Mahesh Sankaran, Ph.D. - Publications

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2001 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States 
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Ecology Biology

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2024 Jhaveri R, Cannanbilla L, Bhat KSA, Sankaran M, Krishnadas M. Anatomical traits explain drought response of seedlings from wet tropical forests. Ecology and Evolution. 14: e70155. PMID 39224158 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70155  0.379
2023 Daleo P, Alberti J, Chaneton EJ, Iribarne O, Tognetti PM, Bakker JD, Borer ET, Bruschetti M, MacDougall AS, Pascual J, Sankaran M, Seabloom EW, Wang S, Bagchi S, Brudvig LA, et al. Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass. Nature Communications. 14: 1809. PMID 37002217 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37395-y  0.333
2021 Arnillas CA, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, Alberti J, Baez S, Bakker JD, Boughton EH, Buckley YM, Bugalho MN, Donohue I, Dwyer J, Firn J, Gridzak R, Hagenah N, Hautier Y, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and nondominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally. Ecology and Evolution. 11: 17744-17761. PMID 35003636 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8266  0.398
2021 Coverdale TC, O'Connell RD, Hutchinson MC, Savagian A, Kartzinel TR, Palmer TM, Goheen JR, Augustine DJ, Sankaran M, Tarnita CE, Pringle RM. Large herbivores suppress liana infestation in an African savanna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. PMID 34580170 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101676118  0.68
2021 Tognetti PM, Prober SM, Báez S, Chaneton EJ, Firn J, Risch AC, Schuetz M, Simonsen AK, Yahdjian L, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, Arnillas CA, Bakker JD, Brown CS, Cadotte MW, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. PMID 34260386 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2023718118  0.41
2021 Riedel N, Fuller DQ, Marwan N, Poretschkin C, Basavaiah N, Menzel P, Ratnam J, Prasad S, Sachse D, Sankaran M, Sarkar S, Stebich M. Monsoon forced evolution of savanna and the spread of agro-pastoralism in peninsular India. Scientific Reports. 11: 9032. PMID 33907218 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-88550-8  0.353
2020 Hautier Y, Zhang P, Loreau M, Wilcox KR, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Byrnes JEK, Koerner SE, Komatsu KJ, Lefcheck JS, Hector A, Adler PB, Alberti J, Arnillas CA, Bakker JD, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales. Nature Communications. 11: 5375. PMID 33097736 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19252-4  0.355
2020 Wigley BJ, Augustine DJ, Coetsee C, Ratnam J, Sankaran M. Grasses continue to trump trees at soil carbon sequestration following herbivore exclusion in a semi-arid African savanna. Ecology. e03008. PMID 32027378 DOI: 10.1002/Ecy.3008  0.633
2020 Osuri AM, Machado S, Ratnam J, Sankaran M, Ayyappan N, Muthuramkumar S, Parthasarathy N, Pélissier R, Ramesh BR, DeFries R, Naeem S. Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human‐dominated landscapes Conservation Letters. 13. DOI: 10.1111/Conl.12699  0.432
2020 Sriramamurthy RT, Bhalla RS, Sankaran M. Fire differentially affects mortality and seedling regeneration of three woody invaders in forest–grassland mosaics of the southern Western Ghats, India Biological Invasions. 22: 1623-1634. DOI: 10.1007/S10530-020-02207-7  0.409
2019 Augustine DJ, Wigley BJ, Ratnam J, Kibet S, Nyangito M, Sankaran M. Large herbivores maintain a two-phase herbaceous vegetation mosaic in a semi-arid savanna. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 12779-12788. PMID 31788213 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.5750  0.644
2019 Risch AC, Zimmermann S, Ochoa-Hueso R, Schütz M, Frey B, Firn JL, Fay PA, Hagedorn F, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, Harpole WS, Knops JMH, McCulley RL, Broadbent AAD, Stevens CJ, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nature Communications. 10: 4981. PMID 31672992 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-019-12948-2  0.334
