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Jonathan R. Rhodes

Jonathan R. Rhodes

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
60
Citations
16649
World Ranking
2268
National Ranking
176

Overview

Jonathan R. Rhodes is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans the disciplines of Environmental Science and Medicine, with a notable focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Neurology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work covers several main topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Economic and Environmental Valuation; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances; Wildlife Ecology and Conservation; Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies; and Forest Management and Policy.

Jonathan R. Rhodes has contributed to multiple publication venues frequently, including:

  • People and Nature
  • Journal of Neurotrauma
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

They collaborate regularly with several co-authors, among whom the most frequent are Marek Czosnyka, Nino Stocchetti, Ari Ercole, Frederick A. Zeiler, and Peter Smielewski.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan R. Rhodes include:

  • Global correlates of range contractions and expansions in terrestrial mammals, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Global conservation of species' niches, 2020, Nature
  • Considering landscape-level processes in ecosystem service assessments, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Beyond ecology: ecosystem restoration as a process for social-ecological transformation, 2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • The effects of urban greenspace characteristics and socio-demographics vary among cultural ecosystem services, 2020, Urban forestry & urban greening

Best Publications

  • Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions

    A. Guisan;R. Tingley;J. B. Baumgartner;I. Naujokaitis-Lewis

  • Zero tolerance ecology: improving ecological inference by modelling the source of zero observations

    Tara G. Martin;Brendan A. Wintle;Jonathan R. Rhodes;Petra M. Kuhnert

  • Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Chrystal S. Mantyka-pringle;Chrystal S. Mantyka-pringle;Tara G. Martin;Tara G. Martin;Jonathan R. Rhodes

  • Protected Areas and Local Communities: an Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies?

    Gustavo S. M. Andrade;Jonathan R. Rhodes

  • Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity

    Lenore Fahrig;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Joseph R. Bennett;Véronique Boucher-Lalonde

  • Reframing landscape fragmentation's effects on ecosystem services

    Matthew G.E. Mitchell;Andrés F. Suarez-Castro;Maria Martinez-Harms;Martine Maron

  • Climate change modifies risk of global biodiversity loss due to land-cover change

    Chrystal S. Mantyka-Pringle;Piero Visconti;Piero Visconti;Moreno Di Marco;Tara G. Martin;Tara G. Martin

  • Wildlife disease prevalence in human-modified landscapes.

    Grant Brearley;Jonathan Rhodes;Adrian Bradley;Greg Baxter

  • How should we grow cities to minimize their biodiversity impacts

    Jessica R. Sushinsky;Jonathan R. Rhodes;Hugh P. Possingham;Tony K. Gill

  • Making decisions for managing ecosystem services

    Maria Jose Martinez-Harms;Brett A. Bryan;Patricia Balvanera;Elizabeth A. Law

  • Minimizing the cost of environmental management decisions by optimizing statistical thresholds

    Scott A. Field;Andrew J. Tyre;Niclas Jonzén;Jonathan R. Rhodes

  • Incorporating climate change into ecosystem service assessments and decisions: A review

    Rebecca K. Runting;Brett A. Bryan;Laura E. Dee;Fleur J. F. Maseyk

  • Assessing ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: The need for a more mechanistic approach.

    Marie C. Dade;Matthew G.E. Mitchell;Clive A. McAlpine;Jonathan R. Rhodes

  • The importance of forest area and configuration relative to local habitat factors for conserving forest mammals: A case study of koalas in Queensland, Australia

    Clive A. McAlpine;Jonathan R. Rhodes;John G. Callaghan;Michiala E. Bowen

  • Birds in anthropogenic landscapes: the responses of ecological groups to forest loss in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    José Carlos Morante-Filho;Deborah Faria;Eduardo Mariano-Neto;Jonathan Rhodes

  • Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

    Natalie J. Briscoe;Jane Elith;Roberto Salguero‐Gómez;Roberto Salguero‐Gómez;Roberto Salguero‐Gómez;José J. Lahoz‐Monfort

  • Understanding and predicting the combined effects of climate change and land-use change on freshwater macroinvertebrates and fish

    Chrystal S. Mantyka-Pringle;Chrystal S. Mantyka-Pringle;Tara G. Martin;Tara G. Martin;David B. Moffatt;Simon Linke

  • The role of socio-economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services

    Marit L. Wilkerson;Matthew G.E. Mitchell;Danielle Shanahan;Kerrie A. Wilson

  • A SPATIALLY EXPLICIT HABITAT SELECTION MODEL INCORPORATING HOME RANGE BEHAVIOR

    Jonathan R. Rhodes;Clive A. McAlpine;Daniel Lunney;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Using integrated population modelling to quantify the implications of multiple threatening processes for a rapidly declining population

    Jonathan R. Rhodes;Chooi Fei Ng;Deidré L. de Villiers;Harriet J. Preece

Frequent Co-Authors

Clive McAlpine
Clive McAlpine University of Queensland
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Daniel Lunney
Daniel Lunney University of Sydney
Kerrie A. Wilson
Kerrie A. Wilson Queensland University of Technology
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch University of Sydney
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Martine Maron
Martine Maron University of Queensland
Tara G. Martin
Tara G. Martin University of British Columbia
Eve McDonald-Madden
Eve McDonald-Madden University of Queensland
Greg Brown
Greg Brown California Polytechnic State University

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