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Geography

From the Arctic to Antarctica, and from Africa to the Americas, our faculty pursue research wherever there are issues to understand and problems to solve. Our program has seen five faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences and four to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. We are the only program of Geography to carry this distinction.

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Submissions from 2012

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Antarctic surface melting dynamics: Enhanced perspectives from radar scatterometer data, L. D. Trusel, K. E. Frey, and S. B. Das

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Carbon consequences of forest disturbance and recovery across the conterminous United States, Christopher A. Williams, G. James Collatz, Jeffrey Masek, and Samuel N. Goward

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Climate and vegetation controls on the surface water balance: Synthesis of evapotranspiration measured across a global network of flux towers, Christopher A. Williams, Markus Reichstein, Nina Buchmann, Dennis Baldocchi, Christian Beer, Christopher Schwalm, Georg Wohlfahrt, Natalia Hasler, Christian Bernhofer, Thomas Foken, Dario Papale, Stan Schymanski, and Kevin Schaefer

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Accelerating Anthropogenic Land Surface Change and the Status of Pleistocene Drumlins in New England, Deborah W. Woodcock, John S. Rogan, and Samuel D. Blanchard

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Assessment of spectral, polarimetric, temporal, and spatial dimensions for urban and peri-urban land cover classification using Landsat and SAR data, Zhe Zhu, Curtis E. Woodcock, John Rogan, and Josef Kellndorfer

Submissions from 2011

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Teleology, contexts, and agency in Sheppard's sociospatial ontology, Yuko Aoyama

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Service innovation, Yuko Aoyama and Rory Horner

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Key concepts in economic geography, Yuko Aoyama, James T. Murphy, and Susan Hanson

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An Andean Avatar: Post-neoliberal and neoliberal strategies for securing the unobtainable, Anthony Bebbington and Humphreys Bebbington Denise

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Decentring poverty, reworking government: Social movements and states in the government of poverty, Anthony J. Bebbington, D. Mitlin, J. Mogaladi, M. Scurrah, and C. Bielich

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Sensitivity of a Land Change Model to Pixel Resolution and Precision of the Independent Variable, Hao Chen and Robert Gilmore Pontius

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Critical commentary. gentrification in crisis: Towards consensus or disagreement?, Mark Davidson

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The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing, Mark Davidson

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Predictive distribution modeling with enhanced remote sensing and multiple validation techniques to support mountain bongo antelope recovery, L. D. Estes, A. G. Mwangi, P. R. Reillo, and H. H. Shugart

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The use of non-invasive molecular techniques to confirm the presence of mountain bongo Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci populations in Kenya and preliminary inference of their mitochondrial genetic variation, P. J. Faria, G. D. Kavembe, J. O. Jung'a, C. N. Kimwele, L. D. Estes, P. R. Reillo, A. G. Mwangi, and M. W. Bruford

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Utilizing temporally invariant calibration sites to classify multiple dates and types of satellite imagery, Joe Fortier, John Rogan, Curtis E. Woodcock, and Daniel Miller Runfola

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The spatial distribution of solar radiation under a melting Arctic sea ice cover, Karen E. Frey, Donald K. Perovich, and Bonnie Light

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Object-based classification with features extracted by a semi-automatic feature extraction algorithm-SEaTH, Yan Gao, Prashanth Marpu, Imgard Niemeyer, Daniel Miller Runfola, Nicholas M. Giner, Thomas Hamill, and Robert Gilmore Pontius

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Spatial and interannual variability of dissolved organic matter in the Kolyma River, East Siberia, observed using satellite imagery, Claire G. Griffin, Karen E. Frey, John Rogan, and Robert M. Holmes

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Application of spectral and environmental variables to map the Kissimmee Prairie ecosystem using classification trees, Sean Griffin, John Rogan, and Daniel Runfola

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Colorectal cancer and socioeconomic status in Miami-Dade County: Neighborhood-level associations before and after the Welfare Reform Act, M. N. Hernandez, R. Roy Chowdhury, L. E. Fleming, and D. A. Griffith

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Theorizing practice in economic geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities, Andrew Jones and James T. Murphy

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Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Hank A. Margolis, Alessandro Cescatti, Andrew D. Richardson, M. Altaf Arain, Almut Arneth, Christian Bernhofer, Damien Bonal, Jiquan Chen, Damiano Gianelle, Nadine Gobron, Gerald Kiely, Werner Kutsch, Gitta Lasslop, Beverly E. Law, Anders Lindroth, Lutz Merbold, Leonardo Montagnani, Eddy J. Moors, Dario Papale, Matteo Sottocornola, Francesco Vaccari, and Christopher Williams

