Balch, J.K.,* T.J. Massad, P. M. Brando, D. C. Nepstad, L. M. Curran. 2013. Effects of high frequency understory fires on early plant succession in southeastern Amazonian forests. Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society. In press.
Carlson, K.M.,* L.M. Curran, G. P. Asner, A. M. Pittman, S.N. Trigg, J.M. Adeney. 2012. Carbon emissions from forest conversion by Kalimantan oil palm plantations, 1990-2020. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/nclimate1702 Published online 07 October 2012.
Carlson, K. M.,* L.M. Curran, D. Ratnasari, A. M. Pittman, B. S. Soares-Filho, G.P. Asner, S. N. Trigg, D. L. A. Gaveau, D. Lawrence, H.O. Rodrigues. 2012. Committed C emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Proc. of Nat. Acad. Scsi. 109: 7559-7564.Published online April 2012.
Gaveau, D.L.A.,* L. M. Curran, G.D. Paoli, K.M. Carlson, P.Wells, A. Besse-Rimba, D. Ratnasari, N. Leader-Williams. 2012. Examining protected area effectiveness in Sumatra: importance of regulations governing unprotected lands. Conservation Letters. 5:142–148.
Wich,* S., D. L. A. Gaveau,…L.M.Curran et al.2012.Understanding the impacts of land-use change policies on a threatened species: Is there a future for the Bornean orang-utan? PLoS One 7(11):e49142s.
Paoli,G.D.,* K.M. Carlson, A. Hooijer, S.E. Page, L.M. Curran, P.L. Wells, R. Morrison, J. Jauhiainen, A.McDonald Pittman, D. Gilbert, D. Lawrence. 2011. Policy perils of ignoring uncertainty in oil palm research. Proc. of Nat. Acad. Sci. 108: E218.
Balch, J. K.,* D. C. Nepstad, L. M. Curran, P. M. Brando, O. Portela, P. Guilherme, J. D. Reuning-Scherer, O. de Carvalho, Jr. 2011. Size, species, and fire characteristics predict tree and liana mortality from experimental understory fires in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Forest Ecol & Management 261:68-77.
Ponette-Gonzalez, A.,* K. Weathers, L.M. Curran. 2010. Land cover, rain and fog seasonality, and El Niño Southern Oscillation alter water inputs to a tropical montane landscape in Veracruz, Mexico. Global Change Biology 16:946-963.
Ponette-Gonzalez, A.,* K. Weathers, L.M. Curran. 2010. Tropical land-cover change alters biogeochemical inputs to ecosystems in a Mexican montane landscape. Ecol. Applications 20:1805-1819.
Carlson, K.* and L. M. Curran, 2009. REDD pilot project scenarios: Are costs and benefits altered by spatial scale? Environmental Research Letters.
Balch, J.K.,* D. C. Nepstad, and L. M. Curran, 2009. Pattern and process: Fire-initiated grass invasion at Amazon transitional forest edges. In: Fire Ecology of Tropical Ecosystems, Ed M. Cochrane.
Balch, J.K.,* D. C. Nepstad, P. M. Brando, L. M. Curran, O. Portela, O. de Carvalho Jr., and P. Lefebvre, 2008. Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southern Amazonia. Global Change Biology 14: 2276-2287.
Cannon, C. H.,* L. M. Curran, A. J. Marshall, and M. Leighton, 2007. Long-term reproductive behavior of woody plants across seven Bornean forest types in the Gunung Palung National Park (Indonesia): supra-annual synchrony, temporal productivity and fruiting diversity. Ecology Letters 10:956-969.
Paoli, G. D.,* and L. M. Curran, 2007. Soil nutrients limit aboveground productivity in mature lowland tropical forests of Southwestern Borneo. Ecosystems 10:503-518.
Gullison, R.E, P. Frumhoff, J. Canadell, C. B. Field, D.C. Nepstad, K. Hayhoe, R. Avissar, L.M. Curran, P. Friedlingsten, C.D. Jones and C. Nobre. 2007. Tropical forests and climate policy. Science 316:985-986.
Curran, L.M. and S. D. Trigg. 2006. Sustainability science from space: Quantifying forest disturbance and land use in the Amazon. Proc. of Nat. Acad. Sci. 103:12663-12664.
Soares-Filho, B., D. C. Nepstad , L. M. Curran et al., 2006. Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin. Nature 440:520-523.
Santilli, M., P. M. Moutino, S. Schwartzman, D. C. Nepstad, L. M. Curran, and C. Nobre. 2005. Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol. Climatic Change 71:267-276.
Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira, Nepstad, Daniel Curtis, Curran, Lisa et al. 2005. Cenários de desmatamento para a Amazônia. Estudos Avançados 19:137-152.
Curran, L. M., S. Trigg, A. McDonald, D. Astiani, Y. M. Hardiono, P. Siregar, I. Caniago, and E. Kasischke. 2004. Lowland forest loss in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo. Science 303:1000-1003. SOM: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/303/5660/1000/DC1
Barber, C. V., E. Mathews, D. Brown, T. H. Brown, L. M. Curran, C. Plume, and E. Selig. 2002. The State of the Forest: Indonesia. Forest Watch International/ Global Forest Watch/World Resources Institute. 119 pp. Also published in Bahasa Indonesia, Keadaan Hutan Indonesia 131 pp.
Curran, L. M., I. Caniago, G. D. Paoli,* D. Astiani,* M. Kusneti, M. Leighton, C. E. Nirarita, and H. Haeruman. 1999. Impact of El Niño and logging on canopy tree recruitment in Borneo. Science 286:2184-2188.
* denotes graduate students