2019 Veldman JW, Aleman JC, Alvarado ST, Anderson TM, Archibald S, Bond WJ, Boutton TW, Buchmann N, Buisson E, Canadell JG, Dechoum MS, Diaz-Toribio MH, Durigan G, Ewel JJ, Fernandes GW, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Comment on "The global tree restoration potential". Science (New York, N.Y.). 366. PMID 31624182 DOI: 10.1126/science.aay7976  0.473
2019 Ratnam J, Chengappa SK, Machado SJ, Nataraj N, Osuri AM, Sankaran M. Functional Traits of Trees From Dry Deciduous “Forests” of Southern India Suggest Seasonal Drought and Fire Are Important Drivers Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7. DOI: 10.3389/Fevo.2019.00008  0.496
2019 Coverdale TC, McGeary IJ, O'Connell RD, Palmer TM, Goheen JR, Sankaran M, Augustine DJ, Ford AT, Pringle RM. Strong but opposing effects of associational resistance and susceptibility on defense phenotype in an African savanna plant Oikos. 128: 1772-1782. DOI: 10.1111/Oik.06644  0.598
2019 Wigley BJ, Coetsee C, Kruger LM, Ratnam J, Sankaran M. Ants, fire, and bark traits affect how African savanna trees recover following damage Biotropica. 51: 682-691. DOI: 10.1111/Btp.12683  0.436
2019 Joshi AA, Ratnam J, Sankaran M. Frost maintains forests and grasslands as alternate states in a montane tropical forest–grassland mosaic; but alien tree invasion and warming can disrupt this balance Journal of Ecology. 108: 122-132. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13239  0.498
2019 Sankaran M. Droughts and the ecological future of tropical savanna vegetation Journal of Ecology. 107: 1531-1549. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13195  0.502
2019 Wigley BJ, Coetsee C, Augustine DJ, Ratnam J, Hattas D, Sankaran M. A thorny issue: Woody plant defence and growth in an East African savanna Journal of Ecology. 107: 1839-1851. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13140  0.657
2019 Krishnan L, Barua D, Sankaran M. Dry-forest tree species with large seeds and low stem specific density show greater survival under drought Journal of Tropical Ecology. 35: 26-33. DOI: 10.1017/S0266467418000421  0.474
2019 Tiruvaimozhi YV, Sankaran M. Soil respiration in a tropical montane grassland ecosystem is largely heterotroph-driven and increases under simulated warming Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 107619. DOI: 10.1016/J.Agrformet.2019.107619  0.351
2018 Koerner SE, Smith MD, Burkepile DE, Hanan NP, Avolio ML, Collins SL, Knapp AK, Lemoine NP, Forrestel EJ, Eby S, Thompson DI, Aguado-Santacruz GA, Anderson JP, Anderson TM, Angassa A, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PMID 30374174 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-018-0696-Y  0.584
2018 Varma V, Catherin AM, Sankaran M. Effects of increased N and P availability on biomass allocation and root carbohydrate reserves differ between N-fixing and non-N-fixing savanna tree seedlings. Ecology and Evolution. 8: 8467-8476. PMID 30250716 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.4289  0.414
2018 Ongole S, Sankaran M, Karanth KK. Responses of aerial insectivorous bats to local and landscape-level features of coffee agroforestry systems in Western Ghats, India. Plos One. 13: e0201648. PMID 30114276 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0201648  0.449
2018 Goheen JR, Augustine DJ, Veblen KE, Kimuyu DM, Palmer TM, Porensky LM, Pringle RM, Ratnam J, Riginos C, Sankaran M, Ford AT, Hassan AA, Jakopak R, Kartzinel TR, Kurukura S, et al. Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East African savannas: the KLEE, UHURU, and GLADE experiments. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. PMID 29752729 DOI: 10.1111/Nyas.13848  0.642
2018 Wordley CFR, Sankaran M, Mudappa D, Altringham JD. Heard but not seen: Comparing bat assemblages and study methods in a mosaic landscape in the Western Ghats of India. Ecology and Evolution. 8: 3883-3894. PMID 29721265 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.3942  0.479
