Lisa Curran is an American tropical

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, and Roger and Cynthia Lang Professor in Environment & Anthropology, at

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Education

Curran graduated from

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, and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

with a Ph.D.

Career

Curran was professor of tropical ecology and director of the Tropical Resources Institute at the

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. Curran is a professor at the

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Awards

*2006

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Works

*Carlson, K.* and L. M. Curran, 2009. "REDD pilot project scenarios: Are costs and benefits altered by spatial scale?", ''Environmental Research Letters''. *Ponette-Gonzalez, A. G., K. C. Weathers and L. M. Curran, 2010. "Water inputs across a tropical montane landscape in Veracruz, Mexico: synergistic effects of land cover, rain and fog seasonality, and interannual precipitation variability", ''Global Change Biology'', 16 (3): 946–963. *Balch, J.K.,* D. C. Nepstad, and L. M. Curran, 2009. "Pattern and process: Fire-initiated grass invasion at Amazon transitional forest edges". In: ''Fire Ecology of Tropical Ecosystems'', Ed M. Cochrane. *Balch, J.K.,* D. C. Nepstad, P. M. Brando, L. M. Curran, O. Portela, O. de Carvalho Jr., and P. Lefebvre, 2008. "Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southern Amazonia". ''Global Change Biology'' 14: 2276-2287. *Cannon, C. H.,* L. M. Curran, A. J. Marshall, and M. Leighton, 2007. "Long-term reproductive behavior of woody plants across seven Bornean forest types in the Gunung Palung National Park (Indonesia): supra-annual synchrony, temporal productivity and fruiting diversity". ''Ecology Letters'' 10:956-969. *Paoli, G. D.,* and L. M. Curran, 2007. "Soil nutrients limit aboveground productivity in mature lowland tropical forests of Southwestern Borneo". ''Ecosystems'' 10:503-518. *Gullison, R.E, P. Frumhoff, J. Canadell, C. B. Field, D.C. Nepstad, K. Hayhoe, R. Avissar, L.M. Curran, P. Friedlingsten, C.D. Jones and C. Nobre. 2007. "Tropical forests and climate policy". ''Science'' 316:985-986. *Curran, L.M. and S. D. Trigg. 2006. "Sustainability science from space: Quantifying forest disturbance and land use in the Amazon". ''Proc. of Nat. Acad. Sci''. 103:12663-12664. * Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira, D. C. Nepstad, L. M. Curran et al., 2006. "Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin". ''Nature'' 440:520-523. *Santilli, M., P. M. Moutino, S. Schwartzman, D. C. Nepstad, L. M. Curran, and C. Nobre. 2005. "Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol". ''Climatic Change'' 71:267-276. * Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira, Nepstad, Daniel Curtis, Curran, Lisa et al. 2005. "Cenários de desmatamento para a Amazônia". ''Estudos Avançados'' 19:137-152. *Curran, L. M., S. Trigg, A. McDonald, D. Astiani, Y. M. Hardiono, P. Siregar, I. Caniago, and E. Kasischke. 2004. "Lowland

forest loss Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then land conversion, converted to non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or u ...

in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo". ''Science'' 303:1000-1003. SOM *Barber, C. V., E. Mathews, D. Brown, T. H. Brown, L. M. Curran, C. Plume, and E. Selig. 2002. "The State of the Forest: Indonesia". ''Forest Watch International/ Global Forest Watch/World Resources Institute''. 119 pp. Also published in ''Bahasa Indonesia, Keadaan Hutan Indonesia'' 131 pp. *Curran, L. M., I. Caniago, G. D. Paoli,* D. Astiani,* M. Kusneti, M. Leighton, C. E. Nirarita, and H. Haeruman. 1999. "Impact of El Niño and logging on canopy tree recruitment in Borneo". ''Science'' 286:2184-2188.

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*, ''odeo'', Jun 23, 2008 * Living people Harvard University alumni Princeton University alumni Yale University faculty Stanford University Department of Anthropology faculty MacArthur Fellows American foresters Year of birth missing (living people) Women in forestry Santa Fe Institute people American conservation biologists {{Forester-stub