I am a interdisciplinary scientist specialising in social-ecological systems with a focus on ecosystem services as a lens to link social and ecological systems. My current focus is studying the spatial distribution of ecosystem services using a Public Participation GIS and biophysical modelling. In my work I integrate social-cultural values with biophysical values for ecosystem service mapping and identifying so-called social ecological archetypes. The motivation is to develop holistic approaches to inform planning and management decisions within an ecosystem services framework. I have engaged with a broad set of stakeholders from the project onset to assist in survey design and, disseminate and share findings.

Lecture

• Cusens, Jarrod (2023). Diverse ways to use PPGIS to map diverse values. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Eycott, Amy Elizabeth; Rozite-Arina, Ieva; Kerdoncuf, Morgane Alizee et al. (2023). Pathways to participatory research and knowledge co-production: notes from the ‘field’. (external link)
• Cusens, Jarrod (2023). The what and the where of people’s nature values in Nordhordland Biosfæreområde. (external link)
• Cusens, Jarrod (2023). Mapping ecosystem services in Nordhordland Biosfæreområde. (external link)
• Cusens, Jarrod; Donnellan Barraclough, Alicia May; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (2022). Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. (external link)
• Måren, Inger Elisabeth; Cusens, Jarrod; Barraclough, Alicia May Donnellan et al. (2021). Science for nature and people: celebrating the contributions of research to the Man and Biosphere Programme through 50 years . (external link)
• Cusens, Jarrod; Barraclough, Alicia May Donnellan; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (2021). Mapping the connections between people and Nature: participatory mapping of ecosystem services in a Nordic biosphere reserve. . (external link)

Academic article

• Cusens, Jarrod; Donnellan Barraclough, Alicia May; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (2023). Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles. (external link)
• Cusens, Jarrod; Donnellan Barraclough, Alicia May; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (2023). Socio-cultural values and biophysical supply: How do afforestation and land abandonment impact multiple ecosystem services?. (external link)
• Schrage, Jesse Benjamin; Donnellan Barraclough, Alicia May; Wilkerson, Brooke E et al. (2022). Developing positional awareness in sustainability science: four archetypes for early career scientists working in an SDG world. (external link)
• Barraclough, Alicia May Donnellan; Cusens, Jarrod; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (2022). Mapping stakeholder networks for the co-production of multiple ecosystem services: A novel mixed-methods approach. (external link)
• Cusens, Jarrod; Barraclough, Alicia May Donnellan; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (2021). Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. (external link)
• Barraclough, Alicia Donnellan; Cusens, Jarrod; Zweifel, Roman et al. (2019). Environmental drivers of stem radius change measurements and heterogeneity of stem radial water storage in the mangrove Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh.. (external link)
• Cusens, Jarrod (2012). What is the form of the productivity–animal species richness relationship? A critical review and meta-analysis. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Cusens, Jarrod; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (2023). Mapping the connections: an integrated approach to mapping Nature’s contributions to people in a Nordic biosphere. (external link)

Website (informational material)

• Donnellan Barraclough, Alicia May; Cusens, Jarrod (2023). Become Biosphere Reserves as Effective conservation measures website. (external link)
• Cusens, Jarrod (2021). Hva slags landskapstyper liker vi best? (blogg.forskning.no - Søkelys på skogplantning [Internet]). (external link)

Poster

• Cusens, Jarrod; Barraclough, Alicia May Donnellan; Måren, Inger Elisabeth (2021). How will afforestation impact on ecosystem services values in non-forested landscapes? A participatory mapping study in western Norway.. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Schrage, J., Barraclough, A. D., Wilkerson, B., Cusens, J., & Fuller, J. (2022). Developing positional awareness in sustainability science: four archetypes for early career scientists working in an SDG world. Sustainability Science. (Open access) [Link]

Barraclough, A. D., Cusens, J., & Måren, I. E. (2022). Mapping stakeholder networks for the co-production of multiple ecosystem services: A novel mixed-methods approach. Ecosystem Services, 56, 101461. (Open access) [Link]

Cusens, J., A. D. Barraclough, I. E. Måren. (2022). Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. People and Nature. 4(2), 365-381. (Open access) [Link]

Donnellan Barraclough, A. M., R. Zweifel, J. Cusens, S. Leuzinger. Disentangling the net: concomitant xylem and over-bark measurements reveal the phloem-generated osmotic adjustment behind daytime stem swelling in the mangrove Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. Functional Plant Biology, 46:5, 393-406. [Link]

Donnellan Barraclough, A. M., R. Zweifel, J. Cusens, S. Leuzinger. (2018). Daytime stem swelling and seasonal reversal in the peristaltic depletion of stored water along the stem of Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. Tree Physiology, 38:7, 965–978. [Link]

Tran, P., I. Gritcan, J. Cusens, A. C. Alfaro, S. Leuzinger. (2017). Biomass and nutrient composition of temperate mangroves (Avicennia marina var. australasica) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 51:3, 427-442. [Link]

Leuzinger, S., S. Fatichi, J. Cusens, C. Körner and P. Niklaus. (2015).The ‘island effect’ in terrestrial global change experiments - a problem with no solution? Special issue ‘Scaling effects regulating plant response to global change’ in AOB Plants. (Open access) [Link]

Gillman, L.N., S.D. Wright, J. Cusens, P.D. McBride, Y. Malhi and R.J. Whittaker. (2015). Latitude, productivity and species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, 107–117.  (Open access) [Link]

McBride P.D., J. Cusens and L.N. Gillman. (2014). Revisiting spatial scale in the productivity–species richness relationship: fundamental issues and global change implications. Special issue ‘Scaling effects regulating plant response to global change’ in AOB Plants. 6.  (Open access) [Link]

Cusens, J., S.D. Wright, P.D. McBride and L.N. Gillman. (2012). What is the form of the productivity–animal species richness relationship? A critical review and meta-analysis. Ecology, 93:10, 2241–2252. [Link]