Nakaji, Tatsuro, Nakamura, Masahiro, Sreekar, Rachakonda, Sam, Legi, Abe, Tomokazu, Weiss, Matthias and Sam, Katerina (2024). Insectivorous birds and bats outperform ants in the top‐down regulation of arthropods across strata of a Japanese temperate forest. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14146
2024
Journal Article
Conservation opportunities through improved management of recently established protected areas in Southeast Asia
Sreekar, Rachakonda, Koh, Lian Pin, Lamba, Aakash, Mammides, Christos, Teo, Hoong Chen, Dwiputra, Adrian and Zeng, Yiwen (2024). Conservation opportunities through improved management of recently established protected areas in Southeast Asia. Current Biology, 34 (16), 3830-3835.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.031
2024
Journal Article
Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity
Hua, Fangyuan, Wang, Weiyi, Nakagawa, Shinichi, Liu, Shuangqi, Miao, Xinran, Yu, Le, Du, Zhenrong, Abrahamczyk, Stefan, Arias-Sosa, Luis Alejandro, Buda, Kinga, Budka, Michał, Carrière, Stéphanie M., Chandler, Richard B., Chiatante, Gianpasquale, Chiawo, David O., Cresswell, Will, Echeverri, Alejandra, Goodale, Eben, Huang, Guohualing, Hulme, Mark F., Hutto, Richard L., Imboma, Titus S., Jarrett, Crinan, Jiang, Zhigang, Kati, Vassiliki I., King, David I., Kmecl, Primož, Li, Na, Lövei, Gábor L. ... Elsen, Paul R. (2024). Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8 (2), 251-266. doi: 10.1038/s41559-023-02280-w
2024
Book Chapter
Turnover
Lim, Junying and Sreekar, Rachakonda (2024). Turnover. Encyclopedia of biodiversity. (pp. 739-753) edited by Samuel M. Scheiner. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00076-1
2023
Journal Article
Uncertainties in deforestation emission baseline methodologies and implications for carbon markets
Teo, Hoong Chen, Tan, Nicole Hui Li, Zheng, Qiming, Lim, Annabel Jia Yi, Sreekar, Rachakonda, Chen, Xiao, Zhou, Yuchuan, Sarira, Tasya Vadya, De Alban, Jose Don T, Tang, Hao, Friess, Daniel A. and Koh, Lian Pin (2023). Uncertainties in deforestation emission baseline methodologies and implications for carbon markets. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 8277, 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44127-9
2023
Journal Article
Priorities for protected area expansion so nations can meet their Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commitments
Watson, James E. M., Venegas‐Li, Ruben, Grantham, Hedley, Dudley, Nigel, Stolton, Sue, Rao, Madhu, Woodley, Stephen, Hockings, Marc, Burkart, Karl, Simmonds, Jeremy S., Sonter, Laura J., Sreekar, Rachakonda, Possingham, Hugh P. and Ward, Michelle (2023). Priorities for protected area expansion so nations can meet their Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commitments. Integrative Conservation, 2 (3), 140-155. doi: 10.1002/inc3.24
2023
Journal Article
Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation
Lamba, Aakash, Teo, Hoong Chen, Sreekar, Rachakonda, Zeng, Yiwen, Carrasco, Luis Roman and Koh, Lian Pin (2023). Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7 (7), 1104-1113. doi: 10.1038/s41559-023-02069-x
2023
Journal Article
Bird preferences for fruit size, but not color, vary in accordance with fruit traits along a tropical elevational gradient
Hazell, Richard J., Sam, Katerina, Sreekar, Rachakonda, Yama, Samson, Koagouw, Wulan, Stewart, Alan J. A. and Peck, Mika R. (2023). Bird preferences for fruit size, but not color, vary in accordance with fruit traits along a tropical elevational gradient. Ecology and Evolution, 13 (2) e9835, 1-19. doi: 10.1002/ece3.9835
2022
Journal Article
Large‐scale reforestation can increase water yield and reduce drought risk for water‐insecure regions in the Asia‐Pacific
Teo, Hoong Chen, Raghavan, Srivatsan V., He, Xiaogang, Zeng, Zhenzhong, Cheng, Yanyan, Luo, Xiangzhong, Lechner, Alex M., Ashfold, Matthew J., Lamba, Aakash, Sreekar, Rachakonda, Zheng, Qiming, Chen, Anping and Koh, Lian Pin (2022). Large‐scale reforestation can increase water yield and reduce drought risk for water‐insecure regions in the Asia‐Pacific. Global Change Biology, 28 (21), 6385-6403. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16404
2022
Journal Article
Future land-use competition constrains natural climate solutions
Zheng, Qiming, Siman, Kelly, Zeng, Yiwen, Teo, Hoong Chen, Sarira, Tasya Vadya, Sreekar, Rachakonda and Koh, Lian Pin (2022). Future land-use competition constrains natural climate solutions. Science of the Total Environment, 838 (Part 3) 156409, 156409. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156409
2022
Journal Article
Nature-based climate solutions for expanding the global protected area network
Sreekar, Rachakonda, Zeng, Yiwen, Zheng, Qiming, Lamba, Aakash, Teo, Hoong Chen, Sarira, Tasya Vadya and Koh, Lian Pin (2022). Nature-based climate solutions for expanding the global protected area network. Biological Conservation, 269 109529. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109529
2021
Journal Article
