Jayashree Ratnam

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Jayashree Ratnam is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Jayashree Ratnam has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Jayashree Ratnam's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (29 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers). Jayashree Ratnam is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (29 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers). Jayashree Ratnam collaborates with scholars based in India, United Kingdom and United States. Jayashree Ratnam's co-authors include Mahesh Sankaran, Niall P. Hanan, David J. Augustine, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Sally Archibald, Steven I. Higgins, William J. Bond, R. J. Fensham, Michael T. Anderson and William A. Hoffmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Ecology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Jayashree Ratnam

38 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Tree–grass coexistence in savannas revisited – insights from an examination of assumptions and mechanisms invoked in existing models

2004 507 citations Mahesh Sankaran, Jayashree Ratnam et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jayashree Ratnam India	18	1.4k	1.2k	795	362	247	42	2.1k
Sally E. Koerner United States	26	1.1k 0.7×	820 0.7×	860 1.1×	329 0.9×	218 0.9×	48	1.9k
Navashni Govender South Africa	28	1.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.7×	1.5k 1.9×	277 0.8×	349 1.4×	52	2.8k
Simon Scheiter Germany	26	1.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.5×	791 1.0×	411 1.1×	234 0.9×	52	2.7k
Daniel E. Bunker United States	17	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	642 0.8×	658 1.8×	155 0.6×	23	2.6k
R. J. Fairfax Australia	25	1.1k 0.8×	877 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	145 0.4×	209 0.8×	47	2.1k
Edmund C. February South Africa	24	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	665 0.8×	234 0.6×	123 0.5×	71	2.2k
Michelle S. Lett United States	7	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	925 1.2×	233 0.6×	134 0.5×	7	2.0k
Kimberly J. La Pierre United States	21	842 0.6×	772 0.7×	648 0.8×	329 0.9×	90 0.4×	24	1.8k
Susan Schwinning United States	7	992 0.7×	1.7k 1.4×	873 1.1×	452 1.2×	129 0.5×	8	2.6k
James K. McCarron United States	12	907 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	905 1.1×	217 0.6×	119 0.5×	13	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jayashree Ratnam

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Sreejith, K. A., et al.. (2025). Presence of large trees and tree diversity enhances carbon storage in the Western Ghats. Biological Conservation. 308. 111250–111250. 2 indexed citations

Ratnam, Jayashree, et al.. (2025). Soil respiration is correlated with rainfall and soil moisture at multiple temporal scales in a seasonal wet tropical forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 41. 1 indexed citations

Mungi, Ninad Avinash, et al.. (2025). Alien plants and novel ecosystems in the Greater Tropics. 1(8). 515–531.

Gopalakrishna, Trisha, Sami W. Rifai, Jayashree Ratnam, et al.. (2024). The distribution and drivers of tree cover in savannas and forests across India. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

Ratnam, Jayashree, et al.. (2024). Climate and vegetation collectively drive soil respiration in montane forest-grassland landscapes of the southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 40. 1 indexed citations

Powers, Jennifer S., Jayashree Ratnam, & Eleanor M. Slade. (2024). Biotropica's first open call for editorial service. Biotropica. 56(3). 1 indexed citations

Das, Arundhati & Jayashree Ratnam. (2022). The thermal niche and phylogenetic assembly of evergreen tree metacommunities in a mid-to-upper tropical montane zone. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1977). 20220038–20220038. 4 indexed citations

Riedel, Nils, Dorian Q. Fuller, Norbert Marwan, et al.. (2021). Monsoon forced evolution of savanna and the spread of agro-pastoralism in peninsular India. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 9032–9032. 19 indexed citations

Ratnam, Jayashree, Margaret Awuor Owuor, Michelle Greve, et al.. (2020). Trees as nature-based solutions: a global south perspective. UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria). 2 indexed citations

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Osuri, Anand M., Jayashree Ratnam, Mahesh Sankaran, et al.. (2020). Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human‐dominated landscapes. Conservation Letters. 13(2). 27 indexed citations

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Wigley, Benjamin J., Corli Coetsee, Laurence Kruger, Jayashree Ratnam, & Mahesh Sankaran. (2019). Ants, fire, and bark traits affect how African savanna trees recover following damage. Biotropica. 51(5). 682–691. 11 indexed citations

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Anoop, Ambili, et al.. (2017). Mid-late Holocene vegetation response to climatic drivers and biotic disturbances in the Banni grasslands of western India. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 485. 869–878. 24 indexed citations

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Osuri, Anand M., Jayashree Ratnam, Varun Varma, et al.. (2016). Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11351–11351. 97 indexed citations

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Dohn, Justin, David J. Augustine, Niall P. Hanan, Jayashree Ratnam, & Mahesh Sankaran. (2016). Spatial vegetation patterns and neighborhood competition among woody plants in an East African savanna. Ecology. 98(2). 478–488. 26 indexed citations

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Marthews, Toby R., et al.. (2015). Ecosystem Monitoring and Forest Census Studies in South Asia. Current Science. 108(10). 1779–1782.

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Ratnam, Jayashree, William J. Bond, R. J. Fensham, et al.. (2011). When is a ‘forest’ a savanna, and why does it matter?. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 20(5). 653–660. 329 indexed citations

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Lehmann, Caroline E. R., Jayashree Ratnam, & Lindsay B. Hutley. (2009). Which of these continents is not like the other? Comparisons of tropical savanna systems: key questions and challenges. New Phytologist. 181(3). 508–511. 17 indexed citations

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Ratnam, Jayashree, Mahesh Sankaran, Niall P. Hanan, Rina Grant, & N. Zambatis. (2008). Nutrient resorption patterns of plant functional groups in a tropical savanna: variation and functional significance. Oecologia. 157(1). 141–151. 73 indexed citations

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Sankaran, Mahesh, Jayashree Ratnam, & Niall P. Hanan. (2007). Woody cover in African savannas: the role of resources, fire and herbivory. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 17(2). 236–245. 431 indexed citations

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Ratnam, Jayashree. (2002). Ecological and social correlates of foraging decisions in a social forager, the bonnet macaque, Macaca radiata diluta. 1 indexed citations

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