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Peter Potapov
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 133
Citations - 24188
Peter Potapov is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deforestation & Land cover. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 123 publications receiving 17733 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Potapov include South Dakota State University.
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High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change
Matthew C. Hansen,Peter Potapov,Rebecca Moore,M. Hancher,Svetlana Turubanova,Alexandra Tyukavina,David Thau,Stephen V. Stehman,Scott J. Goetz,Thomas R. Loveland,Anil Kommareddy,A. Egorov,Louise Chini,Christopher O. Justice,John R. Townshend +14 more
TL;DR: Intensive forestry practiced within subtropical forests resulted in the highest rates of forest change globally, and boreal forest loss due largely to fire and forestry was second to that in the tropics in absolute and proportional terms.
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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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Global land change from 1982 to 2016.
Xiao-Peng Song,Matthew C. Hansen,Stephen V. Stehman,Peter Potapov,Alexandra Tyukavina,Eric Vermote,John R. Townshend +6 more
TL;DR: Satellite data for the period 1982–2016 reveal changes in land use and land cover at global and regional scales that reflect patterns of land change indicative of a human-dominated Earth system.
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An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm
Eric Dinerstein,David E. Olson,Anup R. Joshi,Carly Vynne,Neil Burgess,Eric Wikramanayake,Nathan Hahn,Suzanne Palminteri,Prashant Hedao,Reed F. Noss,Matthew C. Hansen,Harvey Locke,Erle C. Ellis,Benjamin Jones,Charles Victor Barber,Randy Hayes,Cyril F. Kormos,Vance Martin,Eileen Crist,Wes Sechrest,Lori Price,Jonathan E. M. Baillie,Don Weeden,Kieran Suckling,Crystal Davis,Nigel Sizer,Rebecca Moore,David Thau,Tanya Birch,Peter Potapov,Svetlana Turubanova,Alexandra Tyukavina,Nadia de Souza,Lilian Pintea,José Carlos Brito,Othman Llewellyn,A. G. Miller,Annette Patzelt,Shahina A. Ghazanfar,Jonathan Timberlake,Heinz Klöser,Yara Shennan-Farpon,Roeland Kindt,Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø,Paulo van Breugel,Lars Graudal,Maianna Voge,K. F. Al-Shammari,Muhammad Saleem +48 more
TL;DR: A Global Deal for Nature is proposed—a companion to the Paris Climate Deal—to promote increased habitat protection and restoration, national- and ecoregion-scale conservation strategies, and the empowerment of indigenous peoples to protect their sovereign lands.
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Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012
Belinda Arunarwati Margono,Belinda Arunarwati Margono,Peter Potapov,Svetlana Turubanova,Fred Stolle,Matthew C. Hansen +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a spatially and temporally explicit quantification of Indonesian primary forest loss, which totalled over 602 Mha from 2000 to 2012 and increased on average by 47,600 ha per year.