Nicholas H Wolff

Biographic Data

ID	6568489
NAME	Nicholas H Wolff
GIVEN NAMES	Nicholas H
FAMILY NAME	Wolff
SIGNATURE	WOLFF N H
AFFILIATIONS	The Nature Conservancy
ORCID	0000-0003-1162-3556
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	13
TOTAL CITATIONS	11
AUTHOR COUNT	13
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2024
H-INDEX	2

Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options
Open AccessYuta J Masuda, Luke Parsons et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk
Open AccessNicholas H Wolff, Piero Visconti et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023
Halting the alarming rate of species extinction, driven primarily by habitat destruction, motivated the international community to adopt the Global Biodiversity Framework (2022) and its targets aimed at reversing habitat and species loss. Because of urgency and resource constraints, a key challenge is meeting targets effectively and efficiently. Here we conduct a global prioritization linking 70,492 unique population maps and life history charact…
Quantifying the smoke-related public health trade-offs of forest management
Open AccessClaire Schollaert, Jihoon Jung et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023References: 1
Prescribed burning can mitigate extreme wildfire risk and reduce total smoke emissions. Yet prescribed burns’ emissions may also contribute to smoke exposures in nearby communities. Incorporating public health considerations into forest management planning efforts may help reduce prescribed burn-related exposure impacts. We present a methodological framework linking landscape ecology, air-quality modelling and health impact assessment to quantify…
Tropical deforestation accelerates local warming and loss of safe outdoor working hours
Open AccessLuke Parsons, Jihoon Jung et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021
Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps
Open AccessTimothy H Tear, Tim Tear et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021
d Savanna burning methodologies could generate carbon revenues for many protected areas in Africa d When combined with soil and woody carbon pools the potential is significantly greater d Potential carbon revenues from fire management could substantially reduce protected area funding gaps
Global labor loss due to humid heat exposure underestimated for outdoor workers
Open AccessLuke Parsons, Yuta J Masuda et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021
Humid heat impacts a large portion of the world’s population that works outdoors. Previous studies have quantified humid heat impacts on labor productivity by relying on exposure response functions that are based on uncontrolled experiments under a limited range of heat and humidity. Here we use the latest empirical model, based on a wider range of temperatures and humidity, for studying the impact of humid heat and recent climate change on labor…
Agroforestry and non-state actors: A review
Open AccessJoseph Bettles, David S Battisti et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2021
Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming
Open AccessLucas R Vargas Zeppetello, Luke Parsons et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020
Accelerating deforestation rates in Earth’s tropical rainforests have dramatic impacts on local public health, agricultural productivity, and global climate change. We used satellite observations to quantify the local temperature changes in deforested patches of rainforests across the tropics and found local warming larger than that predicted from more than a century of climate change under a worst-case emissions scenario. We show that the most e…
Heat exposure from tropical deforestation decreases cognitive performance of rural workers: An experimental study
Open AccessYuta J Masuda, Teevrat Garg et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020
The effect of tropical deforestation on heat exposure and subsequent human health outcomes remains understudied, especially among an increasingly vulnerable population—healthy, adult subsistence workers in rural industrializing tropical countries. We report on a field experiment that estimated the short-term effects of heat exposure from deforestation on cognitive performance. We randomly assigned rural, adult subsistence workers in East Kalimant…
How are healthy, working populations affected by increasing temperatures in the tropics? Implications for climate change adaptation policies
Open AccessYuta J Masuda, Brianna Castro et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2019
Average ambient temperatures are 2.6–8.3 °C cooler in forests than open areas. • Work shifts, breaks, and thus risks of heat stress differ between those working only in open areas (74%) and those working in forests and open areas (26%). • Increasing temperatures affect the working behavior of 98% of our sample via greater heat exposure and more frequent breaks. • Those working in both forests and open areas more are impacted more by hotter temper…
Association between work in deforested, compared to forested, areas and human heat strain: An experimental study in a rural tropical environment
Open AccessMegan Suter, Kristin A Miller et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019
In this experimental study in a tropical, rural setting, activity in a deforested versus a forested setting was associated with increased objectively measured heat strain. Longer durations of hyperthermia can increase the risk of serious health outcomes. Land use decisions should consider the implications of deforestation on local heat exposure and health as well as on forest services, including carbon storage functions that impact climate change…
Impacts of tropical deforestation on local temperature and human well-being perceptions
Open AccessNicholas H Wolff, Yuta J Masuda et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2018Cited by: 3References: 6
The combined effects of changes in climate and land cover expose millions of people to an increased likelihood of heat illness. Impacts of heat stress on health have primarily been quantified for urban environments, particularly in developed countries. Far less is known in other settings, including the effects of ongoing tropical deforestation on local temperature and its consequences for people living in these rapidly changing landscapes. Here, …
Ecological resilience, robustness and vulnerability: How do these concepts benefit ecosystem management
Open AccessPeter J Mumby, Iliana Chollett et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2013Cited by: 8References: 10

