Publications & Curriculum Vitae

Here’s my CV.

And my (possibly not up-to-date) list of publications:

Lawton, I.T., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Davies, A., … Cole, L.E.S. and Roucoux, K.H. (2022) The environmental
impacts of the oil and gas industry on tropical peatlands. Progress in Environmental Geography, 1-31.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/27539687221124046

Thornton, S., Cook, S., Cole, L.E.S., Hapsari, K., Zawawi, N. and Page, S. (2022) From Muddy Glee to muddy
reflections on fieldwork and writing. Area (RGS-IGB). https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12833

Cole, L.E.S., Åkesson, C.M., Hapsari, A.K., Hawthorne, D., Roucoux, K.H., Girkin, N.T., Cooper, H.V., Ledger,
M.J., O’Reilly, P. and Thornton, S.A. (2022) Tropical peatlands in the anthropocene: Lessons from the past.
Anthropocene, 37, 100324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2022.100324

Hastie, A., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Reyna, J., … Cole, L.E.S., et al. (2022) Risks to carbon storage from landuse change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru. Nature Geoscience, 15, 369–374. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00923-4

Cole, L.E.S., Bhagwat, S.A. & Willis, K.J. (2021) The future of Southeast Asia’s tropical peatlands: local and global perspectives. Anthropocene, 34: 100292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2021.100292

Honorio Coronado, E.N., Hastie, A., Reyna, J.,…. Cole, L.E.S.et al. (2021) Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests. Environmental Research Letters, 16: 074048. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0e65

Harrison, M.E., Wijedasa, L.S., Cole, L.E.S., …. and Page, S.E. (2020) Tropical peatlands and their conservation are important in the context of COVID-19 and potential future (zoonotic) disease pandemics. PeerJ, 8, e10283. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10283

Loisel, J., Gallego-Sala, A.V., Amesbury, M.J., … Cole, L.E.S., … and Wu, J. (2020) Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00944-0

Williams, S.H., Scriven, S.A., Burslem, D.F.R.P., …. Cole, L.E.S., …. and Brodie, J.F. (2020) Incorporating connectivity into conservation planning for the optimal representation of multiple species and ecosystem services. Conservation Biology, 34: 934-942.

Cole, L.E.S., Bhagwat, S.A. & Willis, K.J. (2019) Fire in the swamp forest: palaeoecological insights into natural and human-induced burning in intact tropical peatlands. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2(15): 48.

Lindsay, R., Ifo, A., Cole, L., Montanarella, L. and Nuutinen, M. (2019) Peatlands: the challenge of mapping the world’s invisible stores of carbon and water. Unasylva 251, Vol. 70: 46-57.

Harrison, M. E., Ottay, J.B., D’Arcy, L.J., …. Cole, L.E.S., …et many. (2019) Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions. People and Nature, 00: 1– 25.

Cole, L. E. S. (2019) Modelling wildlife corridors: a tool for creating habitat in fragmented landscapes. Biological Sciences Review, 32(1): 22-26.

Thornton, S., Cook, S., Astiani, D., Hapsari, K., Varkkey, H., Cole, L., Dargie, G., Sjogersten, S., Zawawi, N. & Page, S. (2019) “Pushing the Limits”: Experiences of Women in Tropical Peatland Research. Marine and Freshwater Research.

Kelly, T.K., Lawson, I.T. & Cole, L.E.S. (2017) Peat. In White, M.W. (ed) Earth Sciences Series. Encyclopedia of Geochemistry, Springer Nature.

Wijedasa, L., Jauhiainen, J., …. Cole, L.E.S., et al. (2016) Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences. Global Change Biology, 23: 977-982.

Cole, L.E.S., Bhagwat, S.A. & Willis, K.J. (2015) Long-term disturbance dynamics and resilience of tropical peat swamp forests. Journal of EcologySpecial Issue on Forest Resilience.

Cole, L.E.S., Bhagwat, S.A. & Willis, K.J. (2014) Recovery and resilience of tropical forests after disturbance. Nature Communications, 5: 3906.

Bhagwat, S.A., Cole, L.E.S. & Willis, K.J. (2012) Biodiversity in Oil Palm Plantations. In Simonetti, J.A., Grez, A.A., Estades, C.F. & Pérez, J. (eds) Biodiversity Conservation in Agroforestry Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities, Universidad de Chile Press, Chile.

Coomes, D.A., Jenkins, K.L. & Cole, L.E.S. (2006) Scaling of tree vascular systems along gradients of nutrient supply and altitude.  Biology Letters, 3(1): 86-89.