Mark Bradford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1178461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Bradford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradford |
| SIGNATURE | BRADFORD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2022-8331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sustainable forest management for carbon, wood and biodiversity must consider natural disturbance regimes
Forests provide multiple benefits that include sequestering carbon, supporting biodiversity, and providing wood products. Managing temperate forests to achieve these benefits sustainably is challenging given the legacy of past human impacts, the complexity of forest development, and increasing but unpredictable disturbances. These intricacies prompted debate about the most effective management of temperate forests to achieve climate mitigation wh…
Measure-and-remeasure as an economically feasible approach to crediting soil organic carbon at scale
Agricultural carbon crediting predominantly relies on process-based biogeochemical models to estimate accrual of soil organic carbon stock (SOC). We investigate the conditions under which it may be economical to estimate SOC accrual by measuring and remeasuring SOC, which relies on fewer assumptions than modeling. We analyze multi-field measure-and-remeasure SOC projects with two key features: first, practice assignment is randomized to compare t…
Protocol intercomparison project highlights non-equivalent carbon crediting across agricultural land management protocols
Voluntary markets for agricultural carbon credits are expanding, promoting climate-smart practices purported to increase soil carbon and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To contribute effectively to climate mitigation, markets must deliver credits that meet international standards guaranteeing credits are additional, conservative, and equivalent to at least 1 ton of CO 2 . Yet protocols for quantifying credits make different assumptions, raising …
Mitigating near-term climate change
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Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought
Higher levels of soil organic matter improve soil water retention, meaning they could mitigate agricultural yield losses from drought. Yet evidence to support such claims is mixed and incomplete. Using data from 12 376 county-years in the United States of America, we show that counties with higher soil organic matter are associated with greater yields, lower yield losses, and lower rates of crop insurance payouts under drought. Under severe droug…
Refining national greenhouse gas inventories
The importance of greenhouse gas inventories cannot be overstated: the process of producing inventories informs strategies that governments will use to meet emissions reduction targets. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leads an effort to develop and refine internationally agreed upon methodologies for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and removals. We argue that these guidelines are not equipped to handle the …
Defining and assessing urban forests to inform management and policy
The context in which trees and forests grow in cities is highly variable and influences the provision of ecological, social, and economic benefits. Understanding the spatial extent, structure, and composition of forests is necessary to guide urban forest policy and management, yet current forest assessment methodologies vary widely in scale, sampling intensity, and focus. Current definitions of the urban forest include all trees growing in the ur…
Soil carbon science for policy and practice
Artist Statement
Artist Statement Mark Bradford (bio) I'm not about forcing equivalences and I don't need linear histories, connections, or practices. With my painting and the ideas I've developed around it, I've always just pushed forward. Abstraction gave me a space to do that, to speak out the side of my neck, to practice a form of indirect speaking. At the same time, I wanted to use humble materials like paper, but to elevate those materials to the same heigh…
Toward an Ecological Classification of Soil Bacteria
Although researchers have begun cataloging the incredible diversity of bacteria found in soil, we are largely unable to interpret this information in an ecological context, including which groups of bacteria are most abundant in different soils and why. With this study, we examined how the abundances of major soil bacterial phyla correspond to the biotic and abiotic characteristics of the soil environment to determine if they can be divided into …
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Toward an Ecological Classification of Soil Bacteria
Although researchers have begun cataloging the incredible diversity of bacteria found in soil, we are largely unable to interpret this information in an ecological context, including which groups of bacteria are most abundant in different soils and why. With this study, we examined how the abundances of major soil bacterial phyla correspond to the biotic and abiotic characteristics of the soil environment to determine if they can be divided into …
Artist Statement
Artist Statement Mark Bradford (bio) I'm not about forcing equivalences and I don't need linear histories, connections, or practices. With my painting and the ideas I've developed around it, I've always just pushed forward. Abstraction gave me a space to do that, to speak out the side of my neck, to practice a form of indirect speaking. At the same time, I wanted to use humble materials like paper, but to elevate those materials to the same heigh…
Defining and assessing urban forests to inform management and policy
The context in which trees and forests grow in cities is highly variable and influences the provision of ecological, social, and economic benefits. Understanding the spatial extent, structure, and composition of forests is necessary to guide urban forest policy and management, yet current forest assessment methodologies vary widely in scale, sampling intensity, and focus. Current definitions of the urban forest include all trees growing in the ur…
Soil carbon science for policy and practice
Refining national greenhouse gas inventories
The importance of greenhouse gas inventories cannot be overstated: the process of producing inventories informs strategies that governments will use to meet emissions reduction targets. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leads an effort to develop and refine internationally agreed upon methodologies for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and removals. We argue that these guidelines are not equipped to handle the …
Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought
Higher levels of soil organic matter improve soil water retention, meaning they could mitigate agricultural yield losses from drought. Yet evidence to support such claims is mixed and incomplete. Using data from 12 376 county-years in the United States of America, we show that counties with higher soil organic matter are associated with greater yields, lower yield losses, and lower rates of crop insurance payouts under drought. Under severe droug…
Mitigating near-term climate change
cc-by
Sustainable forest management for carbon, wood and biodiversity must consider natural disturbance regimes
Forests provide multiple benefits that include sequestering carbon, supporting biodiversity, and providing wood products. Managing temperate forests to achieve these benefits sustainably is challenging given the legacy of past human impacts, the complexity of forest development, and increasing but unpredictable disturbances. These intricacies prompted debate about the most effective management of temperate forests to achieve climate mitigation wh…
Measure-and-remeasure as an economically feasible approach to crediting soil organic carbon at scale
Agricultural carbon crediting predominantly relies on process-based biogeochemical models to estimate accrual of soil organic carbon stock (SOC). We investigate the conditions under which it may be economical to estimate SOC accrual by measuring and remeasuring SOC, which relies on fewer assumptions than modeling. We analyze multi-field measure-and-remeasure SOC projects with two key features: first, practice assignment is randomized to compare t…
Protocol intercomparison project highlights non-equivalent carbon crediting across agricultural land management protocols
Voluntary markets for agricultural carbon credits are expanding, promoting climate-smart practices purported to increase soil carbon and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To contribute effectively to climate mitigation, markets must deliver credits that meet international standards guaranteeing credits are additional, conservative, and equivalent to at least 1 ton of CO 2 . Yet protocols for quantifying credits make different assumptions, raising …
Environmental Science (7 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Soil carbon (4 works) · Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (4 works) · Soil water (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Economics (3 works)