dr. Thales Pupo West

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• 2024

  Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+

  West, T. A. P., Bomfim, B. & Haya, B. K., Jul 2024, In: Global Environmental Change. 87, p. 1-10 10 p., 102863.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Best Practice 100%
  • Methodological Issue 100%
  • Baseline Method 100%
  • Certification Standard 100%
  • Inference Method 100%

• Strong transparency required for carbon credit mechanisms

  Delacote, P., L’Horty, T., Kontoleon, A., West, T. A. P., Creti, A., Filewod, B., LeVelly, G., Guizar-Coutiño, A., Groom, B. & Elias, M., Jun 2024, In: Nature Sustainability. 7, 6, p. 706-713 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Carbon Offset 100%
  • Carbon Credit 100%
  • Value Chain 50%

• Formal designation of Brazilian indigenous lands linked to small but consistent reductions in deforestation

  West, T. A. P., Apr 2024, In: Ecological Economics. 218, p. 1-9 9 p., 108093.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Biome 100%
  • Climate Change 33%
  • Experimental Design 33%
  • Territory 33%
  • Forest Conservation 33%

• Protecting Life and Lung: Protected Areas Affect Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Hospitalizations in the Brazilian Amazon Biome

  Sheehan, D., Mullan, K., West, T. A. P. & Semmens, E. O., Jan 2024, In: Environmental and Resource Economics. 87, 1, p. 45-87 43 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Infection 100%
  • Wellbeing 100%
  • Thermal Burn 100%
  • Respiratory Disease 100%
  • Fine Particulate Matter 100%
• 2023

  Mapping opportunities for the use of land management strategies to address fire risk in Europe

  Neidermeier, A. N., Zagaria, C., Pampanoni, V., West, T. A. P. & Verburg, P. H., 15 Nov 2023, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 346, p. 1-11 11 p., 118941.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Land Management 100%
  • Face 14%
  • Climate Change 14%
  • Decision Making 14%

• Transformation of Brazil's biomes: The dynamics and fate of agriculture and pasture expansion into native vegetation

  Caballero, C. B., Biggs, T. W., Vergopolan, N., West, T. A. P. & Ruhoff, A., 20 Oct 2023, In: Science of the Total Environment. 896, p. 1-15 15 p., 166323.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Vegetation 100%
  • Land Use Change 100%
  • Biome 100%
  • Land Cover Change 100%
  • Land Cover 100%

• Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation

  West, T. A. P., Wunder, S., Sills, E. O., Börner, J., Rifai, S. W., Neidermeier, A. N., Frey, G. P. & Kontoleon, A., 25 Aug 2023, In: Science. 381, 6660, p. 873-877 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Climate Change Mitigation 100%
  • Forest Conservation 100%
  • Carbon Offset 100%
  • Control Method 100%
  461 Downloads (Pure)

• Credit credibility threatens forests

  Balmford, A., Brancalion, P. H. S., Coomes, D., Filewod, B., Groom, B., Guizar-Couti Ño, A., Jones, J. P. G., Keshav, S., Kontoleon, A., Madhavapeddy, A., Malhi, Y., Sills, E. O., Strassburg, B. B. N., Venmans, F., West, T. A. P., Wheeler, C. & Swinfield, T., 5 May 2023, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 380, 6644, p. 466-467 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic
• 2022

  Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle

  West, T. A. P., Rausch, L., Munger, J. & Gibbs, H. K., Dec 2022, In: Conservation Letters. 15, 6, p. 1-9 9 p., e12916.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Protected areas 100%
  • Cattle Production 25%
  • Amazon Rainforest 12%

• Potential conservation gains from improved protected area management in the Brazilian Amazon

  West, T. A. P., Caviglia-Harris, J. L., Martins, F. S. R. V., Silva, D. E. & Börner, J., May 2022, In: Biological Conservation. 269, p. 1-8 8 p., 109526.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Time Series 100%
  • Management Quality 100%
  • Difference in Differences 100%
  • Forest Conservation 100%
  • Protected Area 100%

• Emerging technologies for the development of wood products towards extended carbon storage and CO2 capture

  Singh, T., Arpanaei, A., Elustondo, D., Wang, Y., Stocchero, A., West, T. A. P. & Fu, Q., 2022, In: Carbon Capture Science & Technology.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
• 2021

  Diversification of forestry portfolios for climate change and market risk mitigation

  West, T. A. P., Salekin, S., Melia, N., Wakelin, S. J., Yao, R. T. & Meason, D., 1 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 289, p. 1-10 10 p., 112482.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Climate Change 100%
  • Forest Management 25%
  • Pinus Radiata 25%
  • Forest Growth 25%
  • Growth Models 25%
  103 Downloads (Pure)

