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Sara M. Leavitt
Researcher at The Nature Conservancy
Publications - 11
Citations - 2415
Sara M. Leavitt is an academic researcher from The Nature Conservancy. The author has contributed to research in topics: Greenhouse gas & Global warming. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 10 publications receiving 1223 citations.
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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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Natural climate solutions for the United States.
Joseph Fargione,Steven Bassett,Timothy M. Boucher,Scott D. Bridgham,Richard T. Conant,Susan C. Cook-Patton,Susan C. Cook-Patton,Peter W. Ellis,Alessandra Falcucci,James W. Fourqurean,Trisha Gopalakrishna,Huan Gu,Benjamin B. Henderson,Matthew D. Hurteau,Kevin D. Kroeger,Timm Kroeger,Tyler J. Lark,Sara M. Leavitt,Guy Lomax,Robert I. McDonald,J. Patrick Megonigal,Daniela A. Miteva,Curtis J. Richardson,Jonathan Sanderman,David Shoch,Seth A. Spawn,Joseph W. Veldman,Christopher B. Williams,Peter B. Woodbury,Chris Zganjar,Marci Baranski,Patricia Elias,Richard A. Houghton,Emily Landis,E. McGlynn,William H. Schlesinger,Juha Siikamäki,Ariana E. Sutton-Grier,Ariana E. Sutton-Grier,Bronson W. Griscom +39 more
TL;DR: The potential of natural climate solutions (NCS) to increase carbon storage and avoid greenhouse gas emissions in the United States is quantified and it is found that at current carbon market prices, 299 Tg CO2e year−1 could be achieved.
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Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth
Susan C. Cook-Patton,Susan C. Cook-Patton,Sara M. Leavitt,David Gibbs,Nancy L. Harris,Kristine Lister,Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,Russell D. Briggs,Robin L. Chazdon,Robin L. Chazdon,Robin L. Chazdon,Thomas W. Crowther,Peter W. Ellis,Heather P. Griscom,Valentine Herrmann,Karen D. Holl,Richard A. Houghton,Cecilia Larrosa,Guy Lomax,Richard Lucas,Palle Madsen,Yadvinder Malhi,Alain Paquette,John D. Parker,Keryn I. Paul,Devin Routh,Stephen H. Roxburgh,Sassan Saatchi,Johan van den Hoogen,Wayne S. Walker,Charlotte E. Wheeler,Stephen A. Wood,Liang Xu,Bronson W. Griscom +34 more
TL;DR: A global, one-kilometre-resolution map of potential aboveground carbon accumulation rates for the first 30 years of natural forest regrowth is presented, indicating that default rates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be underestimated and maximum climate mitigation potential from natural forest Regrowth is 11 per cent lower than previously reported.
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National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics
Bronson W. Griscom,Bronson W. Griscom,Jonah Busch,Susan C. Cook-Patton,Peter W. Ellis,Jason Funk,Sara M. Leavitt,Guy Lomax,Guy Lomax,Will R. Turner,Melissa Chapman,Jens Engelmann,Noel Gurwick,Emily Landis,Deborah Lawrence,Yadvinder Malhi,Lisa Schindler Murray,Diego Navarrete,Stephanie Roe,Sabrina Scull,Pete Smith,Charlotte Streck,Wayne S. Walker,Thomas A. Worthington +23 more
TL;DR: This article assesses cost-effective tropical country-level potential of natural climate solutions (NCS)—protection, improved management and restoration of ecosystems—to deliver climate mitigation linked with sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests : refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data
Daniela Requena Suarez,Danaë M. A. Rozendaal,Veronique De Sy,Oliver L. Phillips,Esteban Álvarez-Dávila,Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Luzmila Arroyo,Timothy R. Baker,Frans Bongers,Roel Jacobus Wilhelmus Brienen,Sarah Carter,Susan C. Cook-Patton,Ted R. Feldpausch,Bronson W. Griscom,Nancy L. Harris,Bruno Hérault,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Sara M. Leavitt,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Abel Monteagudo Mendoza,Justin Kassi N'dja,Anny Estelle N'Guessan,Lourens Poorter,Lan Qie,Ervan Rutishauser,Plinio Sist,Bonaventure Sonké,Martin J. P. Sullivan,Emilio Vilanova,Emilio Vilanova,Maria M. H. Wang,Christopher Martius,Martin Herold +36 more
TL;DR: This study provides a rigorous and traceable refinement of the IPCC 2006 default rates in tropical and subtropical ecological zones, and identifies which areas require more research on ∆AGB.