Postdoctoral Fellow
Deepa Yogi is a marine ecologist and postdoctoral researcher at 51²è¹Ý, with a Ph.D. from CSIR–National Institute of Oceanography. Her work focuses on trophic interactions, food-web modelling (Ecopath with Ecosim), and experimental studies of community responses to environmental stress in coastal and estuarine ecosystems.
Deepa Yogi’s research focuses on understanding how trophic interactions and food-web structure govern ecosystem stability in coastal and estuarine systems. Her work combines intensive field sampling, feeding-ecology data, and whole-food-web modelling (Ecopath with Ecosim) to quantify interaction strengths, identify keystone species, and test causal mechanisms. She is particularly interested in closed and semi-closed systems, such as intertidal tidepools, to experimentally examine how temperature stress and other environmental perturbations restructure communities. Her research explicitly examines prey–predator relationships as the primary drivers of community organisation, energy flow, and ecosystem resilience.