Publications

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Beck, P. S. A., T.J. Wang, A.K. Skidmore, and X.H. Liu. 2008. Displaying remotely sensed vegetation dynamics along natural gradients for ecological studies. International Journal of Remote Sensing 29(14):4277-4283.

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Bowman, M.S., G.S. Amacher, and F.D. Merry. 2008. Fire use and prevention by traditional households in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecological Economics March.

Brando, P.M., D.C. Nepstad, E.A. Davidson, S.E. Trumbore, D. Ray, P. Camargo. 2008. Drought effects on litterfall, wood production, and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363:1839-1848.

Brown, I.F. 2008. Learning to question: the roles of multiple hypotheses, successive approximations, balloons and toilet paper in university science programs of southwestern Amazonia. Journal of Science, Education & Technology 13 March.

Davidson, E.A., T.D.D. Sá, C.J.R. Carvalho, R.D. Figueiredo, M.D.A. Kato, O.R. Kato, and F.Y. Ishida. 2008. An integrated greenhouse gas assessment of an alternative to slash-and-burn agriculture in eastern Amazonia. Global Change Biology 14:998-1007.

Devos, C., C. Sanz, D. Morgan, J.R. Onononga, N. Laporte, and M.C. Huynen. 2008. Comparing ape densities and habitats in Northern Congo: surveys of sympatric gorillas and chimpanzees in the Odzala and Ndoki regions. American Journal of Primatology 70:439-451.

Garcia-Montiel, D.C., M.T. Coe, M.P. Cruz, J.N. Ferreira, E.M. da Silva, and E.A. Davidson. 2008. Estimating seasonal changes in volumetric soil water content at landscape scales in a savanna ecosystem using two-dimensional resistivity profiling, Earth Interactions 12(2):1-25.

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Gómez, A., A.M. Kilpatrick, L.D. Kramer, A.P. Dupuis II, J.G. Maffei, S.J. Goetz, P.P. Marra, P. Daszak, and A.A. Aguirre. 2008. Land use and West Nile Virus seroprevalence in wild mammals. Emerging Infectious Diseases 14(6):962-965.

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Goward, S.N., J.G. Masek, W. Cohen, G. Moisen, G.J. Collatz, S. Healey, R.A. Houghton, C. Huang, R. Kennedy, B. Law, S. Powell, D. Turner, and M.A. Wulder. 2008. Forest disturbance and North American carbon flux. Eos 89:105-106.

Hackler, J., and J.P. Holdren. 2008. Walking the talk and walking the walk at the Woods Hole Research Center: Design and performance of an award-winning green headquarters. Journal of Green Building 3(1):3-13.

Holdren, J.P. 2008. Presidential Address: Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being. Science 319:424-434.

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Holmes, R.M., J.W. McClelland, P.A. Raymond, B.B. Frazer, B.J. Peterson, and M. Stieglitz. 2008. Lability of DOC transported by Alaskan rivers to the Arctic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 35. doi:10.10289/2007GL032837.

Houghton, R.A. 2008. Sinks, sinks, and more sinks. Ecology 89(1):292-293.

Houghton, R.A. 2008. Carbon flux to the atmosphere from land-use changes. In TRENDS: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN.

**Laporte, N., F. Merry, A. Baccini, S. Goetz, J. Stabach, and M. Bowman. 2008. Réduire les emissions de CO 2 du déboisement et de la degradation dans la République Démocratique du Congo: Un premier aperçu (Reducing CO 2 Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A First Look). Un réport préparé pour le treizième session de la Conférence des Parties (COP 13) de la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC). Falmouth, MA: Woods Hole Research Center.

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Marengo, J.A., C.A. Nobre, J. Tomasella, M.D. Oyama, G.S. Oliveira, R. Oliveira, H. Camargo, L.M. Alves, and I.F. Brown. 2008. The Drought of Amazonia in 2005. Journal of Climate 21(3):495-516.

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Nepstad, D.C., C.M. Stickler, B. Soares-Filho, and F. Merry. 2008. Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.0036

Plumptre, A.J., G. Picton Phillips, J. Stabach, N. Laporte, E. Ourum, S. Ayebare, R. Grosch, R. Knox, and T. Akuguzibwe. 2008. Modeling Factors that Predict the Distribution and Density of Ungulate Species in the Queen Elizabeth National Park: Preliminary Findings. Falmouth, MA: Woods Hole Research Center.

