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Biogeochemical Processes in Forest and Agricultural Systems
Focusing on the effects of land use change and other human caused changes on biogeochemical processes and trace gas exchanges in tropical environments
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Sustainable Agriculture
Carrying out interdisciplinary studies of intensive agricultural fertilization, water use, aquaculture development, and other land use changes in the tightly linked land-coast-sea system
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Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Adaptation
On developing frameworks for vulnerability analyses in agricultural and coastal environments and measures and metrics that allow identification of those areas most vulnerable
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Sustainability Science
Knowledge systems for sustainable development, vulnerability of human-environment systems, and other aspects of the management of human-environment systems
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The Matson Sustainability Science Research Laboratory is interested in sustainable agriculture, vulnerability analyses of human-environment systems, biogeochemical and ecological processes in forest and managed systems, and other areas in the emerging field of sustainability science.
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Recent Publications
Matson, P.A. (ed). 2012. Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Chen, Xin-Ping, Zhen-Ling Cui, P.M. Vitousek, K.G. Cassman, P.A. Matson, Jin-Shun Bai, Quin-Feng Meng et al. 2011. Integrated Soil-crop System Management for Food Security. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(16): 6399-6404.
Hinckley, E.S., and P.A. Matson. Transformations, transport, and potential unintended consequences of high sulfur inputs to Napa Valley vineyards. 2011. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(34): 14005-14010, doi 10.1073/pnas.1110741108.
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