Benjamin Z Houlton

Biographic Data

ID6818940
NAMEBenjamin Z Houlton
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin Z
FAMILY NAMEHoulton
SIGNATUREHOULTON B Z
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
ORCID0000-0002-1414-0261
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Soil management practices can contribute to net carbon neutrality in California

    Open AccessAlan Di Vittorio, Maegen Simmonds et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Stabilizing climate requires reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in land or ocean systems. Soil management practices can reduce GHG emissions or sequester atmospheric CO 2 into inorganic and organic forms. However, whether soil carbon strategies represent a viable and impactful climate mitigation pathway is uncertain. A specific question concerns the role that land-management practices and soil a…

  • Satellite NO 2 trends reveal pervasive impacts of wildfire and soil emissions across California landscapes

    Open AccessYurun Wang, I C Faloona et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) plays a pivotal role in the production of secondary pollutants, most importantly ozone (O 3 ) and particulate matter. Regulatory controls have greatly reduced NO 2 in cities, where most of the surface monitoring occurs, but the change in rural environments is less certain. Here, we present summertime (June–September) spatio-temporal patterns of NO 2 concentrations using satellite and ground observations across California …

  • Improving the social cost of nitrous oxide

    Open AccessDavid Kanter, Claudia Wagner‐Riddle et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2021

  • Nitrogen and the food system

    Open AccessGeneviève S Metson, Abhishek Chaudhary et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature

    Open AccessMark Lynas, Benjamin Z Houlton et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    While controls over the Earth’s climate system have undergone rigorous hypothesis-testing since the 1800s, questions over the scientific consensus of the role of human activities in modern climate change continue to arise in public settings. We update previous efforts to quantify the scientific consensus on climate change by searching the recent literature for papers sceptical of anthropogenic-caused global warming. From a dataset of 88125 climat…

  • Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California

    Open AccessP Dass, Benjamin Z Houlton et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Although natural terrestrial ecosystems have sequestered ∼25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, the long-term sustainability of this key ecosystem service is under question. Forests have traditionally been viewed as robust carbon (C) sinks; however, extreme heat-waves, drought and wildfire have increased tree mortality, particularly in widespread semi-arid regions, which account for ∼41% of Earth's land surface. Using a set of modeling experiments,…