🎉Heartiest Congratulations, Dr Tharaka!!

We are super happy and proud of Dr Tharaka S. Priyadarshana and his successful defense of his PhD thesis, "Conserving invertebrate biodiversity in agricultural and urban landscapes". His research is an amazing contribution to the fields of agroecology and urban ecology.

Dr Tharaka with his congratulatory gifts and popping the champagne.

Dr Tharaka and the TEE Lab.

Dr Tharaka is an incredible member of the TEE Lab and has been providing excellent statistical advice for many of our lab's projects. His achievements are much well-deserved, of which three of his PhD chapters are published in excellent journals!

Dr Tharaka giving an excellent presentation on his PhD thesis.

Once again, congratulations Dr Tharaka!!

Read more of Dr Tharaka's publications here:

• Priyadarshana TS, Lee M-B, Slade EM & Goodale E (2023). Local scale crop compositional heterogeneity suppresses the abundance of a major lepidopteran pest of cruciferous vegetables. Basic and Applied Ecology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2023.03.001

• Priyadarshana TS & Slade EM (2023). A meta-analysis reveals that dragonflies and damselflies can provide effective biological control of mosquitoes. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13965

• Priyadarshana TS, Martin A., ..., Slade EM. (2024) Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta-analysis. Ecology Letters, 27, e14412. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14412

• Martinez-Nuñez, C., Velado-Alonso, E., Avelino, J., Rey, P. J., ten Hoopen, G. M., Pe’er, G., Zou, Y., Liu, Y., Antwi-Agyei, P., Rusch, A., Staver, C., Priyadarshana, T. S., Sonwa, D. J., Buchori, D., Garibaldi, L. A., Concepción, E. D., Lewis, O. T., Perfecto, I., & Bartomeus, I. (2024). Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development. Nature Sustainability. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01483-8