Publications

Almeida, O., K. Lorenzen, and D. McGrath. 2003. Commercial fishing in the Brazilian Amazon: regional differentiation in fleet characteristics and efficiency. Fisheries Management and Ecology 10:109-115.

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Angert, A., E. Barkan, B. Barnett, E. Brugnoli, E.A. Davidson, J. Fessenden, S. Maneepong, N. Panapitukkul, J.T. Randerson, K. Savage, D. Yakir, and B. Luz. 2003. Contribution of soil respiration in tropical, temperate, and boreal forests to the 18 O enrichment of atmospheric O 2. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(3)1089.

Bergen, K.M., S.G. Conard, R.A. Houghton, E.S. Kasischke, V.I. Kharuk, O.N. Krankina, K.J. Ranson, H.H. Shugart, A.I. Sukhinen, and R.F. Treyfeld. 2003. NASA and Russian scientists observe land-cover and land-use change and carbon in Russian forests. Journal of Forestry 101:34-41.

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Borken, W., E.A. Davidson, K. Savage, J. Gaudinski, and S.E. Trumbore. 2003. Drying and wetting effects on carbon dioxide release from organic horizons. Soil Science Society of America Journal 67:1888-1896.

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Bunn, M., S. Fetter, J.P. Holdren, and B. van der Zwaan. 2003. The Economics of Reprocessing vs. Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel . Report DE-FG26-99FT4028, Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard University, December.

Carvalho, G., P. Moutinho, D. Nepstad, L. Mattos, and M. Santilli. 2003. An Amazon Perspective on the Forest-Climate Connection: Opportunity for Climate Mitigation, Conservation and Development? Environment, Development and Sustainability 6(1-2):163-174.

Castro, F., and D. McGrath. 2003. Moving towards sustainability in the local management of floodplain lake fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon. Human Organization 62(2):123-133.

Chan, J.C-W., N. Laporte, and R. Defries. 2003. Texture classification of logging in tropical Africa using machine learning algorithms. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24(6):1401-1407.

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Davidson, E. A., J. Chorover, and D.B. Dail. 2003. A mechanism for abiotic nitrate immobilization in forest soils: the ferrous wheel hypothesis. Global Change Biology 9:228-236.

Deutch, J., E.J. Moniz, S. Ansolobehere, M. Driscoll, P.E. Gray, J.P. Holdren, P.L. Joskow, R.K. Lester, N.E. Todreas, and E.S. Beckjord. 2003. The Future of Nuclear Power. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Goetz, S.J., A.J. Smith, C. Jantz, R.K. Wright, M.E. Mazzacato, and B. Melchoir. 2003. Monitoring and predicting urban land use change: applications of multi-resolution multi-temporal satellite data. 2003 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 1567-1569. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Toulouse, France.

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Goetz , S.J., R. Wright, A.J. Smith, E. Zinecker, and E. Schaub. 2003. Ikonos imagery for resource management: tree cover, impervious surfaces and riparian buffer analyses in the mid-Atlantic region. Remote Sensing of Environment 88:195-208.

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Goodale, C.L., J.D. Aber, and P.M. Vitousek. 2003. An unexpected nitrate decline in New Hampshire streams. Ecosystems 6:75-86. (244K).

Hackler, J., and M. Ernst. 2003. Living a Sustainable Mission. Environmental Design + Construction. November.

Halliday, J.C., K.R. Tate, R.E. McMurtrie, and N.A. Scott. 2003. Mechanisms for changes in soil carbon storage with pasture to Pinus radiata land-use change. Global Change Biology 9(9)1294-1308.

Hirsch, D., and Woodwell, G.M. 2003. Nuclear hydrogen-Lighter side of the energy bill. Opinion. San Francisco Chronicle 10 Dec.

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Holdren, J.P. 2003. Environmental Change and the Human Condition. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fall:24-31.

