• Plant ecophysiology
• Vegetation modelling
• Evolutionary theory
• Human-natural systems
• Systems analysis

Educational Qualification: 

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India (2018)
  Thesis title: Spatial and coevolutionary dynamics of cooperation
  Thesis supervisor: Vishwesha Guttal
• Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (2011)
  BTech (with Honours) in Electrical Engineering, with Minor in Environmental Science, GPA: 8.8/10.0

Peer-reviewed journal articles

1. Franklin, O.*, Fransson, P., Hofhansl, F., Jansen, S., & Joshi, J.* (2023). Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought. Ecology Letters, 26(9), 1485–1496.

Significance: First theory to quantitatively predict optimal xylem hydraulic vulnerability with a single parameter.

2.  Joshi, J.*, Stocker, B. D., Hofhansl, F., Zhou, S., Dieckmann, U., & Prentice, I. C. (2022).
Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics. Nature Plants, 8(11), Article 11. 

Significance: First optimality-based theory that predicts the stomatal and biochemical
regulation of photosynthesis in response to atmospheric and soil moisture stress.

3. Harrison, S. P.*, Prentice, I. C., Bloomfield, K. J., Dong, N., Forkel, M., Forrest, M.,
Ningthoujam, R. K., Pellegrini, A., Shen, Y., Baudena, M., Cardoso, A. W., Huss, J. C., Joshi,
J., Oliveras, I., Pausas, J. G., & Simpson, K. J. (2021). Understanding and modelling wildfire
regimes: An ecological perspective. Environmental Research Letters, 16(12), 125008.

Contribution: contributed text explaining the resistance-resilience tradeoff axis and related plant strategies.

4. Harrison, S. P.*, Cramer, W., Franklin, O., Prentice, I. C., Wang, H., Brännström, Å., de Boer, H., Dieckmann, U., Joshi, J., Keenan, T. F., Lavergne, A., Manzoni, S., Mengoli, G.,
Morfopoulos, C., Peñuelas, J., Pietsch, S., Rebel, K. T., Ryu, Y., Smith, N. G., Stocker, B. D.,
Wright, I. J. (2021). Eco-evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and landsurface models. New Phytologist, 231(6), 2125–2141.

Contribution: contributed text explaining the use of eco-evolutionary principles beyond the leaf level, in the context of evolutionary dynamics and frequency dependent selection.
Significance: This paper lays out a framework for the next-generation vegetation models by leveraging eco-evolutionary optimality principles.

5. Joshi, J.*, & Sukumar, R.* (2021). Improving prediction and assessment of global fires using multilayer neural networks. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 3295.

Significance: First deep-learning model to predict global burned area. Our model outperformed most state-of-the-art process-based models.

6. Joshi, J.*, Brännström, Å., & Dieckmann, U. (2020). The emergence of social inequality in the spatial harvesting of ecological public goods. PLoS computational biology, 16(1), e1007483.

7. Joshi, J.*, & Guttal, V. (2018). Demographic noise and cost of greenbeard can facilitate
greenbeard cooperation. Evolution, 72 (12), 2595-2607.

8. Joshi, J.*, Couzin, I. D., Levin, S. A., & Guttal, V. (2017). Mobility can promote the evolution of cooperation via emergent self-assortment dynamics. PLOS Computational Biology, 13(9), p.e1005732. 

Significance: Contrary to previous belief, we showed how mobility can promote self-sorting of cooperators and therefore favour the evolution of cooperation.

9. Chaturvedi, R. K.*, Kulkarni, A., Karyakarte, Y., Joshi, J., & Bala, G. (2014). Glacial mass
balance changes in the Karakoram and Himalaya based on CMIP5 multi-model climate
projections. Climatic Change, 123(2), 315-328. 

Contribution: Provided multi-model climate change projections for the study area.

