Benjamin Sleeter

Biographic Data

ID6318496
NAMEBenjamin Sleeter
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin
FAMILY NAMESleeter
SIGNATURESLEETER B
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Geological Survey
ORCID0000-0003-2371-9571
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Simulating burn severity maps at 30 meters in two forested regions in California

    Open AccessJonathan A Sam, Wayne J Baldwin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Climate change is altering wildfire and vegetation regimes in California’s forested ecosystems. Present day fires are seeing an increase in high burn severity area and high severity patch size. The ability to predict future burn severity patterns could better support policy and land management decisions. Here we demonstrate a methodology to first, statistically estimate individual burn severity classes at 30 meters and second, cluster and smooth …

  • Ecosystem carbon balance in the Hawaiian Islands under different scenarios of future climate and land use change

    Open AccessPaul C Selmants, Benjamin Sleeter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The State of Hawai'i passed legislation to be carbon neutral by 2045, a goal that will partly depend on carbon sequestration by terrestrial ecosystems. However, there is considerable uncertainty surrounding the future direction and magnitude of the land carbon sink in the Hawaiian Islands. We used the Land Use and Carbon Scenario Simulator (LUCAS), a spatially explicit stochastic simulation model that integrates landscape change and carbon gain-l…

  • Scenarios of climate adaptation potential on protected working lands from management of soils

    Open AccessKristin B Byrd, Pelayo Alvarez et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Management of protected lands may enhance ecosystem services that conservation programs were designed to protect. Practices that build soil organic matter on agricultural lands also increase soil water holding capacity, potentially reducing climatic water deficit (CWD), increasing actual evapotranspiration (AET) and increasing groundwater recharge (RCH). We developed nine spatially-explicit land use and conservation scenarios (2001–2100) in the L…

  • Effects of contemporary land-use and land-cover change on the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in the United States

    Open AccessBenjamin Sleeter, Jinxun Liu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Changes in land use and land cover (LULC) can have profound effects on terrestrial carbon dynamics, yet their effects on the global carbon budget remain uncertain. While land change impacts on ecosystem carbon dynamics have been the focus of numerous studies, few efforts have been based on observational data incorporating multiple ecosystem types spanning large geographic areas over long time horizons. In this study we use a variety of synoptic-s…

  • Adaptation with climate uncertainty

    Open AccessJianhong E Mu, Bruce A Mccarl et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2018Cited by: 3References: 40

  • Future land-use related water demand in California

    Open AccessTamara S Wilson, Benjamin Sleeter et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Water shortages in California are a growing concern amidst ongoing drought, earlier spring snowmelt, projected future climate warming, and currently mandated water use restrictions. Increases in population and land use in coming decades will place additional pressure on already limited available water supplies. We used a state-and-transition simulation model to project future changes in developed (municipal and industrial) and agricultural land u…

  • Land-cover change in the conterminous United States from 1973 to 2000

    Open AccessBenjamin Sleeter, Benjamin M Sleeter et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 10References: 4

    Land-cover change in the conterminous United States was quantified by interpreting change from satellite imagery for a sample stratified by 84 ecoregions. Gross and net changes between 11 land-cover classes were estimated for 5 dates of Landsat imagery (1973, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 2000). An estimated 673,000 km2(8.6%) of the United States’ land area experienced a change in land cover at least one time during the study period. Forest cover experie…

  • Scenarios of land use and land cover change in the conterminous United States

    Open AccessBenjamin Sleeter, Benjamin M Sleeter et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2012Cited by: 7References: 9

    Global environmental change scenarios have typically provided projections of land use and land cover for a relatively small number of regions or using a relatively coarse resolution spatial grid, and for only a few major sectors. The coarseness of global projections, in both spatial and thematic dimensions, often limits their direct utility at scales useful for environmental management. This paper describes methods to downscale projections of lan…