Holdren, J.P. 2003. The Quest for Affordable Energy. Review of Power to the People. Scientific American December.

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Holdren, J.P. 2003. Risks from Global Climate Change: What Do We Know, What Should We Do? Presentation, Institutional Investors' Summit on Climate Risk, United Nations, New York. 21 November.

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Holdren, J.P. 2003. U.S. Climate Policy Post Kyoto. In The Convergence of U.S. National Security and the Global Environment. The Aspen Institute Congressional Program 18(3):7-24.

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Holdren, J.P., W.K. Reilly, J.W. Rowe, P.R. Sharp, and J. Grumet. 2003. Increasing U.S. Natural Gas Supplies: Discussion Paper and Recommendations from the National Commission on Energy Policy.   National Commission on Energy Policy, Washington, DC. October.

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Holdren, J.P., W.K. Reilly, J.W. Rowe, P.R. Sharp, and J. Grumet. 2003. Reviving the Electricity Sector: Findings of the National Commission on Energy Policy.  National Commission on Energy Policy. Washington, DC. August.

Houghton, R.A. 2003. Revised estimates of the annual net flux of carbon to the atmosphere from changes in land use and land management 1850-2000. Tellus 55B(2):378-390.

Houghton, R.A. 2003. The contemporary carbon cycle. In Treatise on Geochemistry , ed. H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian, vol. 8: Biogeochemistry , ed. W. Schlesinger, 473-513 . Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.

Houghton, R.A. 2003. Why are estimates of the terrestrial carbon balance so different? Global Change Biology 9(4)500-509.

Houghton, R.A., and J.L. Hackler. 2003. Sources and sinks of carbon from land-use change in China. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(2).

House, J.I., I.C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, R.A. Houghton, and M. Heimann. 2003. Reconciling apparent inconsistencies in estimates of terrestrial CO 2 sources and sinks. Tellus 55B:345-363.

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Jantz, C.A., S.J., Goetz, and M.K., Shelley. 2003. Using the SLEUTH urban growth model to simulate the impacts of future policy scenarios on urban land use in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. Environment and Planning (B)31:251-271.

**Laporte, N. 2003. Utilisation de la télédétection pour la gestion des écosystèmes forestiers du Nord Congo: Cas des UFA Kabo, Pokola et Loundoungou. Rapport Technique au Wildlife Conservation Society, New York.

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Laporte N.T., and T.S. Lin. 2003. Monitoring logging in the tropical forest of Republic of Congo with Landsat imagery. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), July 2003, Toulouse, France. Ref # 8.1812- INT-A17. http://www.igarss03.com/.

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Merry, F.D., G.S. Amacher, E. Lima, D.C. Nepstad, A. Veríssimo, and M.A. Cochrane. 2003. A Risky Forest Policy in the Amazon? Science 299:1843.

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Merry, F.D., G.S. Amacher, B. Pokorny, E. Lima, I. Scholz, D.C. Nepstad, and J.C. Zweede. 2003. Some doubts about timber concessions in the Brazilian national forests. Tropical Forestry Update 13:21.

Moutinho, P., D.C. Nepstad, and E.A. Davidson. 2003. Influence of leaf-cutting ant nests on secondary forest growth and soil properties in Amazonia. Ecology 84(5)1265-1276.

Ollinger, S., O. Sala, G.I. Agren, B. Berg, E. Davidson, C.B. Field, M.T. Lerdau, J. Neff, M. Scholes, and R. Sterner. 2003. New frontiers in the study of element interactions. In: Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles , ed. J.M. Melillo, C.B. Field, and B. Moldan. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 63-92.

Parfitt, R.L., N.A. Scott, D.J. Ross, G.J. Salt, and K.R. Tate. 2003. Land-use effects on soil C and N transformation in soil of high N status: comparisons under indigenous forest, pine plantation and pasture. Biogeochemistry 66:203-221.

