SIGNIFICANT PROJECT RESULTS

Each of the LCLUC Principal Investigators is asked to periodically generate a summary of the Significant Results from their research. These presentations are used at the programmatic level to promote the LCLUC Program.

The Significant Results from present and past years are provided here in Adobe and PowerPoint formats.

2005  Jon Foley, Navin Ramankutty, et al. Estimating Carbon Emissions from Historical Changes in Global Agricultural Land (Significant Results)
2005  Andrew Hansen, Scott Powell, et al. Monitoring Forest Response to Past and Future Global Change in Greater Yellowstone (Significant Results)
2005  Marc Simard, Victor Rivera, et al. Large scale assessment of landscape changes and recovery in forest structure of mangrove wetlands subject to human activities, freshwater diversion, and natural disturbances (severe storms, climate and sea level change) using enhanced SRTM data
2005  Marc Simard, Victor Rivera, et al. Large Scale Assessment of Landscape Changes and Recovery in Forest Structure of Mangrove Wetlands Using SRTM Data (Significant Results)
2004  Foster  Brown, et al. Significant Results of LBA-MAP (Madre de Dios-Peru, Acre-Brazil, Pando, Bolivia) (Significant Results)
2004  Michael Coe, et al. Climate and human impacts on water resources in Africa (Significant Results) PDF
2004  Lisa Curran, et al. Effects of Land Cover Change on Forest Ecosystem and Carbon Dynamics in Indonesian Borneo (Significant Results)
2004  Ruth DeFries Towards Methodologies for Global Monitoring of Forest Cover with Coarse Resolution Data (Significant Results)
2004  Scott Goetz, Nancy Bockstael, et al. Spatial Predictive Modelling and RemoteSensing of Land Use Change in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Significant Results)
2004  Allen Hope Fire, Land Cover and Climate Change: Impacts on River Flows in Semiarid Shrubland Watersheds (Significant Results)
2004  Richard Houghton, et al. Carbon in the Forest Biomass of Russia (Significant Results)
2004  Marc L. Imhoff, L. Bounoua, et al. Locating Risks to Biodiversity: A Carbon Balance Approach: Significant Results
2004  Olga Krankina, et al. Driving Forces of Change in Regional Carbon Stocks: Comparison of the Western Oregon, USA and St. Petersburg Region, Russia (Significant Results)
2004  Nadine Laporte An Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa: INFORMS (Significant Results)
2004  Nadine Laporte, Andy Plumptre, et al. An Integrated Forest MonitoringSystem for Central Africa“INFORMS”: Significant Results
2004  Thomas Loveland, et al. The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Contemporary U.S. Land Cover and Land Use Change and Implications for Carbon Dynamics (Significant Results)
2004  Jeffery Masek Forest Cover Monitoring in Northeastern China (Significant Results)
2004  A.David McGuire The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: (Significant Results)
2004  A.David McGuire The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America (Significant Results - abbrev)
2004  Emilio Moran Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America (Significant Results)
2004  Emilio Moran Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America(Significant Results)
2004  John Mustard Environmental Change in the Great Basin, US (Significant Results)
2004  Daniel Nepstad Amazon Scenarios: Modeling Modeling Interactions Among Land Use, Climate, and Fire (Significant Results)
2004  Dennis Ojima, Xiangming Xiao, et al. Land Cover and Land Use Change in Temperate East Asia: Impacts on Carbon Fluxes and Land Productivity (Significant Results)
2004  Mohamed Sultan Decadal to Millennial Impacts of LCLUC on the Nubian Aquifer System, Saharan Africa
2004  B. L. Turner, II, et al. Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (Significant Results)
2004  Curtis Woodcock, Mutlu Ozdogan, et al. LCLUC and Hydroclimatology in South Eastern Turkey (Significant Results)
2003  Richard E. Bilsborrow, Stephen J. Walsh, et al. Modeling the Scale Dependent Drivers of LCLU Dynamics in NE Ecuador
2003  Nancy Bockstael, Scott J. Goetz, et al. Spatial Predictive Modeling and Remote Sensing of Land Use Change in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
2003  Foster Brown Significant Results of LBA-MAP (Madre de Dios-Peru, Acre-Brazil, Pando, Bolivia)
2003  Michael T. Coe, et al. Climate and Human Impacts on Water Resources in Africa
2003  Michael T. Coe, et al. Climate and Human Impacts on Water Resources in Africa
2003  Anatoly A. Gitelson, Geoffrey M. Henebry, et al. Consequences of Institutional Change: Land-Cover Dynamics in Kazakhstan (Significant Results)
2003  Brian L. Markham, John L. Barker, et al. Landsat Radiometric Calibration: Towards a 20-Year Record of Calibrated Thematic Mapper Class Data for Carbon Cycle Studies
2003  A. David McGuire, et al. The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America
2003  Emilio F. Moran, et al. Human and Biophysical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Towards a Multi-scale Synthesis LC-09
2003  Daniel Nepstad, et al. Amazon Scenarios: Modeling Interactions among Land Use, Climate, and Fire
2003  Ronald R. Rindfuss, Stephen J. Walsh, et al. Simulating Land Use Dynamics in SE Asia: A Cellular Automaton Approach