2018 Anderson TM, Griffith DM, Grace JB, Lind EM, Adler PB, Biederman LA, Blumenthal DM, Daleo P, Firn J, Hagenah N, Harpole WS, MacDougall AS, McCulley RL, Prober SM, Risch AC, ... Sankaran M, et al. Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient. Ecology. PMID 29603733 DOI: 10.1002/Ecy.2175  0.56
2018 Hautier Y, Isbell F, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, Harpole WS, Lind EM, MacDougall AS, Stevens CJ, Adler PB, Alberti J, Bakker JD, Brudvig LA, Buckley YM, Cadotte M, Caldeira MC, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2: 50-56. PMID 29203922 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-017-0395-0  0.447
2018 Pillai AA, Anoop A, Prasad V, Manoj M, Varghese S, Sankaran M, Ratnam J. Multi-proxy evidence for an arid shift in the climate and vegetation of the Banni grasslands of western India during the mid- to late-Holocene: The Holocene. 28: 1057-1070. DOI: 10.1177/0959683618761540  0.387
2018 Joshi AA, Sankaran M, Ratnam J. ‘Foresting’ the grassland: Historical management legacies in forest-grassland mosaics in southern India, and lessons for the conservation of tropical grassy biomes Biological Conservation. 224: 144-152. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2018.05.029  0.515
2018 Tiruvaimozhi YV, Varma V, Sankaran M. Nitrogen fixation ability explains leaf chemistry and arbuscular mycorrhizal responses to fertilization Plant Ecology. 219: 391-401. DOI: 10.1007/S11258-018-0803-9  0.341
2018 Prasad A, Ratnam J, Sankaran M. Rainfall and removal method influence eradication success for Lantana camara Biological Invasions. 20: 3399-3407. DOI: 10.1007/S10530-018-1785-1  0.467
2017 Griffith DM, Lehmann CER, Strömberg CAE, Parr CL, Pennington RT, Sankaran M, Ratnam J, Still CJ, Powell RL, Hanan NP, Nippert JB, Osborne CP, Good SP, Anderson TM, Holdo RM, et al. Comment on "The extent of forest in dryland biomes". Science (New York, N.Y.). 358. PMID 29146777 DOI: 10.1126/science.aao1309  0.431
2017 Pillai AA, Anoop A, Sankaran M, Sanyal P, Jha DK, Ratnam J. Mid-late Holocene vegetation response to climatic drivers and biotic disturbances in the Banni grasslands of western India Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 485: 869-878. DOI: 10.1016/J.Palaeo.2017.07.036  0.38
2017 Wordley CFR, Sankaran M, Mudappa D, Altringham JD. Bats in the Ghats: Agricultural intensification reduces functional diversity and increases trait filtering in a biodiversity hotspot in India Biological Conservation. 210: 48-55. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2017.03.026  0.46
2017 Iyengar SB, Bagchi S, Barua D, Mishra C, Sankaran M. A dominant dwarf shrub increases diversity of herbaceous plant communities in a Trans-Himalayan rangeland Plant Ecology. 218: 843-854. DOI: 10.1007/S11258-017-0734-X  0.513
2016 Dohn J, Augustine DJ, Hanan NP, Ratnam J, Sankaran M. Spatial vegetation patterns and neighborhood competition among woody plants in an East African savanna. Ecology. PMID 27864944 DOI: 10.1002/Ecy.1659  0.669
2016 Ratnam J, Tomlinson KW, Rasquinha DN, Sankaran M. Savannahs of Asia: antiquity, biogeography, and an uncertain future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 371. PMID 27502371 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2015.0305  0.468
2016 Osuri AM, Ratnam J, Varma V, Alvarez-Loayza P, Hurtado Astaiza J, Bradford M, Fletcher C, Ndoundou-Hockemba M, Jansen PA, Kenfack D, Marshall AR, Ramesh BR, Rovero F, Sankaran M. Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics. Nature Communications. 7: 11351. PMID 27108957 DOI: 10.1038/Ncomms11351  0.461
2016 Rasquinha DN, Sankaran M. Modelling biome shifts in the Indian subcontinent under scenarios of future climate change Current Science. 111: 147-156. DOI: 10.18520/Cs/V111/I1/147-156  0.359
2016 Wordley CFR, Foui EK, Mudappa D, Sankaran M, Altringham JD. Range extension of the endangered Salim Ali’s Fruit Bat Latidens salimalii (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Anamalai Hills, Tamil Nadu, India Journal of Threatened Taxa. 8: 9486-9490. DOI: 10.11609/Jott.2796.8.12.9486-9490  0.442