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Searchinger, T., R. Heimlich, R.A. Houghton, F. Dong, A. Elobeid, J. Fabiosa, S. Tokgoz, D. Hayes, and T-H. Yu. 2008. Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land Use Change. Science Express Reports 7 February. DOI: 10.1126/science.1151861.

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Stone, T.A. 2008. Paving, Floods and Forests. Northern Woodlands 15(2):18-19.

Woodwell, G.M. 2008. A new environmentalism: conservation and the core of governmental purpose. In Foundations of Environmental Sustainability, ed. L.R. Rockwood, R.E. Stewart, and T. Dietz, 415-422. Oxford University Press, New York.

Bauch, S.C., G.S. Amacher, and F.D. Merry. 2007. Cost of harvesting, transportation, and milling in the Brazilian Amazon: Estimation and policy implications. Forest Policy and Economics 9:903-915.

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Belk, E.L., D. Markewitz, T.C. Rasmussen, E.J.M. Carvalho, D.C. Nepstad, and E.A. Davidson. 2007. Modeling the effects of throughfall reduction on soil water content in a Brazilian Oxisol under a moist tropical forest. Water Resources Research 43, W08432. DOI:10.1029/2006WR005493.

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Bunn, A.G., S.J. Goetz, J.S. Kimball, and K. Zhang. 2007. Northern high-latitude ecosystems respond to climate change. Eos 88(34)333-340.

Canadell, J.G., D.E. Pataki, R. Gifford, R.A. Houghton, Y. Luo, M.R. Raupach, P. Smith, and W. Steffen. 2007. Saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink. In Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World, ed. J.G. Canadell, D. Pataki, and L. Pitelka, 59-78. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Canadell, J.G., C. Le Quéré, M.R. Raupach, C.B. Field, E.T. Buitenhuis, P. Ciais, T.J. Conway, N.P. Gillett, R.A. Houghton, and G. Marland. 2007. Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO 2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:18866-18870.

Cardille, J.A., S.R. Carpenter, M.T. Coe, J.A. Foley, P.C. Hanson, M.G. Turner, and J.A. Vano. 2007. Carbon and water cycling in lake-rich landscapes: Landscape connections, lake hydrology, and biogeochemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research 112.

CCSP. 2007. The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, ed. A.W. King, L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks. Asheville, NC: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center.

Coe, M.T., and C. Birkett. 2007. The Desiccation of Lake Chad. In Our Changing Planet: The View from Space , ed. M.D. King, C.L. Parkinson, K.C. Partington, and R.G. Williams, 326-328. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Coe, M.T., M.H. Costa, and E.A. Howard. 2007. Simulating the surface waters of the Amazon River Basin: Impacts of new river geomorphic and dynamic flow parameterizations. Hydrologic Processes 21. doi:10.1002/hyp.6850.

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Davidson, E.A. 2007. Dirt cheap soil. Nature 447:777-778.

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Davidson, E.A., and R.W. Howarth. 2007. Nutrients in synergy. Nature 449:1000-1001.

Davidson, E.A., C.J.R. de Carvalho, A.M. Figueira, F.Y. Ishida, J.P.H.B. Ometto, G.B. Nardoto, R.T. Sabá, S.N. Hayashi, E.C. Leal, I.C.G. Vieira, and L.A. Martinelli. 2007. Recuperation of nitrogen cycling in Amazonian forests following agricultural abandonment. Nature 447:995-998.

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Ferreira, J.N., M. Bustamante, D.C. Garcia-Montiel, K. Caylor , and E.A. Davidson. 2007. Spatial variation in vegetation structure coupled to plant available water determined by two-dimensional soil resistivity profiling in a Brazilian savanna. Oecologia doi: 10.1007/s00442-007-0747-6.

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Foley, J.A., G.P. Asner, M.H. Costa, M.T. Coe, R. DeFries, H.K. Gibbs, E.A. Howard, S. Olson, J. Patz, N. Ramankutty, and P. Snyder. 2007. Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5(1):25-32.

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Frey, K.E., J.W. McClelland, R.M. Holmes, and L.C. Smith. 2007. Impacts of climate warming and permafrost thaw on the riverine transport of nitrogen and phosphorus to the Kara Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research 112(g4): G04S58.

Gage, E., D.B. Dail, D.Y. Hollinger, E.A. Davidson, I.J. Fernandez, H. Sievering, A. White, and W. Halteman. 2007. Changes in canopy processes following whole-forest canopy nitrogen fertilization of a mature spruce-hemlock forest. Ecosystems 10:1133-1147 .

Gallagher, K.S., and J.P. Holdren. 2007. Sea change in the politics of climate. Washington Post Online 19 April.

