- Leitold V, Liang M, Keller M, Barenblitt A, Nakalembe C, Fatoyinbo T, Duncanson L. Assessing the forest structure and carbon benefits of protected areas and Indigenous landscapes in Brazil with GEDI: implications for conservation and climate. Earth’s Future. (Research paper, submitted.)
- Barenblitt A, Liang M, Stovall A, Leitold V, Mandel A, Fatoyinbo L, Duncanson L. If a tree is “Protected”, is it? Using satellite-borne LiDAR to understand efficacy of protection status in West and Central African Protected Areas. Nature Communications. (Research paper, in review.)
- Duncanson L, Montesano P, Neuenschwander A, Zarringhalam A, Thomas N, Minor D, Wulder M, White J, Guenther E, Feng T, Leitold V, Hancock S, Armston J, Puliti S, Mandel A, Shah S, et al. (2026) Global and Boreal Estimates of Woody Aboveground Biomass for 2020: Filling GEDI’s Northern Data Gap with ICESat-2 and Harmonized Landsat Sentinel. Remote Sensing of Environment, 340: 115406.
- Boeschoten L, Ankori-Karlinsky R, Arellano G, Brown A, Fang D, Leitold V, Morton D, Yuan G, Zheng T, Zimmerman J, Uriarte M. (2026) Tree growth after a major hurricane reflects pre-disturbance vigor rather than canopy damage. PNAS, 123(16): e2532451123.
- Duncanson L, Liang M, Leitold V, Armston J, Krishna Moorthy SM, Dubayah R, Costedoat S, Enquist BJ, Fatoyinbo L, Goetz S, Gonzalez-Roglich M, Merow C, Roehrdanz PR, Tabor K, Zvoleff A. (2023) The Effectiveness of Global Protected Areas for Climate Change Mitigation. Nature Communications, 14, 2908.
- Liang M, González-Roglich M, Roehrdanz P, Tabor K, Zvoleff A, Leitold V, Silva J, Fatoyinbo T, Hansen M, Duncanson L. (2023) Assessing protected area’s carbon stocks and ecological structure at regional scale using GEDI lidar. Global Environmental Change, 78, 102621.
- Leitold V, Morton DC, Martinuzzi S, Paynter I, Uriarte M, Keller M, Ferraz A, Cook BD, Corp LA, González G. (2021) Tracking the rates and mechanisms of canopy damage and recovery following Hurricane Maria using multitemporal lidar data. Ecosystems, 113(2): E249-.
- Scaranello M, Keller M, Longo M, dos-Santos MN, Leitold V, Morton DC, Pinagé ER and Espírito-Santo FDB. (2019) Estimation of coarse dead wood stocks in intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon using airborne lidar. Biogeosciences, 16, 3457-3474.
- Leitold V, Morton DC, Longo M, dos-Santos MN, Keller M, Scaranello M. (2018) El Niño drought increased canopy turnover in Amazon forests. New Phytologist, 219: 959-971.
- Longo M, Keller M, dos-Santos MN, Leitold V, Pinagé ER, Baccini A, Saatchi S, Nogueira EM, Batistella M, Morton DC. (2016) Aboveground biomass variability across intact and degraded forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, 1639–1660.
- Stark SC, Enquist BJ, Saleska SR, Leitold V, Schietti J, Longo M, Alves LF, Camargo PB, Oliveira RC. (2015) Linking canopy leaf area and light environments with tree size distributions to explain Amazon forest demography. Ecology Letters, 18(7): 636-45.
- Leitold V, Keller M, Morton DC, Cook BD, Shimabukuro YE. (2015) Airborne lidar-based estimates of tropical forest structure in complex terrain: opportunities and trade-offs for REDD+. Carbon Balance and Management, 10:3.
- Stark SC, Leitold V, Wu J, Hunter MO, Castilho CV, Costa FRC, McMahon SM, Parker GG, Shimabukuro MT, Lefsky MA, Keller M, Alves LF, Schietti J, Shimabukuro YE, Brandão DO, Woodcock TK, Higuchi N, Camargo PB, de Oliveira RC, Saleska SR. (2012) Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment. Ecology Letters, 15, 1406-1414.
