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Christine S. O’Connell
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 21
Citations - 7525
Christine S. O’Connell is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Greenhouse gas & Soil water. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 18 publications receiving 6011 citations. Previous affiliations of Christine S. O’Connell include Macalester College & University of Minnesota.
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Solutions for a cultivated planet
Jonathan A. Foley,Navin Ramankutty,Kate A. Brauman,E. S. Cassidy,James S. Gerber,M. Johnston,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Christine S. O’Connell,Deepak K. Ray,Paul C. West,Christian Balzer,Elena M. Bennett,Stephen R. Carpenter,Jason Hill,Chad Monfreda,Stephen Polasky,Johan Rockström,John Sheehan,Stefan Siebert,David Tilman,David P. M. Zaks +20 more
TL;DR: It is shown that tremendous progress could be made by halting agricultural expansion, closing ‘yield gaps’ on underperforming lands, increasing cropping efficiency, shifting diets and reducing waste, which could double food production while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
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A global strategy for road building
William F. Laurance,Gopalasamy Reuben Clements,Sean Sloan,Christine S. O’Connell,N. D. Mueller,Miriam Goosem,Oscar Venter,David Edwards,Ben Phalan,Andrew Balmford,Rodney van der Ree,Irene Burgues Arrea +11 more
TL;DR: This large-scale zoning plan seeks to limit the environmental costs of road expansion while maximizing its benefits for human development, by helping to increase agricultural production, which is an urgent priority given that global food demand could double by mid-century.
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Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands
Kimberly M. Carlson,James S. Gerber,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Mario Herrero,Graham K. MacDonald,Graham K. MacDonald,Kate A. Brauman,Petr Havlik,Christine S. O’Connell,Christine S. O’Connell,Justin A. Johnson,Sassan Saatchi,Paul C. West +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the effects of rice paddy management, peatland draining, and nitrogen (N) fertilizer on CH4, CO2 and N2O emissions.
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Drought drives rapid shifts in tropical rainforest soil biogeochemistry and greenhouse gas emissions
TL;DR: The rapid response and slow recovery to drought suggest tropical forest biogeochemistry is more sensitive to climate change than previously believed, with potentially large direct and indirect consequences for regional and global carbon cycles.
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Spatially explicit estimates of N2O emissions from croplands suggest climate mitigation opportunities from improved fertilizer management
James S. Gerber,Kimberly M. Carlson,David Makowski,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Iñaki García de Cortázar-Atauri,Petr Havlik,Mario Herrero,Marie Launay,Christine S. O’Connell,Pete Smith,Paul C. West +10 more
TL;DR: This work applies a super-linear emissions response model to crop-specific, spatially explicit synthetic N fertilizer and manure N inputs to provide subnational accounting of global N2 O emissions from croplands, and estimates high-resolution N application data are critical to support accurate N 2 O emissions estimates.