Jonathan R Rhodes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1572002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan R Rhodes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rhodes |
| SIGNATURE | RHODES J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6746-7412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Connecting habitats in European agricultural landscapes: Farmers’ spatial preferences for linear wildlife corridors
Farmers prefer to place measures to minimise disturbance and maximise productivity. • Landscape characteristics guide farmers’ decisions. • Habitat connectivity is a relevant concept for farmers. • Local farming traditions and practices are crucial. • The study results can help to reduce transaction costs by targeting likely adopters. Habitat fragmentation in agricultural landscapes threatens biodiversity. Enhancing landscape connectivity across …
Can conservation covenants help sustain nature and livelihoods? Factors associated with conservation covenant adopters in Australia
Biodiversity conservation on privately owned land often relies on the actions of individual landholders, such as participating in conservation covenant programs. Landholders' participation in conservation covenant programs depends on many financial and non‐financial factors and in many cases is closely linked to landholder livelihoods. We investigated whether landholders who participate in conservation covenant programs have different perceptions…
Integrate biodiversity and resilience into climate-driven forest restoration strategies for the Atlantic Forest
Performance of habitat offsets for species conservation in dynamic human‐modified landscapes
Biodiversity offsets are a popular policy tool for mitigating the impact of development on biodiversity, but the ecological success of offsets arise from complex interactions among socio‐economic, ecological and policy processes, making outcomes challenging to assess. Many offset policies use habitat surrogates to determine offset requirements, rather than using direct measures of impacted biota, and this can lead to poor outcomes for species. On…
Balancing livestock production and environmental outcomes in northern Australia’s tropical savanna under global change
Livestock production is an integral part of the global food system and the livelihoods of local people, but it also raises questions of environmental sustainability due to issues such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, biodiversity decline, land degradation, and water use. Further challenges to extensive livestock systems may arise from changes in climate and the global economy (particularly variation in prices for livestock and carbon). However,…
Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change
Effective private land conservation strategies that consider both landholder preferences and future climatic conditions are critical for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, the interaction and relative importance of these factors for conservation planning performance is unknown. Here, we assess the importance of considering landholder preferences and climate change for prioritising locations for conservation tenders to recruit la…
Redistribution of fishery benefits among commercial and recreational fishers caused by offsetting
Biodiversity offsetting is widely used to offset negative impacts of development on biodiversity. However, offsets can affect the distribution of benefits among beneficiaries, due to the redistribution of ecosystem services caused by impacts and offsets. Here, we compared the distribution of fishery economic benefits and losses to commercial and recreational fishers under two different offset policy rules: offset locations in close proximity to i…
Unravelling how collaboration impacts success of invasive species management
Invasive species cause severe threats to biodiversity and the economy, but often across multi‐actor landscapes. Therefore, collaboration among multiple actors across landscapes is often essential for managing invasive species. Deciding whether to collaborate depends on available resources and potential benefits. As such, it is vital to identify how different factors can influence the outcomes of collaborations. We developed and tested a conceptua…
Optimal allocation of nature‐based solutions to achieve climate mitigation and adaptation goals
Nature‐based solutions (NbS) can prevent further climate change and increase local communities' capacity to adapt to the current impacts of climate change. However, the benefits obtained from implementing NbS are not distributed equally across people. Thus, it is key to further understand how people are impacted when implementing NbS. We developed a multi‐objective prioritization approach to identify changes in (i) the biophysical provision of ec…
Exploring the role of boundary work in a social-ecological synthesis initiative
Inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental studies faces the challenge of communicating across disciplines to reach a common understanding of scientific problems and solutions in a changing world. One way to address current pressing environmental challenges is to employ a boundary work approach that uses activities across borders of separated field of research. But how can this look like in practice? In this research brief, we se…
Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences
Natural soundscapes experienced in parks are increasingly recognised as a valuable ecosystem service, yet urban parks soundscapes also commonly contain anthropogenic noise. While studies show bird calls can promote psychological restoration, the factors that might influence actual experiences of these sounds by individuals in urban parks are less clear. Equally, continual exposure to anthropogenic noise, such as vehicle traffic, is associated wit…