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Evaluation of species distribution model algorithms for fine-scale container-breeding mosquito risk prediction, C. Khatchikian, Florencia Sangermano, D. Kendell, and T. Livdahl

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Stand development of Norway spruce dominated subalpine forests of the Swiss Alps, Frank Krumm, Dominik Kulakowski, Heinrich Spiecker, Philippe Duc, and Peter Bebi

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The interacting effects of land use change, climate change and suppression of natural disturbances on landscape forest structure in the Swiss Alps, Dominik Kulakowski, Peter Bebi, and Christian Rixen

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The influence of mountain pine beetle outbreaks and drought on severe wildfires in northwestern Colorado and southern Wyoming: A look at the past century, Dominik Kulakowski and Daniel Jarvis

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Regional urbanization, spatial justice, and place, Deborah Martin

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The socio-spatial dynamics of development: Geographical insights beyond the 2009 World Development Report, James T. Murphy

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Market intermediaries and rural people in Bolivia's forest products sector: Are trusting partnerships possible?, James T. Murphy and Mary Lawhon

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Globalizing development in Bolivia? Alternative networks and value-capture challenges in the wood products industry, James T. Murphy and Seth Schindler

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Testing the accuracy of non-experts in biodiversity monitoring exercises using fern species richness in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Franka Berdel, Nathan K. Truelove, Thorsten Wiersberg, and Richard F. Preziosi

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A synthesis of the long-term paleoclimatic evolution of the Arctic, Matthew O'Regan, Christopher J. Williams, Karen E. Frey, and Martin Jakobsson

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Wind disturbances shape old Norway spruce-dominated forest in Bulgaria, M. Panayotov, D. Kulakowski, L. Laranjeiro Dos Santos, and P. Bebi

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Detection of the timing and duration of snowmelt in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya using QuikSCAT, 2000-2008, Prajjwal K. Panday, Karen E. Frey, and Bardan Ghimire

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Relational place-making: The networked politics of place, Joseph Pierce, Deborah G. Martin, and James T. Murphy

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Death to Kappa: Birth of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement for accuracy assessment, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Marco Millones

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Comparison of three maps at multiple resolutions: A case study of land change simulation in cho don district, Vietnam, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Smitha Peethambaram, and Jean Christophe Castella

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Hurricane disturbance mapping using MODIS EVI data in the southeastern Yucatán, Mexico, John Rogan, Laura Schneider, Zachary Christman, Marco Millones, Deborah Lawrence, and Birgit Schmook

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A step-wise land-cover classification of the tropical forests of the Southern Yucatán, Mexico, Birgit Schmook, Rebecca Palmer Dickson, Florencia Sangermano, Jacqueline M. Vadjunec, J. Ronald Eastman, and John Rogan

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Carbon consequences of global hydrologic change, 1948-2009, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, and Kevin Schaefer

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Does terrestrial drought explain global CO 2 flux anomalies induced by El Niño?, C. R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, K. Schaefer, I. Baker, G. J. Collatz, and C. Rödenbeck

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High mortality for rare species following hurricane disturbance in the southern Yucatán, Karen L. Vandecar, Deborah Lawrence, Dana Richards, Laura Schneider, John Rogan, Birgit Schmook, and Henry Wilbur

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Urban Politics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Kevin Ward, David Imbroscio, Deborah Martin, Clarence Stone, Robert Whelan, Faranak Miraftab, and Allan Cochrane

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A pan-arctic network to study past, present, and future sea ice trends, Carolyn Wegner, Karen E. Frey, and Christine Michel

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ENSO and IOD teleconnections for African ecosystems: Evidence of destructive interference between climate oscillations, Christopher A. Williams and N. P. Hanan

Submissions from 2010

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Federating and defending: Water, territory and extraction in the Andes, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, and Jeffrey Bury

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Anatomy of a regional conflict: Tarija and resource grievances in Moraless Bolivia, Denise Bebbington and Anthony J. Bebbington

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Extraction, territory, and inequalities: Gas in the bolivian chaco, Denise Humphreys Bebbington and Anthony J. Bebbington

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Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: Global distribution and covariation with climate, Christian Beer, Markus Reichstein, Enrico Tomelleri, Philippe Ciais, Martin Jung, Nuno Carvalhais, Christian Rödenbeck, M. Altaf Arain, Dennis Baldocchi, Gordon B. Bonan, Alberte Bondeau, Alessandro Cescatti, Gitta Lasslop, Anders Lindroth, Mark Lomas, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Hank Margolis, Keith W. Oleson, Olivier Roupsard, Elmar Veenendaal, Nicolas Viovy, Christopher Williams, F. Ian Woodward, and Dario Papale

