Publications


Works in progress

Ramesh, Vijay, Srivathsa, Meghana, Hariharan, Priyanka, Symes, Laurel. Current stage: Analysis. Diurnal variation in avian vocal activity across a gradient of forest regeneration.

Ramesh, Vijay, Hariharan, Priyanka, Symes, Laurel. Current stage: Analysis. Abundance is highly correlated with vocal activity across a community of tropical birds.

Ramesh, Vijay, Akshay, VA, Chandrasekar, S, Gupte, Pratik Rajan, Rajan, Amrutha, Mohan, Ashwini V, Mohanraj, S, Robin, VV, Tingley, Morgan W, DeFries, Ruth S. Current stage: Writing. Historical resurveys of birds reveal range shifts along a tropical montane gradient in the Western Ghats.

Peer-reviewed publications

Menon, Tarun, Ramesh, Vijay, Barve, Sahas. Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes. 2023. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Download PDF here. Code and analysis here.
Media coverage: Mongabay.

Sethi, Sarab S., Bick, Avery, Ewers, Robert M., Klinck, Holger, Ramesh, Vijay, Tuanmu, Mao-Ning, Coomes, David A. 2023. Is there an accurate and generalisable way to use soundscapes to monitor biodiversity? Nature Ecology and Evolution. Download PDF here.

Ramesh, Vijay, Hariharan, Priyanka, Akshay, VA, Choksi, Pooja, Khanwilkar, Sarika, DeFries, Ruth S, Robin, VV. 2023. Using passive acoustic monitoring to examine the impacts of ecological restoration on faunal biodiversity in the Western Ghats. Biological Conservation. Download PDF here. Code and analysis here.
Media coverage: Nature India, Documentary.

Choksi, Pooja, Kotian, Mayuri, Biniwale, Siddarth, Mourya, Pravar, Korche, Devendra, Agarwala, Meghna, Khanwilkar, Sarika, Ramesh, Vijay, DeFries, Ruth. 2023. Listening for Change: Quantifying the Impact of Ecological Restoration on Soundscapes in a Tropical Dry Forest. Restoration Ecology. Download PDF here.
Media coverage: Columbia Climate School, DownToEarth.

Ramesh, Vijay, Gupte, Pratik R., Robin, VV, Tingley, Morgan W., DeFries, Ruth S. 2022. Using citizen science to parse climatic and landcover influences on bird occupancy within a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Ecography. Download PDF here. Code and analysis here.
Media coverage: Deccan Herald.

Shetty, Sarthak J., Ramesh, Vijay. 2021. pyResearchInsights - An open-source Python package for scientific text analysis. Ecology and Evolution. Download PDF here. Code and analysis here.

Barve, Sahas, Ramesh, Vijay, Dotterer, Toni M., Dove, Carla J. 2021. Elevation and body size drive convergent variation in thermo-insulative feather structure of Himalayan birds. Ecography. Download PDF here.
Media coverage: BBC News, BBC Global News Podcast, Smithsonian Magazine.

Ramesh, Vijay, Vijayakumar, SP, Gopalakrishna, Trisha, Jayarajan, Aditi, Shanker, Kartik. 2020. Determining levels of cryptic diversity within the endemic frog genera, Indirana and Walkerana, of the Western Ghats, India. PLOS ONE. Download PDF here.
Media coverage: Research Matters.

Dinesh, KP, Vijayakumar, SP, Ramesh, Vijay, Jayarajan, Aditi, Chandramouli, SR, Shanker, Kartik. 2020. A deeply divergent lineage of Walkerana (Anura: Ranixalidae) from the Western Ghats of Peninsular India. Zootaxa. Download PDF here.
Media coverage: Mongabay, Deccan Herald.

Hager, Ann Marie, Larson, James, Ugbah, Nene Kumashe, Ramesh, Vijay. 2017. Oil Extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Incorporating Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice. Conflict Resolution Quarterly. Download PDF here.

Ramesh, Vijay, Gopalakrishna, Trisha, Barve, Sahas, Melnick, Don J. 2017. Finer spatial resolution improves accuracy of species distribution models in heterogeneous landscapes - A response to Praveen J. Biological Conservation. Download PDF here.

Ramesh, Vijay, Gopalakrishna, Trisha, Barve, Sahas, Melnick, Don J. 2017. IUCN greatly underestimates threat levels of endemic birds in the Western Ghats. Biological Conservation. Download PDF here.
Media coverage: Mongabay, FactorDaily, EurekAlert, EarthWise, Phys.Org, The Hindu, Columbia NewsRoom, HindustanTimes, Indian Express, Bangalore Mirror, El Pais, Times of India.

Hari Haran, Priyanka and Ramesh, Vijay. Remembering the Magic of Natural History Museums - and Why We Need Them. 2020. The Wire.

Ramesh, Vijay, Rajan Gupte, Pratik, Mary Paul, Mridula. Analysing India’s Environmental Governance. 2020. Sanctuary Asia. Code and analysis here.

Hari Haran, Priyanka and Ramesh, Vijay. Listen closely: Using bioacoustics in wildlife conservation. 2020. Mongabay India.

Melnick, Don J and Ramesh, Vijay. When it comes to the IUCN Red List, accuracy is the order of the day (commentary). 2017. Mongabay.