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D-Index
50
Citations
17006
World Ranking
3738
National Ranking
410

Overview

Mahesh Sankaran is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research covers several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work encompasses diverse topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Forest Ecology and Management, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Recent publications by Mahesh Sankaran include:

  • "Combatting global grassland degradation" (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • "Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts" (2023, Science)
  • "IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change" (2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications)
  • "General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Prioritizing India's landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being" (2023, Nature Sustainability)

Frequent collaborators of Mahesh Sankaran include Jayashree Ratnam, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Kimberly J. Komatsu, and Joslin L. Moore.

Their research has appeared predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Sustainability, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Diane S. Srivastava;J. Emmett Duffy;Justin P. Wright

  • Determinants of woody cover in African savannas

    Mahesh Sankaran;Niall P. Hanan;Robert J. Scholes;Jayashree Ratnam

  • Combatting global grassland degradation.

    Richard D. Bardgett;James M. Bullock;Sandra Lavorel;Peter Manning

  • Tree–grass coexistence in savannas revisited – insights from an examination of assumptions and mechanisms invoked in existing models

    Mahesh Sankaran;Jayashree Ratnam;Niall P. Hanan

  • Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

    Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;T. Michael Anderson;Mahesh Sankaran;Mahesh Sankaran;Steven I. Higgins;Steven I. Higgins

  • Woody cover in African savannas: the role of resources, fire and herbivory

    Mahesh Sankaran;Mahesh Sankaran;Jayashree Ratnam;Niall Hanan

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest.

    Daniel E. Bunker;Fabrice DeClerck;Jason C. Bradford;Robert K. Colwell

  • Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Melinda D. Smith;Eric W. Seabloom

  • When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter?

    Jayashree Ratnam;Jayashree Ratnam;William J. Bond;Rod J. Fensham;William A. Hoffmann

  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

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  • Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

    Joseph W. Veldman;Julie C. Aleman;Julie C. Aleman;Swanni T. Alvarado;T. Michael Anderson

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition.

    Diane S. Srivastava;Bradley J. Cardinale;Amy L. Downing;J. Emmett Duffy

  • Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

    Sally E. Koerner;Melinda D. Smith;Deron E. Burkepile;Niall P. Hanan

  • Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change

    Hans Otto-Portner;Bob Scholes;John Agard;Emma Archer

  • Determinants of biodiversity regulate compositional stability of communities

    Mahesh Sankaran;S. J. McNaughton

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change

    H.O. Pörtner;R. J. Scholes;J. Agard;E. Archer

  • Savannahs of Asia: antiquity, biogeography, and an uncertain future.

    Jayashree Ratnam;Kyle W. Tomlinson;Dina N. Rasquinha;Mahesh Sankaran

  • Summary for policymakers of the assessment report on land degradation and restoration of the Intergovernmental Science- Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Robert Scholes;Luca Montanarella;Anastasia Brainich;Nichole Barger

  • LARGE HERBIVORES SUPPRESS DECOMPOSER ABUNDANCE IN A SEMIARID GRAZING ECOSYSTEM

    Mahesh Sankaran;David J. Augustine

  • Native ungulates of diverse body sizes collectively regulate long-term woody plant demography and structure of a semi-arid savanna

    Mahesh Sankaran;Mahesh Sankaran;David J. Augustine;Jayashree Ratnam

Frequent Co-Authors

Anita C. Risch
Anita C. Risch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
David J. Augustine
David J. Augustine Agricultural Research Service
T. Michael Anderson
T. Michael Anderson Wake Forest University
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky

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