Jorge Ramos Jr

All Publications

• Five Ways to Become a Science Advocate in 2020 Varga, M., Ramos, J., Valorie, A. Medium. https://medium.com/stem-and-culture-chronicle/five-ways-to-become-a-science-advocate-in-2020-d12d053b895. 2020
• Fourteen Recommendations to Create a More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Individuals in Academic Biology CBE—Life Sciences Education Cooper, K. M., et al 2020

  View details for DOI 10.1187/cbe.20-04-0062

• Y tú, de dónde eres? Ramos, J. Bay Nature Magazine. https://baynature.org/2020/08/19/natural-history-through-time/. 2020
• Tidal Saltmarshes Nature's Solutions to Climate Change Ramos, J. CEMEX Nature, http://www.cemexnature.com/libro/natures-solutions-to-climate-change/. 2019
• Consumption explains intraspecific variation in nutrient recycling stoichiometry in a desert fish ECOLOGY Moody, E. K., Carson, E. W., Corman, J. R., Espinosa-Perez, H., Ramos, J., Sabo, J. L., Elser, J. J. 2018; 99 (7): 1552–61

  Abstract

  Consumer-driven nutrient recycling can have substantial effects on primary production and patterns of nutrient limitation in aquatic ecosystems by altering the rates as well as the relative supplies of the key nutrients nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). While variation in nutrient recycling stoichiometry has been well-studied among species, the mechanisms that explain intraspecific variation in recycling N:P are not well-understood. We examined the relative importance of potential drivers of variation in nutrient recycling by the fish Gambusia marshi among aquatic habitats in the Cuatro Ciénegas basin of Coahuila, Mexico. There, G. marshi inhabits warm thermal springs with high predation pressure as well as cooler, surface runoff-fed systems with low predation pressure. We hypothesized that variation in food consumption among these habitats would drive intraspecific differences in excretion rates and N:P ratios. Stoichiometric models predicted that temperature alone should not cause substantial variation in excretion N:P, but that further reducing consumption rates should substantially increase excretion N:P. We performed temperature and diet ration manipulation experiments in the laboratory and found strong support for model predictions. We then tested these predictions in the field by measuring nutrient recycling rates and ratios as well as body stoichiometry of fish from nine sites that vary in temperature and predation pressure. Fish from warm, high-predation sites excreted nutrients at a lower N:P ratio than fish from cool, low-predation sites, consistent with the hypothesis that reduced consumption under reduced predation pressure had stronger consequences for P retention and excretion among populations than did variation in body stoichiometry. These results highlight the utility of stoichiometric models for predicting variation in consumer-driven nutrient recycling within a phenotypically variable species.

  View details for DOI 10.1002/ecy.2372

  View details for Web of Science ID 000436869900005

  View details for PubMedID 29882955

• Foundations and Frontiers of Ecosystem Science: Legacy of a Classic Paper (Odum 1969) ECOSYSTEMS Corman, J. R., Collins, S. L., Cook, E. M., Dong, X., Gherardi, L. A., Grimm, N. B., Hale, R. L., Lin, T., Reichmann, L. G., Sala, O. E. 2018: 1-13

  View details for DOI 10.1007/s10021-018-0316-3

• Maximising return on conservation investment in the conterminous USA. Ecology letters Withey, J. C., Lawler, J. J., Polasky, S., Plantinga, A. J., Nelson, E. J., Kareiva, P., Wilsey, C. B., Schloss, C. A., Nogeire, T. M., Ruesch, A., Ramos, J., Reid, W. 2012; 15 (11): 1249-1256

  Abstract

  Efficient conservation planning requires knowledge about conservation targets, threats to those targets, costs of conservation and the marginal return to additional conservation efforts. Systematic conservation planning typically only takes a small piece of this complex puzzle into account. Here, we use a return-on-investment (ROI) approach to prioritise lands for conservation at the county level in the conterminous USA. Our approach accounts for species richness, county area, the proportion of species' ranges already protected, the threat of land conversion and land costs. Areas selected by a complementarity-based greedy heuristic using our full ROI approach provided greater averted species losses per dollar spent compared with areas selected by heuristics accounting for richness alone or richness and cost, and avoided acquiring lands not threatened with conversion. In contrast to traditional prioritisation approaches, our results highlight conservation bargains, opportunities to avert the threat of development and places where conservation efforts are currently lacking.

  View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01847.x

  View details for PubMedID 22913646

• Ecological Society of America’s Initiatives and Contributions during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill BULLETIN OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Ramos, J., Lymn, N., Salguero-Gomez, R., Power, M. 2012; 93 (2): 115-116

  View details for DOI 10.1890/0012-9623-93.2.115

• The next generation of peer reviewing FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Zimmerman, N., Salguero-Gomez, R., Ramos, J. 2011; 9 (4): 199-199

  View details for Web of Science ID 000291927800001

• Special Session 5 Student Diversity: Trail Blazers in Transforming the Culture of Ecology BULLETIN OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Mourad, T., Rino, R., Berkowitz, A. R., Finley, A., Ramos, J. 2009; 90 (1): 103-108

  View details for DOI 10.1890/0012-9623-90.1.103

• SEEDS of a New Millennium BULLETIN OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Wong, C., Baquera, N., Colon-Rivera, R., Machona, B., McLaughlin, C., Ramos, J., Rivera, A., Sanfiorenzo, C., Face-Collins, M. S., Tooke, T., Vasquez-Radonic, L., Vickery, K. 2006; 87 (3): 225-228

  View details for DOI 10.1890/0012-9623(2006)87[225:SOANM]