Staff Publications

2009

(* indicates publication is in Portuguese, ** indicates French)

Baccini, A., N. Laporte, S.J. Goetz, M. Sun, W. Walker, J. Kellndorfer, R.A. Houghton.  2009. Pan-tropical forest carbon mapped with satellite and field observations. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties (COP), Fifteenth session and Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), Fifth session and sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies, 7-18 December 2009, Cophenagen, Denmark. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA. November.

Barra Martínez, F.P., A. Centellas Quezada, P. Zuidema, and I.F. Brown. 2009. Detection of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) in the Bolivian Amazon via satellite imagery. Anais XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Natal, Brasil, 25-30 April. INPE. 2547-2554.

Bergen, K.M., S.J. Goetz, R.O. Dubayah, G.M. Henebry, C.T. Hunsaker, M.L. Imhoff, R.F. Nelson, G.G. Parker, and V.C. Radeloff. 2009. Remote sensing of vegetation 3-D structure for biodiversity and habitat: Review and implications for lidar and radar spaceborne missions.  Journal of Geophysical Research 114 G00E06, doi:10.1029/2008JG000883.

Brown, I.F. 2009. Reduction of Disaster Risk as a Means of Development. Op-Ed. A Gazeta Rio Branco. 1 August C1-7.

Brown, I.F., M. Silveira, and E. Mendoza. 2009. REDD, Climate and the Vulnerable Forests of Southwestern Amazonia. Op-Ed. A Gazeta Rio Branco. 28 May C1-2.

Busch, J., B. Strassbourg, A. Cattaneo, R. Luboski, A. Bruner, R. Rice, A. Creed, R. Ashton, and F. Boltz. 2009. Comparing climate and cost impacts of reference levels for reducing emissions from deforestation. Environmental Research Letters 4:044006. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044006

Canadell, J.G., M.R. Raupach, and R.A. Houghton. 2009. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions in Africa. Biogeosciences 6:463-468.

Clark, C.J., J.R. Poulsen, R. Malonga, and P.W. Elkan, Jr. 2009. Logging Concessions Can Extend the Conservation Estate for Central African Tropical Forests. Conservation Biology 23(5):1281–1293. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01243.x

Coe, M.T., M.H. Costa, and B.S. Soares-Filho. 2009. The Influence of Historical and Potential Future Deforestation on the Stream Flow of the Amazon River -- Land Surface Processes and Atmospheric Feedbacks. Journal of Hydrology doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.02.043

Costa, M.H., M.T. Coe, and J-L Guyot. 2009. Effects of Climatic Variability and Deforestation on Surface Water Regimes. In Amazonia and Global Change. American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph Series, V. 186. Ed. M. Keller, M. Bustamante, J. Gash, and P. Silva Dias. 576 pp.

Crump, B.C., B.J. Peterson, P.A. Raymond, R.M.W. Amon, A. Rinehart, J.W. McClelland, and R.M. Holmes.  2009.  Circumpolar synchrony in big river bacterioplankton.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi/10.1073/pnas.0906149106.

Davidson, E.A. 2009. The contribution of manure and fertilizer nitrogen to atmospheric nitrous oxide since 1860. Nature Geoscience September doi:10.1038/ngeo608

Davidson, E.A., and N.M. Holbrook. 2009. Is temporal variation of soil respiration linked to the phenology of photosynthesis? In Phenology of Ecosystem Processes, ed. A. Noormets, 187-199. New York: Springer.

Davidson, E.A., and L.A. Martinelli. 2009. Nutrient limitations to secondary forest regrowth. In Amazonia and Global Change, ed. M. Keller, M. Bustamante, J. Gash, and P. Silva Dias, 299-310. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.

Ferreira, J., M.de C. Bustamante, and E.A. Davidson. 2009. Linking woody species diversity with plant available water at a landscape scale in a Brazilian savanna. Journal of Vegetation Science 20:826–835.

Fonseca, P.A.M., I.F. Brown,  H.L. Fuentes Ney, N. Dantas, E. Raez Luna, A.W. Flores de Melo, and F. Quental. 2009.  Monitoring hot pixels, fire risk, rainfall and weather forecasting in southwestern Amazonia: the experience of daily bulletins for the MAP Region (Madre de Dios-Peru, Acre-Brazil, Pando-Bolívia). Anais XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Natal, Brasil, 25-30 April. INPE. 5227-5233.

