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36
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5025
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7136
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131

Overview

David M. Lapola is affiliated with the State University of Campinas in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in global and planetary change.

Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including global and planetary change, soil science, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and nature and landscape conservation.

Key topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Soil management and crop yield

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by David M. Lapola are:

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation (2023, Science)
  • Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system (2024, Nature)
  • Fine-root dynamics vary with soil depth and precipitation in a low-nutrient tropical forest in the Central Amazonia (2020, Plant-Environment Interactions)
  • Amazonian forest degradation must be incorporated into the COP26 agenda (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Fine roots stimulate nutrient release during early stages of leaf litter decomposition in a Central Amazon rainforest (2021, Plant and Soil)

David M. Lapola collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Katrin Fleischer
  • Anja Rammig
  • Amanda L. Cordeiro
  • Richard J. Norby
  • Iain P. Hartley

Their work has been published in notable venues, such as Nature Climate Change and Plants People Planet, with multiple publications in these journals, as well as in Science, Nature, and Plant-Environment Interactions.

Best Publications

  • Indirect land-use changes can overcome carbon savings from biofuels in Brazil

    David M. Lapola;Ruediger Schaldach;Joseph Alcamo;Alberte Bondeau

  • Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system

    David M. Lapola;Luiz A. Martinelli;Carlos A. Peres;Jean P. H. B. Ometto

  • Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition

    Katrin Fleischer;Anja Rammig;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • Model–data synthesis for the next generation of forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments

    Richard J. Norby;Martin G. De Kauwe;Tomas F. Domingues;Remko A. Duursma

  • An integrated approach to modelling land-use change on continental and global scales

    Rüdiger Schaldach;Joseph Alcamo;Jennifer Koch;Christina Kölking

  • Institutional challenges in putting ecosystem service knowledge in practice

    Heli Saarikoski;Eeva Primmer;Sanna-Riikka Saarela;Paula Antunes

  • Stakeholders’ perspectives on the operationalisation of the ecosystem service concept: Results from 27 case studies

    Jan Dick;Francis Turkelboom;Helen Woods;Irene Iniesta-Arandia

  • Exploring the range of climate biome projections for tropical South America: The role of CO2 fertilization and seasonality

    David M. Lapola;David M. Lapola;Marcos D. Oyama;Carlos A. Nobre

  • Modeling the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of deforestation‐driven carbon emissions: the INPE‐EM framework applied to the Brazilian Amazon

    Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar;Jean Pierre Ometto;Carlos Nobre;David Montenegro Lapola

  • Modeling the land requirements and potential productivity of sugarcane and jatropha in Brazil and India using the LPJmL dynamic global vegetation model

    David M. Lapola;Joerg A. Priess;Alberte Bondeau

  • Integrating methods for ecosystem service assessment: Experiences from real world situations

    Rob Dunford;Paula Harrison;Alison Smith;Jan Dick

  • Practical application of spatial ecosystem service models to aid decision support

    Grazia Zulian;Erik Stange;Helen Woods;Laurence Carvalho

  • Socio-climatic hotspots in Brazil

    Roger R. Torres;David M. Lapola;Jose A. Marengo;Magda A. Lombardo

  • Why have land use change models for the Amazon failed to capture the amount of deforestation over the last decade

    Eloi Lennon Dalla-Nora;Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar;David Montenegro Lapola;Geert Woltjer

  • Interspecific variation in the defensive responses of obligate plant-ants: experimental tests and consequences for herbivory

    Emilio M. Bruna;David M. Lapola;Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

  • Impacts of Climate Change and the End of Deforestation on Land Use in the Brazilian Legal Amazon

    David Montenegro Lapola;Ruediger Schaldach;Joseph Alcamo;Alberte Bondeau

  • Amazon forest biomass density maps: Tackling the uncertainty in carbon emission estimates

    Jean Pierre Ometto;Ana Paula Aguiar;Talita Assis;Luciana Soler

  • Evaluation of an integrated land use change model including a scenario analysis of land use change for continental Africa

    Joseph Alcamo;Rüdiger Schaldach;Jennifer Koch;Christina Kölking

  • Limiting the high impacts of Amazon forest dieback with no-regrets science and policy action.

    David M. Lapola;Patricia Pinho;Carlos A. Quesada;Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Bernardo B. N. Strassburg

  • (Dis) integrated valuation – Assessing the information gaps in ecosystem service appraisals for governance support

    D.N. Barton;E. Kelemen;J. Dick;B. Martin-Lopez

  • A new world natural vegetation map for global change studies

    David M. Lapola;Marcos D. Oyama;Carlos A. Nobre;Gilvan Sampaio

Frequent Co-Authors

Anja Rammig
Anja Rammig Technical University of Munich
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
Richard J. Norby
Richard J. Norby University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto National Institute for Space Research
Bart Kruijt
Bart Kruijt Wageningen University & Research
Tomas F. Domingues
Tomas F. Domingues Universidade de São Paulo
Carlos A. Nobre
Carlos A. Nobre Universidade de São Paulo
Erik Gómez-Baggethun
Erik Gómez-Baggethun Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Laurence Carvalho
Laurence Carvalho Natural Environment Research Council

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