Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Biomass Energy Efficient Biomass Conversion: Delineating the Best Lignin Monomer-Substitutes Novel Mutants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via Re-Mutagenesis The Climate-Protective Domain Towards New Degradable Lignin Types Assembly of a Lignin Modification Toolbox Microbial Synthesis of Biodiesel Directed Evolution of Novel Yeast Species Genetic Engineering of Cellulose Accumulation Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Electricity Distribution & Infrastructure Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Projects All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports Solicitations

Research

The Climate-Protective Domain

September 2008 - August 2011

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