• Brazil's conservation reform and the reduction of deforestation in Amazonia

  West, T. A. P. & Fearnside, P. M., 1 Jan 2021, In: Land Use Policy. 100, 105072.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

  • Action Plan 100%
  • Protected Area 100%
  • Exchange Rate 100%
  • Commodity Price 100%
  • Land Tenure 100%
• 2020

  Promotion of afforestation in New Zealand's marginal agricultural lands through payments for environmental services

  West, T. A. P., Monge, J. J., Dowling, L. J., Wakelin, S. J. & Gibbs, H. K., 1 Dec 2020, In: Ecosystem Services. 46, 101212.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Farmland 100%
  • Afforestation 100%
  • Grassland 40%
  • Greenhouse Gas Emission 40%
  • Land Use 40%

• Sustainable forest management (SFM) of tropical moist forests: the case of the Brazilian Amazon

  West, T. A. P., Oct 2020, Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests. Blaser, J. & Hardcastle, P. (eds.). Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

  Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

• Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon

  West, T. A. P., Börner, J., Sills, E. O. & Kontoleon, A., 29 Sept 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 39, p. 24188-24194

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Carbon Dioxide Emission 100%
  • Emission Reduction 100%
  • Climate Change Mitigation 50%
  • Paris Agreement 50%
  • Carbon Offset 50%

• Comparison of spatial modelling frameworks for the identification of future afforestation in New Zealand

  West, T. A. P., Monge, J. J., Dowling, L. J., Wakelin, S. J., Yao, R. T., Dunningham, A. G. & Payn, T., 1 Jun 2020, In: Landscape and Urban Planning. 198, 103780.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Afforestation 100%
  • Spatial Modeling 100%
  • Grassland 25%
  • Land Use 25%
  • Artificial Neural Network 25%

• A Bayesian network approach to modelling land-use decisions under environmental policy incentives in the Brazilian Amazon

  Nascimento, N., West, T. A. P., Biber-Freudenberger, L., Sousa-Neto, E. R. D., Ometto, J. & Börner, J., 3 May 2020, In: Journal of Land Use Science. 15, 2-3, p. 127-141 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Land Use 100%
  • Environmental Policy 100%
  • Land Use Modeling 100%
  • Remote Sensing Product 33%
  • Land Cover Change 33%
• 2019

  Optimal strategies for ecosystem services provision in Amazonian production forests

  Piponiot, C., Rutishauser, E., Derroire, G., Putz, F. E., Sist, P., West, T. A. P., Descroix, L., Guedes, M. C., Coronado, E. N. H., Kanashiro, M., Mazzei, L., D'Oliveira, M. V. N., Pea-Claros, M., Rodney, K., Ruschel, A. R., De Souza, C. R., Vidal, E., Wortel, V. & Hérault, B., 20 Dec 2019, In: Environmental Research Letters. 14, 12, 124090.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Tropical Forest 100%
  • Forest Management 50%
  • Biodiversity 50%

• The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass

  Schepaschenko, D., Chave, J., Phillips, O. L., Lewis, S. L., Davies, S. J., Réjou-Méchain, M., Sist, P., Scipal, K., Perger, C., Herault, B., Labrière, N., Hofhansl, F., Affum-Baffoe, K., Aleinikov, A., Alonso, A., Amani, C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Armston, J., Arroyo, L., Ascarrunz, N., & 123 othersAzevedo, C., Baker, T., Bałazy, R., Bedeau, C., Berry, N., Bilous, A. M., Bilous, S. Y., Bissiengou, P., Blanc, L., Bobkova, K. S., Braslavskaya, T., Brienen, R., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Condit, R., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Danilina, D., del Castillo Torres, D., Derroire, G., Descroix, L., Sotta, E. D., d’Oliveira, M. V. N., Dresel, C., Erwin, T., Evdokimenko, M. D., Falck, J., Feldpausch, T. R., Foli, E. G., Foster, R., Fritz, S., Garcia-Abril, A. D., Gornov, A., Gornova, M., Gothard-Bassébé, E., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Guedes, M., Hamer, K. C., Susanty, F. H., Higuchi, N., Coronado, E. N. H., Hubau, W., Hubbell, S., Ilstedt, U., Ivanov, V. V., Kanashiro, M., Karlsson, A., Karminov, V. N., Killeen, T., Koffi, J. C. K., Konovalova, M., Kraxner, F., Krejza, J., Krisnawati, H., Krivobokov, L. V., Kuznetsov, M. A., Lakyda, I., Lakyda, P. I., Licona, J. C., Lucas, R. M., Lukina, N., Lussetti, D., Malhi, Y., Manzanera, J. A., Marimon, B., Junior, B. H. M., Martinez, R. V., Martynenko, O. V., Matsala, M., Matyashuk, R. K., Mazzei, L., Memiaghe, H., Mendoza, C., Mendoza, A. M., Moroziuk, O. V., Mukhortova, L., Musa, S., Nazimova, D. I., Okuda, T., Oliveira, L. C., Ontikov, P. V., Osipov, A. F., Pietsch, S., Playfair, M., Poulsen, J., Radchenko, V. G., Rodney, K., Rozak, A. H., Ruschel, A., Rutishauser, E., See, L., Shchepashchenko, M., Shevchenko, N., Shvidenko, A., Silveira, M., Singh, J., Sonké, B., Souza, C., Stereńczak, K., Stonozhenko, L., Sullivan, M. J. P., Szatniewska, J., Taedoumg, H., ter Steege, H., Tikhonova, E., Toledo, M., Trefilova, O. V., Valbuena, R., Gamarra, L. V., Vasiliev, S., Vedrova, E. F., Verhovets, S. V., Vidal, E., Vladimirova, N. A., Vleminckx, J., Vos, V. A., Vozmitel, F. K., Wanek, W., West, T. A. P., Woell, H., Woods, J. T., Wortel, V., Yamada, T., Nur Hajar, Z. S. & Zo-Bi, I. C., 1 Dec 2019, In: Scientific Data. 6, 1, 198.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Remote Sensing 100%
  • Aboveground Biomass 50%
  • Climate Change Mitigation 25%
  • Satellite Remote Sensing 25%
  • Renewable Energy 25%

