Research Bio
Matthew Potts has a broad, interdisciplinary background with formal training in mathematics, ecology, and economics, and more than two decades of experience in resources management issues in low- and middle-income countries. His interdisciplinary lab focuses on nature and community based climate solutions as well as the co-production by human and natural systems of ecosystem services.
Research Expertise and Interest
carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships
In the News
Reforestation is More Cost-Effective Than Previously Thought
How Indigenous Burning Shaped the Klamath’s Forests for a Millennia
Land degradation pushing planet towards sixth mass extinction
Persistent methodological flaw undermines biodiversity conservation in tropical forests
What is the role of logging in tropical forests? How is biodiversity affected by this logging? The answers differ and are controversial among ecologists, environmentalists, and policymakers, and these disagreements have implications for the conservation of biodiversity.