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Geomorphic change analysis using ASTER and SRTM digital elevation models in central Massachusetts, USA, Samuel Blanchard, John Rogan, and Deborah Woodcock

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Diagnostic tools to evaluate a spatial land change projection along a gradient of an explanatory variable, Hao Chen and Robert Gilmore Pontius

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Differentiation and concordance in smallholder land use strategies in southern Mexico's conservation frontier, Rinku Roy Chowdhury

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Raster data transformation for land change analyses: Combined impacts of reprojecting and rescaling categorical maps on landscape composition and configuration, Zachary Christman and John Rogan

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Hacking away at sustainability: Science, ideology and cynical blockage, Mark Davidson

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Love thy neighbour? social mixing in London's gentrification frontiers, Mark Davidson

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Social sustainability and the city, Mark Davidson

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Sustainability as ideological praxis: The acting out of planning's master-signifier, Mark Davidson

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New-build gentrification: Its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies, Mark Davidson and Loretta Lees

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From hope to crisis and back again? A critical history of the global CBNRM narrative, Wolfram Dressler, Bram Büscher, Michael Schoon, Dan Brockington, Tanya Hayes, Christian A. Kull, James McCarthy, and Krishna Shrestha

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Remote sensing of structural complexity indices for habitat and species distribution modeling, L. D. Estes, P. R. Reillo, A. G. Mwangi, G. S. Okin, and H. H. Shugart

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Establishing priorities for interdisciplinary arctic ocean science, Karen E. Frey, Jeremy T. Mathis, and Carolyn Wegner

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Contextual land-cover classification: Incorporating spatial dependence in land-cover classification models using random forests and the Getis statistic, B. Ghimire, J. Rogan, and J. Miller

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Biological response to recent pacific arctic sea ice retreats, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Sue E. Moore, James E. Overland, Karen E. Frey, and Rolf Gradinger

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Functional convergence in ecosystem carbon exchange in adjacent Savanna vegetation types of the Kruger National Park, South Africa, Niall P. Hanan, Nicolas Boulain, Christopher A. Williams, Robert J. Scholes, and Sally Archibald

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Mobilising bodies: Visceral identification in the Slow Food movement, Allison Hayes-Conroy and Deborah G. Martin

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Practice and economic geography, Andrew Jones and James T. Murphy

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Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Justin Sheffield, Michael L. Goulden, Gordon Bonan, Alessandro Cescatti, Jiquan Chen, Richard De Jeu, A. Johannes Dolman, Werner Eugster, Dieter Gerten, Damiano Gianelle, Nadine Gobron, Jens Heinke, John Kimball, Beverly E. Law, Leonardo Montagnani, Qiaozhen Mu, Brigitte Mueller, Keith Oleson, Dario Papale, Andrew D. Richardson, Olivier Roupsard, Steve Running, Enrico Tomelleri, Nicolas Viovy, Ulrich Weber, Christopher Williams, Eric Wood, and Sönke Zaehle

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Analysis of twenty years of categorical land transitions in the Lower Hunter of New South Wales, Australia, Ramita Manandhar, Inakwu O.A. Odeh, and Robert Gilmore Pontius

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Reflections on teaching qualitative methods in geography, Deborah G. Martin

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Making law, making place: Lawyers and the production of space, Deborah G. Martin, Alexander W. Scherr, and Christopher City

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Understanding the lessons and limitations of conservation and development, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Dan Brockington, and Richard F. Preziosi

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Land transition estimates from erroneous maps, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Xiaoxiao Li

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Uncertainty in the difference between maps of future land change scenarios, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Neeti Neeti

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Assessing a predictive model of land change using uncertain data, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Silvia H. Petrova

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Agricultural livelihood transition in the southern Yucatán region: Diverging paths and their accompanying land changes, Claudia Radel, Birgit Schmook, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury

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Improving forest type discrimination with mixed lifeform classes using fuzzy classification thresholds informed by field observations, J. Rogan, N. Bumbarger, D. Kulakowski, Z. J. Christman, D. M. Runfola, and S. Blanchard

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Similarity weighted instance-based learning for the Generation of transition potentials in land use change modeling, Florencia Sangermano, J. Ronald Eastman, and Honglei Zhu

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A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Ryan Anderson, M. Altaf Arain, Ian Baker, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Guangsheng Chen, Jing Ming Chen, Philippe Ciais, Kenneth J. Davis, Ankur Desai, Michael Dietze, Danilo Dragoni, Marc L. Fischer, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Robert Grant, Lianhong Gu, David Hollinger, R. Csar Izaurralde, Chris Kucharik, Peter Lafleur, Beverly E. Law, Longhui Li, Zhengpeng Li, Shuguang Liu, Erandathie Lokupitiya, Yiqi Luo, Siyan Ma, Hank Margolis, and Roser Matamala

