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Overview

Bronson W. Griscom is affiliated with Conservation International in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science. Their work primarily focuses on global and planetary change, with significant involvement in subfields such as economics and econometrics, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their research covers various topics including conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, forest management and policy, land use and ecosystem services, climate change policy and economics, forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and global energy and sustainability research.

Griscom has coauthored multiple papers with recurring collaborators such as Susan C. Cook-Patton, Peter W. Ellis, Sara M. Leavitt, Jonathan Sanderman, and Pete Smith.

Frequent publication venues for Griscom's work include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Griscom include:

  • "The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions," 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth," 2020, Nature
  • "Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet - if we act now," 2021, Nature
  • "National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Natural climate solutions

    Bronson W. Griscom;Bronson W. Griscom;Justin Adams;Peter W. Ellis;Richard A. Houghton

  • The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions

    D. A. Bossio;S. C. Cook-Patton;P. W. Ellis;J. Fargione

  • Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

    Francis E. Putz;Francis E. Putz;Pieter A. Zuidema;Pieter A. Zuidema;Timothy Synnott;Marielos Peña-Claros

  • Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Michael Obersteiner;Stefan Frank

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

    Susan C. Cook-Patton;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Sara M. Leavitt;David Gibbs;Nancy L. Harris

  • Natural climate solutions for the United States.

    Joseph E. Fargione;Steven Bassett;Timothy Boucher;Scott D. Bridgham

  • Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country.

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Robert Beach;Jonah Busch

  • Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Pete Smith;Justin Adams;David J. Beerling;Tim Beringer

  • Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet — if we act now

    Cécile A. J. Girardin;Stuart Jenkins;Nathalie Seddon;Myles Allen

  • Bamboo control of forest succession: Guadua sarcocarpa in Southeastern Peru

    Bronson W Griscom;P.Mark S Ashton

  • National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics

    Bronson W Griscom;Bronson W Griscom;Jonah Busch;Susan C Cook-Patton;Peter W Ellis

  • Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems

    Allie Goldstein;Will R. Turner;Seth A. Spawn;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira

  • The global potential for increased storage of carbon on land

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  • Biomass estimations and carbon stock calculations in the oil palm plantations of African derived savannas using IKONOS data

    Prasad S. Thenkabail;N. Stucky;B. W. Griscom;M. S. Ashton

  • Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation

    Jonah Busch;Jens Engelmann;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Bronson W. Griscom

  • A self-perpetuating bamboo disturbance cycle in a neotropical forest

    Bronson W. Griscom;P. Mark S. Ashton

  • Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation

    Susan C. Cook-Patton;C. Ronnie Drever;Bronson W. Griscom;Kelley Hamrick

  • Forest Regeneration from Pasture in the Dry Tropics of Panama: Effects of Cattle, Exotic Grass, and Forested Riparia

    Heather P. Griscom;Bronson W. Griscom;Mark S. Ashton

  • Sensitivity of amounts and distribution of tropical forest carbon credits depending on baseline rules

    Bronson Griscom;David Shoch;Bill Stanley;Rane Cortez

  • Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests : refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data

    Daniela Requena Suarez;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Véronique De Sy;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Carbon emissions performance of commercial logging in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Bronson Griscom;Peter Ellis;Francis E. Putz;Francis E. Putz

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis E. Putz
Francis E. Putz University of Florida
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Jonathan Sanderman
Jonathan Sanderman Woods Hole Research Center
Joseph Fargione
Joseph Fargione The Nature Conservancy
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Joseph M. Kiesecker
Joseph M. Kiesecker The Nature Conservancy
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Edward T. Game
Edward T. Game The Nature Conservancy
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center
Mark S. Ashton
Mark S. Ashton Yale University

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