2016 Osuri AM, Sankaran M. Seed size predicts community composition and carbon storage potential of tree communities in rain forest fragments in India's Western Ghats Journal of Applied Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12626  0.394
2016 Varma V, Iyengar SB, Sankaran M. Effects of nutrient addition and soil drainage on germination of N-fixing and non-N-fixing tropical dry forest tree species Plant Ecology. 217: 1043-1054. DOI: 10.1007/S11258-016-0630-9  0.482
2015 Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Buckley YM, Cleland EE, Davies KF, Firn J, Harpole WS, Hautier Y, Lind EM, MacDougall AS, Orrock JL, Prober SM, Adler PB, Anderson TM, Bakker JD, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications. 6: 7710. PMID 26173623 DOI: 10.1038/Ncomms8710  0.549
2015 Marthews TR, Nelaballi S, Ratnam J, Sankaran M. Ecosystem Monitoring and Forest Census Studies in South Asia Current Science. 108: 1779-1782. DOI: 10.18520/Cs/V108/I10/1779-1782  0.429
2015 Wordley CFR, Sankaran M, Mudappa D, Altringham JD. Landscape scale habitat suitability modelling of bats in the Western Ghats of India: Bats like something in their tea Biological Conservation. 191: 529-536. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2015.08.005  0.461
2015 Varma V, Ratnam J, Viswanathan V, Osuri AM, Biesmeijer JC, Madhusudan MD, Sankaran M, Krishnadas M, Barua D, Budruk M, Isvaran K, Jayapal R, Joshi J, Karanth KK, Krishnaswamy J, et al. Perceptions of priority issues in the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India Biological Conservation. 187: 201-211. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2015.04.031  0.362
2014 Hautier Y, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Adler PB, Harpole WS, Hillebrand H, Lind EM, MacDougall AS, Stevens CJ, Bakker JD, Buckley YM, Chu C, Collins SL, Daleo P, Damschen EI, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature. 508: 521-5. PMID 24531763 DOI: 10.1038/Nature13014  0.469
2014 Lehmann CE, Anderson TM, Sankaran M, Higgins SI, Archibald S, Hoffmann WA, Hanan NP, Williams RJ, Fensham RJ, Felfili J, Hutley LB, Ratnam J, San Jose J, Montes R, Franklin D, et al. Savanna vegetation-fire-climate relationships differ among continents. Science (New York, N.Y.). 343: 548-52. PMID 24482480 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1247355  0.534
2014 Wordley CFR, Foui EK, Mudappa D, Sankaran M, Altringham JD. Acoustic identification of bats in the Southern Western Ghats, India Acta Chiropterologica. 16: 213-222. DOI: 10.3161/150811014X683408  0.363
2014 Osuri AM, Kumar VS, Sankaran M. Altered stand structure and tree allometry reduce carbon storage in evergreen forest fragments in India's Western Ghats Forest Ecology and Management. 329: 375-383. DOI: 10.1016/J.Foreco.2014.01.039  0.43
2014 Osuri AM, Madhusudan MD, Kumar VS, Chengappa SK, Kushalappa CG, Sankaran M. Spatio-temporal variation in forest cover and biomass across sacred groves in a human-modified landscape of India's Western Ghats Biological Conservation. 178: 193-199. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2014.08.008  0.437
2013 Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Buckley Y, Cleland EE, Davies K, Firn J, Harpole WS, Hautier Y, Lind E, MacDougall A, Orrock JL, Prober SM, Adler P, Alberti J, Anderson TM, ... ... Sankaran M, et al. Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology. 19: 3677-87. PMID 24038796 DOI: 10.1111/Gcb.12370  0.578
2013 Moustakas A, Kunin WE, Cameron TC, Sankaran M. Facilitation or competition? Tree effects on grass biomass across a precipitation gradient. Plos One. 8: e57025. PMID 23451137 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0057025  0.479
2013 Sankaran M, Augustine DJ, Ratnam J. Native ungulates of diverse body sizes collectively regulate long-term woody plant demography and structure of a semi-arid savanna Journal of Ecology. 101: 1389-1399. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12147  0.692
