Vijay Ramesh, Ph.D.

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. My research is focused on understanding how the environment shapes the ecology and behavior of tropical montane birds. I use an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach that borrows from conservation bioacoustics, citizen science, and historical ecology.

This is a clip of one of my favorite bird species, the Malabar Whistling Thrush—in this clip, you can hear two individuals communicating with each other:

Year Hired: 2022

Contact Information
Email: vr292@cornell.edu

Social Media: Website, Google scholar

Degree(s):
Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
M.A., Conservation Biology, Columbia University
B.Tech., Biotechnology, RV College of Engineering

Darras, K.F.A. et al. (2025) ‘Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms’, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(5), p. e70021. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70021.
Kahl, S. et al. (2024) ‘Overview of BirdCLEF 2024: Acoustic Identification of Under-studied Bird Species in the Western Ghats’, in. CLEF 2024 Working Notes - 25. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, p. 1948. Available at: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04719578 (Accessed: 24 April 2025).
Sethi, S.S. et al. (2023) ‘Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity’, Nature Ecology & Evolution, pp. 1–6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02148-z.
Ramesh, V. et al. (2023) ‘Using passive acoustic monitoring to examine the impacts of ecological restoration on faunal biodiversity in the Western Ghats’, Biological Conservation, 282, p. 110071. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110071.
Menon, T., Ramesh, V. and Barve, S. (2023) ‘Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes’, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(12), pp. 2111–2121. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13761.
Ramesh, V. et al. (In Press) ‘Why is the early bird early? An evaluation of hypotheses for avian dawn-biased vocal activity’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Special Issue on Passive Acoustic Monitoring.