Gloor, M., O.L. Phillips, J.J. Lloyd, S.L. Lewis, Y. Malhi, T.R. Baker, G. López-Gonzalez, J. Peacock, S. Almeida, A.C. Alves de Oliveira, E. Alvarez, I. Amaral, L. Arroyo, G. Aymard, O. Bank, L. Blanc, D. Bonal, P. Brando, K.-J. Chao, J. Chave, N. Dávila, T. Erwin, J. Silva, A. DiFiore, T.R. Feldpausch, A. Freitas, R. Herrera, N. Higuchi, E. Honorio, E. Jiménez, T. Killeen, W. Laurance, C. Mendoza, A. Monteagudo, A. Andrade, D. Neill, D. Nepstad, P. Núñez Vargas, M.C. Peñuela, A. Peña Cruz, A Prieto, N. Pitnam, C. Quesada, R. Salomão, M. Silveira, M. Schwarz, J. Stropp, F. Ramírez, H. Ramírez, A. Rudas, H. ter Steege, N. Silva, A. Torres, J. Terborgh, R. Vásquez, and G. van der Heijden.  2009. Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data? Global Change Biology 15(10):2418–2430. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01891.x

Goetz, S. 2009. Thawing, browning, burning—the boreal forest of the 21st century.  Book review. Ecology 90(7):2021–2022.

Goetz, S.J., and P.S.A. Beck. 2009. Recent changes in boreal and Arctic vegetation and their feedbacks to the climate system. iLEAPS Newsletter 8:16-19.

Goetz, S.J., A. Baccini, N.T. Laporte, T. Johns, W. Walker, J. Kellndorfer, R.A. Houghton, and M. Sun. 2009. Mapping and monitoring carbon stocks with satellite observations: a comparison of methods. Carbon Balance and Management 4:2.

Goetz, S. J., P. Jantz, and C.A. Jantz. 2009. Connectivity of core habitat in the Northeastern United States: Parks and protected areas in a landscape context. Remote Sensing of Environment 113:1421–1429.

Graham, C.H., and S.J. Goetz. 2009. Remote sensing and geographic information systems. In The Princeton Guide to Ecology, ed. S. Levin, 79-86. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Gross, J.E., S.J. Goetz, and J. Cihlar. 2009. Application of remote sensing to parks and protected area monitoring: Introduction to the special issue. Remote Sensing of Environment 113:1343–1345.

Holmes, R.M., K.E. Frey, and S. Zimov. 2009. A field course in the Siberian Arctic: 30 days, 20 people, 3 continents, 1 barge.  EOS 90:222-223.

Houghton, R.A. 2009. Terrestrial carbon and biogeochemical cycles. In The Princeton Guide to Ecology, ed. S. Levin, 340-346. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Houghton, R.A., F. Hall, and S.J. Goetz. 2009.  Importance of biomass in the global carbon cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research 114, G00E03, doi:10.1029/2009JG000935.

Houghton, R.A., M. Gloor, J. Lloyd, and C. Potter. 2009. The regional carbon budget. In Amazonia and Global Change, Geophysical Monograph Series 186, ed. M. Keller, M. Bustamante, J. Gash, and P.S. Dias, 409-428. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.

Jantz, C.A., S.J. Goetz, D. Donato, and P. Claggett. 2009. Designing and implementing a regional urban modeling system using the SLEUTH cellular urban model. Computers, Environment and Urban Systemsdoi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2009.08.003

Kellndorfer, J.M., and K.C. McDonald. 2009. Active and Passive Microwave Systems. In The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing, ed. T.A. Warner, M.D. Nellis, and G.M. Foody, 179-199. London: Sage Publications Ltd.

Le Quéré, C., M.R. Raupach, J.G. Canadell, G. Marland, L. Bopp, P. Ciais, T.J. Conway, S.C. Doney, R.A. Feely, P. Foster, P. Friedlingstein, K. Gurney, R.A. Houghton, J.I. House, C. Huntingford, P.E. Levy, M.R. Lomas, J. Majkut, N. Metzl, J.P. Ometto, G.P. Peters, I.C. Prentice, J.T. Randerson, S.W. Running, J.L. Sarmiento, U. Schuster, S. Sitch, T. Takahashi, N. Viovy, G.R. van der Werf, and F.I. Woodward. 2009. Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide. Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/ngeo689

Loranty, M. 2009. Taking the Pulse of the Forest. LiveScience March.