10. Bala, G.*, Joshi, J., Chaturvedi, R. K., Gangamani, H. V., Hashimoto, H., & Nemani, R. (2013). Trends and variability of AVHRR-derived NPP in India. Remote Sensing, 5(2), 810-829.

Contribution: Assembled data and performed the analysis. 

11. Chaturvedi, R. K.*, Joshi, J., Jayaraman, M., Bala, G., & Ravindranath, N. H. (2012). Multimodel climate change projections for India under representative concentration pathways. Current Science, 103(7), 791-802. 

Contribution: Assembled data and performed the analysis. 

12. Mulay, S. S., Joshi, J., Chati, Y. S., Unhelkar, V. V., Bandyopadhyay, S., Tamaskar, S.,
Bommanahal, M., Talnikar, C., Kumar, A. & Hablani, H. B., (2012). Attitude determination
and control of Pratham, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay’s first student satellite.
Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, 145, 1509-1528. 

Contribution: Designed the satellite control system, performed the analysis, and led the
group.

Books 

13. Kulakarnī, T., & Joshi, J. (2013). The Language of Logic: Navyanyāya Perspectives. Manipal University Press.

Preprints 

14. Joshi, J.*, Hofhansl, F., Singh, S., Stocker, B. D., Brännström, Å., Franklin, O., Blanco, C. C., Aleixo, I. F., Lapola, D., Prentice, I. C., & Dieckmann, U. (2023). Competition for light can drive adverse species-composition shifts in the Amazon Forest under elevated CO2 (p. 2023.07.03.547575). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.03.547575 

Significance: This paper presents Plant-FATE, the eco-evolutionary vegetation model that I have developed. For the first time, the model simultaneously predicts fluxes, size
distribution, and trait diversity in a hyperdiverse tropical forest with just 7 calibrated
parameters. 

15. Joshi, J.*, Zhang, L., Stefaniak, E. Z., Dieckmann, U., & Brännström, Å. (2023). libpspm: A feature-rich numerical package for solving physiologically structured population models (p. 2023.08.04.551683). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.04.551683

16. Flo, V.*, Joshi, J., Sabot, M., Sandoval, D., & Prentice, I. C. (2023). Incorporating
photosynthetic acclimation improves stomatal optimisation models (p. 2023.07.07.548137). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.07.548137

Contribution: Developed the optimality theory underlying this work and contributed metaanalysis data

17. Heinze, C.*, Blenckner, T., Brown, P., Fröb, F., Morée, A., New, A. L., Nissen, C., Rynders,
S., Seguro, I., Aksenov, Y., Artioli, Y., Bourgeois, T., Burger, F., Buzan, J., Cael, B. B.,
Yumruktepe, V. Ç., Chierici, M., Danek, C., Dieckmann, U., Fransson, A., Frölicher, T., Galli,
G., Gehlen, M., González, A. G., Gonzalez-Davila, M., Gruber, N., Gustafsson, Ö., Hauck, J.,
Heino, M., Henson, S., Hieronymus, J., Huertas, I. E., Jebri, F., Jeltsch-Thömmes, A., Joos,
F., Joshi, J., Kelly, S., Menon, N., Mongwe, P., Oziel, L., Ólafsdottir, S., Palmieri, J., Pérez,
F. F., Ranith, R. P., Ramanantsoa, J., Roy, T., Rusiecka, D., Santana Casiano, J. M., SantanaFalcón, Y., Schwinger, J., Séférian, R., Seifert, M., Shchiptsova, A., Sinha, B., Somes, C., Steinfeldt, R., Tao, D., Tjiputra, J., Ulfsbo, A., Völker, C., Wakamatsu, T., Ye, Y. (2023). Reviews and syntheses: Abrupt ocean biogeochemical change under human-made climatic forcing – warming, acidification, and deoxygenation. Biogeosciences Discussions, 1–131. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2023-182

Contribution: Contributed results and text related to impacts of ocean warming on the
Northeast Arctic cod fishery.

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