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Pamela A. Matson, PhD
Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Goldman Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences; FSI Senior Fellow
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matson@stanford.edu
(650) 723-2750 (phone)
(650) 725-6566 (fax)
Mitchell Hall 101
397 Panama Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2210
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biogeochemical cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from tropical forest and agricultural ecosystems, as they change due to natural and anthropogenic disturbances; evaluating the economic, social and environmental causes and consequences of land use change and management; sustainability and vulnerability in human-environment systems.
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Journal Articles

A case study of land reform and coastal land transformation in southern Sonora, Mexico

Amy Luers, Rosamond Naylor, Pamela Matson
Land Use Policy vol. 23 (2006)

Business strategies for conservation on private lands: Koa forestry as a case study

Josh Goldstein, Gretchen C. Daily, James B. Friday, Pamela A. Matson, Rosamond L. Naylor, Peter Vitousek
Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences vol. 103, 26 (2006)

Analysis of wheat yield and climate trends in Mexico

David B. Lobell, J. Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, Gregory P. Asner, Pamela A. Matson, Rosamond L. Naylor, Walter P. Falcon
Field Crops Research vol. 94 (2005)

Agricultural runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean

J. Michael Beman, Kevin R. Arrigo, Pamela A. Matson
Nature vol. 434 (2005) +HTML+

Patterns and controls of nitrous oxide emissions from waters draining a subtropical agricultural valley

John Harrison, Pamela A. Matson
Global Biogeochemical Cycles vol. 17, 3 (2003) +PDF+ +HTML+

Method for quantifying vulnerability, applied to the agricutlural system of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico, A

Amy Luers, David B. Lobell, Leonard S. Sklar, C. Lee Addams, Pamela A. Matson
Global Environmental Change vol. 13 (2003) +PDF+

Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: Three case studies

B.L. Turner II, Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Svein Mathiesen, Rosamond L. Naylor, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller, Henrik Selin, Nicholas Tyler
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 100, 14 (2003) +PDF+ +HTML+

Framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science, A

B.L. Turner II, Roger E. Kasperson, Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller
PNAS vol. 100 (2003) +PDF+

Globalization of Nitrogen Deposition: Consequences for Terrestial Ecosystems, The

Pamela A. Matson, K. Lohse, S. Hall
AMBIO vol. 31, 2 (2002) +PDF+

Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices

Tilman, D., Cassman, K., Pamela A. Matson, Rosamond L. Naylor, Polasky, S.
Nature vol. 418 (2002) +PDF+

Nitrogen leaching and soil nitrate, nitrite and ammonium levels under differing fertilizer management in an irrigated wheat system in northern Mexico

W.J. Riley, I. Ortiz-Monasterio, Pamela A. Matson
Nutrient Cyling in Agroecosystems vol. 61 (2001) +PDF+
 

Earth systems science: An integrated approach

W. Steffen, P. Tyson, J. Jager, Pamela A Matson, B. Moore, F. Oldfield, K. Richardson, J. Schellnhuber, B. Turner, R. Wasson, Pamela A. Matson
Environment (2001)
 

Earth systems science: An integrated approach

W. Steffen, P. Tyson, J. Jager, Pamela A Matson, B. Moore, F. Oldfield, K. Richardson, J. Schellnhuber, B. Turner, R. Wasson, Pamela A. Matson
Environment (2001)

Integration of Environmental, Agronomic, and Economic Aspects of Fertilizer Management

Rosamond L Naylor, Pamela A Matson, I. Ortiz-Monasterio
Science (1998)

Integration of Environmental, Agronomic, and Economic Aspects of Fertilizer Management

Pamela A. Matson, Rosamond L. Naylor, I. Ortiz-Monasterio
Science vol. 280 (1998) +PDF+

NOx emissions from soils and its consequences for the atmosphere and biosphere

Pamela A Matson
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems vol. 48 (1997)

Agricultural intensification and ecosystem properties

Pamela A. Matson, W.J. Parton, A.G. Power, M. Swift
Science vol. 277 (1997) +PDF+

Nitrogen trace gas responses to fertilization in sugar cane ecosystems

Pamela A Matson, C. Billow, S. Hall, J. Zachariessen
Journal of Geophysical Research vol. 101, D13 (1996)
 

Food, Conservation, and Global Environmental Change: Is Compromise Possible?

Rosamond L Naylor, Pamela A Matson
EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union vol. 74, 15 (1993)
 

Process regulation of soil emissions of NO and N2O in a seasonally dry tropical forest

Pamela A Matson, Davidson, R.A., P.M. Vitousek, R.Riley, K. Dunkin, G. Garcia-Mendez, J.M. Maass
Ecology vol. 74 (1993)

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to the changing atmosphere: A resource-based approach

Pamela A Matson, Field, C.B., F.S. Chapin III, H.A. Mooney
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics vol. 23 (1992)

Soil nitrogen cycling and nitrous oxide fluxes in fertilized Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir forests

Pamela A Matson, S.T. Gower, C. Volkmann, C.Billow, C.C. Grier
Biogeochemistry vol. 18 (1992)
 

Ecosystem approach for the development of a global nitrous oxide budget

Pamela A Matson, P.M. Vitousek
Bioscience vol. 40, 9 (1990)
Books & Book Chapters

Biogenic Trace Gases: Exchange between Soils, Sediments, Aquatic Systems and the Atmosphere

Pamela A Matson, R.C. Harriss
Blackwell Scientific Publishing, Cambridge. Springer Verlag (1996) +BUY+
 

Agriculture, the global nitrogen cycle, and trace gas flux

Pamela A Matson, Vitousek, P.M.
R.S.. Oremland (Ed.) The Biogeochemistry of Global Change: Radiatively Active Trace Gases. Chapman and Hall, NY (1993) +BUY+
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