Plumptre, A.J., N. Laporte, and D. Devers. 2003. Threats to sites. In The Biodiversity of the Albertine Rift, ed. A.J. Plumptre, M. Behangana, T. Davenport, et al. Albertine Rift Technical Reports No. 3(9):77-82.

Ramakrishna, K. 2003. Citizen participation and developing country agendas. In Public Participation in Sustainability Science, ed. B. Kasemir, J. Jäger, C.C. Jaeger, and M.T. Gardner. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 228-238.

Ramakrishna, K., ed. 2003. Science in a Crowded World: A symposium to celebrate the dedication of WHRC's Ordway Campus . Woods Hole, Mass.: Woods Hole Research Center.

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Ramakrishna, K., and L. Jacobsen, eds. 2003. Action Versus Words: Implementation of the UNFCCC by Select Developing Countries, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Korea, Senegal, South Africa. Woods Hole, Mass.: Woods Hole Research Center.

Santilli, M., P. Moutinho, S. Schwartzman, D. Nepstad, L. Curran, and C. Nobre. 2003. Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol: a new proposal. Presented at COP-9. 1-12 December. Milan.

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Savage, K.E., and E.A. Davidson. 2003. A comparison of manual and automated systems for soil CO2 flux measurements: trade-offs between spatial and temporal resolution. Journal of Experimental Botany 54(384):891-899.

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Small, J., S.J. Goetz, and S.I. Hay. 2003. Climatic suitability for malaria transmission in Africa, 1911-1995. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(26):15341-15345.

Tate, K.R., J.P. Barton, N.A. Trustrum, W.T. Baisden, S. Saggar, R.H. Wilde, D.J. Giltrap, and N.A. Scott. 2003. Monitoring and modeling soil organic carbon stocks and flows in New Zealand. In Soil Organic Carbon and Agriculture: Developing Indicators for Policy Analysis , ed. C.A. Scott-Smith, 253-268. Proceedings of an OECD Expert Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, October 2002. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris.

Tate, K.R., N.A. Scott, S. Saggar, D.J. Giltrap, W.T. Baisden, P.F. Newsome, C.M. Trotter, and R.H. Wilde. 2003. Land-use change alters New Zealand's terrestrial carbon budget: uncertainties associated with estimates of soil carbon change between 1990-2000. Tellus B55(2)364-377.

Thenkabail, P.S., J. Hall, T. Lin, M.S. Ashton, D. Harris, and E.A. Enclona. 2003. Detecting floristic structure and pattern across topographic and moisture gradients in a mixed species Central African forest using IKONOS and Landsat-7 ETM+ images. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 4:255-270.

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Verchot, L.V., P.R. Moutinho, and E.A. Davidson. 2003. Leaf-cutting and (Atta Sexdens) and nutrient cycling: deep soil inorganic nitrogen stocks, mineralization, and nitrification in Eastern Amazonia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35:1219-1222.

Vieira, I.C.G., A.S de Almeida, E.A. Davidson, T.A. Stone, C.J. Reis de Carvalho, and J.B. Guerrero. 2003. Classifying successional forests using Landsat spectral properties and ecological characteristics in eastern Amazônia. Remote Sensing of Environment 87(4)470-481.

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White, A.B. 2003. The Ordway Campus: From Victorian mansion to 'green' building. Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA.

Woods Hole Research Center. 2003. Annual Report 2002. Woods Hole, Mass.: Woods Hole Research Center.

Woods Hole Research Center. 2003. First "Amazon Scenarios" User Meeting. Woods Hole Research Center, 25-26 Sept., Woods Hole, MA. CD-ROM.

Woods Hole Research Center. 2003. Science in a Crowded World: Hour I: Buildings for a New Century; Hour II: Science and the Public Interest. Symposium, 6 June. 2 CD set. Woods Hole Research Center.

Woodwell, G.M. 2003. Letter to the Editor. The Enterprise. Falmouth, MA. 4 April.

