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Remote Sensing, Ecosystem Services, Tropical Forest Ecology, Sustainability, Agricultural Commoditie

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University of Dundee: N/A, GB

2022-07-01 to present | Academic, Lecturer (Teaching and Research) (Energy Environment and Society)
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University of Dundee

Institute of Zoology of the Zoological Society of London: London, London, GB

2014-08-01 to present | Post-Doctoral Researcher
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Alexandra Morel

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2011-10-01 to present | Post-Doctoral Research Associate (School of Geography and the Environment)
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Alexandra Morel

University of Dundee: N/A, GB

2020-01-01 to 2022-06-30 | Academic, Lecturer (Teaching and Research) (Geography and Environmental Science)
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Earth Institute, Columbia University: NY, NY, US

2010-09-01 to 2013-09-30 | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

2006-10-01 to 2010-08-15 | DPhil/PhD (School of Geography and the Environment)
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Alexandra Morel

University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

2005-10-05 to 2006-09-01 | MSc (Environmental Change Institute)
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Alexandra Morel

Washington University in St. Louis: St Louis, Missouri, US

1999-08-20 to 2003-05-20 | BA (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
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Works (38)

What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty

World Development
2025-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106785
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Contributors: V. A. Maguire-Rajpaul; M. Hirons; V. M. Rajpaul; R. A. Asare; E. Boyd; Y. Malhi; J. Mason; Alexandra Morel; K. Norris; C. McDermott
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Landscape and management influences on smallholder agroforestry yields show shifts during a climate shock

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
2024-06-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2024.108930
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Sheleme Demissie; Techane Gonfa; Zia Mehrabi; Sami Rifai; Mark A. Hirons; Tadesse Woldemariam Gole; John Mason; Constance L. McDermott; Emily Boyd et al.
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Editorial

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
2024-02-28 | Other
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2024.1358510
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Contributors: Geertje M. F. van der Heijden; Alexandra Morel
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Landscape and Management Influences on Smallholder Agroforestry Yields Show Shifts During a Climate Shock

2023-09-05 | Working paper
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4561933
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Sheleme Demissie; Techane Gonfa; Zia Mehrabi; Mark Hirons; Tadesse Woldemariam Gole; John Mason; Constance L. McDermott; Emily Boyd; Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson et al.
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Joint optimization of land carbon uptake and albedo can help achieve moderate instantaneous and long-term cooling effects

Communications Earth & Environment
2023-08-25 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00958-4
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Contributors: Alexander Graf; Georg Wohlfahrt; Sergio Aranda-Barranco; Nicola Arriga; Christian Brümmer; Eric Ceschia; Philippe Ciais; Ankur R. Desai; Sara Di Lonardo; Mana Gharun et al.
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Climate change alters impacts of extreme climate events on a tropical perennial tree crop

Scientific Reports
2022-11-16 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22967-7
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Contributors: Thomas J. Creedy; Rebecca A. Asare; Alexandra Morel; Mark Hirons; John Mason; Yadvinder Malhi; Constance L. McDermott; Emmanuel Opoku; Ken Norris
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A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps

Remote Sensing of Environment
2022-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.112917
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Contributors: Arnan Araza; Sytze de Bruin; Martin Herold; Shaun Quegan; Nicolas Labriere; Pedro Rodriguez-Veiga; Valerio Avitabile; Maurizio Santoro; Edward T.A. Mitchard; Casey M. Ryan et al.
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Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages

Environmental Research Letters
2022-01-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac45b3
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Contributors: Danaë M A Rozendaal; Daniela Requena Suarez; Veronique De Sy; Valerio Avitabile; Sarah Carter; C Y Adou Yao; Esteban Alvarez-Davila; Kristina Anderson-Teixeira; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Luzmila Arroyo et al.
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Editorial

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
2021-09-06 | Other | Author
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.753786
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Contributors: Tom D. Evans; Alexandra Morel; Yadvinder Malhi; James E. M. Watson
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Fine root dynamics across pantropical rainforest ecosystems

Global Change Biology
2021-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15677
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Contributors: Walter Huaraca Huasco; Terhi Riutta; Cécile A. J. Girardin; Fernando Hancco Pacha; Beisit L. Puma Vilca; Sam Moore; Sami W. Rifai; Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel; Alejandro Araujo Murakami; Renata Freitag et al.
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High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