Land use and elevation interact to shape bird functional and phylogenetic diversity and structure: implications for designing optimal agriculture landscapes
Sreekar, Rachakonda, Si, Xingfeng, Sam, Katerina, Liu, Jiajia, Dayananda, Salindra, Goodale, Uromi, Kotagama, Sarath and Goodale, Eben (2021). Land use and elevation interact to shape bird functional and phylogenetic diversity and structure: implications for designing optimal agriculture landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58 (8), 1738-1748. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13927
2021
Journal Article
Great tits (Parus major) flexibly learn that herbivore-induced plant volatiles indicate prey location: an experimental evidence with two tree species
Sam, Katerina, Kovarova, Eliska, Freiberga, Inga, Uthe, Henriette, Weinhold, Alexander, Jorge, Leonardo R. and Sreekar, Rachakonda (2021). Great tits (Parus major) flexibly learn that herbivore-induced plant volatiles indicate prey location: an experimental evidence with two tree species. Ecology and Evolution, 11 (16), 10917-10925. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7869
2020
Journal Article
Combining camera-trap surveys and hunter interviews to determine the status of mammals in protected rainforests and rubber plantations of Menglun, Xishuangbanna, SW China
Huang, G., Sreekar, R., Velho, N., Corlett, R. T., Quan, R. -C. and Tomlinson, K. W. (2020). 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, 23 (6), 689-699. doi: 10.1111/acv.12588
2020
Journal Article
Endemicity and land-use type influence the abundance-range-size relationship of birds on a tropical island
Sreekar, Rachakonda, Sam, Katerina, Dayananda, Salindra K., Goodale, Uromi Manage, Kotagama, Sarath W. and Goodale, Eben (2020). Endemicity and land-use type influence the abundance-range-size relationship of birds on a tropical island. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90 (2), 460-470. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13379
2020
Journal Article
Drivers of bird beta diversity in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot are scale dependent: roles of land use, climate, and distance
Sreekar, Rachakonda, Koh, Lian Pin, Mammides, Christos, Corlett, Richard T., Dayananda, Salindra, Goodale, Uromi M., Kotagama, Sarath W. and Goodale, Eben (2020). Drivers of bird beta diversity in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot are scale dependent: roles of land use, climate, and distance. Oecologia, 193 (4), 801-809. doi: 10.1007/s00442-020-04671-3
2018
Journal Article
Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude
Sreekar, Rachakonda, Katabuchi, Masatoshi, Nakamura, Akihiro, Corlett, Richard T., Slik, J. W. Ferry, Fletcher, Christine, He, Fangliang, Weiblen, George D., Shen, Guochun, Xu, Han, Sun, I-Fang, Cao, Ke, Ma, Keping, Chang, Li-Wan, Cao, Min, Jiang, Mingxi, Gunatilleke, I. A. U. Nimal, Ong, Perry, Yap, Sandra, Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri, Novotny, Vojtech, Brockelman, Warren Y., Xiang, Wusheng, Mi, Xiangcheng, Li, Xiankun, Wang, Xihua, Qiao, Xiujuan, Li, Yide, Tan, Sylvester ... Koh, Lian Pin (2018). Spatial scale changes the relationship between beta diversity, species richness and latitude. Royal Society Open Science, 5 (9) 181168, 181168. doi: 10.1098/rsos.181168
2018
Journal Article
Fruiting patterns of macrofungi in tropical and temperate land use types in Yunnan Province, China
Li, Huili, Guo, Jiayu, Goldberg, Stefanie D., Sreekar, Rachakonda, Ye, Lei, Luo, Xia, Sysouphanthong, Phongeun, Xu, Jianchu, Hyde, Kevin D. and Mortimer, Peter E. (2018). Fruiting patterns of macrofungi in tropical and temperate land use types in Yunnan Province, China. Acta Oecologica, 91, 7-15. doi: 10.1016/j.actao.2018.05.008
2017
Journal Article
Topography and soil type are critical to understanding how bird and herpetofaunal communities persist in forest fragments of tropical China
Dayananda, Salindra K., Mammides, Christos, Lee, Myung-Bok, Liu, Jia-Jia, Pasion, Bonifacio O., Sreekar, Rachakonda, Yasuda, Mika, Quan, Rui-Chang, Slik, J. W. Ferry, Tomlinson, Kyle W. and Goodale, Eben (2017). Topography and soil type are critical to understanding how bird and herpetofaunal communities persist in forest fragments of tropical China. Biological Conservation, 215, 107-115. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.08.034
2017
Journal Article
An ontogenetically stable sexual character in a montane agamid, Salea horsfieldii Gray, 1845 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Nilgiris, India
Caleb Daniel, G., Sreekar, Rachakonda and Deepak, V. (2017). An ontogenetically stable sexual character in a montane agamid, Salea horsfieldii Gray, 1845 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Nilgiris, India. Journal of Natural History, 51 (39-40), 2373-2383. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1369188
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Sourcing battery minerals - from the land or sea?
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Laura Sonter, Professor Eve McDonald-Madden
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