Paul A. Lefebvre

Paul A. Lefebvre, Jr
Research Associate
Woods Hole Research Center
149 Woods Hole Road
Falmouth, MA 02540-1644
Phone: 508-540-9900 x119
Fax: 508-540-9700

Education

M.A. - University of California, Santa Barbara
1991, Department of Geography
Satellite Remote Sensing and Vegetation mapping

B.Sc. - Plymouth State College, New Hampshire
1984, Meteorology & Physical Geography

Professional Experience

  • 1995 - present: Research Associate, Woods Hole Research Center
  • 1995 - 1998: Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Belém, Brazil
  • 1992 - 1995: Research Assistant, Woods Hole Research Center, Nutrient Cycling/Soil Ecology
  • 1989 - 1992: Research Assistant, Woods Hole Research Center, Carbon Program
  • 1985 - 1986: Intern, Office of Environmental and Scientific Affairs, the World Bank, Washington D.C. Demonstration of GIS and Remote Sensing applications for Environmental Impact Assessment of World Bank Projects.

Research Interests

Mapping and modeling landcover change in the Amazon basin; Ecosystem modeling; development and implementation of field instrumentation.

Relevant publications

Nepstad, D.C., S. Schwartzman, B. Bamberger, M. Santilli, D. Ray, P. Schlesinger, P. Lefebvre, A. Alencar, E. Prinz, G. Fiske, and A. Rolla. 2005. Inhibition of Amazon Deforestation and Fire by Parka and Indigenous reserves. Conservation Biology, accepted.

Nepstad, D., P. Lefebvre, U. Lopes da Silva, J. Tomasella, P. Schlesinger, L. Solórzano, P. Moutinho , D. Ray, and J. Guerreira Benito. 2004. Amazon drought and its implications for forest flammability and tree growth: a basin-wide analysis. Global Change Biology 10(5):704-717.

Williams, M. R., S. Filoso, and P. Lefebvre, 2004. Effects of Land-use change on solute fluxes to floodplain lakes of the central Amazon. Biogeochemistry 68: 259-275.

Nepstad, D. C., P. Moutinho, M.B. Dias-Filho, E. Davidson, G. Cardinot, D. Markewitz, R. Figueiredo, N. Vianna, J. Chambers, D. Ray, J.B. Guerreiros, P. Lefebvre, L. Sternberg, M. Moreira, L. Barros, F.Y. Ishida, I. Tohlver, E. Belk, K. Kalif, and K. Schwalbe, 2002. The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest. Journal of Geophysical Research 107 (53): 1-18.

Nepstad, D., G. Carvalho, A.C. Barros, A. Alencar, J.P. Capobianco, J. Bishop, P. Moutinho, P. Lefebvre, and U. Lopes da Silva, Jr. 2001. Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests. Forest Ecology and Management 5524:1-13.

Nepstad, D., J.P. Capobianco, A.C. Barros, G. Carvalho, P. Moutinho, U. Lopes, P. Lefebvre, and M. Ernst. 2000. Avança Brasil: Os Custos Ambientais para a Amazônia. (Avança Brasil: The Environmental Costs for Amazonia.) Belém: Gráfica e Editora Alves.

Cochrane, M.A., A. Alencar, M.D. Schulze, C.M. Souza Jr., D.C. Nepstad, P. Lefebvre, and E.A. Davidson. 1999. Positive Feedbacks in the Fire Dynamic of Closed Canopy Tropical Forests. Science 284: 1832-1835.

Nepstad, D.C., A. Verissimo, A. Alencar, C. Nobre, E. Lima, P. Lefebvre, P. Schlesinger, C. Potter, P. Moutinho, E. Mendoza, M. Cochrane, and V. Brooks. 1999. Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire. Nature 398: 505-508.

Nepstad, D., A. Moreira, A. Veríssimo, P. Lefebvre, P. Schlesinger, C. Potter, C. Nobre, T. Krug, A. C. Barros, A. Alencar, and J. R. Pereira. 1998. Rainforests at the edge: forest fire prediction and prevention in the Brazilian Amazon. Conservation Biology 12(5).