Dr. Ramesh B.R.

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B. R. Ramesh Researcher Telephone: +91-413-2334168, Ext – 137 Fax: +91-413-2339534 E-mail: ramesh.br@ifpindia.org French Institute of Pondicherry, 11 Saint Louis Street, P.O. Box – 33, Pondicherry – 605 001

Research fields:

• Biogeography
• Forest Ecology
• Landscape Ecology
• Vegetation Cartography
• Biodiversity Conservation and Management

Recent publications:

1. Ramesh, B.R., Karunakaran, P. V., Balasubramanian, M & Danny Loseen 2003. Biodiversity conservation strategy and action plan for Kerala. Kerala Forest Department, Thiruvananthapuram. 171pp.

2. J. Prosperi, Ramesh, B.R., Grard P., Depomier D., Jayatissa L. P. & Aravajy. 2003. Mangroves V1– A multimedia identification system, French Institute of Pondicherry.

3. Ramesh, B.R. 2003. Biodiversity conservation and management. Tropical Ecology 44(1): 85-91.

4. Pascal, J. P., Ramesh, B.R. & De Franceschi, D. 2004. Wet evergreen forest types of Southern Western Ghats, India. Tropical Ecology 45(2): 281-292.

5. Rani M. Krishnan & Ramesh, B.R. 2005. Endemism and sexual systems in the evergreen tree flora of Western Ghats, India. Diversity and Distribution 11:559 – 565.

6. Magunussen S., Pélissier R., He F. & Ramesh, B.R. 2006. An assessment of sample-based estimators of tree species richness in two wet tropical forest compartments in Panama and India, International Forestry Review 8(4): 417-431.

7. Caner L., Lo Seen D., Gunnell Y., Ramesh, B.R., Bourgeon G. 2007. Spatial heterogeneity of land cover response to climatic change in the Nilgiri highlands (southern India) since the Last Glacial Maximum. Holocene, 17(2): 195-205.

8. Ramesh, B.R. & Rajan Gurukkal (Eds). 2007. Forest Landscapes of the Southern Western Ghats – biodiversity, human ecology and management strategies. Institut. Français. de Pondichéry, Collection Eciologie 40, 304pp.

9. Krishnan P., Bourgeon G., Lo Seen D. Nair K. M., Prasanna R., Srinivas S., Muthusankar G., Dufy L. & Ramesh, B.R. 2007. Organic carbon stock map for soils of Southern India: A multifactorial approach. Current Science 93: 706-710.

10. Munoz F., Couteron P., Ramesh, B.R. & Etienne R. S., 2007. Estimating parameters of neutral communities: from one single large to several small samples. Ecology, 88: 2482-2488.

11. Gunawardane N. R., Dulip Daniels A. E., Gunatilake I. A. U. N., Gunatilake C. V. S., Karunakaran P. V., Geetha Nayak K., Prasad S., Puyravaud P., Ramesh, B.R., Subramanian K. A. and Vasanthy G. 2007. A brief overview of the Western Gats- Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot. Current Science 1567-1572.

12. Munoz F., Couteron P. & Ramesh, B.R. 2008. Beta-diversity in spatially implicit neutral models: a new way to assess species migration. The American Naturalist 172(1): 116-127.

13. Ramesh, B.R. 2008. Forest landscape approach for biodiversity management in the Western Ghats. Journal of Landscape Architecture 5(3): 32-37.

14. B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, P. Grard, J. Prosperi, S. Aravajy, J. P. Pascal. 2008. Western Ghats (V 1.0), Mulimdedia identification system of evergreen tree species of the Western Ghats, India, -, Biodiversity Informatics and co-Operation in Taxonomy for Interactive shared Knowledge base (BIOTK). http://www.biotik.org/

15. Giriraj, A., Irfan_Ullah, M., Ramesh, B.R., Karunakaran P. V., Jentsch Anke, and Murthy M. S. R. 2008. Mapping the potential distribution of Rhododendron arboreum Sm. ssp. Nilagiricum (Zenker) Tagg (Ericaceae), an endemic plant using ecological niche modeling. Current Science 94(12): 1605-1612.

16. B.R. Ramesh, Mohan Seetharam, M. C. Guero, R. Michon. 2009. Assessment and Conservation of Forest Biodiversity in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. 1. General Introduction and Forest Land Cover and Land Use Changes (1977-1997). Pondy Papers in Ecology n° 6, IFP, 2009, pp. 1-64. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00408263/fr/

17. B. R. Ramesh, M. H. Swaminath, Santhoshagouda Patil, S. Aravajy, Claire Elouard. 2009. Assessment and Conservation of Forest Biodiversity in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. 2. Assessment of Tree Biodiversity, Logging Impact and General Discussion. Pondy Papers in Ecology n° 7, pp. 65-121. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00408305/fr/

18. Sumiko Minobe, Shingo Fukui, Rumiko Saiki, Tadashi Kajita, Suchitra Changtragoon, NorAini. Ab Shukor, A. Latiff, Ramesh, B.R., Osamu Koizumi, and Tsuneyuki Yamazaki, Highly differentiated population structure with no genetic diversity of a Mangrove species, Bruguierarhiza gymnorhiza Conservation Genetics (Accepted).

19. Giriraj A., Murthy M.S.R. & Ramesh, B.R., Vegetation Composition, Structure and Diversity Pattern: A case study from Tropical Wet Evergreen Forests of Western Ghats, India. Edinburgh Journal of Botany (in press).

20. Ramesh, B.R., Dilip Venugopal, Raphael Pelissier, Pierre Couteron, Santoshgouda Patil and M. H. Swaminath "Mesoscale patterns in the floristic composition of forests in the central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India", Biotropica (under review).

22. Danny Lo Seen, B.R. Ramesh, K.M. Nair, Manuel Martin, Dominique Arrouays, Gérard Bourgeon, Soil carbon stock stability in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot (India) despite ongoing deforestation, Global Change Biology (under review).

Curriculum Vitae in PDF format.

Projects:

• Dynamics of forest biodiversity
• Web mapping
• Biodiversity portal