Flexible conservation decisions for climate adaptation
Creating past habitat maps to quantify local extirpation of Australian threatened birds
Habitat loss is driving the extirpation of fauna across Earth. Many species are now absent from vast areas where they once occurred in inhabited continents, yet we do not have a good understanding of the extent to which different species have been locally extirpated, nor the degree to which range contractions and habitat loss has contributed to this local extirpation. Here, for the first time, we use a combination of scientific literature, histor…
What does equitable distribution mean in community forests
Connecting governance interventions to ecosystem services provision: A social‐ecological network approach
The fulfilment of the benefits resulting from services provided by nature requires an integrated framework that combines appropriate ecosystem service governance with spatially explicit models of service provision. Here, we propose using a social‐ecological network approach to develop a ‘landscape governance framework’ that identifies how different types of governance can act on supply, demand and flow of ecosystem services through changes in lan…
Urban green space soundscapes and their perceived restorativeness
The positive influence of urban green spaces on human health and well‐being is well known while the pathways are little understood. Past research has largely focused on visual stimuli, yet the auditory pathway is also an important means for contact with nature. The sonic environments of urban green spaces, however, are rarely entirely natural and many differ in their composition of natural sounds and anthropogenic noise. Few studies have investig…
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection
Conservation decision-makers and practitioners increasingly strive for efficient and equitable outcomes for people and nature. However, environmental management programs commonly benefit some groups of people more than others, and very little is known about how efforts to promote equality (i.e. even distributions) and equity (i.e. proportional distributions) trade-off against efficiency (i.e. total net outcome per dollar spent). Based on a case s…
Ecosystem services at risk: Integrating spatiotemporal dynamics of supply and demand to promote long-term provision
Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services
Beyond the community in participatory forest management: A governance network perspective
Offsetting impacts of development on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Offsetting-trading losses in one place for commensurate gains in another-is a tool used to mitigate environmental impacts of development. Biodiversity and carbon are the most widely used targets of offsets; however, other ecosystem services are increasingly traded, introducing new risks to the environment and people. Here, we provide guidance on how to "trade with minimal trade-offs"- i.e. how to offset impacts on biodiversity without negatively …
Analyzing procedural equity in government-led community-based forest management
Friedman, R. S., J. R. Rhodes, A. J. Dean, E. A. Law, T. Santika, S. Budiharta, J. A. Hutabarat, T. P. Indrawan, A. Kusworo, E. Meijaard, F. A. V. St. John, M. J. Struebig, and K. A. Wilson. 2020. Analyzing procedural equity in government-led community-based forest management. Ecology and Society 25(3):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11710-250316
Assessing ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: The need for a more mechanistic approach
Policy-oriented environmental research: What is it worth
The seven lamps of planning for biodiversity in the city
Cities tend to be built in areas of high biodiversity, and the accelerating pace of urbanization threatens the persistence of many species and ecological communities globally. However, urban environments also offer unique prospects for biological conservation, with multiple benefits for humans and other species. We present seven ecological principles to conserve and increase the biodiversity of cities, using metaphors to bridge the gap between th…
Protected Areas and Local Communities: An Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies
Andrade, G. S. M., and J. R. Rhodes. 2012. Protected areas and local communities: an inevitable partnership toward successful conservation strategies? Ecology and Society 17(4): 14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05216-170414
Assessing ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: The need for a more mechanistic approach
The seven lamps of planning for biodiversity in the city
Cities tend to be built in areas of high biodiversity, and the accelerating pace of urbanization threatens the persistence of many species and ecological communities globally. However, urban environments also offer unique prospects for biological conservation, with multiple benefits for humans and other species. We present seven ecological principles to conserve and increase the biodiversity of cities, using metaphors to bridge the gap between th…
Offsetting impacts of development on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Offsetting-trading losses in one place for commensurate gains in another-is a tool used to mitigate environmental impacts of development. Biodiversity and carbon are the most widely used targets of offsets; however, other ecosystem services are increasingly traded, introducing new risks to the environment and people. Here, we provide guidance on how to "trade with minimal trade-offs"- i.e. how to offset impacts on biodiversity without negatively …
