Stanford University - The Global Climate and Energy Project

Global Climate & Energy Project
STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Results and Publications

The Climate-Protective Domain

Start Date: September 2008

Investigator

Christopher Field, Department of Biology, Rosamond Lee Naylor, Julie Wrigley Senior Fellow in Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University; Gregory Asner, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution.

Annual Reports

Publications

Loarie, S. R., D. B. Lobell, G. P. Asner, and C. B. Field. 2011a. “Land-Cover and Surface Water Change Drive Large Albedo Increases in South America,” Earth Interactions 15, 1-16, doi:10.1175/2010EI342.1 (2011).
Loarie, S. R., D. B. Lobell, G. P. Asner, Q. Mu, and C. B. Field. 2011b. “Direct impacts on local climate of sugar-cane expansion in Brazil.” Nature Climate Change 1, 105-109, doi:10.1038/nclimate1067 (2011).
Asner, G. P., S. R. Loarie, and U. Heyder, “Combined effects of climate and land-use change on the future of humid tropical forests,”Conservation Letters 3, 6, 395-403, doi:10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00133.x (2010).
Georgescu, M., D. B. Lobell, and C. B. Field. “Direct climate effects of perennial bioenergy crops in the United States,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1008779108 (2011).
Lobell, D. B., K. G. Cassman, and C. B. Field. “Crop yield gaps: Their importance, magnitudes, and causes.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 34, doi:10.1146/annurev.environ.041008.093740 (2009).
Campbell, J. E., D. B. Lobell, and C.B. Field. “Greater transportation energy and GHG offsets from bioelectricity than ethanol.” Science, Vol. 324, No. 5930, pp. 1055-1057, doi: 10.1126/science.1168885 (2009).
Loarie, S. R., G. P. Asner, and C. B. Field. “Boosted carbon emissions from Amazon deforestation.” Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 36, No. 14, L14810, doi:10.1029/2009GL037526 (2009).
Field, C. B., J. E. Campbell, and D. B. Lobell. “Biomass energy: The scale of the potential resource.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 65-72, doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.12.001 (2008).
Campbell, J. E., D. B. Lobell, R. C. Genova, and C. B. Field. “The global potential of bioenergy on abandoned agriculture lands.” Environmental Science Technology, Vol. 42, No. 15, pp. 579-5794, doi:10.1021/es800052w (2008). uo; Environmental Science Technology, Vol. 42, No. 15, pp. 579-5794, doi:10.1021/es800052w (2008).

Updated June 2011