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Lars Laestadius
Researcher at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Publications - 31
Citations - 4470
Lars Laestadius is an academic researcher from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Reforestation. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 30 publications receiving 3088 citations. Previous affiliations of Lars Laestadius include Silver Spring Networks & World Resources Institute.
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Natural climate solutions
Bronson W. Griscom,Bronson W. Griscom,Justin Adams,Peter W. Ellis,Richard A. Houghton,Guy Lomax,Daniela A. Miteva,William H. Schlesinger,David Shoch,Juha Siikamäki,Pete Smith,Peter B. Woodbury,Chris Zganjar,Allen Blackman,João S. Campari,Richard T. Conant,Christopher Delgado,Patricia Elias,Trisha Gopalakrishna,Marisa R. Hamsik,Mario Herrero,Joseph M. Kiesecker,Emily Landis,Lars Laestadius,Lars Laestadius,Sara M. Leavitt,Susan Minnemeyer,Stephen Polasky,Peter Potapov,Francis E. Putz,Jonathan Sanderman,Marcel Silvius,Eva K. Wollenberg,Joseph Fargione +33 more
TL;DR: It is shown that NCS can provide over one-third of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed between now and 2030 to stabilize warming to below 2 °C.
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The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems
James E. M. Watson,James E. M. Watson,Tom Evans,Oscar Venter,Brooke Williams,Brooke Williams,Ayesha I. T. Tulloch,Ayesha I. T. Tulloch,Claire Louise Stewart,Ian D. Thompson,Justina C. Ray,Kris A. Murray,Alvaro Salazar,Clive McAlpine,Peter Potapov,Joe Walston,John G. Robinson,Michael Painter,David Wilkie,Christopher E. Filardi,William F. Laurance,Richard A. Houghton,Sean L. Maxwell,Hedley S. Grantham,Hedley S. Grantham,Cristián Samper,Stephanie Wang,Lars Laestadius,Rebecca K. Runting,Gustavo A. Silva-Chávez,Jamison Ervin,David B. Lindenmayer +31 more
TL;DR: It is argued that maintaining and, where possible, restoring the integrity of dwindling intact forests is an urgent priority for current global efforts to halt the ongoing biodiversity crisis, slow rapid climate change and achieve sustainability goals.
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The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013
Peter Potapov,Matthew C. Hansen,Lars Laestadius,Svetlana Turubanova,Alexey Yaroshenko,Christoph Thies,Wynet Smith,Ilona Zhuravleva,Anna Komarova,Susan Minnemeyer,Elena Esipova +10 more
TL;DR: It is shown that global IFL extent has been reduced by 7.2% since the year 2000, largely driven by the tripling of IFL tropical forest loss in 2011–2013 compared to that in 2001–2003.
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Mapping the World's Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing
Peter Potapov,Aleksey Yaroshenko,Svetlana Turubanova,Maxim Dubinin,Lars Laestadius,Christoph Thies,Dmitry Aksenov,Aleksey Egorov,Yelena Yesipova,Igor Glushkov,Mikhail Karpachevskiy,Anna Kostikova,Alexander Manisha,Ekaterina Tsybikova,Ilona Zhuravleva +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduced a new approach for mapping large intact forest landscapes (IFL), defined as an unbroken expanse of natural ecosystems within areas of current forest extent, without signs of significant human activity, and having an area of at least 500 km 2.
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When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration
Robin L. Chazdon,Pedro H. S. Brancalion,Lars Laestadius,Aoife Bennett-Curry,Aoife Bennett-Curry,Kathleen Buckingham,Chetan Kumar,Julian Moll-Rocek,Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira,Sarah J. Wilson +9 more
TL;DR: A historical overview of forest concepts and definitions is presented, linking these changes with distinct perspectives and management objectives to illustrate how different management objectives drive the relative importance of different aspects of forest state, dynamics, and landscape context.