Nature
2021-08-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03728-4
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Contributors: Aida Cuni-Sanchez; Martin J. P. Sullivan; Philip J. Platts; Simon L. Lewis; Rob Marchant; Gérard Imani; Wannes Hubau; Iveren Abiem; Hari Adhikari; Tomas Albrecht et al.
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The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

Earth System Science Data
2021-08-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-3927-2021
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Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

Biological Conservation
2021-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108849
Part of ISSN: 0006-3207
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Alexandra Morel

The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks

Environmental Research Letters
2019-12-18 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab59c8
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Contributors: Emilie Beauchamp; Annalyse Moskeland; E J Milner-Gulland; Mark Hirons; Ben Ruli; Anja Byg; Andrew J Dougill; Eleanor Jew; Aidan Keane; Yadvinder Malhi et al.
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Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%

Science Advances
2019-10-30 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax2546
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PMID: 31692892
Contributors: Sean L. Maxwell; Tom Evans; James E.M. Watson; Alexandra Morel; Hedley Grantham; Adam Duncan; Nancy Harris; Peter Potapov; Rebecca K. Runting; Oscar Venter et al.
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Combining Contemporary and Paleoecological Perspectives for Estimating Forest Resilience

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
2019-09-26 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00057
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Sandra Nogué
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Carbon dynamics, net primary productivity and human-appropriated net primary productivity across a forest–cocoa farm landscape in West Africa

Global Change Biology
2019-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14661
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Michael Adu Sasu; Stephen Adu-Bredu; Marvin Quaye; Christine Moore; Rebecca Ashley Asare; John Mason; Mark Hirons; Constance L. McDermott; Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson et al.
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Human Appropriated Net Primary Productivity of Complex Mosaic Landscapes

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
2019-08-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00038
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Contributors: Christine Moore; Alexandra Morel; Rebecca Ashley Asare; Michael Adu Sasu; Stephen Adu-Bredu; Yadvinder Malhi
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The Ecological Limits of Poverty Alleviation in an African Forest-Agriculture Landscape

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
2019-07-23 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2019.00057
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Mark Hirons; Michael Adu Sasu; Marvin Quaye; Rebecca Ashley Asare; John Mason; Stephen Adu-Bredu; Emily Boyd; Constance L. McDermott; Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson et al.
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The structures underpinning vulnerability

Environmental Research Letters
2019-07-09 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab2280
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Mark Hirons; Sheleme Demissie; Techane Gonfa; Zia Mehrabi; Peter R. Long; Sami Rifai; Tadesse Woldemariam Gole; John Mason; Constance L. McDermott et al.
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Exploring temporality in socio-ecological resilience through experiences of the 2015–16 El Niño across the Tropics

Global Environmental Change
2019-03 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.01.004
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Contributors: Stephen Whitfield; Emilie Beauchamp; Doreen S. Boyd; David Burslem; Anja Byg; Francis Colledge; Mark Cutler; Mengitsu Didena; Andrew Dougill; Giles Foody et al.
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Understanding Poverty in Cash-crop Agro-forestry Systems

Ecological Economics
2018-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.07.021
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Contributors: M. Hirons; E. Robinson; C. McDermott; Alexandra Morel; R. Asare; E. Boyd; T. Gonfa; T. W. Gole; Y. Malhi; J. Mason et al.
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Understanding climate resilience in Ghanaian cocoa communities

Journal of Rural Studies
2018-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.08.010
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Contributors: M. Hirons; E. Boyd; C. McDermott; R. Asare; Alexandra Morel; J. Mason; Y. Malhi; K. Norris
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Illegality and inequity in Ghana's cocoa-forest landscape

Land Use Policy
2018-07 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.014
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Contributors: M. Hirons; C. McDermott; R. Asare; Alexandra Morel; E. Robinson; J. Mason; E. Boyd; Y. Malhi; K. Norris
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Pursuing climate resilient coffee in Ethiopia

Geoforum
2018-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.032
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Contributors: M. Hirons; Z. Mehrabi; T. A. Gonfa; Alexandra Morel; T. W. Gole; C. McDermott; E. Boyd; E. Robinson; D. Sheleme; Y. Malhi et al.
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Stranded assets in palm oil production: a case study of Indonesia