2013 Sankaran M, Mcnaughton SJ. Terrestrial Plant-Herbivore Interactions: Integrating Across Multiple Determinants and Trophic Levels Vegetation Ecology: Second Edition. 233-259. DOI: 10.1002/9781118452592.ch8  0.568
2012 Moustakas A, Wiegand K, Meyer KM, Ward D, Sankaran M. perspective: Learning new tricks from old trees: revisiting the savanna question Frontiers of Biogeography. 2. DOI: 10.21425/F5Fbg12335  0.382
2012 Velho N, Ratnam J, Srinivasan U, Sankaran M. Shifts in community structure of tropical trees and avian frugivores in forests recovering from past logging Biological Conservation. 153: 32-40. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2012.04.028  0.495
2011 Ratnam J, Bond WJ, Fensham RJ, Hoffmann WA, Archibald S, Lehmann CER, Anderson MT, Higgins SI, Sankaran M. When is a 'forest' a savanna, and why does it matter? Global Ecology and Biogeography. 20: 653-660. DOI: 10.1111/J.1466-8238.2010.00634.X  0.496
2010 Higgins SI, Scheiter S, Sankaran M. The stability of African savannas: insights from the indirect estimation of the parameters of a dynamic model. Ecology. 91: 1682-92. PMID 20583710 DOI: 10.1890/08-1368.1  0.39
2009 Srivastava DS, Cardinale BJ, Downing AL, Duffy JE, Jouseau C, Sankaran M, Wright JP. Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition. Ecology. 90: 1073-83. PMID 19449701 DOI: 10.1890/08-0439.1  0.428
2009 Cardinale BJ, Srivastava DS, Duffy JE, Wright JP, Downing AL, Sankaran M, Jouseau C, Cadotte MW, Carroll IT, Weis JJ, Hector A, Loreau M. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems: a summary of 164 experimental manipulations of species richness Ecology. 90: 854-854. DOI: 10.1890/08-1584.1  0.437
2009 Sankaran M. Diversity patterns in savanna grassland communities: Implications for conservation strategies in a biodiversity hotspot Biodiversity and Conservation. 18: 1099-1115. DOI: 10.1007/S10531-008-9519-9  0.473
2008 Ratnam J, Sankaran M, Hanan NP, Grant RC, Zambatis N. Nutrient resorption patterns of plant functional groups in a tropical savanna: variation and functional significance. Oecologia. 157: 141-51. PMID 18488252 DOI: 10.1007/S00442-008-1047-5  0.363
2008 Sankaran M, Ratnam J, Hanan N. Woody cover in African savannas: The role of resources, fire and herbivory Global Ecology and Biogeography. 17: 236-245. DOI: 10.1111/J.1466-8238.2007.00360.X  0.455
2007 Grace JB, Michael Anderson T, Smith MD, Seabloom E, Andelman SJ, Meche G, Weiher E, Allain LK, Jutila H, Sankaran M, Knops J, Ritchie M, Willig MR. Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecology Letters. 10: 680-9. PMID 17594423 DOI: 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2007.01058.X  0.373
2006 Cardinale BJ, Srivastava DS, Duffy JE, Wright JP, Downing AL, Sankaran M, Jouseau C. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. Nature. 443: 989-92. PMID 17066035 DOI: 10.1038/Nature05202  0.455
2005 Sankaran M, Hanan NP, Scholes RJ, Ratnam J, Augustine DJ, Cade BS, Gignoux J, Higgins SI, Le Roux X, Ludwig F, Ardo J, Banyikwa F, Bronn A, Bucini G, Caylor KK, et al. Determinants of woody cover in African savannas. Nature. 438: 846-9. PMID 16341012 DOI: 10.1038/Nature04070  0.636
2005 Bunker DE, Declerck F, Bradford JC, Colwell RK, Perfecto I, Phillips OL, Sankaran M, Naeem S. Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest. Science (New York, N.Y.). 310: 1029-31. PMID 16239439 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1117682  0.442
2004 Sankaran M, Augustine DJ. Large herbivores suppress decomposer abundance in a semiarid grazing ecosystem Ecology. 85: 1052-1061. DOI: 10.1890/03-0354  0.665
2004 Sankaran M, Ratnam J, Hanan NP. Tree-grass coexistence in savannas revisited - Insights from an examination of assumptions and mechanisms invoked in existing models Ecology Letters. 7: 480-490. DOI: 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2004.00596.X  0.382
1999 Sankaran M, McNaughton SJ. Determinants of biodiversity regulate compositional stability of communities Nature. 401: 691-693. DOI: 10.1038/44368  0.637
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