Malhi, Y. and E.A. Davidson. 2009. Biogeochemistry and ecology of terrestrial ecosystems of Amazonia. In Amazonia and Global Change, ed. M. Keller, M. Bustamante, J. Gash, and P. Silva Dias, 293-298. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.

*Martins, O. S., A. Alencar, C. Stickler, P. Moutinho, R. Rettmann, E. Pinto, and  I. de Castro. 2009. Pavimentando o caminho do REDD na Amazônia Brasileira. (Paving the REDD Road in the Brazilian Amazon.) IPAM.

Meir, P., P.M. Brando, D. Nepstad, S. Vansconcelos, A.C.L. Costa, E. Davidson, S. Almeida, R.A. Fisher, E.D. Sotta, D. Zarin, and G. Cardinot. 2009. The effects of drought on Amazonian rain forests. In Amazonia and Global Change, Ed. M. Keller, M. Bustamante, J. Gash, and P. Silva Dias, 429-449. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.

Nepstad, D.  B.S. Soares-Filho, F. Merry, A. Lima, P. Moutinho, J. Carter, M. Bowman, A. Cattaneo, H. Rodrigues, S. Schwartzman, D.G. McGrath, C.M. Stickler, R. Lubowski, P. Piris-Cabezas, S. Rivero, A. Alencar, O. Almeida, and O. Stella. 2009. The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Science 326:1350-1351.

Pantoja, N.V., and I.F. Brown. 2009. Estimates of areas affected by fire in eastern Acre associated with the 2005 drought. Anais XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Natal, Brasil, 25-30 April. INPE. 6029-6036.

Poulsen, J.R., C.J. Clark, G. Mavah, and P.W. Elkan. 2009.  Bushmeat Supply and Consumption in a Tropical Logging Concession in Northern Congo. Conservation Biology 23(6):1597–1608.

Savage, K.E., E.A. Davidson, A. Richardson, and D.Y. Hollinger. 2009. Three scales of temporal resolution from automated soil respiration. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149:2012-2021.

Schwartzman, S., and P. Moutinho. 2009. Amazon Forest and Climate Change: compensating for deforestation Reduction. In Forests and Climate Change. Will Emission Trading Make a Difference? Ed. C. Streck and R. O’ Sullivan. Oxford University Press.

Shimabukuro, Y.E., V. Duarte, E. Arai, R.M. Freitas, A. Lima, D. Valeriano, I.F. Brown, and M.L.R. Maldonado. 2009. Fraction images derived from Terra Modis data for mapping burnt areas in Brazilian Amazonia. International Journal of Remote Sensing 30(6):1537-1546.

*Soares Filho, B., L. Dietzsch, P. Moutinho, A. Falieri, H. Rodrigues, E. Pinto, C. C. Maretti, K. Suassuna, C.A. de M. Scaramuzza, M. Lanna, and F.V. de Araújo. 2009.  Redução das emissões de carbono do desmatamento no Brasil: o papel do programa Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia (ARPA) (Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation: the Role of ARPA’s Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazon). IPAM.

Stabach, J., L. Dabek, R. Jensen, and Y.Q. Wang. 2009. Discrimination of dominant forest types for Matschie's tree kangaroo conservation in Papua New Guinea using high resolution remote sensing data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 30(1-2):405-422.

Stabach, J., N. Laporte, and W. Olupot. 2009. Modeling habitat suitability for Grey Crowned-cranes (Balearica regulorum gibbericep) throughout Uganda. Biodiversity and Conservation 1(5):177-186.

Steinberg, D.C., and S.J. Goetz. 2009. Assessment and extension of the MODIS FPAR products in temperate forests of the eastern United States. International Journal of Remote Sensing 30(19):169-187.

Stickler, C.M., D.C. Nepstad, M.T. Coe, D.G. McGrath, H.O. Rodrigues, W.S. Walker, B.S. Soares-Filho, and E.A. Davidson. 2009. The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region. Global Change Biology 15:2803–2824.

Stone, T.A. 2009. The price of CO2. Coastlines. Chamber of Commerce, Falmouth, MA. February; 5.

Stone, T.A. 2009. Avoiding the worst case of climate change. The Cape Cod Times 26 May.

**Tatem, A., S. Goetz, and S. Hay. 2009. Un demi-siècle d’imagerie spatiale. Pour la Science 383:60-65.

Theobald, D.M., S.J. Goetz, J.B. Norman, and P. Jantz. 2009. Watersheds at Risk to Increased Impervious Surface Cover in the Conterminous United States. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 14(4):362-368.

