Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change

A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses

(2017) Lyndon Estes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Revisiting the social cost of carbon

(2017) William D. Nordhaus   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use

(2017) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of the intensification of beef production in Brazil on greenhouse gas emissions and land use

(2016) Abmael S. Cardoso et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

How can the EU climate targets be met? A combined analysis of technological and demand-side changes in food and agriculture

(2016) David Bryngelsson et al.   FOOD POLICY

Grazing intensity significantly affects belowground carbon and nitrogen cycling in grassland ecosystems: a meta-analysis

(2016) Guiyao Zhou et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Hotspots of uncertainty in land-use and land-cover change projections: a global-scale model comparison

(2016) Reinhard Prestele et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon dynamics of mature and regrowth tropical forests derived from a pantropical database (TropForC-db)

(2016) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier

(2016) L. D. Estes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Soil carbon stocks after conversion of Amazonian tropical forest to grazed pasture: importance of deep soil layers

(2016) Clément Stahl et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Land use change to bioenergy: A meta-analysis of soil carbon and GHG emissions

(2015) Z.M. Harris et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation on Marginal Land: A Quantitative Review of the Relative Benefits of Forest Recovery versus Biofuel Production

(2015) Samuel G. Evans et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

From forest to cropland and pasture systems: a critical review of soil organic carbon stocks changes in Amazonia

(2015) Kenji Fujisaki et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do biofuel policies seek to cut emissions by cutting food?

(2015) T. Searchinger et al.   SCIENCE

Bioenergy crop greenhouse gas mitigation potential under a range of management practices

(2014) Tara W. Hudiburg et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Global patterns of ecosystem carbon flux in forests: A biometric data-based synthesis

(2014) Bing Xu et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

When enough should be enough: Improving the use of current agricultural lands could meet production demands and spare natural habitats in Brazil

(2014) Bernardo B.N. Strassburg et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Consequential LCA of two alternative systems for biodiesel consumption in Spain, considering uncertainty

(2014) Neus Escobar et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

(2014) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Global agriculture and carbon trade-offs

(2014) J. A. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States

(2014) G. Eshel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global soil carbon: understanding and managing the largest terrestrial carbon pool

(2014) Jörn PW Scharlemann et al.   Carbon Management

The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models

(2013) Hugo Valin et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Selection of appropriate calculators for landscape-scale greenhouse gas assessment for agriculture and forestry

(2013) Vincent Colomb et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

(2013) M. Herrero et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Highlighting continued uncertainty in global land cover maps for the user community

(2011) Steffen Fritz et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon after land-use change in the temperate zone - carbon response functions as a model approach

(2011) CHRISTOPHER POEPLAU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of US Maize Ethanol on Global Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Estimating Market-mediated Responses

(2010) Thomas W. Hertel et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Biofuels’ Indirect Land Use Change Are Uncertain but May Be Much Greater than Previously Estimated

(2010) Richard J. Plevin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The greenhouse gas value of ecosystems

(2010) KRISTINA J. ANDERSON-TEIXEIRA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impact of tropical land-use change on soil organic carbon stocks - a meta-analysis

(2010) AXEL DON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Trading carbon for food: Global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land

(2010) P. C. West et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology

(2008) Holly K Gibbs et al.   Environmental Research Letters

How much palm oil do we need?

(2008) R.H.V. Corley   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

(2008) Navin Ramankutty et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change

(2008) T. Searchinger et al.   SCIENCE