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Edward T. A. Mitchard

Edward T. A. Mitchard

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
15792
World Ranking
4328
National Ranking
478

Overview

Edward T. A. Mitchard is a researcher affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's research delves into multiple main topics including Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Forest Ecology and Management, Forest Management and Policy, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data, 2022, Nature Geoscience

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research include:

  • Iain M. McNicol
  • Simon L. Lewis
  • Casey M. Ryan
  • Harry Carstairs
  • Oliver L. Phillips

Publication venues frequently hosting their work are:

  • Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature

Their contributions also include book publications, with a notable title being Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol released in 2021 through Ghent University.

Best Publications

  • Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents.

    Sassan S Saatchi;Nancy L Harris;Sandra Brown;Michael A Lefsky

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

    Simon L. Lewis;Charlotte E. Wheeler;Edward T. A. Mitchard;Alexander Koch

  • The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change

    Edward T. A. Mitchard

  • An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

    Valerio Avitabile;Martin Herold;Gerard B.M. Heuvelink;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • A review of the application of optical and radar remote sensing data fusion to land use mapping and monitoring

    Neha P. Joshi;Matthias Baumann;Andrea Ehammer;Rasmus Fensholt

  • Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex

    Greta C. Dargie;Greta C. Dargie;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Ian T. Lawson;Edward T. A. Mitchard

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Changing Ecology of Tropical Forests: Evidence and Drivers

    Simon L. Lewis;Jon Lloyd;Stephen Sitch;Edward T.A. Mitchard

  • Using satellite radar backscatter to predict above‐ground woody biomass: A consistent relationship across four different African landscapes

    Edward T.A Mitchard;Sassan S Saatchi;Iain H Woodhouse;G Nangendo

  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

    Maurizio Santoro;Oliver Cartus;Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Mapping tropical forest biomass with radar and spaceborne LiDAR in Lopé National Park, Gabon: Overcoming problems of high biomass and persistent cloud

    Edward T A Mitchard;Sassan S Saatchi;Lee White;Katharine Abernethy

  • Uncertainty in the spatial distribution of tropical forest biomass: a comparison of pan-tropical maps.

    Edward T. A. Mitchard;Sassan S. Saatchi;Alessandro Baccini;Gregory P. Asner

  • Measuring biomass changes due to woody encroachment and deforestation/degradation in a forest-savanna boundary region of central Africa using multi-temporal L-band radar backscatter

    Edward T.A Mitchard;Sassan S Saatchi;S. L. Lewis;T R Feldpausch

  • Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics

    John Grace;Edward Mitchard;Emanuel Gloor

  • The distribution and amount of carbon in the largest peatland complex in Amazonia

    Frederick C Draper;Katherine H Roucoux;Ian T Lawson;Edward T A Mitchard

  • Quantifying small-scale deforestation and forest degradation in African woodlands using radar imagery

    Casey M. Ryan;Timothy Hill;Timothy Hill;Emily Woollen;Claire Ghee

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Casey M. Ryan
Casey M. Ryan University of Edinburgh
Mathew Williams
Mathew Williams University of Edinburgh
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Lee J. T. White
Lee J. T. White University of Stirling
Lindsay F. Banin
Lindsay F. Banin UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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