Woodwell, G.M. 2003. World Enough and Time? Conservation Biology (17)2:1-2.

Aber, J.D., S.V. Ollinger, C.T. Driscoll, G.E. Likens, R.T. Holmes, R. Freuder, and C.L. Goodale. 2002. Inorganic N losses from forested ecosystems in response to physical, chemical, biotic and climatic perturbations. Ecosystems 5(7):648-658.

Alencar, A., D. Nepstad, and G. Carvalho. 2002. Timber industry follows the path of least resistance. Environment 44(3):42.

Almeida, O., K. Lorenzen, and D. McGrath. 2002. Commercial fishing in the Brazilian Amazon: regional differentiation in fleet characteristics and efficiency. Fisheries Management and Ecology 9:1-7.

Borken, W., Y.-J. Xu, E.A. Davidson, and F. Besse. 2002. Site and temporal variation of soil respiration in European beech, Norway spruce, and Scots pine forests. Global Change Biology 8(1205-1216).

Boyer, E.W., C.L. Goodale, N.A. Jaworski, and R.W. Howarth. 2002. Anthropogenic nitrogen sources and relationships to riverine nitrogen export in the northeastern U.S.A. Biogeochemistry 57/58:137-169.

Carvalho, G., D. McGrath, D. Nepstad, and M. del C. Vera Diaz. 2002. Brazil's Amazon Policy: Democratic Transition and Enduring Policy Patterns. In Currents of Change: Globalization, Democratization and Institutional Reform in Latin America . Ed. J. Behar. Stockholm: Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University.

Carvalho, G., D. Nepstad, D. McGrath, M. del C. Vera Diaz, M. Santilli, and A.C. Barros. 2002. Frontier expansion in the Amazon: Balancing development and sustainability. Environment 44:34-45.

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Cattânio, J.H., E.A. Davidson, D.C. Nepstad, L.V. Verchot, and I.L. Ackerman. 2002. Unexpected results of a pilot throughfall exclusion experiment on soil emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O, and NO in eastern Amazonia. Biol Fertil Soils 36:102-108.

Coomes, D.A., R.B. Allen, N.A. Scott, C. Goulding, and P. Beets. 2002. Designing systems to monitor carbon stocks in forests and shrublands. Forest Ecology and Management 164:89-108.

Coops, N.C., J.D. White, and N.A. Scott. 2002. Assessment of regional forest and scrub productivity using a coupled vegetation process model with remote sensing. Geocarto 17(4):3-12.

Currie, W.S., R.D. Yanai, K.B. Piatek, C.E. Prescott, and C.L. Goodale. 2002. Processes affecting carbon storage in the forest floor and in downed woody debris. In: The Potential for U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect, ed. J.M. Kimble, L.S. Heath, R.A. Birdsey, and R. Lal. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 135-157.

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Davidson, E.A., K. Savage, L.V. Verchot, and R.I. Navarro. 2002. Minimizing artifacts and biases in chamber-based measurements of soil respiration. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 113:21-37.

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Davidson, E.A., K. Savage, P. Bolstad, D.A. Clark, P.S. Curtis, D.S. Ellsworth, P.J. Hanson, B.E. Law, Y. Luo, K.S. Pregitzer, J.C. Randolph, and D. Zak. 2002. Belowground carbon allocation in forests estimated from litterfall and IRGA-based soil respiration measurements. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 113:39-51. (244K).

*DeCastro, F., D.G. McGrath, and M. Crossa. 2002. Adaptándose a los cambios: la habilidad de las comunidades ribereñas en el manejo de sistemas de lagos de la Amazonía brasileña. In El Cuidado de los Bienes Comunes , ed. R.C. Smith and D. Pinedo. Lima, Peru: IEP, 272-302.

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DeFries, R.S., R.A. Houghton, M.C. Hansen, C.B. Field, D. Skole, and J. Townshend. 2002. Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99(22):14256-14261.

