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My profile on ResearchGate links to publications and coauthors, and my Google Scholar and ISI/ResearcherID profiles list traditional citation metrics (though the limits of these metrics have inspired the altmetrics movement to broaden the assessment of research impact beyond only citation in other peer-reviewed articles).
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Peer-reviewed Publications  

Underline = graduate student or postdoc under my supervision.
Last author position indicates initiation, funding, and/or overall intellectual leadership of the project. 

2021
54. Altaaf Mechiche-Alami, Jihad Yagoubi, Kimberly A Nicholas. (2021). "Agricultural land acquisitions unlikely to address the food security needs of African countries." World Development 141 (105384). 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105384

2020

53.  André Z. Dornelles, Emily Boyd, Richard J. Nunes, Mike Asquith, Wiebren J. Boonstra, Izabela Delabre, J. Michael Denney, Volker Grimm, Anke Jentsch, Kimberly A. Nicholas, Matthias Schröter, Ralf Seppelt, Josef Settele, Nancy Shackelford, Rachel J. Standish, Genesis Tambang Yengoh, and Tom H. Oliver. “Towards a bridging concept for undesirable resilience in social-ecological systems.” Global Sustainability 3: e20. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.15  

52. MW Scown, MV Brady, KA Nicholas. (2020) "Billions in misspent EU agricultural subsidies could support the Sustainable Development Goals." One Earth 3(2): 237-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.07.011 
[summary in The Conversation] 

51. Scown, Murray, and Kimberly A Nicholas. (2020). “European agricultural policy requires a stronger performance framework to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.” Global Sustainability 3, e11, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.5

50. Morales-Castilla, Ignacio, Inaki Garca de Cortazar-Atauri, Benjamin I. Cook, Thierry Lacombe, Amber Parker, Kees van Leeuwen, Kimberly A Nicholas, and Elizabeth M Wolkovich. (2020) “Diversity buffers winegrowing regions from climate change losses.” Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) 117 (6) 2864-2869. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1906731117

49. Tamburino, Lucia, Giangiacomo Bravo, Yann Clough, and Kimberly A Nicholas. (2020). “From population to production: Fifty years of scientific literature on how to feed the world.” Global Food Security 24 (100346). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100346 

2019

48. Matías E. Mastrangelo, Natalia Perez-Harguindeguy, Lucas Enrico, Elena Bennett, Sandra Lavorel, Graeme Cumming, Dilini Vathsala Abeygunawardane, Benjamin Burkhard, Benis Egoh, Luke Frishkoff, Leonardo Galetto, Sibyl Huber, Daniel S. Karp, Alison Ke, Esteban Kowaljow, Bruno Locatelli, Berta Martin-Lopez, Patrick Meyfroidt, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Jeanne Nel, Kimberly A. Nicholas, Charles Nicholson, Elisa Otero-Rozas, Sebataolo J. Rahlao, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, Taylor Ricketts, Uttam Shrestha, Klara J. Winkler, Kim Zoeller. “Key knowledge gaps to achieve global sustainability goals.” Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0412-1.
[Lund University press release] [McGill press release][Spanish press release]


47. Mechiche-Alami, Altaaf, Carlo Piccardi, Kimberly A. Nicholas, and Jonathan W. Seaquist. (2019).  “Transnational Land Acquisitions beyond the food and financial crises.” Environmental Research Letters 14 (8). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2e4b 

46. Wynes, Seth, and KA Nicholas. (2019). “Climate science curricula in Canadian secondary schools focus on human warming, not scientific consensus, impacts or solutions.” PLoS ONE 14(7): e0218305. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218305 
​[UBC press release]

[National Post], [CBC], [Vancouver Sun]

45. Liski, Anja Helena, Pontus Ambros, Marc J Metzger, Kimberly A Nicholas, A. Meriwether W. Wilson, Torsten Krause. (2019) “Governance and stakeholder perspectives of managed re-alignment: Adapting to sea level rise in the Inner Forth estuary, Scotland.” Regional Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01505-8. 