Beyond the community in participatory forest management: A governance network perspective
Back to the Future? Planning for environmental outcomes and the new Caring for our Country program
The Australian government Caring for our Country (CfoC) program, first announced in 2008, has sought to build on and enhance previous experience with Australian natural resource management policy. This paper critically examines the initial design, planned delivery, and first round of competitive funding outcomes of the new program. This analysis shows that the initial design and delivery of the CfoC model was ad hoc, politicised, and lacking in t…
Exploring the role of boundary work in a social-ecological synthesis initiative
Inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental studies faces the challenge of communicating across disciplines to reach a common understanding of scientific problems and solutions in a changing world. One way to address current pressing environmental challenges is to employ a boundary work approach that uses activities across borders of separated field of research. But how can this look like in practice? In this research brief, we se…
What does equitable distribution mean in community forests
Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services
Maintaining experiences of nature as a city grows
Sushinsky, J. R., J. R. Rhodes, D. F. Shanahan, H. P. Possingham, and R. A. Fuller. 2017. Maintaining experiences of nature as a city grows. Ecology and Society 22(3):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09454-220322
Back to the Future? Planning for environmental outcomes and the new Caring for our Country program
The Australian government Caring for our Country (CfoC) program, first announced in 2008, has sought to build on and enhance previous experience with Australian natural resource management policy. This paper critically examines the initial design, planned delivery, and first round of competitive funding outcomes of the new program. This analysis shows that the initial design and delivery of the CfoC model was ad hoc, politicised, and lacking in t…
Protected Areas and Local Communities: An Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies
Andrade, G. S. M., and J. R. Rhodes. 2012. Protected areas and local communities: an inevitable partnership toward successful conservation strategies? Ecology and Society 17(4): 14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05216-170414
Maintaining experiences of nature as a city grows
Sushinsky, J. R., J. R. Rhodes, D. F. Shanahan, H. P. Possingham, and R. A. Fuller. 2017. Maintaining experiences of nature as a city grows. Ecology and Society 22(3):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09454-220322
Policy-oriented environmental research: What is it worth
The seven lamps of planning for biodiversity in the city
Cities tend to be built in areas of high biodiversity, and the accelerating pace of urbanization threatens the persistence of many species and ecological communities globally. However, urban environments also offer unique prospects for biological conservation, with multiple benefits for humans and other species. We present seven ecological principles to conserve and increase the biodiversity of cities, using metaphors to bridge the gap between th…
Assessing ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: The need for a more mechanistic approach
Ecosystem services at risk: Integrating spatiotemporal dynamics of supply and demand to promote long-term provision
Do conservation covenants consider the delivery of ecosystem services
Beyond the community in participatory forest management: A governance network perspective
Offsetting impacts of development on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Offsetting-trading losses in one place for commensurate gains in another-is a tool used to mitigate environmental impacts of development. Biodiversity and carbon are the most widely used targets of offsets; however, other ecosystem services are increasingly traded, introducing new risks to the environment and people. Here, we provide guidance on how to "trade with minimal trade-offs"- i.e. how to offset impacts on biodiversity without negatively …
Analyzing procedural equity in government-led community-based forest management
Friedman, R. S., J. R. Rhodes, A. J. Dean, E. A. Law, T. Santika, S. Budiharta, J. A. Hutabarat, T. P. Indrawan, A. Kusworo, E. Meijaard, F. A. V. St. John, M. J. Struebig, and K. A. Wilson. 2020. Analyzing procedural equity in government-led community-based forest management. Ecology and Society 25(3):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11710-250316
Connecting governance interventions to ecosystem services provision: A social‐ecological network approach
The fulfilment of the benefits resulting from services provided by nature requires an integrated framework that combines appropriate ecosystem service governance with spatially explicit models of service provision. Here, we propose using a social‐ecological network approach to develop a ‘landscape governance framework’ that identifies how different types of governance can act on supply, demand and flow of ecosystem services through changes in lan…
Urban green space soundscapes and their perceived restorativeness
The positive influence of urban green spaces on human health and well‐being is well known while the pathways are little understood. Past research has largely focused on visual stimuli, yet the auditory pathway is also an important means for contact with nature. The sonic environments of urban green spaces, however, are rarely entirely natural and many differ in their composition of natural sounds and anthropogenic noise. Few studies have investig…
