Madhav Prakash Thakur

My main research interest is understanding both biotic and abiotic constraints that drive consumer-resource interactions and how changes in consumer-resource interactions affect ecosystem structure and function. The biotic constraints that I study include several life history traits ranging from body size to species’ intrinsic growth rates. And, my favourite abiotic constraints are temperature and resource heterogeneity. I experimentally manipulate suites of constraints with predator-prey model system of predatory mites and Collembola. Moreover, I apply consumer-resource interaction approach to understand plant-animal relations in context of aboveground-belowground interactions. I like to solve problems using empirical approaches guided by mathematical theories of consumer-resource interactions.