44. Walz, Ariane, Katja Schmidt, Ana Ruiz-Frau, Kimberly A. Nicholas, Aster de Vries Lentsch, Adeline Bierry, Apostol Dyankov, Deirdre Joyce, Ines Rosario, Samantha Scholte. 2019. “Sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services for operational ecosystem management: Mapping applications by decision contexts in Europe.” Regional Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01506-7 

43. Scown, Murray, Klara J Winkler, and Kimberly A Nicholas. “Aligning research, policy and practice on sustainable agricultural land systems in Europe.” (2019) Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) 116 (11) 4911-4916. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/11/4911
​[press release] [European Commission policy brief]


42. Marius von Essen; Inês T. do Rosário; Margarida Santos-Reis; and Kimberly A. Nicholas. “Valuing and mapping cork and carbon across land use scenarios in the Portuguese montado landscape.” 2019. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0212174. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212174 

41. Heather A. Schoonover, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Marc J. Metzger, Ana Ruiz-Frau, Margarida Santos-Reis, Samantha S.K. Scholte, Ariane Walz, and Kimberly A Nicholas. (2019) “Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust: A framework for stakeholder engagement based on experience in 12 ecosystem services case studies.” Ecology and Society 24(1):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10061-240111 


2018

40. Siepmann, Laura, and Kimberly A Nicholas. (2018) “German winegrowers’ motives and barriers to convert to organic farming.” Sustainability, 10(11), 4215; doi:10.3390/su10114215

39. Dickson-Hoyle, Sarah, Michelle Kovacevic, Marina Cherbonnier, and Kimberly A. Nicholas. 2018. “Towards meaningful youth participation in science-policy processes: a case study of the Youth in Landscapes Initiative.” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 6(1), p.67. DOI:http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.327 [Global Landscapes Forum blog post]

38. Wynes, Seth, Kimberly A Nicholas, Jiaying Zhao, and Simon D Donner. 2018. “Measuring what works: Quantifying greenhouse gas emission reductions of behavioural interventions to reduce driving, meat consumption, and household energy use.” Environmental Research Letters 13 (11): https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae5d7 

37. Pejchar, Liba; Clough, Yann; Ekroos, Johan; Nicholas, Kimberly A; Olsson, Ola; Ram, Dafne; Tschumi, Matthias; and Smith, Henrik. 2018.  “Net effects of birds in agroecosystems.” BioScience, biy104, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy104

36. Winkler, Klara J, Murray S Scown, and Kimberly A Nicholas. 2018. “A classification to align social-ecological land systems research with policy in Europe.” Land Use Policy 79 (137-145). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.06.034 

35. Dooley, Kate, Peter Christoff, and Kimberly A. Nicholas. 2018. “Co-producing climate policy and negative emissions: Trade-offs for sustainable land-use.” Global Sustainability 1 (e3). https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2018.6 [quoted in Carbon Brief explainer on Integrated Assessment Models]
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34. Wolkovich, EM, I Garca de Cortazar-Atauri, I Morales-Castilla, KA Nicholas & T Lacombe. 2018. “From Pinot to Xinomavro in the world's future wine-growing regions.” Nature Climate Change 8: 29-37. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0016-6 [pressmeddelande] [Harvard press release]

33. Wynes, Seth and Kimberly A Nicholas. Reply to second comment on “The climate mitigation gap”: Role of individual action, overconsumption, and ethics of family planning. Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (2018) 068002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac9cf 

32. Wynes, Seth and Kimberly A Nicholas. Reply to comment on “The climate mitigation gap”: population and climate change, methodological accounting for emissions from reproductive choices, and ethical responsibility for emissions. Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (4) 048002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab210 

2017

31. Wynes, Seth and KA Nicholas. “The Climate Mitigation Gap: Education and Government Recommendations Miss the Most Effective Individual Actions.” Environmental Research Letters 12 (7). 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541

30. Kramer, DB, J Hartter, AE Boag, M Jain, KJ Stevens, KA Nicholas, W McConnell, and J Liu. “Top 40 Questions in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) Research.” Ecology & Society 22(2): 44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09429-220244 [blog post] 

29. MacGregor, F, V Ramasar, & KA Nicholas. 2017. ”Problems with firm-led voluntary sustainability schemes: The case of Direct Trade coffee.” Sustainability 9(4): 651; doi:10.3390/su9040651. [PDF] 

28. Winkler, K, JH Viers, and KA Nicholas. 2017. “Assessing ecosystem services and multifunctionality for vineyard systems.” Frontiers in Environmental Science 5:15; doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00015. [PDF] [blog post]  [blog in German] 

27. Wolkovich, EM, DO Burge, MA Walker, & KA Nicholas. ”Phenological diversity provides opportunities for climate change adaptation in winegrapes and other crops.” Journal of Ecology 105: 905-912.  doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12786. [PDF]

26. Hermelingmeier, V and KA Nicholas. “Identifying five different perspectives on the ecosystem services concept using Q-methodology.” Ecological Economics 136: 255-265. [PDF] [blog post]

2016

25. Johansson, EL, M Fader, J Seaquist, KA Nicholas. Blue and green water demand from large-scale land acquisitions in Africa. 2016. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 113 (41): 11471-11476. [PDF]  
[blog post & infographic] [phys.org coverage]


24. Halldórsdóttir, TO, and KA Nicholas. "Local food in Iceland: Identifying behavioral barriers to increased production and consumption." Environmental Research Letters 11(11). [PDF]

23. E.M. Bennett, M. Solan, R. Biggs, T. McPhearson, A.V. Norstrom, P. Olsson, L. Pereira, G.D. Peterson, C. Raudsepp-Hearne, F. Biermann, S.R. Carpenter, E. Ellis, T. Hichert, V. Galaz, M. Lahsen, M. Milkoreit, B. Martin-Lopez, K. A. Nicholas, R. Preiser, G. Vince, J.M. Vervoort, J. Xu. “Bright spots: Seeds of a good Anthropocene.” Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment 14 (8).  [PDF] [press release] [dot.earth blog post]


22. Collen, AW, T Krause, L Mundaca, and KA Nicholas. 2016. “Building local institutions for national conservation programs: Lessons for developing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+).” Ecology and Society 21(2):4. [PDF] [blog post] 
http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08156-210204


21. Winkler, KJ, and KA Nicholas. 2016. More than wine - cultural ecosystem services in vineyard landscapes in England and California. Ecological Economics 124: 86-98. [PDF] (blog post) 

2015

20.  NR Magliocca, J van Vliet, C Brown, T Evans, T Houet, P Messerli, J Messina, KA Nicholas, C Ornetsmuller, J Sagebiel, V Schwiezer, P Verburg, Q Yu. “From meta-studies to modeling: Using synthesis knowledge to build broadly applicable process-based land change models.” Environmental Modeling and Software 72: 10-20. [PDF] (blog post)
 
19. Feola G, AM Lerner, M Jain, MJF Montefrio, and KA Nicholas. “Researching farmer behavior in climate change adaptation and sustainable agriculture: Lessons learned from five case studies.” Journal of Rural Studies 39: 74-84. [PDF] [blog post] [CHANS post]
  
18. Ummenhofer, CU, H Xu, T Twine, E Girvetz, H McCarthy, N Chhetri, and KA Nicholas. “How climate change affects extremes in maize and wheat yield in two cropping regions.” Journal of Climate 28 (12): 4653-4687. [PDF] (blog post)

2014

17. Seaquist, J, EL Johansson, and KA Nicholas. “Architecture of the global land acquisition system: Applying the tools of network science to identify key vulnerabilities.” Environmental Research Letters 9: 114006. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/11/114006 [PDF] (blog post)

16. O’Byrne, D, W Dripps, and KA Nicholas. 2014. “Teaching and learning sustainability: An assessment of the curriculum content and structure of sustainability degree programs in higher education.” Sustainability Science. [PDF]

15. Rivera-Ferre, MG, L Pereira, T Karpouzoglou, KA Nicholas, S Onzere, W Waterlander, F Mahomoodally, A Vrieling, FD Babalola, CC Ummenhofer, A Dogra, A de Conti, S Baldermann, C Evoh, S Bollmohr. 2013. “A vision for transdisciplinarity in Future Earth: Perspectives from Young Researchers.” Invited Research Commentary in Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 3 (4): 249-260. [PDF] 

2013

14. Krause, T, AW Collen, and KA Nicholas. 2013. “Evaluating safeguards in a conservation incentive programme: Participation, consent and benefit sharing in Indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon.” Ecology and Society. 18(4):1. [Article online]

13. Clark, K, and KA Nicholas. 2013. “Introducing urban food forestry: A multifunctional approach to increase food 
      security and provide ecosystem services.” Landscape Ecology 28 (9): 1649-1669. [PDF]

12. Viers, JH, JN Williams, KA Nicholas, O Barbosa, I Kotze, L Spence, L Webb, A Merenlender, and M Reynolds.  2013.
      “Vinecology: Pairing wine with nature.” Conservation Letters 6(5) 287-299. [PDF]

2012

11. Nicholas, KA, and WH Durham. 2012. “Farm-scale adaptation and vulnerability to environmental stresses: Insights 
      from winegrowing in Northern California.” Global Environmental Change 22(2): 483-494. [PDF]

2011

10. Nicholas, KA, and ELS Hinckley. 2011. “Conducting research on private farms and ranches: Approaches, issues, 
      and tips.” Journal of Extension 49(6): Article 6TOT11. [PDF]

  9. Nicholas, KA, MA Matthews, DB Lobell, NH Willits, and CB Field. 2011. “Effect of vineyard-scale climate variability 
      on Pinot noir phenolic composition.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151(12): 1556-1567. [PDF]

  8. Nicholas, KA, and W Gordon. 2011. “A quick guide to writing a solid peer review.” 
      EOS 92 (28): 233-234. (Reprinted with permission in ESA Bulletin 92 (4): 376-381.) [PDF] [Mandarin translation by Chai Zhao]

2010

  7. Khagram, S, KA Nicholas, D MacMynowski Bever, J Warren, E Richards, K Oleson, J Kitzes, R Katz, R Hwang, 
      R Goldman, J Funk, and KA Brauman. 2010. “Thinking about knowing: Intellectual foundations for interdisciplinary 
      research.” Environmental Conservation 37 (4): 388-397. [PDF via ResearchGate]

2009

  6. Nicholas Cahill, K, CJ Kucharik, and JA Foley. 2009. “Prairie restoration and carbon sequestration: Difficulties in 
      quantifying carbon sources or sinks using a mass-balance approach.” Ecological Applications 19(8): 2185-2201. [article (paywall)] [PDF via ResearchGate]

2007

  5. Lobell, DB, K Nicholas Cahill, and CB Field. 2007. “Historical effects of temperature and precipitation on California
      crop yields.” Climatic Change 81: 187-203. [article (paywall)] [PDF via ResearchGate]

2006

  4. Lobell, DB, K Nicholas Cahill, CB Field, and C Bonfils. 2006. “Impacts of future climate change on California
      perennial crop yields: Model projections with climate and crop uncertainties.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 
      141: 208-218. [article (paywall)] [PDF via ResearchGate]

  3. Lobell, DB, K Nicholas Cahill, and CB Field. 2006. “Weather-based yield forecasts developed for 12 California 
      crops.” California Agriculture 60 (4): 211-215. [PDF]

  2. Kucharik, CJ, NJ Fayram, and K Nicholas Cahill. 2006. “A paired study of prairie carbon stocks, fluxes, and
      phenology: comparing the world's oldest prairie restoration with an adjacent remnant.” Global Change Biology 
      12 (1): 122-139. [journal] [PDF via ResearchGate]

2004
​

  1. Hayhoe, K, D Cayan, CB Field, PC Frumhoff, EP Maurer, NL Miller, SC Moser, SH Schneider, K Nicholas Cahill, 
      EE Cleland, L Dale, F Davis, R Drapek, RM Hanemann, LS Kalkstein, J Lenihan, CK Lunch, RP Neilson, SC Sheridan,
      and JH Verville. “Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California.” 2004. Proceedings of the National
      Academy of Sciences of the USA
 101 (34): 12422-12427. [PDF]

Comments and Outreach Articles  
 
Tallis, H., J Lubchenco, …. KA Nicholas… and 237 other co-authors. "Working together: A call for inclusive conservation." Nature 515 (7525): 27-28. Comment.  [PDF]

Book Chapters 

Nicholas, KA, A Brady, and L Rylander. 2016. “Peer Writing Tutors Help International, Interdisciplinary Students to Stake their Claim.” In: Diversity in Education: Crossing disciplinary, international, and professional deivides. Eds: N Tojo and B Kiss. In press, Lund University 
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