• Climatic Benefits From the 2006–2017 Avoided Deforestation in Amazonian Brazil

  West, T. A. P., Börner, J. & Fearnside, P. M., 18 Sept 2019, In: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2, 52.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Emission Reduction 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas Emission 80%
  • Carbon Dioxide Emission 40%
  • Artificial Neural Network 40%

• Carbon payments for extended rotations in forest plantations: Conflicting insights from a theoretical model

  West, T. A. P., Wilson, C., Vrachioli, M. & Grogan, K. A., 1 Sept 2019, In: Ecological Economics. 163, p. 70-76

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Tree 100%
  • Carbon Sink 100%
  • Forest Plantations 100%
  • Carbon Dioxide 100%
  • Incentive 66%

• Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable?

  Piponiot, C., Rödig, E., Putz, F. E., Rutishauser, E., Sist, P., Ascarrunz, N., Blanc, L., Derroire, G., Descroix, L., Guedes, M. C., Coronado, E. H., Huth, A., Kanashiro, M., Licona, J. C., Mazzei, L., D'Oliveira, M. V. N., Peña-Claros, M., Rodney, K., Shenkin, A., De Souza, C. R., & 4 othersVidal, E., West, T. A. P., Wortel, V. & Hérault, B., 13 Jun 2019, In: Environmental Research Letters. 14, 6, 064014.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Timber Production 100%
  • Forest Inventory 50%
  • Sawlogs 50%
  • Decision Making 50%
  • Tropical Forest 50%

• What drives intensification of land use at agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian amazon? Evidence from a decision game

  Nascimento, N., West, T. A. P., Börner, J. & Ometto, J., 1 Jun 2019, In: Forests. 10, 6, 464.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Boundaries 100%
  • Land Use 100%
  • Land Use Change 20%
  • Environmental Monitoring 20%
  • Land Use Pattern 20%

• A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

  Hertel, T. W., West, T. A. P., Börner, J. & Villoria, N. B., 3 May 2019, In: Environmental Research Letters. 14, 5, 053003.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Population Dynamics 100%
  • Gene Linkage 100%
  • Land Use 100%
  • Climate Change 16%
  • Global Change 16%
• 2018

  Impacts of REDD+ payments on a coupled human-natural system in Amazonia

  West, T. A. P., Grogan, K. A., Swisher, M. E., Caviglia-Harris, J. L., Sills, E. O., Roberts, D. A., Harris, D. & Putz, F. E., 1 Oct 2018, In: Ecosystem Services. 33, p. 68-76

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Carbon Dioxide Emission 100%
  • Coupled Human-Natural System 100%
  • Annuals 100%
  • Forest Management 100%
  • Carbon Sink 100%

• Simulated impacts of soy and infrastructure expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A maximum entropy approach

  Frey, G. P., West, T. A. P., Hickler, T., Rausch, L., Gibbs, H. K. & Börner, J., 27 Sept 2018, In: Forests. 9, 10, 600.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Land Use 100%
  • Soybean 100%
  • Carbon Dioxide Emission 50%
  • Biome 50%
  • Machine Learning 50%

• A hybrid optimization-agent-based model of REDD+ payments to households on an old deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon

  West, T. A. P., Grogan, K. A., Swisher, M. E., Caviglia-Harris, J. L., Sills, E., Harris, D., Roberts, D. & Putz, F. E., 1 Feb 2018, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 100, p. 159-174