Gallagher, K.S., G. Collantes, J.P. Holdren, H. Lee, and R. Frosch. 2007. Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector. Energy Technology Innovation Project Discussion Paper, Belfer Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 27 July.

Goetz, S. 2007. Crisis in Earth observation. Science 315(5820):1767.

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Goetz, S.J., C.A. Jantz, and N.E. Bockstael. 2007. Modeling the urbanization process across Maryland in the context of Chesapeake Bay restoration. In Smart Growth at Ten, ed. J.W. Frece. Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Cambridge, MA.

Goetz, S.J., S.D. Prince, and C.A. Jantz. 2007. Satellite maps of the Chesapeake watershed help to monitor urban sprawl. Chesapeake Bay Journal 17(4):20.

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Goetz, S.J., D. Steinberg, R. Dubayah, and B. Blair. 2007. Laser remote sensing of canopy habitat heterogeneity as a predictor of bird species richness in an eastern temperate forest, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment 108:254-263.

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Goetz, S.J., M.C. Mack, K.R. Gurney, J.T. Randerson, and R.A. Houghton. 2007. Ecosystem responses to recent climate change and fire disturbance at northern high latitudes: observations and model results contrasting northern Eurasia and North America. Environmental Research Letters 2:045031. (Selected among ERL's Best of 2007 papers.)

Gullison, R.E., P.C. Frumhoff, J.G. Canadell, C.B. Field, D.C. Nepstad, K. Hayhoe, R. Avissar, L. M. Curran, P. Friedlingstein, C.D. Jones, and C. Nobre. 2007. Tropical Forests and Climate Policy. Science 316:985-986.

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Hanson, P.C., S.R. Carpenter, J.A. Cardille, M.T. Coe, and L.A. Winslow. 2007. Small lakes dominate a random sample of regional lake characteristics. Freshwater Biology 52:814-822.

Holdren, J.P. 2007. Energy and sustainability. Science 315:737.

Holdren, J.P. 2007. Climate change: The sky is falling. An Interview. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists January-February 40-45.

Holdren, J.P. 2007. Threats to Civil Nuclear-Energy Facilities. In Science and Technology to Counter Terrorism: Proceedings of an Indo-U.S. Workshop, 61-70. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

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Holdren, J.P., et al. 2007. The Crisis in Earth Observation from Space. Statement by the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 28 April.

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Holdren, J.P., W.K. Reilly, Co-Chair; J.W. Rowe, Co-Chair; P.R. Sharp, Congressional Co-Chair; J. Grumet, Executive Director; M. Tatsutani, Editor; et al. 2007. Energy Policy Recommendations to the President and the 110 th Congress. National Commission on Energy Policy, 19 April.

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Houghton, R.A. 2007. Balancing the global carbon budget. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 35:313-347.

Houghton, R.A. 2007. The Carbon Cycle in Land and Water Systems. In The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, ed. A.W. King, L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks, 103-106. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC.

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Houghton, R.A., D. Butman, A.G. Bunn, O.N. Krankina, P. Schlesinger, and T.A. Stone. 2007. Mapping Russian forest biomass with data from satellites and forest inventories. Environmental Research Letters 2: 045032.

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Jantz, C.A., and S.J. Goetz. 2007. Can smart growth save the Chesapeake Bay? Journal of Green Building 2(3):41-51.

Keller, M., G.P. Asner, G. Blate, J. McGlocklin, F. Merry, M. Peña-Claros, and J. Zweede. 2007. Timber production in selectively logged tropical forests in South America. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5(4):213-216.

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Kellndorfer, J., W. Walker, K. Kirsch, D. Nepstad, N. Laporte, C. Stickler, P. Lefebvre, M. Shimada, and A. Rosenqvist. 2007. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): New Eyes in the Sky - Cloud-Free Tropical Forest Monitoring for REDD with the Japanese Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS). A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA.

King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks. 2007. Preface. In The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, ed. A.W. King, L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks, XIII-XVIII. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC.

King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks. 2007. Executive Summary. In The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, ed. A.W. King, L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks, XIII-XVIII. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC.

King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks. 2007. What Is the Carbon Cycle and Why Care? In The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle . A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, ed. A.W. King, L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks, 15-20. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC.

Laporte, N.T., J. A. Stabach, R. Grosch, T.S. Lin, and S.J. Goetz. 2007. Expansion of Industrial Logging in Central Africa. Science 316:1451.

