Peer-reviewed publications
  • Pelletier, J., Hamalambo, B., Trainor, A., Barrett, C.B. How land tenure and labor relations mediate charcoal’s environmental footprint in Zambia: Implications for sustainable energy transitions. World Development 146: 105600. 
  • Ngoma, H., Pelletier, J., Mulenga, B.P., Subakanya, M. Climate-Smart Agriculture, Cropland Expansion, and Deforestation in Zambia: Linkages, Processes, and Drivers. Land Use Policy 107: 105482.
  • Pelletier, J., Ngoma, H., Mason, N., Barrett, C.B. 2020. Does smallholder maize intensification reduce deforestation? Evidence from Zambia. Global Environmental Change 63: 102127. 
  • Pelletier, J. Chidumayo, E., Trainor, A., Siampale, A., Mbindo, K. 2019. Distribution of tree species with high economic and livelihood value for Zambia. Forest Ecology and Management 441:280-292​.
  • ​Pelletier, J., Gélinas, N., Potvin, C. 2019. Indigenous perspective to inform rights-based conservation in a protected area of Panama. Land Use Policy 83: 297-307.
  • Pelletier, J. , Paquette, A., Mbindo, K., Zimba, N., Siampale, A., Chendauka, B., Siangulube, F., Roberts, J.W. 2018. Carbon sink despite large deforestation in African tropical dry forests (miombo woodlands). Environmental Research Letters, 14, 094017. doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aadc9a
  • Pelletier, J., Horning, N., Laporte, N., Samndong, R. A., & Goetz, S. 2018. Anticipating social equity impacts in REDD+ policy design: An example from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Land Use Policy, 75, 102-115. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.011
  • Pelletier, J. Siampale, A., Legendre, P., Laporte, N., Jantz, P., Goetz, S. 2017. Human and natural controls of the variation in aboveground tree biomass in African dry tropical forests. Ecological Applications, 27(5);1578–1593.
  • ​Pelletier, J. , Gélinas, N, Skutsch M. 2016. The place of community forestry in the REDD+ landscape. Forests,   7(8), 170; doi:10.3390/f7080170 Special issue: REDD+: Politics, Interplays and Impacts.
  • Pelletier, J., and S.J. Goetz. 2015. Baseline data on forest loss and associated uncertainty: advances in national forest monitoring. Environmental Research Letters 10 021001.
  • Pelletier, J., J. Busch, and C. Potvin. 2015. Addressing uncertainty upstream or downstream of accounting for emissions reductions from deforestation and forest degradation. Climatic Change. doi:10.1007/s10584-015-1352-z
  • Pelletier, J., Martin, D. & Potvin, C. 2013. REDD+ CO2 flux estimation and reporting for early actions: dealing with uncertainty Environmental Research Letters, 8, 034009.
  • Pelletier, J., Codjia, C., Potvin, C. 2012. Traditional shifting agriculture: tracking forest carbon stock and biodiversity through time in western Panama, Global Change Biology, 18, 3581–3595.
  • Sloan, S.P. and Pelletier, J. 2012. How accurately may we project tropical forest-cover change? A validation of a forward-looking baseline for REDD. Global Environmental Change, 22: 440-453.
  • Pelletier, J., Ramankutty, N. & Potvin, C. (2011) Diagnosing the uncertainty and detectability of emission reductions for REDD+ under current capabilities: an example for Panama, Environmental Research Letters, 6: 024005.
  • Pelletier, J., Kirby, K. R. & Potvin, C. (2010) Significance of Carbon Stock Uncertainties on Emissions Reductions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in Developing Countries. Forest Policy and Economics, 12 (7): 497-504.
  • Oestreicher, J. S., Benessaiah, K., Ruiz-Jaen, M. C., Sloan, S., Turner, K., Pelletier, J., Guay, B., Clark, K. E., Roche, D. G., Meiners, M. & Potvin, C. (2009) Avoiding deforestation in Panamanian protected areas: An analysis of protection effectiveness and implications for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Global Environmental Change, 19: 279-291. 

You can access the pdf files from my github repository here  
Highlights
Carbon sink despite large deforestation in African tropical dry forests (miombo woodlands)
published in Environmental Research Letters
Fig 1. Distribution of miombo woodlands in sub-Saharan Africa. These cover between 2.7 and 3.6 million km2, including dry miombo,  receive less than 1,000mm of annual rainfall and wet miombo, receiving more >1,000mm and having higher tree species diversity. 
This is the first field-based large-scale assessment of vegetation changes for the miombo region, using nation-wide re-measured permanent plots for the Republic of Zambia. 
  • Zambia’s forests and woodlands are resilient in the face of human activities, with significant biomass gains observed in the re-measured plots over the country​
  • Zambia's forests and woodlans have been acting as an overall carbon sink, despite large carbon emissions from deforestation
  • Biomass gains were concentrated in several dominant species
  • Proximity to roads, fragmentation by other land uses, and to a lesser extent fire occurrence had a negative impact on productivity
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Fig 2. Four sensitivity scenarios on the growth rate of forestland remaining forestland. In all cases, we quantified a carbon sink despite large emissions from deforestion over the 2000-2014 period and accounting for uncertainty through error propagation.