Dr. Vijay Ramesh Dr. Ramesh is a postdoctoral research fellow at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. His research is focused on understanding how the environment shapes the ecology and behavior of tropical montane birds. Dr. Ramesh uses an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach that borrows from conservation bioacoustics, citizen science, and historical ecology. Specifically, he studies the role of climate and habitat in structuring bird communities of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. Previously, his work incorporating acoustic data showed how bird species have responded to ecological restoration. Additionally, he has worked with eBird data and historical datasets of species occurrence to identify how birds have responded to a century of global change. As a postdoctoral fellow, he explores how the environment—specifically, climate and vegetation structure—drives bird community assembly and acoustic structure along an elevational gradient in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot.