Michael Coe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Coe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Coe |
| SIGNATURE | COE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Woodwell Climate Research Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7470-0697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Geoscience Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale (GeoMSES) for Majors-Level Undergraduates: Psychometric Data
Self-efficacy is often investigated as a key attitudinal component of academic persistence and performance, and self-efficacy surveys can serve in research models as efficient and non-threatening assessment tools to augment or substitute for achievement or performance measures. The Geoscience Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale (GeoMSES) builds on prior work in measurement of self-efficacy for mathematics by focusing specifically on students’ capacit…
Developing community disaster resilience through collaborative professional development: Integrating teachers, informal educators, and emergency management personnel
Because geologic hazards affect large regions, overwhelming the capacity of dedicated emergency response resources, community resilience depends on individual and collective preparedness that is in place prior to an event. Two projects providing professional development on earthquake and tsunami science and preparedness, and utilizing an innovative “pedagogical exchange” model, demonstrated improvement in community resilience in the Pacific North…
Intensification of climate change impacts on agriculture in the Cerrado due to deforestation
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs
The Amazon biome is being pushed by unsustainable economic drivers towards an ecological tipping point where restoration to its previous state may no longer be possible. This degradation is the result of self-reinforcing interactions between deforestation, climate change and fire. We assess the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts and trade-offs of scenarios representing movement towards an Amazon tipping point and strategies …
Potential shifts in the aboveground biomass and physiognomy of a seasonally dry tropical forest in a changing climate
Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) account for one-third of the interannual variability of global net primary productive (NPP). Large-scale shifts in dry tropical forest structure may thus significantly affect global CO 2 fluxes in ways that are not fully accounted for in current projections. This study quantifies how changing climate might reshape one of the largest SDTFs in the world, the Caatinga region of northeast Brazil. We combine his…
Solving Brazil's land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing Amazon deforestation
Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30 % of the world’s soy and 15 % of its beef by 2013 – yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of its native ecosystems. Since 1985, pastures and croplands have replaced nearly 65 Mha of forests and savannas in the legal Amazon. A growing body of work suggests that this paradigm of horizontal expansion of agriculture over ecosystems is outdated and brings negativ…
Current and future patterns of fire-induced forest degradation in Amazonia
Amazon droughts directly increase forest flammability by reducing forest understory air and fuel moisture. Droughts also increase forest flammability indirectly by decreasing soil moisture, triggering leaf shedding, branch loss, and tree mortality—all of which contribute to increased fuel loads. These direct and indirect effects can cause widespread forest fires that reduce forest carbon stocks in the Amazon, with potentially important consequenc…
Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: The overlooked non-GHG forcing
Tropical deforestation changes the surface energy balance and water cycle, but how much change occurs strongly depends on the land uses that follow deforestation. Here, we quantify how recent (2000–2010) transitions among widespread land uses (i.e., forests, croplands, and pastures) altered the water and energy balance in the Xingu region of southeast Amazonia. Spatial-temporal analyses of multiple satellite data sets revealed that forest-to-crop…
Cracking Brazil's Forest Code
Brazil's controversial new Forest Code grants amnesty to illegal deforesters, but creates new mechanisms for forest conservation.
Large-scale expansion of agriculture in Amazonia may be a no-win scenario
Using simplified climate and land-use models, we evaluated primary forests ’ carbon storage and soybean and pasture productivity in the Brazilian Legal Amazon under several scenarios of deforestation and increased CO2. The four scenarios for the year 2050 that we analyzed consider (1) radiative effects of increased CO2, (2) radiative and physiological effects of increased CO2, (3) effects of land-use changes on the regional climate and (4) radiat…
The Amazon basin in transition
Amazonia revealed: Forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is one of the world's most important bioregions, harboring a rich array of plant and animal species and offering a wealth of goods and services to society. For years, ecological science has shown how large-scale forest clearings cause declines in biodiversity and the availability of forest products. Yet some important changes in the rainforests, and in the ecosystem services they provide, have been underappreciated until recently…
Global Consequences of Land Use
Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air are being driven by the need to provide food, fiber, water, and shelter to more than six billion people. Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, a…
Atlas of Ancient America
Text, illustrations, and maps survey the history, art, and archaeology of the original cultures native to North, Central, and South America
Los hombres de piedra: Escultura olmeca
Solving Brazil's land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing Amazon deforestation
Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30 % of the world’s soy and 15 % of its beef by 2013 – yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of its native ecosystems. Since 1985, pastures and croplands have replaced nearly 65 Mha of forests and savannas in the legal Amazon. A growing body of work suggests that this paradigm of horizontal expansion of agriculture over ecosystems is outdated and brings negativ…
Atlas of Ancient America
Text, illustrations, and maps survey the history, art, and archaeology of the original cultures native to North, Central, and South America
Los hombres de piedra: Escultura olmeca
Atlas of Ancient America
Text, illustrations, and maps survey the history, art, and archaeology of the original cultures native to North, Central, and South America
Global Consequences of Land Use
Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air are being driven by the need to provide food, fiber, water, and shelter to more than six billion people. Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, a…
Amazonia revealed: Forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is one of the world's most important bioregions, harboring a rich array of plant and animal species and offering a wealth of goods and services to society. For years, ecological science has shown how large-scale forest clearings cause declines in biodiversity and the availability of forest products. Yet some important changes in the rainforests, and in the ecosystem services they provide, have been underappreciated until recently…
The Amazon basin in transition
Large-scale expansion of agriculture in Amazonia may be a no-win scenario
Using simplified climate and land-use models, we evaluated primary forests ’ carbon storage and soybean and pasture productivity in the Brazilian Legal Amazon under several scenarios of deforestation and increased CO2. The four scenarios for the year 2050 that we analyzed consider (1) radiative effects of increased CO2, (2) radiative and physiological effects of increased CO2, (3) effects of land-use changes on the regional climate and (4) radiat…
Cracking Brazil's Forest Code
Brazil's controversial new Forest Code grants amnesty to illegal deforesters, but creates new mechanisms for forest conservation.
Agricultural expansion dominates climate changes in southeastern Amazonia: The overlooked non-GHG forcing
Tropical deforestation changes the surface energy balance and water cycle, but how much change occurs strongly depends on the land uses that follow deforestation. Here, we quantify how recent (2000–2010) transitions among widespread land uses (i.e., forests, croplands, and pastures) altered the water and energy balance in the Xingu region of southeast Amazonia. Spatial-temporal analyses of multiple satellite data sets revealed that forest-to-crop…
Current and future patterns of fire-induced forest degradation in Amazonia
Amazon droughts directly increase forest flammability by reducing forest understory air and fuel moisture. Droughts also increase forest flammability indirectly by decreasing soil moisture, triggering leaf shedding, branch loss, and tree mortality—all of which contribute to increased fuel loads. These direct and indirect effects can cause widespread forest fires that reduce forest carbon stocks in the Amazon, with potentially important consequenc…
Potential shifts in the aboveground biomass and physiognomy of a seasonally dry tropical forest in a changing climate
Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) account for one-third of the interannual variability of global net primary productive (NPP). Large-scale shifts in dry tropical forest structure may thus significantly affect global CO 2 fluxes in ways that are not fully accounted for in current projections. This study quantifies how changing climate might reshape one of the largest SDTFs in the world, the Caatinga region of northeast Brazil. We combine his…
Solving Brazil's land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing Amazon deforestation
Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30 % of the world’s soy and 15 % of its beef by 2013 – yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of its native ecosystems. Since 1985, pastures and croplands have replaced nearly 65 Mha of forests and savannas in the legal Amazon. A growing body of work suggests that this paradigm of horizontal expansion of agriculture over ecosystems is outdated and brings negativ…
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs
The Amazon biome is being pushed by unsustainable economic drivers towards an ecological tipping point where restoration to its previous state may no longer be possible. This degradation is the result of self-reinforcing interactions between deforestation, climate change and fire. We assess the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts and trade-offs of scenarios representing movement towards an Amazon tipping point and strategies …
Intensification of climate change impacts on agriculture in the Cerrado due to deforestation
Geoscience Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale (GeoMSES) for Majors-Level Undergraduates: Psychometric Data
Self-efficacy is often investigated as a key attitudinal component of academic persistence and performance, and self-efficacy surveys can serve in research models as efficient and non-threatening assessment tools to augment or substitute for achievement or performance measures. The Geoscience Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale (GeoMSES) builds on prior work in measurement of self-efficacy for mathematics by focusing specifically on students’ capacit…
Developing community disaster resilience through collaborative professional development: Integrating teachers, informal educators, and emergency management personnel
Because geologic hazards affect large regions, overwhelming the capacity of dedicated emergency response resources, community resilience depends on individual and collective preparedness that is in place prior to an event. Two projects providing professional development on earthquake and tsunami science and preparedness, and utilizing an innovative “pedagogical exchange” model, demonstrated improvement in community resilience in the Pacific North…
Geography (10 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Amazon rainforest (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 works) · Agroforestry (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)