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Model 100%
  • Hybrid 100%
  • Optimization 100%
  • Models 100%
  • Environmental Service 100%

• National and subnational forest conservation policies: What works, what doesn’t

  West, T. A. P., 2018, Transforming REDD+: Lessons and new directions. Center for International Forestry Research

  Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2016

  Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in amazonian forests

  Piponiot, C., Sist, P., Mazzei, L., Peña-Claros, M., Putz, F. E., Rutishauser, E., Shenkin, A., Ascarrunz, N., de Azevedo, C. P., Baraloto, C., França, M., Guedes, M., Coronado, E. N. H., d’Oliveira, M. V. N., Ruschel, A. R., da Silva, K. E., Sotta, E. D., de Souza, C. R., Vidal, E., West, T. A. P., & 1 othersHérault, B., 20 Dec 2016, In: eLife. 5, DECEMBER2016

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Regrowth 100%
  • Selective Logging 100%
  • Environmental Stress 50%
  • Seasonality 50%
  • Emissions 50%

• Indigenous community benefits from a de-centralized approach to REDD+ in Brazil

  West, T. A. P., 2 Oct 2016, In: Climate Policy. 16, 7, p. 924-939

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Indigenous Peoples 100%
  • Nongovernmental Organizations 100%
  • Central Government 100%
  • Pilot Projects 100%
  • Developing Countries 100%

• Recovery of biomass and merchantable timber volumes twenty years after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Amazonian Brazil

  Vidal, E., West, T. A. P. & Putz, F. E., 15 Sept 2016, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 376, p. 1-8

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Annuals 100%
  • Aboveground Biomass 100%
• 2015

  Correction: Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests

  Rutishauser, E., Hérault, B., Baraloto, C., Blanc, L., Descroix, L., Sotta, E. D., Ferreira, J., Kanashiro, M., Mazzei, L., D'Oliveira, M. V. N., De Oliveira, L. C., Peña-Claros, M., Putz, F. E., Ruschel, A. R., Rodney, K., Roopsind, A., Shenkin, A., Da Silva, K. E., De Souza, C. R., Toledo, M., & 4 othersVidal, E., West, T. A. P., Wortel, V. & Sist, P., 19 Oct 2015, In: Current Biology. 25, 20

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Erratum / Corrigendum › Academic

• Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests

  Rutishauser, E., Hérault, B., Baraloto, C., Blanc, L., Descroix, L., Sotta, E. D., Ferreira, J., Kanashiro, M., Mazzei, L., D'Oliveira, M. V. N., De Oliveira, L. C., Peña-Claros, M., Putz, F. E., Ruschel, A. R., Rodney, K., Roopsind, A., Shenkin, A., Da Silva, K. E., De Souza, C. R., Toledo, M., & 4 othersVidal, E., West, T. A. P., Wortel, V. & Sist, P., 21 Sept 2015, In: Current Biology. 25, 18, p. R787-R788

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Carbon Sink 100%
  • Climate Change 100%

• The Tropical managed forests Observatory: A research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests

  Sist, P., Rutishauser, E., Peña-Claros, M., Shenkin, A., Hérault, B., Blanc, L., Baraloto, C., Baya, F., Benedet, F., da Silva, K. E., Descroix, L., Ferreira, J. N., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Guedes, M. C., Bin Harun, I., Jalonen, R., Kanashiro, M., Krisnawati, H., Kshatriya, M., Lincoln, P., & 23 othersMazzei, L., Medjibé, V., Nasi, R., d'Oliveira, M. V. N., de Oliveira, L. C., Picard, N., Pietsch, S., Pinard, M., Priyadi, H., Putz, F. E., Rodney, K., Rossi, V., Roopsind, A., Ruschel, A. R., Shari, N. H. Z., Rodrigues de Souza, C., Susanty, F. H., Sotta, E. D., Toledo, M., Vidal, E., West, T. A. P., Wortel, V. & Yamada, T., 1 Jan 2015, In: Applied Vegetation Science. 18, 1, p. 171-174

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Tropical Forest 100%
  • Vegetation 25%
  • Tropics 25%
  • Carbon Flux 25%
  • Forest Inventory 25%

• "Carbon Cowboys" could inflate REDD+ payments through positive Measurement bias

  Rifai, S. W., West, T. A. P. & Putz, F. E., 2015, In: Carbon Management. 6, 3-4, p. 151-158

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Carbon Sink 100%
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 100%
  • Wood Density 66%
  • Forest Management 50%
  • Emissions 50%
• 2014

  Forest biomass recovery after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Amazonian Brazil

  West, T. A. P., Vidal, E. & Putz, F. E., 15 Feb 2014, In: Forest Ecology and Management. 314, p. 59-63

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Aboveground Biomass 100%
  • Annuals 33%
  • Greenhouse Gas 33%
  • Forest Management 33%
  • Climate Change 33%