Publications

For the most up-to-date listing of publications and citation counts, see my Google Scholar page.      

Submitted:

3. Pates N, N Hendricks, TJ Lark.  Misclassification Error in Remote Sensing Matters: The Effect of Ethanol Plants on Local Cropland Transitions. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. (provisionally accepted)

2. O'Neill E, TJ Lark, Y Xie, S Kim, B Dale, GP Robertson, B Basso, and C Maravelias.  Available Land for Cellulosic Biofuel Production: A Supply Chain Centered Comparison.  Environmental Research Letters. (accepted) http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01hx11xj530

1. Martin G, K Autin, TJ Lark, S Lee, C Clark.  Tracking cropland transitions: a comparative analysis of U.S. land cover change data.  PLOS ONE. (accepted)

Published:

32.  Oldfield, EE et al. (27 authors including TJ Lark). 2024. Greenhouse gas mitigation on croplands: clarifying the debate on knowns, unknowns and risks to move forward with effective management interventions.  Carbon Management.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2024.2365896

31.  Uludere Aragon N, Y Xie, D Bigelow, TJ Lark, AJ Eagle.  2024. The realistic potential of soil carbon sequestration in US croplands for climate mitigation.  Earth's Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ef003866

30.  AR Ruis, C Barford, J Brohinsky, Y Tan, M Bougie, Z Cai, TJ Lark, and DW Shaffer. 2024. iPlan: A Platform for Constructing Localized, Reduced-Form Models of Land-Use Impacts. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti8040030

29.  Xie Y, SA Spawn-Lee, VC Radeloff, H Yin, GP Robertson, TJ Lark.  2024.  Cropland abandonment between 1986 and 2018 across the United States: spatiotemporal patterns and current land uses. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad2d12

28.  McLellan EL, et al. (19 authors including TJ Lark). 2024. Improving ecosystem health in highly altered river basins: a generalized framework and its application to the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1332934

27.  Briske D, et al. (14 authors including TJ Lark). 2023. Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands.  Nature Sustainability.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01194-6

26.  Lark TJ.  2023. Interactions between US biofuels policy and the Endangered Species Act.  Biological Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109869  (Journal Impact Factor: 7.5)

25.  Kim S, B Dale, R Martinez-Feria, B Basso, K Thelen, C Maravelias, D Landis, TJ Lark, and GP Robertson.  2023. Global warming intensity of biofuel derived from switchgrass grown on marginal land in Michigan. GCB Bioenergy.  https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.13024

24.  Xie Y, M Hunter, S Lischka, R Murphy, T Nogeire-McRae, A Sorensen, J Suraci, and TJ Lark.  2023. U.S. Farmland Under Threat of Urbanization:  Future Development Scenarios to 2040.  Land. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030574

23.  Edwards M, et al. (20 authors including TJ Lark). 2022. Satellite Data Applications for Sustainable Energy Transitions. Frontiers in Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.910924

22.  Lark TJ, NP Hendricks, N Pates, A Smith, SA Spawn, MF Bougie, EG Booth, CJ Kucharik, HK Gibbs.  2022.  Reply to Falconi et al.: Economic red herrings and resistance to new modeling hinder progress in assessing ethanol’s land use change.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216091119

21.  Lark TJ, NP Hendricks, N Pates, A Smith, SA Spawn, MF Bougie, EG Booth, CJ Kucharik, HK Gibbs.  2022.  Environmental outcomes of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101084119

20.  Xie Y, HK Gibbs, TJ Lark.  2021. Landsat-based Irrigation Dataset (LANID): 30-m resolution maps of irrigation distribution, frequency, and change for the US, 1997–2017.  Earth System Science Data. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5689-2021 

19.  Spawn-Lee SA, TJ Lark, H Gibbs, RA Houghton, CJ Kucharik, C Malins, REO Pelton, GP Robertson.  2021. Comment on ‘Carbon intensity of corn ethanol in the United States: state of the science’.  Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e35

18.  Pelton REO, SA Spawn-Lee, TJ Lark, T Kim, N Springer, P Hawthorne, DP Ray, Jennifer Schmitt. 2021. Land use leverage points to reduce GHG emissions in US agricultural supply chains.  Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2775

17.  Khanna M, et al. (12 authors including SA Spawn-Lee and TJ Lark). 2021. Redefining marginal land for bioenergy crop production.  Global Change Biology-Bioenergy. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12877

16.  Drever CR, et al. (38 authors including SA Spawn-Lee and TJ Lark). 2021. Natural Climate Solutions for Canada.  Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd6034

15.  Chen P, Y Yuan, W Li, SD LeDuc, TJ Lark, X Zhang, CM Clark. 2021.  Assessing the Impacts of Recent Crop Expansion on Water Quality in the Missouri River Basin Using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool.  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002284

14.  Xie Y and TJ Lark. 2021. Mapping annual irrigation from Landsat imagery and environmental variables across the conterminous United States.  Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112445 

13.  Zhang X, TJ Lark, CM Clark, Y Yuan, SD LeDuc. 2021.  Grassland-to-cropland conversion increased soil, nutrient, and carbon losses in the US Midwest between 2008 and 2016.  Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abecbe

12.  Lark TJ, I Schelly, HK Gibbs. 2021.  Accuracy, Bias, and Improvements in Mapping Crops and Cropland across the United States Using the USDA Cropland Data Layer.  Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050968

11.  Lark, TJ, SA Spawn, M Bougie, HK Gibbs. 2020. Cropland expansion in the United States produces marginal yields at high costs to wildlife.  Nature Communications. (IF=12.1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18045-z

10.  Lark, TJ.  2020.  Protecting our prairies: Research and policy actions for conserving America's grasslands.  Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104727

9.     SA Spawn, CC Sullivan, TJ Lark, HK Gibbs. 2019.  Harmonized global maps of above and belowground biomass carbon density in the year 2010.  Scientific data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0444-4

8. Xie Y, TJ Lark, J Brown, and HK Gibbs. 2019. Mapping irrigated cropland extent across the conterminous United States at 30 m resolution using a semi-automatic training approach on Google Earth Engine.  ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.07.005 

7. Lark, TJ, B Larson, I Schelley, S Batish, HK Gibbs. 2019. Accelerated conversion of native prairie to cropland in Minnesota.  Environmental Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892918000437

6. Spawn, SA, TJ Lark, HK Gibbs. 2019. Carbon emissions from cropland expansion in the United States. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0399

8. Runge C, A Plantinga, A Larsen, D Naugle, K Helmstedt, S Polasky, P Donnelly, J Smith, TJ Lark, J Lawler, S Martinuzzi, J Fargione. 2018. Unintended habitat loss on private land from grazing restrictions on public lands.  Journal of Applied Ecology.  (2018 IF=5.8). https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13271

4.     Fargione JE, et al. (38 authors including SA Spawn-Lee and TJ Lark). 2018. Natural Climate Solutions for the United States.  Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat1869

3.     Lark, TJ, RM Mueller, DM Johnson, HK Gibbs. 2017. Measuring land-use and land-cover change using the USDA Cropland Data Layer: Cautions and Recommendations.  Intl J of Applied Earth Obs and Geoinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2017.06.007

2.     Wright, CK, B Larson, TJ Lark, HK Gibbs. 2017. Recent grassland losses are concentrated around U.S. ethanol refineries.  Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6446

1. Lark, TJ, JM Salmon, HK Gibbs. 2015. Cropland expansion outpaces agricultural and biofuel policies in the United States. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/4/044003