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Overview

Indar W. Ramnarine is affiliated with the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Psychology, and Environmental Science.

Their main subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Research topics frequently addressed in their work cover Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Plant and Animal Studies, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Recent publications by Indar W. Ramnarine demonstrate a focus on behavioral ecology and animal interactions. Some of the papers include:

  • "Predatory behaviour as a personality trait in a wild fish population" (2020), published in Animal Behaviour
  • "Predation risk shapes the use of conflicting personal risk and social safety information in guppies" (2021), published in Behavioral Ecology
  • "Causal evidence for the adaptive benefits of social foraging in the wild" (2021), published in Communications Biology
  • "A Matador-like Predator Diversion Strategy Driven by Conspicuous Coloration in Guppies" (2020), published in Current Biology
  • "Sex and background risk influence responses to acute predation risk in Trinidadian guppies" (2023), published in Behavioral Ecology

Their frequent collaborators include G. E. Brown, Laurence E A Feyten, Adam L. Crane, Darren P. Croft, and Jens Krause.

Publication venues commonly featuring their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Behavioral Ecology, Animal Behaviour, Behavioural Processes, and Current Biology.

Best Publications

  • Behavioural trait assortment in a social network: patterns and implications

    Darren P. Croft;Darren P. Croft;Jens Krause;Safi K. Darden;Safi K. Darden;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Phenotypically plastic neophobia: a response to variable predation risk

    Grant E. Brown;Maud C. O. Ferrari;Chris K. Elvidge;Indar Ramnarine

  • Mechanisms underlying shoal composition in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata

    Darren P. Croft;Bethany. J. Arrowsmith;Jon Bielby;K. Skinner

  • Picking personalities apart: estimating the influence of predation, sex and body size on boldness in the guppy Poecilia reticulata

    Sanna Harris;Indar W. Ramnarine;Henrik G. Smith;Lars B. Pettersson

  • How Reproductive Ecology Contributes to the Spread of a Globally Invasive Fish

    Amy E. Deacon;Indar W. Ramnarine;Anne E. Magurran

  • How predation shapes the social interaction rules of shoaling fish.

    James E. Herbert-Read;James E. Herbert-Read;Emil Rosén;Alex Szorkovszky;Christos C. Ioannou

  • Balancing selection, random genetic drift, and genetic variation at the major histocompatibility complex in two wild populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

    Cock van Oosterhout;Domino A. Joyce;Stephen M. Cummings;Jonatan Blais

  • Inter‐population variation in multiple paternity and reproductive skew in the guppy

    Bryan D. Neff;Trevor E. Pitcher;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Experimental harvesting of fish populations drives genetically based shifts in body size and maturation

    Serinde J van Wijk;Martin I Taylor;Martin I Taylor;Simon Creer;Christine Dreyer

  • Learned mate recognition and reproductive isolation in guppies

    Anne E. Magurran;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Effect of gyrodactylid ectoparasites on host behaviour and social network structure in guppies Poecilia reticulata

    Darren P. Croft;Mathew Edenbrow;Safi K. Darden;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Sex ratio dynamics and fluctuating selection pressures in natural populations of the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata

    Lars B. Pettersson;Lars B. Pettersson;Indar W. Ramnarine;S. Anette Becher;Rajindra Mahabir

  • Sex matters: a social context to boldness in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

    Chantima Piyapong;Chantima Piyapong;Jens Krause;Ben B. Chapman;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Provenance and threat-sensitive predator avoidance patterns in wild-caught Trinidadian guppies

    Grant E. Brown;Camille J. Macnaughton;Chris K. Elvidge;Indar Ramnarine

  • Female behaviour mediates male courtship under predation risk in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

    Jonathan P. Evans;Jennifer L. Kelley;Indar W. Ramnarine;Andrea Pilastro

  • Divergent biodiversity change within ecosystems.

    Anne Elizabeth Magurran;Amy Elizabeth Deacon;Amy Elizabeth Deacon;Faye Helen Moyes;Hideyasu Shimadzu;Hideyasu Shimadzu

  • Back to school: can antipredator behaviour in guppies be enhanced through social learning?

    Jennifer L. Kelley;Jonathan P. Evans;Indar W. Ramnarine;Anne E. Magurran

  • Sperm transfer through forced matings and its evolutionary implications in natural guppy (Poecilia reticulata ) populations

    Jonathan P. Evans;Andrea Pilastro;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Intraspecific evidence from guppies for correlated patterns of male and female genital trait diversification

    Jonathan P. Evans;Clelia Gasparini;Gregory I. Holwell;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • High-predation habitats affect the social dynamics of collective exploration in a shoaling fish

    Christos C. Ioannou;Indar W. Ramnarine;Colin J. Torney

  • The Guppy as a Conservation Model: Implications of Parasitism and Inbreeding for Reintroduction Success

    Cock Van Oosterhout;Alan M. Smith;Bernd Hänfling;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Fear of predation drives stable and differentiated social relationships in guppies.

    Robert J. P. Heathcote;Safi K. Darden;Daniel Wayne Franks;Indar W. Ramnarine

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Krause
Jens Krause Technical University of Berlin
Darren P. Croft
Darren P. Croft University of Exeter
Anne E. Magurran
Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews
Grant E. Brown
Grant E. Brown Concordia University
Jonathan P. Evans
Jonathan P. Evans University of Western Australia
Christos C. Ioannou
Christos C. Ioannou University of Bristol
Alexander D. M. Wilson
Alexander D. M. Wilson Plymouth University
Bryan D. Neff
Bryan D. Neff University of Western Ontario
Douglas P. Chivers
Douglas P. Chivers University of Saskatchewan
Charles R. Tyler
Charles R. Tyler University of Exeter

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