Vasconcelos, S.S., I.F. Brown, and P. Fearnside. 2009. Hot pixels in southwestern Amazonia: indicators of land use change. Anais XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Natal, Brasil, 25-30 April. INPE. 6353-6360.

Whitcomb, J., M. Moghaddam, K. McDonald, J. Kellndorfer, and E. Podest. 2009. Mapping Wetlands of Alaska Using L-Band Satellite Radar Imagery. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 35:54-72.

Woodwell, G.M. 2009. Forests at their limit: one scientist’s ground-level view. Washington Monthly July/August A23.

Zhang, K., J.S. Kimball, Q. Mub, L.A. Jones, S.J. Goetz, and S.W. Running. 2009. Satellite based analysis of northern ET trends and associated changes in the regional water balance from 1983 to 2005. Journal of Hydrology 379:92–110. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.09.047

 

2008

*Almeida, O. T., D. McGrath, S. Rivero and K. Lorenzen. 2008.  Impacto del co-manejo pesquero sobre la pesca en la Amazonia brasileña: caracterización, análisis multiagentes e interacciones.  In El Manejo de las Pesquerías en Ríos Tropicales de Sudamérica El Manejo de las Pesquerías en Ríos Tropicales de Sudamérica, ed. D. Pinedo and C. Soria, 323-333. Instituto del Bien Común and IDRC, Lima, Peru.

Baccini, A., N. Laporte, S.J. Goetz, M. Sun, and H. Dong. 2008. A first map of tropical Africa’s above-ground biomass derived from satellite imagery. Environmental Research Letters (3)045011 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045011

Balch, J.K., D.C. Nepstad, P.M. Brando, L.C. Curran, O. Portela, O. de Carvalho Jr., and P.  Lefebvre. 2008. Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of Southeastern Amazonia. Global Change Biology 14(10):2276-2287.

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.

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.

Cattaneo, A. 2008. Regional Comparative Advantage, Location of Agriculture, and Deforestation in Brazil. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 27(1-2):25-42.

Clark, W.C., T. Vautin, J.P. Holdren, et al. 2008. Report of the Harvard University Task Force on Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Office of the President of Harvard University. June.

Cooper, L.W., J.W. McClelland, R.M. Holmes, P.A. Raymond, J.J. Gibson, C.K. Guay, and B.J. Peterson.  2008.  Flow-weighted values of runoff tracers (d18O, DOC, Ba, alkalinity) from the six largest arctic rivers.Geophysical Research Letters L18606, doi:10.1029/2008GL035007.

Davidson, E.A., B.D. Dail, and J. Chorover. 2008. Iron interference in the quantification of nitrate in soil extracts and its effect on hypothesized abiotic immobilization of nitrate. Biogeochemistry 90:65–73.

Davidson, E.A., D.C. Nepstad, F.Y. Ishida, and P.M. Bando. 2008. Effects of an experimental drought and recovery on soil emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and nitric oxide in a moist tropical forest. Global Change Biology 14: 2582–2590.

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.

Davidson, E.A., G.P. Asner, T.A. Stone, C. Neill, and R.O. Figueiredo. 2008. Objective indicators of pasture degradation from spectral mixture analysis of Landsat imagery. Journal of Geophysical Research 113: G00B03.

DeFries, R.S., D.C. Morton, G.R. van der Werf, L. Giglio, G.J. Collatz, J.T. Randerson, R.A. Houghton, P.K. Kasibhatla, and Y. Shimabukuro. 2008. Fire-related carbon emissions from land use transitions in southern Amazonia. Geophysical Research Letters 35. L22705, doi:10.1029/2008GL035689.

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.

Goetz, S., and G. Fiske. 2008. Linking the diversity and abundance of stream biota to landscapes in the mid-Atlantic USA. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:4075–4085.

Goetz, S.J., N. Gardiner, and J.H. Viers. 2008. Monitoring freshwater, estuarine and near-shore benthic ecosystems with multi-sensor remote sensing: An introduction to the special issue. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:3993–3995.

Goetz, S., J. Kellndorfer, and T. Johns. 2008. Getting over the satellite blues. Trading Carbon December.