Trade-offs between efficiency, equality and equity in restoration for flood protection
Conservation decision-makers and practitioners increasingly strive for efficient and equitable outcomes for people and nature. However, environmental management programs commonly benefit some groups of people more than others, and very little is known about how efforts to promote equality (i.e. even distributions) and equity (i.e. proportional distributions) trade-off against efficiency (i.e. total net outcome per dollar spent). Based on a case s…
Urban park soundscapes: Spatial and social factors influencing bird and traffic sound experiences
Natural soundscapes experienced in parks are increasingly recognised as a valuable ecosystem service, yet urban parks soundscapes also commonly contain anthropogenic noise. While studies show bird calls can promote psychological restoration, the factors that might influence actual experiences of these sounds by individuals in urban parks are less clear. Equally, continual exposure to anthropogenic noise, such as vehicle traffic, is associated wit…
Flexible conservation decisions for climate adaptation
Creating past habitat maps to quantify local extirpation of Australian threatened birds
Habitat loss is driving the extirpation of fauna across Earth. Many species are now absent from vast areas where they once occurred in inhabited continents, yet we do not have a good understanding of the extent to which different species have been locally extirpated, nor the degree to which range contractions and habitat loss has contributed to this local extirpation. Here, for the first time, we use a combination of scientific literature, histor…
What does equitable distribution mean in community forests
Redistribution of fishery benefits among commercial and recreational fishers caused by offsetting
Biodiversity offsetting is widely used to offset negative impacts of development on biodiversity. However, offsets can affect the distribution of benefits among beneficiaries, due to the redistribution of ecosystem services caused by impacts and offsets. Here, we compared the distribution of fishery economic benefits and losses to commercial and recreational fishers under two different offset policy rules: offset locations in close proximity to i…
Unravelling how collaboration impacts success of invasive species management
Invasive species cause severe threats to biodiversity and the economy, but often across multi‐actor landscapes. Therefore, collaboration among multiple actors across landscapes is often essential for managing invasive species. Deciding whether to collaborate depends on available resources and potential benefits. As such, it is vital to identify how different factors can influence the outcomes of collaborations. We developed and tested a conceptua…
Optimal allocation of nature‐based solutions to achieve climate mitigation and adaptation goals
Nature‐based solutions (NbS) can prevent further climate change and increase local communities' capacity to adapt to the current impacts of climate change. However, the benefits obtained from implementing NbS are not distributed equally across people. Thus, it is key to further understand how people are impacted when implementing NbS. We developed a multi‐objective prioritization approach to identify changes in (i) the biophysical provision of ec…
Exploring the role of boundary work in a social-ecological synthesis initiative
Inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental studies faces the challenge of communicating across disciplines to reach a common understanding of scientific problems and solutions in a changing world. One way to address current pressing environmental challenges is to employ a boundary work approach that uses activities across borders of separated field of research. But how can this look like in practice? In this research brief, we se…
Performance of habitat offsets for species conservation in dynamic human‐modified landscapes
Biodiversity offsets are a popular policy tool for mitigating the impact of development on biodiversity, but the ecological success of offsets arise from complex interactions among socio‐economic, ecological and policy processes, making outcomes challenging to assess. Many offset policies use habitat surrogates to determine offset requirements, rather than using direct measures of impacted biota, and this can lead to poor outcomes for species. On…
Balancing livestock production and environmental outcomes in northern Australia’s tropical savanna under global change
Livestock production is an integral part of the global food system and the livelihoods of local people, but it also raises questions of environmental sustainability due to issues such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, biodiversity decline, land degradation, and water use. Further challenges to extensive livestock systems may arise from changes in climate and the global economy (particularly variation in prices for livestock and carbon). However,…
Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change
Effective private land conservation strategies that consider both landholder preferences and future climatic conditions are critical for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, the interaction and relative importance of these factors for conservation planning performance is unknown. Here, we assess the importance of considering landholder preferences and climate change for prioritising locations for conservation tenders to recruit la…
Environmental resource management (24 works) · Ecology (20 works) · Business (19 works) · Geography (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (14 works) · Environmental Science (13 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (10 works)