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Deborah Lawrence is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has contributed to the field of Environmental Science with a research focus on climate change, ecosystem dynamics, and resource management. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

Their recent research has appeared in various publication venues, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach. Frequent venues include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science

Key topics addressed by Deborah Lawrence's research include:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country" (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • "National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate" (2022), published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • "Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models" (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • "Spatio-Temporal Variability of Peat CH4 and N2O Fluxes and Their Contribution to Peat GHG Budgets in Indonesian Forests and Oil Palm Plantations" (2021), published in Frontiers in Environmental Science

Deborah Lawrence has collaborated frequently with coauthors such as Stephanie Roe, Charlotte Streck, Jason Funk, Jonah Busch, and Melissa Chapman. These collaborations further highlight the interdisciplinary nature of their work in addressing environmental and climate-related challenges.

Best Publications

  • Effects of tropical deforestation on climate and agriculture

    Deborah Lawrence;Karen Vandecar

  • Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

    Thomas K. Rudel;Laura Schneider;Maria Uriarte;Billie Turner

  • Review of trend analysis and climate change projections of extreme precipitation and floods in Europe

    Henrik Madsen;Deborah Lawrence;Michel Lang;Marta Martinkova

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

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Michael Obersteiner;Stefan Frank

  • Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Kimberly M. Carlson;Lisa M. Curran;Lisa M. Curran;Lisa M. Curran;Dessy Ratnasari;Alice M. Pittman;Alice M. Pittman

  • Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: review and new perspectives.

    Mauricio Quesada;G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa;Mariana Alvarez-Añorve;Kathryn E. Stoner

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

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Robert Beach;Jonah Busch

  • Deforestation in the southern Yucatan peninsular region: an integrative approach

    B.L Turner;Sergio Cortina Villar;David Foster;Jacqueline Geoghegan

  • 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

  • Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Southeast Asia: Carbon Storage and Soil Quality

    Thilde Bech Bruun;Andreas de Neergaard;Deborah Lawrence;Alan D. Ziegler

  • Carbon outcomes of major land-cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications

    Alan D. Ziegler;Jacob Phelps;Jia Qi Yuen;Edward L. Webb

  • Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia: Hydrology and Geomorphology

    Alan D. Ziegler;Thilde B. Bruun;Maite Guardiola-Claramonte;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Consequences of Swidden Transitions for Crop and Fallow Biodiversity in Southeast Asia

    Kanok Rerkasem;Deborah Lawrence;Christine Padoch;Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt

  • Recovery of biomass following shifting cultivation in dry tropical forests of the yucatan

    Larissa Read;Deborah Lawrence;Deborah Lawrence

  • LAND CHANGE IN THE SOUTHERN YUCATÁN AND CALAKMUL BIOSPHERE RESERVE: EFFECTS ON HABITAT AND BIODIVERSITY

    Henricus F. M. Vester;Deborah Lawrence;J. Ronald Eastman;B. L. Turner

  • Ecological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forest

    Deborah Lawrence;Paolo D'Odorico;Lucy Diekmann;Marcia DeLonge

  • CHANGES IN SOIL PHOSPHORUS DURING 200 YEARS OF SHIFTING CULTIVATION IN INDONESIA

    Deborah Lawrence;Deborah Lawrence;William H. Schlesinger

  • The response of tropical tree seedlings to nutrient supply: meta-analysis for understanding a changing tropical landscape

    Deborah Lawrence

  • Untangling a Decline in Tropical Forest Resilience: Constraints on the Sustainability of Shifting Cultivation Across the Globe

    Deborah Lawrence;Claudia Anne Radel;Katherine Tully;Birgit Schmook

  • Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models

    Lena R. Boysen;Victor Brovkin;Julia Pongratz;David M. Lawrence

  • The impact of shifting cultivation on a rainforest landscape in West Kalimantan: spatial and temporal dynamics

    Deborah Lawrence;David R. Peart;Mark Leighton

  • Physical and biological feedbacks of deforestation

    Christiane W. Runyan;Paolo D'Odorico;Deborah Lawrence

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo D'Odorico
Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley
Billie Turner
Billie Turner Arizona State University
David R. Foster
David R. Foster Harvard University
Deborah A. Clark
Deborah A. Clark University of Missouri–St. Louis
Bronson W. Griscom
Bronson W. Griscom Conservation International
Louis V. Verchot
Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Kristell Hergoualc'h
Kristell Hergoualc'h Center for International Forestry Research
Alan D. Ziegler
Alan D. Ziegler National University of Singapore
Lisa M. Curran
Lisa M. Curran Stanford University
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen

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