Publications

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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

*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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 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.

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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.

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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., D. Nepstad, F. Merry, 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.

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

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**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.

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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.

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.

*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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Savage, K., E.A. Davidson, and A.D. Richardson. 2008. A conceptual and practical approach to data quality and analysis procedures for high frequency soil respiration measurements. Functional Ecology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01414.x.

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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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Soares Filho, B.S., L. Dietzsch, P. Moutinho, A. Falieri, H. Rodrigues, E. Pinto, C.C. Maretti, K. Suassuna, C.A.deM. Scaramuzza, M. Lanna, and F.V. de Araújo. 2008. Reducing carbon emissions from deforestation: the role of ARPA’s protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazon. IPAM, Belém, Brazil.

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

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Tatem, A.J., S.J. Goetz, and S.I. Hay. 2008. Fifty years of Earth-observation satellites. American Scientist 96:390-398.

Torres-Cañabate, P.,  E.A. Davidson, E. Bulygina, R. García-Ruiz, and J.A. Carreira. 2008. Abiotic immobilization of nitrate in two soils of relic Abies pinsapo-fir forests under Mediterranean climate. Biogeochemistry 91:1-11.

Vano, J.A., J.A. Foley, C.J. Kucharik, and M.T. Coe. 2008. Controls of climatic variability and land cover on land surface hydrology of northern Wisconsin, USA.  Journal of  Geophysical Research 113, G04040, doi:10.1029/2007JG000681.

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.

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Woodwell, G.M. 2008. The Ecologist’s Calling. The Falmouth Enterprise December.