Ecological resilience, robustness and vulnerability: How do these concepts benefit ecosystem management
Open AccessPeter J Mumby, Iliana Chollett et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2013Cited by: 8References: 10
Impacts of tropical deforestation on local temperature and human well-being perceptions
Open AccessNicholas H Wolff, Yuta J Masuda et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2018Cited by: 3References: 6
The combined effects of changes in climate and land cover expose millions of people to an increased likelihood of heat illness. Impacts of heat stress on health have primarily been quantified for urban environments, particularly in developed countries. Far less is known in other settings, including the effects of ongoing tropical deforestation on local temperature and its consequences for people living in these rapidly changing landscapes. Here, …
How are healthy, working populations affected by increasing temperatures in the tropics? Implications for climate change adaptation policies
Open AccessYuta J Masuda, Brianna Castro et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2019
Average ambient temperatures are 2.6–8.3 °C cooler in forests than open areas. • Work shifts, breaks, and thus risks of heat stress differ between those working only in open areas (74%) and those working in forests and open areas (26%). • Increasing temperatures affect the working behavior of 98% of our sample via greater heat exposure and more frequent breaks. • Those working in both forests and open areas more are impacted more by hotter temper…
Association between work in deforested, compared to forested, areas and human heat strain: An experimental study in a rural tropical environment
Open AccessMegan Suter, Kristin A Miller et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019
In this experimental study in a tropical, rural setting, activity in a deforested versus a forested setting was associated with increased objectively measured heat strain. Longer durations of hyperthermia can increase the risk of serious health outcomes. Land use decisions should consider the implications of deforestation on local heat exposure and health as well as on forest services, including carbon storage functions that impact climate change…
Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming
Open AccessLucas R Vargas Zeppetello, Luke Parsons et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020
Accelerating deforestation rates in Earth’s tropical rainforests have dramatic impacts on local public health, agricultural productivity, and global climate change. We used satellite observations to quantify the local temperature changes in deforested patches of rainforests across the tropics and found local warming larger than that predicted from more than a century of climate change under a worst-case emissions scenario. We show that the most e…
Heat exposure from tropical deforestation decreases cognitive performance of rural workers: An experimental study
Open AccessYuta J Masuda, Teevrat Garg et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020
The effect of tropical deforestation on heat exposure and subsequent human health outcomes remains understudied, especially among an increasingly vulnerable population—healthy, adult subsistence workers in rural industrializing tropical countries. We report on a field experiment that estimated the short-term effects of heat exposure from deforestation on cognitive performance. We randomly assigned rural, adult subsistence workers in East Kalimant…
Tropical deforestation accelerates local warming and loss of safe outdoor working hours
Open AccessLuke Parsons, Jihoon Jung et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021
Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps
Open AccessTimothy H Tear, Tim Tear et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021
d Savanna burning methodologies could generate carbon revenues for many protected areas in Africa d When combined with soil and woody carbon pools the potential is significantly greater d Potential carbon revenues from fire management could substantially reduce protected area funding gaps
Global labor loss due to humid heat exposure underestimated for outdoor workers
Open AccessLuke Parsons, Yuta J Masuda et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021
Humid heat impacts a large portion of the world’s population that works outdoors. Previous studies have quantified humid heat impacts on labor productivity by relying on exposure response functions that are based on uncontrolled experiments under a limited range of heat and humidity. Here we use the latest empirical model, based on a wider range of temperatures and humidity, for studying the impact of humid heat and recent climate change on labor…
Agroforestry and non-state actors: A review
Open AccessJoseph Bettles, David S Battisti et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2021
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk
Open AccessNicholas H Wolff, Piero Visconti et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023
Halting the alarming rate of species extinction, driven primarily by habitat destruction, motivated the international community to adopt the Global Biodiversity Framework (2022) and its targets aimed at reversing habitat and species loss. Because of urgency and resource constraints, a key challenge is meeting targets effectively and efficiently. Here we conduct a global prioritization linking 70,492 unique population maps and life history charact…
Quantifying the smoke-related public health trade-offs of forest management
Open AccessClaire Schollaert, Jihoon Jung et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023References: 1
Prescribed burning can mitigate extreme wildfire risk and reduce total smoke emissions. Yet prescribed burns’ emissions may also contribute to smoke exposures in nearby communities. Incorporating public health considerations into forest management planning efforts may help reduce prescribed burn-related exposure impacts. We present a methodological framework linking landscape ecology, air-quality modelling and health impact assessment to quantify…
Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options
Open AccessYuta J Masuda, Luke Parsons et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024