Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Biomass Energy Sythesis of Biofuels on Bioelectrodes Capturing Electrical Current via Microbes to Produce Methane Efficient, Highly Productive Hydrogen Production from Glucose Novel Mutants Optimized for Lignin, Growth and Biofuel Production via Re-Mutagenesis The Climate-Protective Domain Efficient Biomass Conversion: Delineating the Best Lignin Monomer-Substitutes Assembly of a Lignin Modification Toolbox Towards New Degradable Lignin Types 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 Advanced Electric Grid Grid Storage Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Efforts All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

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