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Matson, Pamela A. |
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Stanford University |
| Primary Field
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Environmental Sciences and Ecology |
| Secondary Field
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Human Environmental Sciences |
 Election Citation
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Matson was the first to show that geographic variation in the biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems controls variation in production of the important greenhouse gas N2O. That discovery provided the foundation for her development of global budgets of natural and anthropogenic sources of this and other radiatively significant trace gases. |
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Research Interests
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Global change research; interactions of policy and environmental science; human population growth; sustainable agriculture. Forest ecology, agroecology, biogeochemical cycles in disturbed forests and agricultural systems, effects of tropical land use change on biogeochemical cycling and trace gas emissions, global atmospheric change, biosphere-atmosphere exchange. |
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