Goetz, S., A. Baccini, N. Laporte, T. Johns, W. Walker, J. Kellndorfer, and R.A. Houghton. 2008.  Mapping and monitoring carbon stocks with satellite observations: an update. A Report for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Conference of the Parties (COP), Fourteenth Session, 1-12 December 2008, Poznan, Poland. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA. November.

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.

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.

Hajkowicz, S., K. Collins, and A. Cattaneo. 2008. Review of Agri-Environment Indexes and Stewardship Payments. Environmental Management July.

Holdren, J.P. 2008. Convincing the climate-change skeptics. The Boston Globe 4 August.

Holdren, J.P. 2008. Convincing the skeptics. International Herald Tribune 4 August.

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

Holdren, J.P. 2008. The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.’s Last Chance to Lead. Scientific American 2008 Earth 3.0 Supplement 13 October:20-21.

Holdren, J. P., and G.M. Woodwell. 2008. Meeting Cape Cod's Environmental Challenges. The Enterprise (Falmouth, MA) Green Special Supplement. September.

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. Biomass. In Encyclopedia of Ecology, 1st Edition, ed. S.E. Jorgensen and B.D. Fath, 448-453. Elsevier, Oxford.

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.

Houghton, R.A., and S.J. Goetz. 2008. New satellites help quantify carbon sources and sinks. Eos 89(43)417-432.

Ito, A., J.E. Penner, M.J. Prather, C.P. de Campos, R.A. Houghton, T. Kato, A.K. Jain, X. Yang, G.C. Hurtt, S. Frolking, M.G. Fearon, L.P. Chini, A. Wang, and D.T. Price. 2008. Can we reconcile differences in estimates of carbon fluxes from land-use change and forestry for the 1990s? Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics 8:3291-3310.

Jantz, P., and S.J. Goetz. 2008. Using widely available geospatial data sets to assess the influence of roads and buffers on habitat core areas and connectivity. Natural Areas Journal 28(3):261-274.

Johns, T., F. Merry, C. Stickler, D. Nepstad, N. Laporte, and S. Goetz. 2008. A three-fund approach to incorporating government, public and private forest stewards into a REDD funding mechanism. International Forestry Review 10(3):458-464.

Khosla, V.; T.D. Searchinger, and R.A. Houghton. 2008. Biofuels: Clarifying Assumptions. Letters. Science 322: 371-374.

**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.

Laporte, N., W. Walker, J. Stabach, and F. Landsberg. 2008. Monitoring forest-savanna dymanics in Kibale National Park with satellite imagery (1989-2003): implications for the management of wildlife habitat. In Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Long-Term Research, ed. R. Wrangham and E. Ross, 38-50. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

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.

Martelo, J, K. Lorenzen, M. Crossa, and D.G. McGrath. 2008. Habitat associations of exploited fish species in the Lower Amazon river–floodplain system. Freshwater Biology 53:2455–2464.

McClelland, J.W., R.M. Holmes, B.J. Peterson, R. Amon, T. Brabets, L. Cooper, J. Gibson, V. Gordeev, C. Guay, D. Milburn, R. Staples, P.A. Raymond, I. Shiklomanov, R. Striegl, A. Zhulidov, and T. Gurtovaya. 2008. Development of a Pan-Arctic Database for River Chemistry. EOS 89(24):217-218.

*McGrath, D.G., A. Cardoso, and O.T. Almeida. 2008. Evolución de un sistema de co-manejo de pesquerías en la llanura inundable de la baja Amazonia.  In El Manejo de las Pesquerías en Ríos Tropicales de Sudamérica El Manejo de las Pesquerías en Ríos Tropicales de Sudamérica, ed. D. Pinedo and C. Soria, 357-382. Instituto del Bien Común and IDRC, Lima, Peru.

Morehouse, K., T. Johns, J. Kaye, and M. Kaye. 2008. Carbon and nitrogen cycling immediately following bark beetle outbreaks in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 255:2698-2708.

Nepstad, D.C., and C.M. Stickler. 2008. Managing the tropical agriculture revolution. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 27(1-2):43-56.

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.

Salimon, C.I., and E.A. Davidson. 2008. Heterotrophic components of soil respiration in forests and pastures of southwestern Amazonia, Acre, Brazil. Revista Ambiente e Água 3:20-27.

Samanta, S., M.K. Clayton, D.S. Mackay, E.L. Kruger, and B.E. Ewers. 2008. Quantitative comparison of canopy conductance models using a Bayesian approach. Water Resources Research 44 W09431, doi:10.1029/2007WR006761.

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