*Diaz, M del C. Vera, D. Nepstad, et al. 2002. Os Prejuizos Ocultos do Fogo na Amazonia (The Hidden Damages of Fire in the Amazon). Instituto de Pesquisa Económica Aplicada, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia, Woods Hole Research Center. www.ipam.org.br.

Erickson, H., E.A. Davidson, and M. Keller. 2002. Former land-use and tree species affect nitrogen oxide emissions from a tropical dry forest. Oecologia 130:297-308.

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Goodale, C.L., and E.A. Davidson. 2002. Uncertain sinks in the shrubs. Nature 418:593-594.

Goodale, C.L., M.J. Apps, R.A. Birdsey, C.B. Field, L.S. Heath, R.A. Houghton, J.C. Jenkins, G.H. Kohlmaier, W.A. Kurz, S. Liu, G.-J. Nabuurs, S. Nilsson, and A.Z. Shvidenko. 2002. Forest carbon sinks in the Northern Hemisphere. Ecological Applications 12(3):891-899.

Goodale, C.L., K. Lajtha, K.J. Nadelhoffer, E.W. Boyer, and N. Jaworski. 2002. Forest nitrogen sinks in large eastern U.S. watersheds: estimates from forest inventory and an ecosystem model. Biogeochemistry 57(1): 239-266.

Holdren, J.P. 2002. Energy: Asking the Wrong Question. Scientific American 1:65-68.

Houghton, R.A. 2002. Forests for carbon storage. Global Change 7(4):12-13.

Houghton, R.A. 2002. Global effects of deforestation. In Handbook of Ecotoxicology , Second Edition. Ed. D.J. Hoffman, B.A. Rattner, G.A. Burton, and J. Cairns. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, 645-666.

Houghton, R.A. 2002. Magnitude, distribution and causes of terrestrial carbon sinks and some implications for policy. Climate Policy 2:71-88.

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Houghton, R.A. 2002. Temporal patterns of land-use change and carbon storage in China and tropical Asia. Science in China (Series C) 45 (Supp.):10-17.

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Houghton, R.A. 2002. Terrestrial carbon sinks-uncertain explanations. Biologist 49(4):155-160. This article is reproduced from Biologist with permission from the Institute of Biology.

Hurtt, G.C., S.W. Pacala, P.R. Moorcroft, J. Caspersen, E. Shevliakova, R.A. Houghton, and B. Moore III. 2002. Projecting the future of the U.S. carbon sink. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99(3):1389-1394.

Mayer, B. E.W. Boyer, C.L. Goodale, N.A. Jaworski, N. van Breemen, R.W. Howarth, S. Seitzinger, G. Billen, K. Lajtha, K. Nadelhoffer, D. Van Dam, L.J. Hetling, M. Nosal, and K. Paustian. 2002. Sources of nitrate in rivers draining sixteen watersheds in the northeastern U.S.: Isotopic constraints. Biogeochemistry 57(1): 171-197.

Nepstad, D. 2002. Review of Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects , ed. E.A. Johnson and K. Miyanishi. Academic Press, 2001. Nature 415:476.

Nepstad, D., D. McGrath, A. Alencar, A.C. Barros, G. Carvalho, M. Santilli, and M. del C. Vera Diaz. 2002. Frontier governance in Amazonia . Science 295:629-631.

Nepstad, D., D. McGrath, A. Alencar, A.C. Barros, G. Carvalho, M. Santilli, and M. del C. Vera Diaz. 2002. Issues in Amazonian Development. Science 295:1643-1644. Science 295:1643-1644.

Nepstad, D., P. Moutinho, M.B. Dias-Filho, E. Davidson, G. Cardino, D. Markewitz, R. Figueiredo, et al. 2002. The effect of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest. Journal of Geophysical Research 107(53):1-18.

Ramakrishna, K. 2002. Negotiating Sustainability. Global Change 7(4)16.

