I am a transdisciplinary ecologist interested in the sustainable development and understanding where we as humans fit into the big ecological picture. My current work focusses on identifying, assessing and mapping ecosystem services in the newly designated UNESCO Nordhordland Biosphere. I am using co-creation methods incorporating both expert scientific knowledge and local participation.

I have a background in various research fields including macroecology and ecophysiology. In addition, I have worked for local government and consultancy during which I was involved in ecological restoration projects, ecological management and restoration planning for private clients and protected areas.

Konferanseforedrag

• Jarrod Cusens (2023). Mapping ecosystem services in Nordhordland Biosfæreområde. (ekstern lenke)
• Amy Elizabeth Eycott; Ieva Rozite-Arina; Morgane Alizee Kerdoncuf et al. (2023). Pathways to participatory research and knowledge co-production: notes from the ‘field’. (ekstern lenke)
• Jarrod Cusens (2023). The what and the where of people’s nature values in Nordhordland Biosfæreområde. (ekstern lenke)
• Inger Elisabeth Måren; Jarrod Cusens; Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough et al. (2021). Science for nature and people: celebrating the contributions of research to the Man and Biosphere Programme through 50 years. (ekstern lenke)
• Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Jarrod Cusens; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2025). How effective is a biosphere reserve? A way forward in allignment with the Global Biodiversity Framework.. (ekstern lenke)
• Janne Katharina Thomsen; Jarrod Cusens; Inger Elisabeth Måren et al. (2025). Impacts of large infrastructure developments on diverse values of nature: Insights from Nordhordland UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. (ekstern lenke)
• Jarrod Cusens; Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2021). Mapping the connections between people and Nature: participatory mapping of ecosystem services in a Nordic biosphere reserve.. (ekstern lenke)
• Jarrod Cusens; Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2022). Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. (ekstern lenke)

Annen presentasjon

• Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Jarrod Cusens; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2025). Side event: How effective is a biosphere reserve? A way forward in alignment with the Global Biodiversity Framework. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Jarrod Cusens; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2022). Mapping stakeholder networks for the co-production of multiple ecosystem services: A novel mixed-methods approach. (ekstern lenke)
• Jarrod Cusens (2012). What is the form of the productivity–animal species richness relationship? A critical review and meta-analysis. (ekstern lenke)
• Jesse Benjamin Schrage; Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Brooke E Wilkerson et al. (2022). Developing positional awareness in sustainability science: four archetypes for early career scientists working in an SDG world. (ekstern lenke)
• Alicia Donnellan Barraclough; Jarrod Cusens; Roman Zweifel et al. (2019). Environmental drivers of stem radius change measurements and heterogeneity of stem radial water storage in the mangrove Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh.. (ekstern lenke)
• Jarrod Cusens; Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2023). Socio-cultural values and biophysical supply: How do afforestation and land abandonment impact multiple ecosystem services?. (ekstern lenke)
• Jarrod Cusens; Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2021). Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. (ekstern lenke)
• Miguel Moreira; Luciana Frazão; Jarrod Cusens et al. (2024). Engaging participatory mapping for co-management and spatial depiction of nature’s contributions to people in the Portuguese biosphere reserves. (ekstern lenke)
• Jarrod Cusens; Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2023). Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles. (ekstern lenke)

Forelesning

• Jarrod Cusens (2023). Diverse ways to use PPGIS to map diverse values. (ekstern lenke)
• Inger Elisabeth Måren; Katja Malmborg; Ieva Rozite-Arina et al. (2024). Nature and local communities. (ekstern lenke)

Konferanseposter

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

Policyrapport

• Alicia May Donnellan Barraclough; Kewan Mertens; Jarrod Cusens et al. (2025). Accelerating the Global Biodiversity Framework by Strengthening Biosphere Reserves. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Jarrod Cusens; Inger Elisabeth Måren (2023). Mapping the connections : An integrated approach to mapping Nature’s contributions to people in a Nordic biosphere reserve. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig litteraturgjennomgang

• Janne Katharina Thomsen; Inger Elisabeth Måren; Jarrod Cusens (2025). Applying the ecosystem services framework in UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves: lessons learned and ways forward. (ekstern lenke)

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

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. doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/FP18155

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. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy021

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. doi: 10.1080/00288330.2016.1260604

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. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plv092. (Open access)

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. doi: 10.1111/geb.12245. (Open access)

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. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plu057. (Open access)

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. doi: 10.1890/11-1861.1