PhD Candidate
Deakin Marine Research and Innovation Centre
Deakin University, Burwood campus
221 Burwood Hwy, VIC 3125
Alexandra's research
Alexandra has a master’s degree in science at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the last years worked as a leader of mangrove restoration projects at the Marine and Coastal Research Institute of Colombia (Invemar), where she developed more than ten projects related to the topic in Colombia. Among her main research interests is the development of ecological restoration models and techniques for coastal wetlands, monitoring, and metrics for the quantification of restoration success. She also is interested in addressing the human dimension of restoration and the relationships between communities, government, and science for the development of long-term and effective restoration strategies.
In the BCL, Alexandra’s research focuses on improving the decision-making process in mangrove restoration as a way to achieve cost-effective projects and the delivery of multi-stakeholder targets. For that purpose, Alexandra will identify trends in mangrove restoration and the current process to make decisions, existing and emergent multiple stakeholders’ values, views, and needs to set common mangrove restoration objectives. Also, her project will evaluate emerging trade-offs between nature climate solutions and sustainable development goals (SDGs) across blue carbon restoration case studies. Finally, she will develop a model of mangrove restoration prioritization based on a cost-effective analysis of a specific case study.
Keywords
Blue Carbon, coastal wetlands, mangroves, restoration, monitoring, sustainable development goals, nature climate solutions
Career Highlights
- BSc (First Class Honours) Biology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2006-2011)
- MSc (First Class Honours, Mention) Sciences, Biology. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2012-2015)
- Researcher Marine and Coastal Research Institute of Colombia “José Benito Vives De Andréis” – INVEMAR (2013-2017)
- Head of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems Rehabilitation, INVEMAR (2017-2022)
Selected publications
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J.A; Mancera-Pineda E., Tavera, H. 2021. Mangrove restoration in Colombia: Trends and lessons learned. Forest Ecology and Management 496: 119414 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119414
Rodríguez-Rodríguez J.A., J.E. Mancera Pineda, Melgarejo L., Medina-Calderon J. 2017. Functional Traits of Leaves and Forest Structure of Neotropical Mangroves under Different Salinity and Nitrogen Regimes. Flora 239: 52-61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2017.11.004
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J.A; E. Mancera; J. Rodríguez. Validation and application of an individual-based restoration model for three mangrove species in Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta. Caldasia 38(2): 285-299. https://doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v38n2.55360
Rodríguez-Rodríguez J.A., Pineda J.E.M., Trujillo L.V.P., Rueda M., Ibarra-Gutiérrez K.P. 2016. Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: The Largest Lagoon-Delta Ecosystem in the Colombian Caribbean. In: Finlayson C., Milton G., Prentice R., Davidson N. (eds) The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht.: DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_126-1
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J.A., Sierra-Correa P., Gómez C., Licero L. 2017. Mangrove of Colombia. In Finlayson C., Milton G., Prentice R., Davidson N. (eds) The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4001-3_280
Garcés-Ordoñez O., Rodriguez-Rodriguez, J.A., Espinosa Diaz, L., Escobar Toledo F., Del Valle D. 2021. Short-term response of water physicochemical parameters to the hydrological rehabilitation of channels in mangroves from Cispata, Colombian Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research 50(2):151-60. https://doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2021.50.2.1106
Millán, S., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, J.A, Sierra-Correa P. 2021. Delimitation and classification of coastal wetlands: Implications for the environmental management of the Colombian Continental Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research 50(1), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2021.50.1.994
Fernando Jaramillo, Lucía Licero, Imenne Åhlen, Stefano Manzoni, Jenny Alexandra Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Alice Guittard, Anna Hylin, Jiner Bolaños, James Jawitz, Shimon Wdowinski, Oscar Martínez & Luisa Fernanda Espinosa. 2018. Effects of Hydroclimatic Change and Rehabilitation Activities on Salinity and Mangroves in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia. Wetlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-018-1024-7
Luisa Fernanda Ricaurte, Jorge E. Patiño, Diego Fernando Restrepo Zambrano, Juan Carlos Arias-G, Oscar Acevedo, Cesar Aponte, Ruth Medina, Mauricio González, Sergio Rojas, Carlos Flórez, Lina M. Estupinan-Suarez, Úrsula Jaramillo, Ana Carolina Santos, Carlos A. Lasso, Andrés Alberto Duque Nivia, Santiago Restrepo Calle, Jaime Ignacio Vélez, José Humberto Caballero Acosta, Santiago R. Duque, Marcela Núñez-Avellaneda, Iván Darío Correa, Jenny Alexandra Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Sandra P. Vilardy Q, Adriana Prieto-C, Agustín Rudas-Ll, Antoine M. Cleef, C. Max Finlayson & Wolfgang J. Junk. 2021. Hydro-climatic changes of wet landscapes across the world. Scientific Reports 11: 2754. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81137-3
Fernando Jaramillo ,Amanda Desormeaux ,Johanna Hedlund James W. Jawitz D,Nicola Clerici ,Luigi Piemontese ,Jenny Alexandra Rodríguez-Rodriguez ,Jesús Adolfo Anaya, Juan F. Blanco-Libreros Sonia Borja 1,Jorge Celi ,Sergey Chalov ,Kwok Pan Chun ,Matilda Cresso ,Georgia Destouni, Shimelis Behailu Dessu,Giuliano Di Baldassarre Andrea Downing, Luisa Espinosa ,Navid Ghajarnia. Priorities and Interactions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Focus on Wetlands. Water 2019, 11, 619. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030619
Selected media
Mangrove Restoration Experience in Colombia