Ramakrishna, K., and G.M. Woodwell. 2002. A vulgar act of bravado. Woods Hole Research Center. 2 Feb.

Ross, D.J., K.R. Tate, N.A. Scott, R.H. Wilde, N.J. Rodda, and J.A. Townsend. 2002. Afforestation of pastures with Pinus radiata influences soil carbon and nitrogen pools and mineralisation and microbial properties. Australian Journal of Soil Research 40:1303-1318.

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Sagar, A., and J. Holdren. 2002. Assessing the Global Energy Innovation System. Energy Policy . 30(6):465-469 .

*Santilli, M., G. Carvalho, and D. Nepstad. 2002. O Brasil e as mudanças climáticas globais. In Meio Ambiente Brasil, Avanços e Obstáculos pós-Rio-92 , ed. A. Camargo, J.P.R. Capobianco, and J.A. Puppim de Oliveira. Sao Paulo: Estacao Liberdade Editora, 63-68.

Scott, N.A., K.R. Tate, D.J. Giltrap, C. Tattersall Smith, R.H. Wilde, P.F.J. Newsome, and M.R. Davis. 2002. Monitoring land-use change effects on soil carbon in New Zealand: quantifying baseline soil carbon stocks. Environmental Pollution 116:S167-S186.

Soares-Filho, B., A. Alencar, D. Nepstad, G. Cerqueira, M. Diaz, S. Rivero, L. Solórzano, and E. Voll. 2002. Simulating the response of land-use and land-cover changes to governance along a major Amazon highway: the case of the Santarém-Cuiabá corridor. Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy People, ISEH/CI, Washington, D.C., 6-11 June.

Sternberg, L., M. Moreira, and D. Nepstad. 2002. The lateral extent of water absorption by small trees in eastern Amazonia. Plant and Soil 238:151-158.

Van Breemen, N., E.W. Boyer, C.L. Goodale, N.A. Jaworski, K. Paustian, S.P. Seitzinger, K. Lajtha, B. Mayer, D. van Dam, R.W. Howarth, K.J. Nadelhoffer, M. Eve, G. Billen. 2002. Where did all the nitrogen go? Fate of nitrogen inputs to large watersheds in the northeastern U.S.A. Biogeochemistry 57(1): 267-293.

Volokitina, A.V., T.A. Stone, and M.A. Sofronov. 2002. An assessment of the amount of biomass consumed from wildland fires based on vegetation fuel maps. In The Role of Boreal Forests and Forestry in the Global Carbon Budget: Proceedings of the IBFRA 2000 Conference, May 8-12, 2000, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Ed. Shaw, C.H., and M.J. Apps. Canadian Forest Service, 273-284.

Woods Hole Research Center. 2002. Annual Report 2001. Woods Hole, Mass.: Woods Hole Research Center.

Woodwell, G.M. 2002. Climatic disruption in 2002: A scientific puzzle and political dilemma. Lecture at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. 7 Nov.

Woodwell, G.M. 2002. Letter to the editor: The York (Maine) Independent 15 August.

Woodwell, G.M. 2002. More Disconnected Dots... Woods Hole Research Center. 20 Aug.

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Woodwell, G.M. 2002. On Purpose in Science, Conservation and Government: The Functional Integrity of the Earth Is at Issue not Biodiversity. Ambio 31(5) 432-436.

Woodwell, G.M. 2002. Pregnancy in a polluted world. Review of Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, S. Steingraber. Perseus, 2001. Science 295:803.

Woodwell, George M. 2002. Review of Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change , ed. National Assessment Team. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Environmental Conservation 29(2) 263-271.

Woodwell, G.M. 2002. The Earth: Too small for war. Woods Hole Research Center. 30 Apr.

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Woodwell, G.M. 2002. The functional integrity of normally forested landscapes: A proposal for an index of environmental capital. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99(21):13600-13605.