Jun 1, 2018New Paper: Social Factors and Urban Ecosystem ServicesWilkerson, M. L., M. G. E. Mitchell, D. Shanahan, K. A. Wilson, C. D. Ives, C. E. Lovelock, and J. R. Rhodes. 2018. The role of...
Jun 1, 2017A review of Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystem ServicesMost of us worry about climate change in one way or another, but not many of us explicitly consider its impact on ecosystem services....
Nov 12, 2016New Ways to Characterise the 3D Structure of Urban VegetationIf you go to the public parks around where you live, you will likely find that the structure of the vegetation differs substantially...
Sep 10, 2016The Importance of Landscape Structure for Urban Vegetation ComplexityCheck out Matthew Mitchell’s recent post on the Journal of Applied Ecology blog discussing our recent paper demonstrating that urban...
Aug 26, 2016Preserving Coastal Wetlands Under Sea Level RiseCan payments for ecosystem services fund climate change adaptation? Coastal wetlands, such as mangroves, can be lost due to sea level...
Jul 6, 2016Finding Effective Strategies for Koala RecoveryRecently we have been working on identifying recovery priorities for koala conservation in the face of climate change and other threats....
Jun 1, 2016Solutions for Freshwater ConservationCheck out our new Conversation article based on a recent paper of ours led by Chystal Mantyka-Pringle. In it we discuss some of the...
Mar 9, 2016Rules for Monitoring SpeciesDetermining which species to monitor is a critical question in conservation. Monitoring helps quantify changes in ecosystems and...
Feb 11, 2016A New Method for Quantifying Uncertainty for Landscape Genetics StudiesIn the past few years there have been some very nice advances in methods for estimating relationships between landcover and connectivity...
Oct 29, 2015The Rhodes Lab Visits Alice Springs for ESA2014 – Part 1Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...
Oct 9, 2015Understanding Biodiversity Synthesis: Insights from my visit to the iDiv centre in GermanyWhat is “Biodiversity Synthesis”? This question was pondered and debated in a summer school I recently attended, hosted by the German...
Aug 15, 2015Alternative Futures and Targets for BorneoA few months ago we published a paper (Runting et al 2015) in which we employ an integrated economic and environmental planning approach...
Jul 14, 2015Climate and Land cover Change Interact to Affect Conservation PrioritiesA few years ago we published a paper (Mantyka-Pringle et al. 2012) in which we used a meta-analysis to quantify empirically the effect of...
May 22, 2015How well do we know our biodiversity? A case study of wild mammals from ColombiaSpecies checklists provide basic information for taxonomic and geographic studies, and usually, are the first tool for those involved in...
Mar 5, 2015Dealing with overdispersion in ecological dataCheck out my chapter in Gordon Fox, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich, and Vinicio Sosa’s new ecological statistics book:...
Oct 31, 2014The Rhodes Lab Visits Alice Springs for ESA2014 – Part 3Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...
Oct 30, 2014The Rhodes Lab Visits Alice Springs for ESA2014 – Part 2Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...
Aug 2, 2014Conservation Gains, Trains and AutomobilesLast week I gave a presentation at the Australasian Network for Ecology and Transportation Conference in Coffs Harbour. I talked about...
Jul 10, 2014Understanding Koala Declines Using Citizen Science DataOne of the most challenging aspects of threatened species recovery planning is understanding the drivers of population declines over...
May 17, 2014New Methods and Rules of Thumb to Mitigate Road Impacts on WildlifeIn highly human modified landscapes, roads can be a major driver of species decline. They fragment the landscapes, increase mortality...