Publications

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List of published articles
id Author Year Title Journal doi
13 Ramírez-Mejía, A. F. et al. 2024 How much is enough? Optimizing beehive stocking densities to maximize the production of a pollinator-dependent crop Ecological Modelling 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110891
12 Monasterologo, M, Ramírez-Mejía, A. F., et al. 2024 Animal pollination contributes to more than half of Citrus spp. production despite the species and cultivar Scientific reports 10.1038/s41598-024-73591-6
11 Fontanarrosa G., ... Ramírez-Mejía, A. F. ... Piquer-Rodríguez M. 2024 Over twenty years of publications in Ecology: Over-contribution of Women reveals a new dimension of gender bias PLOS ONE 10.1371/journal.pone.0307813
10 Ramírez-Mejía, A. F. et al. 2024 Optimal pollination thresholds to maximize blueberry production Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 10.1016/j.agee.2024.108903
9 Ramírez-Mejía, A. F. et al. 2023 Landscape structure and farming management interacts to modulate pollination supply and crop production in blueberries. Journal of Applied Ecology 10.1111/1365-2664.14553
8 Nunes-Silva Patrícia, Ramírez-Mejía, A. F. et al 2023 Book - Blueberry: pollination and production in South America ISBN: 978-65-00-65347-2 10.5281/zenodo.7770381
7 Ramírez-Mejía, A. F. et al. 2023 Hummingbirds, honeybees, and wild insect pollinators affect yield and berry quality of blueberries depending on cultivar and farm's spatial context Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 10.1016/j.agee.2022.108229
6 Blendinger P G, Rojas T. N., Ramírez-Mejía A. F., et al. 2022 Nutrient balance and energy-acquisition effectiveness: do birds adjust their fruit diet to achieve intake targets? Functional Ecology 10.1111/1365-2435.14164
5 Ramírez-Mejía A. F., et al. 2022 The interplay of spatial scale and landscape transformation moderates the abundance and intraspecific variation in the ecomorphological traits of a phyllostomid bat Journal of Tropical Ecology 10.1017/S026646742100047X
4 Ramírez-Mejía A. F., et al. 2021 Activity and habitat use by understory birds in a native Andean forest and a eucalypt plantation Wilson Journal of Ornithology 10.1676/19-54
3 Ramírez-Mejía A. F., et al. 2020 Functional diversity of phyllostomid bats in an urban-rural landscape: a scale-dependent analysis Biotropica 10.1111/btp.12816
2 Ramírez-Mejía A. F., et al. 2016 Activity patterns and habitat use of mammals in an Andean forest and a Eucalyptus reforestation in Colombia Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 10.4404/hystrix-27.2-11319
1 Ramírez-Mejía A. F., et al. 2015 Non-volant mammals in a protected area on the Central Andes of Colombia: new records for the Caldas department and the Chinchiná River basin Check List 10.15560/11.2.1582

Articles under review

  • Ramírez-Mejía A. F., Mary De Aquino, Michael Castaño Díaz, Juliana Hinz Wolter, Henry S. Pollock, J. Patrick Kelley, Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni & Corey E. Tarwater. Biotic and abiotic factors directly and indirectly impact the structure of non-trophic networks across a rainfall gradient. Journal: Ecology. Role: first author

  • Laura Gómez-Murillo … Ramírez-Mejía A. F.…, Corey E. Tarwater. Rainfall alters network structure while fragmentation results in the breakdown of a mixed-species group of birds. Journal: Oikos. Role: coauthor, data analysis

  • Juliana Wolter … Ramírez-Mejía A. F.…, Rafael Dias. Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers modulate the functional diversity of frugivorous birds interacting with individual trees within a population. Journal: Ecosphere. Role: coauthor, data analysis

Manuscript in preparation

  • Kimberley Jordan … Ramírez-Mejía A. F.…, Corey E. Tarwater. Testing the space-for-time assumption: precipitation effects on avian body condition across scales. Role: coauthor, data analysis
  • Elizabeth Howard … Ramírez-Mejía A. F.…, Corey E. Tarwater. Testing long standing assumptions about army ant swarms: how profitability and dominance alter space use in birds. Role: coauthor, data analysis
  • Ramírez-Mejía A. F. Drivers of abundance-based rarity: the role of morphological traits, functional hypervolume and landscape context. Role: first author
  • Ramírez-Mejía A. F., A. Carolina Monmany, Roxana Aragón, Carolina Cuezzo, Natalia Ladino, Natalí Villalba, A. Carolina Jozami, Alberto Slanis, Mariano Lucia, Leopoldo Alvarez & Natacha P. Chacoff. Low opportunity cost areas in large-scale monoculture for pollinator conservatio. Role: first author
  • Ladino, N., Ramírez-Mejía A. F., et al. Morphometrics as a tool for undestanding morphological variation and supporting taxonomic decisions in Prionopelta Mayr 1866 (Formicidae: Amblyoponinae). Role: coauthor, data analysis
  • Ladino, N., Ramírez-Mejía A. F., et al. Optimizing measurement effort in taxonomic studies on Formicidae. Role: coauthor, data analysis

Code and online datasets

  • Ramírez-Mejía A. F., Chacoff N., Cavigliasso P., & Blendinger P. (2024). How much is enough? Optimizing beehive stocking densities to maximize the production of a pollinator-dependent crop. Ecological modelling, vol 498, article number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110891. GitHub repository: https://github.com/andres-frm/postdoc_cropPol

  • Ramírez-Mejía, Andrés F. (2023). Landscape structure and farming management interacts to modulate pollination supply and crop production in blueberries [code]. Journal of Applied Ecology. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10070657

  • Ramírez-Mejía, Andrés F. et al. (2023). Landscape structure and farming management interacts to modulate pollination supply and crop production in blueberries [Dataset]. Journal of Applied Ecology. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bg79cnphc

  • Ramírez-Mejía, A F.; Urbina-Cardona, J N; Sánchez, F (2020). Data from: Functional diversity of phyllostomid bats in an urban-rural landscape: a scale-dependent analysis [Dataset]. Biotropica. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x1p

Technical guides

  • Federico Fritz … Ramírez-Mejía, Andrés F, et al. 2025. Gestión de la biodiversidad en los agroecosistemas. 1a ed. - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Asociación Argentina de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola - AACREA, 2025. 120 p. ; 26 x 20 cm. ISBN 978-987-1513-33-8

Theses

  • PhD degree — (2018 - 2023). The step-by-step of pollination service in blueberry crops: patterns and mechanisms. Thesis advisors: Dr Pedro G. Blendinger; independent research CONICET, assistant professor UNT. Dr Silvia Lomáscolo; assistant researcher CONICET.

  • Master’s degree — (2015 - 2017) Seed dispersion and functional diversity of phyllostomid bats in an anthropogenic landscape: a multi-scale approach. Thesis advisors: Dr Francisco Sánchez; Universidad de los Llanos, Colombia. Dr J. Nicolás Urbina-Cardona; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia.

  • Undergraduate — (2008 - 2014) Activity, habitat use and richness of mammals in native forest and eucalyptus reforestations in the Colombian Andes. Thesis advisor: Dr Francisco Sánchez; Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

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