2003  Marc Simard, et al. Large Scale Assessment of Landscape Changes and Recovery in Forest Structure of Mangrove Wetlands Subject to Human Activities, Freshwater Diversion, and Natural Disturbances Using Enhanced SRTM Data (NRA-03-OES-03)
2003  Carol Wessman, Steven Archer, et al. Regional NPP and Carbon Stocks in Southwestern USA Rangelands: Land-use Impacts on the Grassland-Woodland Balance
2001  David Skole Case Studies and Diagnostic Models of the Inter-annual Dynamics of Deforestation in Southeast Asia
2000  Daniel Brown Hierarchical Investigation of Socioeconomic Drivers of Decadal Scale Land-Cover Changes in the Upper Midwest
2000  Foster Brown Land-Cover/Land-Use Change and Carbon Dynamics in an Expanding Frontier in Western Amazonia: Acre, Brazil
2000  Ruth DeFries Characterizing Land Cover Heterogeneity and Land Cover Change from Multisensor Data
2000  Thomas Fisher Land Use Change and N and P Export on the Coastal Plain of the Chesapeake Bay
2000  Andrew Hansen Interactions Between Biodiversity and Socioeconomics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
2000  Mark Harmon Modeling Carbon Dynamics and their Economic Implications in Two Forest Regions: Pacific Northwest and Northwestern Russia
2000  Eric Kasischke Effects of the Development of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad on Patterns of Boreal Forest Cover and Carbon Fluxes in Southern Siberia
2000  Robert Kaufmann Modeling and Forecasting Effects of Land Use Change in China Based on Socioeconomic Drivers
2000  William Laurance Anthropogenic Land-Use Change and the Dynamics of Amazon Forest Biomass
2000  Pam Matson Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Sonora, Mexico:  Trajectories of Agricultural Intensification and Consequences for Non-Agricultural Ecosystems
2000  A. David McGuire The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle
2000  Emilio F. Moran Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Forest Regeneration and Landscape Structure
2000  John Mustard The Dynamics of a Semi-Arid Region in Response to Climate and Water-Use Policy
2000  Steven A. Sader Time-Series Forest Change, Land Cover/Land Use Conversion and Socio-Economic Driving Forces in the Petén, Guatemala
2000  Steven A. Sader Time-Series Forest Change, Land Cover/Land Use Conversion and Socio-Economic Driving Forces in the Petén, Guatemala
2000  B. Turner II Land-Cover Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region
2000  Robert Webb Assessing Future Stability of US High Plains Land-Cover: Intergration of Process Modeling with Landsat, In Situ Modern and Paleoclimatic Data
2000  Carol Wessman Quantifying Grassland-to-Woodland Transitions: Implications for Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in the Southwest United States
1999  An Overview of the LCLUC Significant Results 1999
1999  LCLUC Significant Results 1999
1999  LCLUC Significant Results 1999
1999  Daniel Brown Hierarchical Investigation of Socioeconomic Drivers of Decadal Scale Land-Cover Changes in the Upper Midwest
1999  Ruth DeFries Characterizing Land Cover Heterogeneity and Land Cover Change from Multisensor Satellite Data
1999  Paul Desanker Coupling Land Use and Land Cover Changes, and Ecosystem Processes in Miombo Woodlands
1999  John Estes Accuracy Assessment of the IGBP Fast-Track 1 Km Land Cover Data Set
1999  Thomas Fisher Land Use Change and N and P Export on the Coastal Plain of the Chesapeake Bay
1999  Andrew Hansen Interactions Between Biodiversity and Socioeconomics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
1999  Mark Harmon Monitoring Carbon in the Pacific Northwest and its Economic Implications
1999  Loretta Johnson Land-cover Change in the Great Plains: Predicting Impacts of Regional Forest Expansion on Biogeochemical Processes
1999  Eric Kasischke Effects of the Development of the Baikul-Amur Mainline Railroad on Patterns of Boreal Forest Cover and Carbon Fluxes in Southern Siberia
1999  Robert Kaufmann Modeling and Forecasting Effects of Land Use Change in China Based on Socioeconomic Drivers
1999  William Laurance Anthropogenic Landscape Changes and the Dynamics of Amazoniam Forest Biomass
1999  Pam Matson Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Sonora, Mexico:  Trajectories of Agricultural Intensification and Consequences for Non-Agricultural Ecosystems
1999  A. David McGuire The Role of Land-Cover Change in the High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle
1999  Emilio Moran Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazonia: Forest Regeneration and Landscape Structure
1999  John Mustard The Dynamics of a Semi-Arid Region in Response to Climate and Water-Use Policy
1999  Stephen Prince Deforestation and Degradation in Central and Southern Africa
1999  Sasan Saatchi Study of Land-Use and Deforestation In Central and West African Tropical Forest Using High Resolution SAR Satellite Imagery
1999  Steven Sader  Time-Series Land Cover/Land Use Change and Socio-Economic Driving Forces in the Northern Peten Region, Guatemala
1999  David Skole Case Studies and Diagnostic Models of the Inter-annual Dynamics of Deforestation in Southeast Asia
1999  Ron Smith Climate Change and Human Response in the Semi Arid Near East
1999  B. Turner II Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula Region
1999  Carol Wessman Shrub Encroachment in the Southwestern United States

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