Publications

Publications, preprints and submissions organized by research theme. †undergraduate mentee; *co-lead authors

Within-host coinfection and parasite competition

Ramesh, A., & Hall, S. R. (2023). Niche theory for within-host parasite dynamics: Analogies to food web modules via feedback loops. Ecology Letters, 26(3), 351–368. doi:10.1111/ele.14142

Volterra Prize Award, Theoretical Ecology Section, ESA

Ramesh, A., & Hall, S. R. (2025). On the cause and consequences of coinfection: A general mechanistic framework of within-host parasite competition. Ecology Letters, 28(6), e70104. doi:10.1111/ele.70104

Outstanding Paper Award, Disease Ecology Section, ESA; Honorary Break-the-Mold Paper, Theory Section, ESA

Weber, M. E., Atim, G., Espejo, C., Gao, B., Osew, I. L., Ramesh, A., Rogers, W., Webber, C., & Ezenwa, V. O. (2026). Coinfection in context: A framework for understanding variability in parasite interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, in press.

Between-host parasite and vector ecology

Ramesh, A., McDermott-Sipe, O.†, & Bashey-Visser, F. (2024). Maintenance of parasite species diversity: Spatiotemporal niche partitioning and aggregation facilitate entomopathogenic nematode species coexistence. bioRxiv (in revisions, The American Naturalist). doi:10.1101/2024.10.21.619552

Ramesh, A., Jones, T.†, Dorleans, R.†, Totaro, L.†, & Bashey-Visser, F. (2026). The crowding tax in parasites: Linking dispersal behaviour to population growth in entomopathogenic nematodes. bioRxiv (in submission, Functional Ecology). doi:10.64898/2026.10.25.761660

Ramesh, A., Sharma, M., & Isvaran, K. (2025). Social clues in risky pools: Perceived conspecific rivals modify individual mosquito oviposition decisions in response to larval predation and competition. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79(1), 5. doi:10.1007/s00265-024-03538-4

Distinguished paper published as a “Featured Student Research” intended to honor the highest quality student research

Sharma, M., Ramesh, A., Nagaraj, N., & Isvaran, K. (2025). Females use multiple cues to assess competition for egg-laying decisions. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2025.01.28.635106

Ecological solutions for human health

Ramesh, A., … & Hassell, J. (2026). Do nature-based solutions generate measurable human and livestock health benefits? A meta-analysis of effect sizes across Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework-aligned interventions, with the intention of generating a living evidence bank. PROSPERO Registration No. CRD420261454722.

Hassell, J., … Ramesh, A., et al. Incentives and mechanisms for investing in environmentally derived health benefits (in review, PNAS).

Frans, V., Ramesh, A., & Liu, J. Moving towards a Coupled Human and Natural Niche Theory: CHANNT for harmonizing people in nature (in revisions, Ecological Monographs).

Frans, V. F., Ramesh, A., Micheli, F., & Liu, J. Humans’ place in niche space (submitted, Science).

Community ecology and plant coexistence in a changing world

Ramesh, A.*, Petri, L.*, Martínez-Blancas, A., Tiwari, A. D., Bills, P. S., Sullivan, L. L., & Zarnetske, P. L. (2025). Nutrient enrichment intensifies plant competitive effects, favouring monocultures: a global meta-analysis. bioRxiv (in review, Ecology Letters). *co-leads doi:10.1101/2025.09.26.678566

Ramesh, A., Martínez-Blancas, A., Petri, L., Tiwari, A., Bills, P., & Zarnetske, P. L. (2024). Global quantification of species competitive ability along resource gradients. Open Science Framework.

Bills, P., Ramesh, A., Petri, L., Martínez-Blancas, A., Kapsar, K., Tiwari, A. D., & Zarnetske, P. L. (2026). CollaboratoR: A scalable workflow for collaborative data entry and management. arXiv:2606.19280 (in revisions, Research Synthesis Methods). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2606.19280

Frans, A., Ramesh, A., Barbier, M., Collins, D., D'Andrea, R., Leibold, M., Miller, Z., Narla, A., Rogers, R., Xu, L., De Leo, G., & Micheli, F. One hundred years of Lotka-Volterra (in review, Science Advances).

Sundaresan, A., Lamba, K., Ramesh, A., & Barua, D. Phenology research in Asian tropical forests is dominated by a low number of studies and poor sampling effort and inadequate sampling extent.