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Laporte, N., F. Merry, A. Baccini, S. Goetz, J. Stabach, and M. Bowman. 2007. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): Reducing CO 2 Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in the Democratic Republic of Congo - A First Look. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA.

Li, K.Y., M.T. Coe, N. Ramankutty, and R. De Jong. 2007. Modeling the hydrological impact of land-use change in West Africa. Journal of Hydrology 337:258-268.

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McClelland, J.W., M. Stieglitz, F. Pan, R.M. Holmes, and B.J. Peterson. 2007. Recent changes in nitrate and dissolved organic carbon export from the upper Kuparuk River, North Slope, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 112 G04S60 doi:10.1029/2006JG000371.

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McGrath, D.G., O.T. Almeida, and F.D. Merry. 2007. The Influence of Community Management Agreements on Household Economic Strategies: Cattle Grazing and Fishing Agreements on the Lower Amazon Floodplain. International Journal of the Commons 1(1):67-87.

Mendoza, E., S. Perz, A. Chávez, G. Cullman, A, Duchelle, J. Luzar, M. Marsik, G. Alarcón, I.F. Brown, et al. 2007. The 'Knowledge Exchange Train': a model for capacity building for participatory governance in the south-western Amazon. Development in Practice 17(6):791-799.

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Nepstad, D. 2007. Climate change and the forest. Special Report The American Prospect September.

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Nepstad, D. 2007. The Amazon's Vicious Cycles. Drought and fire in the greenhouse. Ecological and climatic tipping points of the world's largest tropical rainforest and practical preventative measures. World Wildlife Fund. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia.

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Nepstad, D.C., I.M. Tohver, D. Ray, P. Moutinho, and G. Cardinot. 2007. Mortality of large trees and lianas following experimental drought in an Amazon Forest. Ecology 88(9):2259-2269.

*Nepstad, D.C., O. Carvalho, Jr., J. Carter, A. Moita, V. Neu, and G. Cardinot. 2007. Manejo e Recuperação de Mata Ciliar em Regiões Florestais da Amazônia. (Management and recuperation of riparian zone forests of Amazon forest regions). Belém, Brazil: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), 68 p.

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Nepstad, D., B. Soares-Filho, F. Merry, P. Moutinho, A. Rodrigues, S. Schwartzman, O. Almeida, and S. Rivero. 2007. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA.

Omenn, G., J.P. Holdren, D. Baltimore, et al. 2007. AAAS Board Statement on Climate Change. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 18 February.

Pacala, S., R.A. Birdsey, S.D. Bridgham, R.T. Conant, K. Davis, B. Hales, R.A. Houghton, J.C. Jenkins, M. Johnston, G. Marland, and K. Paustian. 2007. The North American Carbon Budget Past and Present. In The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, ed. A.W. King, L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks, 29-36. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC.

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Ramankutty, N., H.K. Gibbs, F. Achard, R. DeFries, J.A. Foley, and R.A. Houghton. 2007. Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation. Global Change Biology 13:51-66.

Raven, P., R. Bierbaum, J.P. Holdren, M. MacCracken, R. Moss, et al. 2007. Confronting climate change: Avoiding the unmanageable and managing the unavoidable. Sigma Xi / United Nations Foundation Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. 27 February.

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Raymond, P.A., J.W. McClelland, R.M. Holmes, A.V. Zhulidov, K. Mull, B.J. Peterson, R.G. Striegl, G.R. Aiken, and T.Y. Gurtovaya. 2007. Flux and age of dissolved organic carbon exported to the Arctic Ocean: A carbon isotopic study of the five largest arctic rivers. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 21 GB4011 doi:10.1029/2007GB002934.

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Saatchi, S.S., R.A. Houghton, R.C. Dos Santos Alvalá, J.V. Soares, and Y. Yu. 2007. Distribution of aboveground live biomass in the Amazon basin. Global Change Biology 13(4):816-837.

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Schwartzman, S., D. Nepstad, and P. Moutinho. 2007. Getting REDD Right. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia.

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Stickler, C., M. Coe, D. Nepstad, G. Fiske, and P. Lefebvre. 2007. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): Readiness for REDD - A Preliminary Global Assessment of Tropical Forested Land Suitability for Agriculture. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA.

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Stone, T. 2007. Pave paradise and look what happens. The Cape Cod Times 29 August.

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Stone, T. 2007. States start chipping at greenhouse gases. The Cape Cod Times 28 September.

