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Stephen W. Pacala
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 231
Citations - 46060
Stephen W. Pacala is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Carbon sink. The author has an hindex of 88, co-authored 222 publications receiving 41595 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen W. Pacala include Natural Environment Research Council & Stanford University.
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A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests
Yude Pan,Richard Birdsey,Jingyun Fang,Jingyun Fang,Richard A. Houghton,Pekka E. Kauppi,Werner A. Kurz,Oliver L. Phillips,Anatoly Shvidenko,Simon L. Lewis,Josep G. Canadell,Philippe Ciais,Robert B. Jackson,Stephen W. Pacala,A. David McGuire,Shilong Piao,Aapo Rautiainen,Stephen Sitch,Daniel J. Hayes +18 more
TL;DR: The total forest sink estimate is equivalent in magnitude to the terrestrial sink deduced from fossil fuel emissions and land-use change sources minus ocean and atmospheric sinks, with tropical estimates having the largest uncertainties.
Supporting Online Material for A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests
Yude Pan,Richard A. Birdsey,Jingyun Fang,Richard A. Houghton,Pekka E. Kauppi,Werner A. Kurz,Oliver L. Phillips,Anatoly Shvidenko,Simon L. Lewis,Philippe Ciais,Robert B. Jackson,Stephen W. Pacala,A. David McGuire,Shilong Piao,Aapo Rautiainen,Stephen Sitch,Daniel J. Hayes +16 more
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Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies
TL;DR: A portfolio of technologies now exists to meet the world's energy needs over the next 50 years and limit atmospheric CO 2 to a trajectory that avoids a doubling of the preindustrial concentration as mentioned in this paper.
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Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma
David Tilman,Robert H. Socolow,Jonathan A. Foley,Jason Hill,Eric D. Larson,Lee R. Lynd,Stephen W. Pacala,John M. Reilly,Tim Searchinger,Chris Somerville,Robert H. Williams +10 more
TL;DR: Exploiting multiple feedstocks, under new policies and accounting rules, to balance biofuel production, food security, and greenhouse-gas reduction and to accept the undesirable impacts of biofuels done wrong.
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Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems
David S. Schimel,Joanna Isobel House,K. Hibbard,Philippe Bousquet,Philippe Ciais,Philippe Peylin,Bobby H. Braswell,Michael J. Apps,David Baker,Alberte Bondeau,Josep G. Canadell,Galina Churkina,Wolfgang Cramer,A. S. Denning,Christopher B. Field,Pierre Friedlingstein,Christine L. Goodale,Martin Heimann,Richard A. Houghton,Jerry M. Melillo,Berrien Moore,Daniel Murdiyarso,Ian R. Noble,Stephen W. Pacala,Iain Colin Prentice,Michael R. Raupach,Peter Rayner,Robert J. Scholes,Will Steffen,Christian Wirth +29 more
TL;DR: An overview of the current state of knowledge of global and regional patterns of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems is provided, confirming that the terrestrial biosphere was largely neutral with respect to net carbon exchange during the 1980s, but became a net carbon sink in the 1990s.