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Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Almut Arneth, Damien Bonal, Nina Buchmann, Jiquan Chen, Beverlye Law, Anders Lindroth, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Markus Reichstein, and Andrew D. Richardson

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Climate change and the integrity of science, Jennifer Sills, P. H. Gleick, R. M. Adams, R. M. Amasino, E. Anders, D. J. Anderson, W. W. Anderson, L. E. Anselin, M. K. Arroyo, B. Asfaw, F. J. Ayala, A. Bax, A. J. Bebbington, G. Bell, M. V.L. Bennett, J. L. Bennetzen, M. R. Berenbaum, O. B. Berlin, P. J. Bjorkman, E. Blackburn, J. E. Blamont, M. R. Botchan, J. S. Boyer, E. A. Boyle, D. Branton, S. P. Briggs, W. R. Briggs, W. J. Brill, R. J. Britten, W. S. Broecker, J. H. Brown, and P. O. Brown

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Climate change: Helping nature survive the human response, Will R. Turner, Bethany A. Bradley, Lyndon D. Estes, David G. Hole, Michael Oppenheimer, and David S. Wilcove

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Mapping land-cover change in a haitian watershed using a combined spectral mixture analysis and classification tree procedure, Anna Versluis and John Rogan

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Integration of remote sensing and modeling to understand carbon fluxes and climate Interactions in Africa, Christopher A. Williams

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Transnational tense: Immigration and inequality in American housing markets, Elvin K. Wyly, Deborah G. Martin, Pablo Mendez, and Steven R. Holloway

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Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents, Chuixiang Yi, Runze Li, John Wolbeck, Xiyan Xu, Mats Nilsson, Luis Aires, John D. Albertson, Christof Ammann, M. Altaf Arain, Alessandro C. De Araujo, Marc Aubinet, Mika Aurela, Zoltán Barcza, Alan Barr, Paul Berbigier, Jason Beringer, Christian Bernhofer, Andrew T. Black, Paul V. Bolstad, Fred C. Bosveld, Mark S.J. Broadmeadow, Nina Buchmann, Sean P. Burns, Pierre Cellier, Jingming Chen, Jiquan Chen, Philippe Ciais, Robert Clement, Bruce D. Cook, Peter S. Curtis, D. Bryan Dail, Ebba Dellwik, and Christopher A. Williams

Submissions from 2009

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Artists, tourists, and the state: Cultural tourism and the flamenco industry in Andalusia, Spain, Yuko Aoyama

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Introduction - Consumption-centered research for diverse urban economies, Yuko Aoyama

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Drivers of inter-annual variability in Net Ecosystem Exchange in a semi-arid savanna ecosystem, South Africa, S. A. Archibald, A. Kirton, M. R. Van Der Merwe, R. J. Scholes, Christopher A. Williams, and N. Hanan

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A case study of carbon fluxes from land change in the Southwest Brazilian Amazon, K. Barrett, J. Rogan, and J. R. Eastman

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Social Capital, A. Bebbington

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Contesting environmental transformation: political ecologies and environmentalisms in Latin America and the Caribbean, Anthony J. Bebbington

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Latin America: Contesting extraction, producing geographies, Anthony J. Bebbington

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"Please Mr Bebbington, don't come here and tell us what to do", Anthony J. Bebbington

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Institutional challenges for mining and sustainability in Peru, Anthony J. Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury

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Snow avalanche disturbances in forest ecosystems-State of research and implications for management, Peter Bebi, Dominik Kulakowski, and Christian Rixen

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Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water use efficiency at the ecosystem level, C. Beer, P. Ciais, M. Reichstein, D. Baldocchi, B. E. Law, D. Papale, J. F. Soussana, C. Ammann, N. Buchmann, D. Frank, D. Gianelle, I. A. Janssens, A. Knohl, B. Köstner, E. Moors, O. Roupsard, H. Verbeeck, T. Vesala, C. A. Williams, and G. Wohlfahrt

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Displacement, space and dwelling: Placing gentrification debate, Mark Davidson

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Social sustainability: A potential for politics?, Mark Davidson

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Seasonal trend analysis of image time series, J. Ronald Eastman, Florencia Sangermano, Bardan Ghimire, Honglei Zhu, Hao Chen, Neeti Neeti, Yongming Cai, Elia A. Machado, and Stefano C. Crema