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| Gregory P AsnerSummaryAffiliation: Stanford University Country: USA Publications
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Controls over foliar N:P ratios in tropical rain forestsAlan R Townsend
INSTAAR and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Ecology 88:107-18. 2007..Thus any use of N:P ratios in the tropics to infer larger-scale ecosystem processes must comprehensively account for the diversity of any given site and recognize the broad range in nutrient requirements, even at the local scale...- Climate and management contributions to recent trends in U.S. agricultural yieldsDavid B Lobell
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Science 299:1032. 2003 
Landscape-scale effects of herbivores on treefall in African savannasGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, CA, USA
Ecol Lett 15:1211-7. 2012..These landscape-scale patterns reveal environmental controls underpinning herbivore-mediated tree turnover, highlighting the need for context-dependent science and management...- Contrasting leaf chemical traits in tropical lianas and trees: implications for future forest compositionGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Ecol Lett 15:1001-7. 2012..Differences in chemical traits suggest that liana expansion could be greatest in forests undergoing increased canopy-level irradiance via disturbance and climate change... - A universal airborne LiDAR approach for tropical forest carbon mappingGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Oecologia 168:1147-60. 2012..With this approach, we propose to radically decrease the time required to calibrate airborne LiDAR data and thus increase the output of high-resolution carbon maps, supporting tropical forest conservation and climate mitigation policy... 
Human and environmental controls over aboveground carbon storage in MadagascarGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA USA
Carbon Balance Manag 7:2. 2012..abstract:..- Options for monitoring and estimating historical carbon emissions from forest degradation in the context of REDD+Martin Herold
Wageningen University, Center for Geoinformation, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Carbon Balance Manag 6:13. 2011..However improving monitoring capacities for systematic forest degradation estimates today will help reduce uncertainties even for historical estimates... - Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspectiveGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
New Phytol 187:569-78. 2010.... - A contemporary assessment of change in humid tropical forestsGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Conserv Biol 23:1386-95. 2009..Our results highlight the enormous geographic extent of forest change throughout the humid tropics and the considerable limitations of the science and technology available for such a synthesis... - High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the AmazonGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:16738-42. 2010..Very high-resolution monitoring reduces uncertainty in carbon emissions for REDD programs while uncovering fundamental environmental controls on forest carbon storage and their interactions with land-use change... - Canopy phylogenetic, chemical and spectral assembly in a lowland Amazonian forestGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
New Phytol 189:999-1012. 2011..Spectranomics provides a new connection between remote sensing and community assembly theory in high-diversity tropical canopies... - Large-scale impacts of herbivores on the structural diversity of African savannasGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:4947-52. 2009..Our results are the first to quantitatively illustrate the extent to which herbivores can affect the 3-D structural diversity of vegetation across large savanna landscapes... - Invasive plants transform the three-dimensional structure of rain forestsGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:4519-23. 2008.... - Leaf chemical and spectral diversity in Australian tropical forestsGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecol Appl 19:236-53. 2009.... - Land-use allocation protects the Peruvian AmazonPaulo J C Oliveira
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Science 317:1233-6. 2007..Although the region shows recent increases in disturbance and deforestation rates and leakage into forests surrounding concession areas, land-use policy and remoteness are serving to protect the Peruvian Amazon... - Taxonomy and remote sensing of leaf mass per area (LMA) in humid tropical forestsGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecol Appl 21:85-98. 2011..Our study indicates that remotely sensed patterns of LMA will be driven by taxonomic variation against a backdrop of environmental controls expressed at site and regional levels... - Drought stress and carbon uptake in an Amazon forest measured with spaceborne imaging spectroscopyGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:6039-44. 2004..Spaceborne imaging spectroscopy will increase the accuracy of ecological studies in humid tropical forests... - Remote analysis of biological invasion and biogeochemical changeGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:4383-6. 2005..This remote sensing approach indicates the geographic extent, intensity, and biogeochemical impacts of two distinct invaders; its wider application could enhance the role of remote sensing in ecosystem analysis and management... - Remote analysis of biological invasion and the impact of enemy releaseJames R Kellner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecol Appl 21:2094-104. 2011..They also show how novel remote-sensing technology can be integrated with conservation and management to help address exotic plant invasions... - Condition and fate of logged forests in the Brazilian AmazonGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:12947-50. 2006..Under the management regimes in effect at the time of our study in the Brazilian Amazon, selective logging would not be sustained... - Selective logging in the Brazilian AmazonGregory P Asner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Science 310:480-2. 2005..Each year, 27 million to 50 million cubic meters of wood were extracted, and a gross flux of approximately 0.1 billion metric tons of carbon was destined for release to the atmosphere by logging... - Multiscale analysis of tree cover and aboveground carbon stocks in pinyon-juniper woodlandsCho Ying Huang
