New paper: Dealing with Uncertainty in Conservation Planning using Modern Portfolio Theory
Runting, R. K., H. L. Beyer, Y. Dujardin, C. E. Lovelock, B. A. Bryan, and J. R. Rhodes. In press. Reducing risk in reserve selection...
News
- Jul 15, 2018
New paper: monitoring multi-species systems
We have a new paper, led by Payal Bal, that is just out and features on the cover of latest edition of Methods in Ecology and Evolution...
- Jun 6, 2018
#CEEDTC2018
On 22nd May 2018 (World Biodiversity Day), a number of our lab members participated in the inaugural CEED Twitter conference on...
- Jun 1, 2018
New Paper: The Value of Research for Environmental Policy
Pannell, D. J., J. M. Alston, S. Jeffrey, Y. M. Buckley, P. Vesk, J. R. Rhodes, E. McDonald-Madden, S. Nally, G. Goucher, and T. Thamo....
- Jun 1, 2018
New Paper: Social Factors and Urban Ecosystem Services
Wilkerson, 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, 2017
A review of Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystem Services
Most 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, 2016
New Ways to Characterise the 3D Structure of Urban Vegetation
If you go to the public parks around where you live, you will likely find that the structure of the vegetation differs substantially...
- Sep 10, 2016
The Importance of Landscape Structure for Urban Vegetation Complexity
Check out Matthew Mitchell’s recent post on the Journal of Applied Ecology blog discussing our recent paper demonstrating that urban...
- Aug 26, 2016
Preserving Coastal Wetlands Under Sea Level Rise
Can payments for ecosystem services fund climate change adaptation? Coastal wetlands, such as mangroves, can be lost due to sea level...
- Jul 6, 2016
Finding Effective Strategies for Koala Recovery
Recently we have been working on identifying recovery priorities for koala conservation in the face of climate change and other threats....
- Jun 1, 2016
Solutions for Freshwater Conservation
Check 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, 2016
Rules for Monitoring Species
Determining which species to monitor is a critical question in conservation. Monitoring helps quantify changes in ecosystems and...
- Feb 11, 2016
A New Method for Quantifying Uncertainty for Landscape Genetics Studies
In the past few years there have been some very nice advances in methods for estimating relationships between landcover and connectivity...
- Oct 29, 2015
The Rhodes Lab Visits Alice Springs for ESA2014 – Part 1
Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...
- Oct 9, 2015
Understanding Biodiversity Synthesis: Insights from my visit to the iDiv centre in Germany
What is “Biodiversity Synthesis”? This question was pondered and debated in a summer school I recently attended, hosted by the German...
- Aug 15, 2015
Alternative Futures and Targets for Borneo
A few months ago we published a paper (Runting et al 2015) in which we employ an integrated economic and environmental planning approach...
- Jul 14, 2015
Climate and Land cover Change Interact to Affect Conservation Priorities
A 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, 2015
How well do we know our biodiversity? A case study of wild mammals from Colombia
Species checklists provide basic information for taxonomic and geographic studies, and usually, are the first tool for those involved in...
- Mar 5, 2015
Dealing with overdispersion in ecological data
Check out my chapter in Gordon Fox, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich, and Vinicio Sosa’s new ecological statistics book:...
- Oct 31, 2014
The Rhodes Lab Visits Alice Springs for ESA2014 – Part 3
Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...