Thieme, M., B. Lehner, R. Abell, S.K. Hamilton, J. Kellndorfer, G. Powell, et al. 2007. Freshwater conservation planning in data-poor areas: An example from a remote Amazonian basin (Madre de Dios River, Peru and Bolivia). Biological Conservation 135(4):484-501.

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UNEP, E. Braun, and WHRC. 2007. Reactive Nitrogen in the Environment: Too Much or Too Little of a Good Thing. Ed. C. Arden-Clarke and E. Davidson. United Nations Environment Programme, Paris.

Vera-Diaz, M. del C., R.K. Kaufmann, D.C. Nepstad, and P. Schlesinger. 2007. An interdisciplinary model of soybean yield in the Amazon Basin: the climatic, edaphic, and economic determinants. Ecological Economics July.

Walker, W.S., J.M. Kellndorfer, and L.E. Pierce. 2007. Quality assessment of SRTM C- and X-band interferometric data: Implications for the retrieval of vegetation canopy height. Remote Sensing of Environment 106(4):428-448.

Walker, W.S., J.M. Kellndorfer, E. LaPoint, M. Hoppus, and J. Westfall. 2007. An empirical InSAR-optical fusion approach to mapping vegetation canopy height. Remote Sensing of Environment 109:482-499.

White, D.M., L. Hinzman, L. Alessa, J. Cassano, M. Chambers, K. Falkner, J. Francis, W.J. Gutowski, M. Holland, R.M. Holmes, H. Huntington, D. Kane, A. Kliskey, C. Lee, J. McClelland, B. Peterson, S. Rupp, F. Straneo, M. Steele, R. Woodgate, D. Yang, K. Yoshikawa, and T. Zhang. 2007. The arctic freshwater cycle: changes and impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research 112:G04S54.

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Woods Hole Research Center. 2007. Three Essential Strategies For Reducing Deforestation. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA.

Alencar, A., D. Nepstad, and M del C. Vera Diaz. 2006. Forest understory fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and non-ENSO years: area burned and committed carbon emissions. Earth Interactions 10(6)1-17.

Alencar, A., D. Nepstad, and M del C. Vera Diaz. 2006. Forest understory fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and non-ENSO years: area burned and committed carbon emissions. Earth Interactions 10(6)1-17.

*Almeida, O., K. Lorenzen, e D. McGrath. 2006. A frota comercial pesqueira na Amazônia e o co-manejo no Baixo Amazonas. In Manejo de pesca na Amazônia, org.O. Almeida. Peirópolis, São Paulo.

*Almeida, O., K. Lorenzen, D. McGrath, e L. Amaral. 2006. O setor pesqueiro na economia regional. In Manejo de pesca na Amazônia, org. O. Almeida. Peirópolis, São Paulo.

Azevedo-Ramos, C., B.D. do Amaral, D.C. Nepstad, B. Soares Filho, and R. Nasi. 2006. Integrating ecosystem management, protected areas, and mammal conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecology and Society 11(2):17. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/art17/

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Borken, W., K. Savage, E.A. Davidson, and S. Trumbore. 2006. Effects of experimental drought on soil respiration and radiocarbon efflux from a temperate forest soil. Global Change Biology 12:177-193.

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Borken, W., E.A. Davidson, K.E. Savage, E.T. Sundquist, and P. Steudler. 2006. Effect of summer throughfall exclusion, summer drought, and winter snow cover on methane fluxes in a temperate forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38:1388-1395.

Bradley, B.A., R.A. Houghton, J.F. Mustard, and S.P. Hamburg. 2006. Invasive grass reduces aboveground carbon stocks in shrublands of the Western US. Global Change Biology 12:1815-1822.

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Brando, P., D. Ray, D. Nepstad, G. Cardinot, L.M. Curran, and R. Oliveira. 2006. Effects of partial throughfall exclusion on the phenology of Coussarea racemosa (Rubiaceae) in an east-central Amazon rainforest. Oecologia 150:181-189.

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Brown, I.F, W. Schroeder, A. Setzer, M. de Los Rios Maldonado, N. Pantoja, A. Duarte, and J. Marengo. 2006. Monitoring fires in Southwestern Amazonia rain forests. Eos 87(26):253-264.

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Bunn, A.G., and S.J. Goetz. 2006. Trends in satellite-observed circumpolar photosynthetic activity from 1982 to 2003: the influence of seasonality, cover type, and vegetation density. Earth Interactions 10:1-19.

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Campos, M.T., and D.C. Nepstad. 2006. Smallholders, the Amazon's new conservationists. Conservation Biology 20(5):1553-1556.

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