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Christopher Field, PhD

Professor of Biology, Professor of Environmental Earth Science, FSI Senior Fellow, by courtesy

Carnegie Institution of Washington
260 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305

cfield@ciw.edu
(650) 462 1047 x 201 (voice)
(650) 462 5968 (fax)

Research Interests
Ecosystem responses to global climate change, plant ecophysiology

Journal Articles

Potential impact of U.S. biofuels on regional climate
Matei Georgescu, David Lobell, Christopher Field
Geophysical Research Letters vol. 36, L21806 (2009)
Crop Yield Gaps: Their Importance, Magnitudes, and Causes
David Lobell, Kenneth Cassman, Christopher Field
Annual Review of Environment and Resources vol. 34 (2009)
Greater Transportation Energy and GHG Offsets from Bioelectricity Than Ethanol
J. Elliot Campbell, David Lobell, Christopher Field
Science (2009)
The global potential of bioenergy on abandoned agricultural lands
J Elliott Campbell, David Lobell, Robert Genova, Christopher Field
Environmental Science and Technology (2008)
Estimation of the carbon dioxide (CO2) fertilization effect using growth rate anomalies of CO2 and crop yields since 1961
David Lobell, Christopher Field
Global Change Biology vol. 14 (2008)
Historical effects of temperature and precipitation on California crop yields
David Lobell, Kimberly Cahill, Christopher Field
Climatic Change vol. 81, 2 (2007)
Global Scale Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Recent Warming
David Lobell, Christopher Field
Environmental Research Letters vol. 2 (2007)
Impacts of Future Climate Change on California Perennial Crop Yields
David Lobell, Christopher Field, Kimberly Cahill, Celine Bonfils
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology vol. 141, 2-4 (2006)

Global warming in the last 20 years has led to a decline in crop yields resultlng in an annual loss of $5 billion, says FSE scholars Lobell and Field
March 19, 2007 FSE In the News