
Dr Rucha Karkarey
Lancaster University
Email: r.karkarey@lancaster.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Understanding the ecological vulnerabilities of fish spawning aggregations by studying changes in fish behaviour along spatial, environmental and anthropogenic gradients.
- Understanding change in local ecological knowledge, livelihood and nutritional dependence of coastal communities on coral reef fish.
Selected Publications
Karkarey, R., Rathod, P., Arthur, R., Yadav, S., Theo, A., & Alcoverro, T. (2020). Wave exposure reduces herbivory in post-disturbed reefs by filtering species composition, abundance and behaviour of key fish herbivores. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-14.
Karkarey, R.,Zambre, A., Isvaran, K., & Arthur, R. (2019). Hypothesizing novel mating behaviours in the squaretail grouper based on direct behavioural observations. Rethinking Ecology. 4: 103–114.
Karkarey,R., Alcoverro, T., Kumar, S., & Arthur, R. (2017). Coping with catastrophe: foraging plasticity enables a benthic predator to survive in rapidly degrading coral reefs. Animal Behaviour.131, 13-22.
Karkarey, R., Zambre, A.,Isvaran, K., & Arthur, R. (2017). Alternative reproductive tactics and inverse size-assortment in a high-density fish spawning aggregation. BMC Ecology, 17(1), 10.
Karkarey, R., & Theo, A. H. (2016). Homeward bound: fish larvae use dispersal corridors when settling on coral reefs. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(10), 569-570.
Karkarey, R., Kelkar, N., Lobo, A. S., Alcoverro, T. & Arthur, R. (2014). Long-lived groupers require structurally stable reefs in the face of repeated climate change disturbances. Coral reefs, 33(2), 289-302.