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Overview

Daniel C. Nepstad is affiliated with the Woods Hole Research Center in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Food Science, Forestry, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics focus on Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis, Agricultural and Food Production Studies, Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Economic and Environmental Valuation, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Recent publications by Daniel C. Nepstad include:

  • Colombia's pathway to a more sustainable cattle sector: A spatial multi-criteria analysis, 2021, Land Use Policy
  • Adaptive management of jurisdictional REDD + programs: a methodology illustrated for Ecuador, 2021, Carbon Management

Frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Claudia Stickler
  • Andrés F. Zuluaga
  • Andrés Etter
  • Julian Chará
  • Matthew Warren

They have published recently in known venues including Land Use Policy and Carbon Management.

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Adalberto Verssimo;Ane Alencar;Carlos Nobre

  • The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Claudio R. de Carvalho;Eric A. Davidson;Peter H. Jipp;Peter H. Jipp

  • Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin

    Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho;Daniel Curtis Nepstad;Daniel Curtis Nepstad;Lisa M. Curran;Gustavo Coutinho Cerqueira

  • The 2010 Amazon Drought

    Simon L. Lewis;Paulo M. Brando;Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje M. F. van der Heijden

  • Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

    Daniel Nepstad;David McGrath;Claudia Stickler;Ane Alencar

  • Positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests

    Mark A. Cochrane;Ane Alencar;Mark D. Schulze;Carlos M. Souza

  • Inhibition of Amazon deforestation and fire by parks and indigenous lands.

    D. Nepstad;D. Nepstad;S. Schwartzman;B. Bamberger;B. Bamberger;M. Santilli

  • Road paving, fire regime feedbacks, and the future of Amazon forests

    Daniel Nepstad;Georgia Carvalho;Ana Cristina Barros;Ane Alencar

  • Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point

    Daniel C Nepstad;Claudia M Stickler;Claudia M Stickler;Britaldo Soares Filho;Frank Merry

  • Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

    Britaldo Soares-Filho;Paulo Moutinho;Daniel Nepstad;Anthony Anderson

  • Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions.

    Paulo Monteiro Brando;Paulo Monteiro Brando;Jennifer K. Balch;Daniel C. Nepstad;Douglas C. Morton

  • MORTALITY OF LARGE TREES AND LIANAS FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTAL DROUGHT IN AN AMAZON FOREST

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Ingrid Marisa Tohver;David Ray;Paulo Moutinho

  • Globalization of the Amazon soy and beef industries: opportunities for conservation.

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Daniel C. Nepstad;Claudia M. Stickler;Oriana T. Almeida

  • Tropical Forests and Climate Policy

    Raymond E. Gullison;Peter C. Frumhoff;Josep G. Canadell;Christopher B. Field

  • The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Daniel Nepstad;Britaldo S. Soares-Filho;Frank Merry;André Lima

  • Belowground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia

    Susan E Trumbore;Eric A Davidson;Pli­nio Barbosa de Camargo;Daniel C Nepstad

  • Tropical Deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol

    Márcio Santilli;Paulo Moutinho;Stephan Schwartzman;Daniel Nepstad

  • Reexamining fire suppression impacts on brushland fire regimes

    Jon E. Keeley;C. J. Fotheringham;Marco Morais

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • Investigating positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests.

    M. A. Cochrane;A. Alencar;M. D. Schulze;C. M. Souza

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric A. Davidson
Eric A. Davidson University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Paulo M. Brando
Paulo M. Brando University of California, Irvine
Ane Alencar
Ane Alencar Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia
Britaldo Soares-Filho
Britaldo Soares-Filho Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Marcelo Zacharias Moreira
Marcelo Zacharias Moreira Universidade de São Paulo
Jennifer K. Balch
Jennifer K. Balch University of Colorado Boulder
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Lisa M. Curran
Lisa M. Curran Stanford University
Michael T. Coe
Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center

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