Peter W Ellis

Biographic Data

ID	6318311
NAME	Peter W Ellis
GIVEN NAMES	Peter W
FAMILY NAME	Ellis
SIGNATURE	ELLIS P W
AFFILIATIONS	The Nature Conservancy
ORCID	0000-0001-7933-8298
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	12
TOTAL CITATIONS	19
AUTHOR COUNT	12
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	2

A globally relevant data-driven assessment of carbon leakage from forestry
Open AccessAdam Daigneault, Brent Sohngen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025
Climate smart forestry (CSF) practices are widely recognized as efficient natural climate solutions. However, leakage accounting for these practices often relies on limited analysis and ad hoc reasoning, leading to integrity concerns and underinvestment in CSF. This study proposes a data-intensive, dynamic economic-ecological modeling approach to estimating regional CSF leakage, with global applicability. Results show how leakage varies by CSF ac…
Community sawmills can save forests: Forest regrowth and avoided deforestation due to vertical integration of wood production in Mexican community forests
Open AccessDaniela A Miteva, Edward A Ellis et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2025
Integrated conservation and development efforts in low- and middle-income countries have emphasized the devolution of forest management to local communities. This approach is posited to benefit both communities and conservation, but those benefits may depend on community capacity to capture value added, e.g., by processing forest products. In Mexico, most forests are under community management, but only some communities have vertically integrated…
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions
Open AccessCharlotte H Chang, James T Erbaugh et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 14
Mitigating near-term climate change
Open AccessStephen A Wood, Katharine Hayhoe et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023
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Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: Wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment
Open AccessNisa Novita, Subarno Subarno et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022
Indonesia offers a dramatic opportunity to contribute to tackling climate change by deploying natural climate solutions (NCS), increasing carbon sequestration and storage through the protection, improved management, and restoration of drylands, peatlands, and mangrove ecosystems. Here, we estimate Indonesia’s NCS mitigation opportunity for the first time using national datasets. We calculated the maximum NCS mitigation potential extent using data…
Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth
Open AccessSusan C Cook‐Patton, Sara M Leavitt et al.ARTICLENature2020
Lower cost and more feasible options to restore forest cover in the contiguous United States for climate mitigation
Open AccessSusan C Cook‐Patton, Trisha Gopalakrishna et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020
Restoring forest cover is a prominent option for climate mitigation. Effective deployment requires knowing where opportunities are and how they vary in carbon capture, costs, co-benefits, and feasibility. Here, we combined spatial, economic, and feasibility analyses to examine 10 different opportunity classes for restoration of forest cover across the contiguous United States. These include non-stocked forests, shrublands, protected areas, post-b…
The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions
Open AccessDeborah Bossio, Susan C Cook‐Patton et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 13References: 3
Larger gains from improved management over sparing–sharing for tropical forests
Open AccessRebecca K Runting, Ruslandi Ruslandi et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 2References: 1
Natural climate solutions for the United States
Open AccessJoseph Fargione, Steven Bassett et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2018
U.S. land management can contribute 1.2 Pg CO 2 e year −1 of greenhouse gas mitigation, 76% of which costs USD 50 Mg CO 2 e −1 or less.
Natural climate solutions
Open AccessBronson W Griscom, Justin Adams et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2017
Significance Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute to this goal with a comprehensive analysis of “natural climate solutions” (NCS): 20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands. …
Private property and Mennonites are major drivers of forest cover loss in central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Open AccessEdward A Ellis, José Arturo Romero Montero et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2017Cited by: 4References: 35

Natural climate solutions
Open AccessBronson W Griscom, Justin Adams et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2017
Significance Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute to this goal with a comprehensive analysis of “natural climate solutions” (NCS): 20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands. …
Private property and Mennonites are major drivers of forest cover loss in central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Open AccessEdward A Ellis, José Arturo Romero Montero et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2017Cited by: 4References: 35
Natural climate solutions for the United States
Open AccessJoseph Fargione, Steven Bassett et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2018
U.S. land management can contribute 1.2 Pg CO 2 e year −1 of greenhouse gas mitigation, 76% of which costs USD 50 Mg CO 2 e −1 or less.
Larger gains from improved management over sparing–sharing for tropical forests
Open AccessRebecca K Runting, Ruslandi Ruslandi et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 2References: 1
Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth
Open AccessSusan C Cook‐Patton, Sara M Leavitt et al.ARTICLENature2020
Lower cost and more feasible options to restore forest cover in the contiguous United States for climate mitigation
Open AccessSusan C Cook‐Patton, Trisha Gopalakrishna et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020
Restoring forest cover is a prominent option for climate mitigation. Effective deployment requires knowing where opportunities are and how they vary in carbon capture, costs, co-benefits, and feasibility. Here, we combined spatial, economic, and feasibility analyses to examine 10 different opportunity classes for restoration of forest cover across the contiguous United States. These include non-stocked forests, shrublands, protected areas, post-b…
The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions
Open AccessDeborah Bossio, Susan C Cook‐Patton et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 13References: 3
Natural climate solutions in Indonesia: Wetlands are the key to achieve Indonesia’s national climate commitment
Open AccessNisa Novita, Subarno Subarno et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022
Indonesia offers a dramatic opportunity to contribute to tackling climate change by deploying natural climate solutions (NCS), increasing carbon sequestration and storage through the protection, improved management, and restoration of drylands, peatlands, and mangrove ecosystems. Here, we estimate Indonesia’s NCS mitigation opportunity for the first time using national datasets. We calculated the maximum NCS mitigation potential extent using data…
Mitigating near-term climate change
Open AccessStephen A Wood, Katharine Hayhoe et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023
cc-by
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions
Open AccessCharlotte H Chang, James T Erbaugh et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 14
A globally relevant data-driven assessment of carbon leakage from forestry
Open AccessAdam Daigneault, Brent Sohngen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025
Climate smart forestry (CSF) practices are widely recognized as efficient natural climate solutions. However, leakage accounting for these practices often relies on limited analysis and ad hoc reasoning, leading to integrity concerns and underinvestment in CSF. This study proposes a data-intensive, dynamic economic-ecological modeling approach to estimating regional CSF leakage, with global applicability. Results show how leakage varies by CSF ac…
Community sawmills can save forests: Forest regrowth and avoided deforestation due to vertical integration of wood production in Mexican community forests
Open AccessDaniela A Miteva, Edward A Ellis et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2025
Integrated conservation and development efforts in low- and middle-income countries have emphasized the devolution of forest management to local communities. This approach is posited to benefit both communities and conservation, but those benefits may depend on community capacity to capture value added, e.g., by processing forest products. In Mexico, most forests are under community management, but only some communities have vertically integrated…