2016 | Working paper | Author
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Rachel Friedman; Daniel J Tulloch; Ben Caldecott
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Identifying where REDD+ financially out-competes oil palm in floodplain landscapes using a fine-scale approach

PLoS ONE
2016-06-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156481
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Contributors: Nicola K. Abram; Douglas C. MacMillan; Panteleimon Xofis; Marc Ancrenaz; Joseph Tzanopoulos; Robert Ong; Benoit Goossens; Lian Pin Koh; Christian Del Valle; Lucy Peter et al.
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An integrated pan-tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

Global Change Biology
2016-02-29 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13139
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Contributors: Valerio Avitabile; Martin Herold; Gerard B.M. Heuvelink; Simon L. Lewis; Oliver L. Phillips; Gregory P. Asner; John Armston; Peter S. Ashton; Lindsay Banin; Nicolas Bayol et al.
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Quantifying Human Appropriated Net Primary Productivity (HANPP) in a Ghanaian Cocoa System

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, United States, 14/12/15
2015-12 | Conference output | Author
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Stephen Adu-Bredu; Michael Adu Sasu; Rebecca Ashley Asare; Emily Boyd; Mark Hirons; Yadvinder Malhi; J. Mason; Ken Norris; Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson et al.
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Comparative analysis and fusion for improved global biomass mapping

Book of abstracts of the International Conference Global Vegetation Monitoring and Modeling (GV2M)
2014 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: V. Avitabile; M. Herold; S.L. Lewis; O.L. Phillips; N. Aguilar-Amuchastegui; G.P. Asner; R.J.W. Brienen; B.R. DeVries; R. Gazolla Gatti; T.R. Feldpausch et al.
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Evaluating the potential to monitor aboveground biomass in forest and oil palm in Sabah, Malaysia, for 2000-2008 with Landsat ETM+ and ALOS-PALSAR

International Journal of Remote Sensing
2012-06 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.631949
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Joshua B. Fisher; Yadvinder Malhi
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How Could Carbon Credits for Reducing Deforestation Compete with Returns from Palm Oil

Journal of Sustainable Forestry
2012-01-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10549811.2011.565709
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Benoit F. Morel
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Estimating aboveground biomass in forest and oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo using ALOS PALSAR data

Forest Ecology and Management
2011-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.07.008
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Contributors: Alexandra Morel; Sassan S. Saatchi; Yadvinder Malhi; Nicholas J. Berry; Lindsay Banin; David Burslem; Reuben Nilus; Robert C. Ong
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Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2011-06-14 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019576108
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Contributors: Sassan S. Saatchi; Nancy L. Harris; Sandra Brown; Michael Lefsky; Edward T. A. Mitchard; William Salas; Brian R. Zutta; Wolfgang Buermann; Simon L. Lewis; Stephen Hagen et al.
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Biodiversity Conservation in the REDD

Carbon Balance and Management
2010-11-23 | Other | Author
DOI: 10.1186/1750-0680-5-7
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Contributors: Gary D Paoli; Philip L Wells; Erik Meijaard; Matthew J Struebig; Andrew J Marshall; Krystof Obidzinski; Aseng Tan; Andjar Rafiastanto; Betsy Yaap; JW Ferry Slik et al.
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Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

New Phytologist
2010-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03359.x
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PMID: 20659252
Contributors: Oliver L. Phillips; Geertje van der Heijden; Simon L. Lewis; Gabriela López-González; Luiz E. O. C. Aragão; Jon Lloyd; Yadvinder Malhi; Abel Monteagudo; Samuel Almeida; Esteban Alvarez Dávila et al.
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Drought sensitivity of the amazon rainforest

Science
2009-03-06 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1126/science.1164033
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Contributors: Oliver L. Phillips; Luiz E. O. C. Aragão; Simon L. Lewis; Joshua B. Fisher; Jon Lloyd; Gabriela López-González; Yadvinder Malhi; Abel Monteagudo; Julie Peacock; Carlos A. Quesada et al.
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How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution
2008-10-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.012
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PMID: 18775582
Contributors: Emily B. Fitzherbert; Matthew J. Struebig; Alexandra Morel; Finn Danielsen; Carsten A. Brühl; Paul F. Donald; Ben Phalan
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