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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
71
Citations
21323
World Ranking
1294
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in India Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Raman Sukumar is a researcher affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the understanding of global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, genetics, atmospheric science, and ecology.

The main topics of Raman Sukumar's research cover several areas within environmental science and biology, including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Their publication record includes papers published in a variety of recognized venues, such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Advances in Space Research
  • Current Biology

Notable recent publications by Raman Sukumar include:

  • "Partial asynchrony of coniferous forest carbon sources and sinks at the intra-annual time scale" (2024, Nature Communications)
  • "Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories" (2021, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • "Local- and landscape-scale drivers of terrestrial herbaceous plant diversity along a tropical rainfall gradient in Western Ghats, India" (2023, Journal of Ecology)
  • "Mapping of understorey invasive plant species clusters of Lantana camara and Chromolaena odorata using airborne hyperspectral remote sensing" (2022, Advances in Space Research)
  • "The tail-tale of stress: an exploratory analysis of cortisol levels in the tail-hair of captive Asian elephants" (2021, PeerJ)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • H. S. Suresh
  • Rayees A. Malik
  • H. S. Dattaraja
  • Tarsh Thekaekara
  • Maurizio Mencuccini

Raman Sukumar was awarded the title of Fellow by The World Academy of Sciences in 2013, recognizing their contributions to scientific research.

Best Publications

  • Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species

    Richard S. Condit;Peter S. Ashton;Patrick J. Baker;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management

    Raman Sukumar

  • The living elephants : evolutionary ecology, behavior, and conservation

    Raman Sukumar

  • SPECIES-AREA AND SPECIES-INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS FOR TROPICAL TREES : A COMPARISON OF THREE 50-HA PLOTS

    Richard Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;James V. Lafrankie;R. Sukumar

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Predicting Population Trends from Size Distributions: A Direct Test in a Tropical Tree Community

    Richard Condit;R Sukumar;Stephen P Hubbell;Robin B Foster

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Ecology of the Asian elephant in southern India. II. Feeding habits and crop raiding patterns

    R. Sukumar

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Jerome Chave;Sean C Thomas

  • A brief review of the status, distribution and biology of wild Asian elephants Elephas maximus

    R. Sukumar

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • A δ 13 C record of late Quaternary climate change from tropical peats in southern India

    R. Sukumar;R. Ramesh;R. K. Pant;G. Rajagopalan

  • The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity.

    Richard Condit;Richard Condit;Peter Ashton;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;H. S. Dattaraja

  • Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

    Jérôme Chave;Richard Condit;Helene C Muller-Landau;Sean C Thomas

  • The management of large mammals in relation to male strategies and conflict with people

    R. Sukumar

  • Predicting species diversity in tropical forests.

    Joshua B. Plotkin;Matthew D. Potts;Douglas W. Yu;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin

  • Long term monitering of vegetation in a tropical deciduous forest in Mudumalai, Southern India

    R. Sukumar;H. S. Dattaraja;H. S. Suresh;J. Radhakrishnan

  • Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests

    Christopher Wills;Kyle E. Harms;Richard Condit;David King

  • The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management

    Phyllis C. Lee;R. Sukumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Sylvester Tan
Sylvester Tan Smithsonian Institution
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
George B. Chuyong
George B. Chuyong University of Buea
Robin B. Foster
Robin B. Foster Field Museum of Natural History
Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

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