Alan Di Vittorio

Biographic Data

ID6821964
NAMEAlan Di Vittorio
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMEDi Vittorio
SIGNATUREDI VITTORIO A
AFFILIATIONSLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
ORCID0000-0002-8139-4640
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Lessons from Place

    Open AccessSarah Barger, Julie Maldonado et al.ARTICLEJournal of Geography2025

    This commentary weaves lessons from a network of Indigenous and allied partners in Hawaiʻi, California, Louisiana, and Borikén (Puerto Rico) responding to ongoing colonial legacies and intensifying capitalist- and climate-driven impacts that threaten Indigenous lifeways, sovereignty, and place-connections. Through a relationality and abundance lens, we share place-based examples of Indigenous reclamation through rematriation, or restoration of sa…

  • Tradeoffs between uniform land protection and biodiversity-specific land protection with <2 °C global warming

    Open AccessAlan Di Vittorio, Kanishka B Narayan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Nearly 200 countries have pledged to conserve 30% of terrestrial ecosystems to stop the global biodiversity crisis. However, biodiversity is not uniformly distributed across countries. Adequately addressing this crisis requires a scientific basis for selecting protected land that considers both ecological benefits and impacts to humans. We use the global change analysis model to evaluate land use tradeoffs of four land protection cases under two …

  • 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…

  • Impacts of California’s climate-relevant land use policy scenarios on terrestrial carbon emissions (CO 2 and CH 4 ) and wildfire risk

    Open AccessMaegen Simmonds, Alan Di Vittorio et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Land-use and -cover change (LUCC) is globally important to climate change mitigation. However, using land-based strategies to support aggressive subnational greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets is challenging due to competing land use priorities and uncertainty in ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate change effects. We used the California natural and working lands carbon and greenhouse gas model to quantify the direct ecosystem carbon emis…

  • GCAM v5.1

    Open AccessKatherine Calvin, Pralit Patel et al.ARTICLEGeoscientific Model Development2019

    This paper describes GCAM v5.1, an open source model that represents the linkages between energy, water, land, climate, and economic systems. GCAM is a market equilibrium model, is global in scope, and operates from 1990 to 2100 in 5-year time steps. It can be used to examine, for example, how changes in population, income, or technology cost might alter crop production, energy demand, or water withdrawals, or how changes in one region's demand f…

  • Vulnerability of Amazon forests to storm-driven tree mortality

    Open AccessRobinson Negrón‐Juárez, Jennifer A Holm et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Tree mortality is a key driver of forest community composition and carbon dynamics. Strong winds associated with severe convective storms are dominant natural drivers of tree mortality in the Amazon. Why forests vary with respect to their vulnerability to wind events and how the predicted increase in storm events might affect forest ecosystems within the Amazon are not well understood. We found that windthrows are common in the Amazon region exte…

  • Tropical forest carbon balance

    Open AccessAlan Di Vittorio, Alan V Di Vittorio et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    Debate continues over the adequacy of existing field plots to sufficiently capture Amazon forest dynamics to estimate regional forest carbon balance. Tree mortality dynamics are particularly uncertain due to the difficulty of observing large, infrequent disturbances. A recent paper (Chambers et al 2013 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 110 3949-54) reported that Central Amazon plots missed 9-17% of tree mortality, and here we address 'why' by elucidating two…