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50
Citations
34974
World Ranking
3724
National Ranking
1299

Overview

Holly K. Gibbs is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on global and planetary change, ecology, agricultural and biological sciences, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's published work covers several main topics including atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, conservation, biodiversity, resource management, remote sensing in agriculture, agricultural sustainability and environmental impact, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest management and policy, and environmental impact and sustainability.

Frequent publication venues for Holly K. Gibbs include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Scientific Data
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Gibbs are:

  • Harmonized global maps of above and belowground biomass carbon density in the year 2010, 2020, published in Scientific Data
  • Cropland expansion in the United States produces marginal yields at high costs to wildlife, 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems, 2020, published in Nature Climate Change
  • Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action, 2020, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard, 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Holly K. Gibbs has collaborated frequently with co-authors including S. Spawn, Tyler J. Lark, Matthew Bougie, Christopher J. Kucharik, and Lisa Rausch. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of topics within environmental science and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Global Consequences of Land Use

    Jonathan A. Foley;Ruth DeFries;Gregory P. Asner;Carol Barford

  • Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

    Holly Gibbs;A. S. Ruesch;F. Achard;M. K. Clayton

  • Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality

    Holly K Gibbs;Sandra Brown;John O Niles;Jonathan A Foley

  • Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin

    Jonathan A. Foley;Gregory P. Asner;Marcos Heil Costa;Michael T. Coe

  • Brazil's Soy Moratorium

    H. K. Gibbs;L. Rausch;J. Munger;I. Schelly

  • Mapping the world's degraded lands

    H.K. Gibbs;J.M. Salmon

  • Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology

    Holly K Gibbs;Matt Johnston;Jonathan A Foley;Tracey Holloway

  • Cropland expansion outpaces agricultural and biofuel policies in the United States

    Tyler J Lark;J Meghan Salmon;Holly K Gibbs

  • Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation

    Navin Ramankutty;Navin Ramankutty;Holly K. Gibbs;Frédéric Achard;Ruth Defries

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels' indirect land use change are uncertain but may be much greater than previously estimated.

    Richard J Plevin;Michael O'Hare;Andrew D Jones;Margaret S Torn

  • The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation

    Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin;Holly K. Gibbs;Robert Heilmayr;Kimberly M. Carlson

  • Sustainable Biofuels Redux

    G. Philip Robertson;Virginia H. Dale;Otto C. Doering;Steven P. Hamburg

  • Global congruence of carbon storage and biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems

    Bernardo B.N. Strassburg;Annabel Kelly;Andrew Balmford;Richard G. Davies

  • Trading carbon for food: global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land.

    Paul C. West;Holly K. Gibbs;Chad Monfreda;John Wagner

  • The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness

    Raoni Rajão;Britaldo Soares-Filho;Felipe Nunes;Jan Börner

  • Climate Change and Global Health: Quantifying a Growing Ethical Crisis

    Jonathan A. Patz;Holly K. Gibbs;Jonathan A. Foley;Jamesine V. Rogers

  • Harmonized global maps of above and belowground biomass carbon density in the year 2010

    Seth A. Spawn;Clare C. Sullivan;Tyler J. Lark;Holly K. Gibbs

  • Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach

    Eric Lambin;Eric Lambin;H.K. Gibbs;L. Ferreira;R. Grau

  • Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia.

    Kimberly M. Carlson;Robert Heilmayr;Holly K. Gibbs;Praveen Noojipady

  • Did Ranchers and Slaughterhouses Respond to Zero-Deforestation Agreements in the Brazilian Amazon?

    Holly K. Gibbs;Jacob Munger;Jessica L'Roe;Paulo Barreto

  • New IPCC Tier-1 Global Biomass Carbon Map for the Year 2000

    Aaron Ruesch;Holly K. Gibbs

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas C. Morton
Douglas C. Morton Goddard Space Flight Center
Jonathan A. Foley
Jonathan A. Foley University of Minnesota
Jonathan A. Patz
Jonathan A. Patz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty University of British Columbia
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Valerie Kapos
Valerie Kapos World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center
Patrick Meyfroidt
Patrick Meyfroidt Université Catholique de Louvain
Frédéric Achard
Frédéric Achard Joint Research Centre

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