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94304, USA
Ecol Appl 19:668-81. 2009..0 +/- 22.7 Tg C. Our results show how multiple remote-sensing observations can be used to map cover and C stocks at high resolution in drylands, and they highlight the role of P-J ecosystems in the North American C budget... - Predicting tropical plant physiology from leaf and canopy spectroscopyChristopher E Doughty
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Oecologia 165:289-99. 2011..5 ± 0.07 μmol m(-2) s(-1)) than are leaf spectra. The results indicate the potential for this technique to be used with high-fidelity imaging spectrometers to remotely sense tropical forest canopy photosynthesis... - Ground-based and remotely sensed nutrient availability across a tropical landscapeStephen Porder
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 371 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:10909-12. 2005..This pattern was corroborated by top-down remote sensing of area-integrated canopy phosphorus concentrations... - Regional insight into savanna hydrogeomorphology from termite moundsShaun R Levick
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Nat Commun 1:65. 2010..The mechanisms underlying future woody encroachment are not simply physiological responses to elevated temperatures and CO(2) levels but also involve hydrogeomorphological processes at the hillslope scale... - Climatic/edaphic controls on soil carbon/nitrogen response to shrub encroachment in desert grasslandC Winston Wheeler
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecol Appl 17:1911-28. 2007..Grassy sites in contrasting soil/elevation combinations, initially highly distinctive in their SOC pool size and delta13C, appear to be converging on similar values following approximately 100 years of woody plant proliferation... - Genetic variation in leaf pigment, optical and photosynthetic function among diverse phenotypes of Metrosideros polymorpha grown in a common gardenRoberta E Martin
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
Oecologia 151:387-400. 2007.... - Hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing of fire fuels in Hawaii Volcanoes National ParkTimothy A Varga
Earth Systems Program, Stanford University, 397 Panama Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecol Appl 18:613-23. 2008..4%, respectively. The results indicate that the fusion of hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing can provide unique information on the three-dimensional properties of ecosystems, their flammability, and the potential for fire spread... - Plants reverse warming effect on ecosystem water balanceErika S Zavaleta
Department of Biological Sciences and Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:9892-3. 2003..Our findings illustrate the potential for organism-environment interactions to modify the direction as well as the magnitude of global change effects on ecosystem functioning... - Multi-trophic invasion resistance in Hawaii: bioacoustics, field surveys, and airborne remote sensingNatalie T Boelman
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecol Appl 17:2137-44. 2007.... - The velocity of climate changeScott R Loarie
Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Nature 462:1052-5. 2009..Montane landscapes may effectively shelter many species into the next century. Elsewhere, reduced emissions, a much expanded network of protected areas, or efforts to increase species movement may be necessary... - Landscape-level variation in forest structure and biogeochemistry across a substrate age gradient in HawaiiPeter Vitousek
Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecology 90:3074-86. 2009..This increasing heterogeneity was associated with a larger patch size of canopy turnover and with dominance of most secondary successional stands by the mat-forming fern Dicranopteris linearis in the older landscapes... - Environmental filtering and land-use history drive patterns in biomass accumulation in a mediterranean-type landscapeKyla M Dahlin
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecol Appl 22:104-18. 2012.... - Convergent structural responses of tropical forests to diverse disturbance regimesJames R Kellner
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Ecol Lett 12:887-97. 2009.... - Spatial patterns in the effects of fire on savanna vegetation three-dimensional structureShaun R Levick
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama St, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Ecol Appl 22:2110-21. 2012..These results highlight the complexity of fire vegetation relationships in savanna systems, and they suggest that underlying landscape heterogeneity needs more explicit incorporation into fire management policies... - Woody plants in grasslands: post-encroachment stand dynamicsDawn M Browning
School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona, P O Box 210043, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Ecol Appl 18:928-44. 2008..If woody cover has transitioned from directional increases to a dynamic equilibrium, biomass projections will require monitoring and modeling patch dynamics and stand structure rather than simply changes in total cover... - Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forestsJeffrey Q Chambers
Tulane University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 310 Dinwiddie Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 22:414-23. 2007..Issues that we address here include forest response to altered precipitation regimes, regional disturbance and land-use patterns, invasive species and landscape carbon balance... - Global consequences of land useJonathan A Foley
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment SAGE, University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Science 309:570-4. 2005..We face the challenge of managing trade-offs between immediate human needs and maintaining the capacity of the biosphere to provide goods and services in the long term... - Recovery of forest structure and spectral properties after selective logging in lowland BoliviaEben N Broadbent
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
Ecol Appl 16:1148-63. 2006....