
Publications
NB. ‘IF’ refers to a journal’s impact factor / five-year impact factor.
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* ∞ Wilson, S.., Grau, R., and Shelhas, J., Nanni, S, and Sloan, S. Forthcoming. The ecological dimensions of the forest transition. Ecology and Society. (IF 3.5 / 4.7)
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* Wijedasa, L., Sloan, S., Clements, G.R., Lupascu, M., Evans, T.A. In Press. Carbon emissions from peat forests will continue to increase despite ambitious REDD+ program. Nature Climate Change. (IF 17.5 / 19.5)
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Sloan, S., Bertzky, B. and Laurance, W.F. In Press. African development corridors intersect key protected areas. African Journal of Ecology. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12377/full (IF 0.9 / 1.7)
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Locatelli, B., Lavorel, S., Sloan, S. Tappeiner, U., Geneletti, D. In Press. Archetypes of trajectories of ecosystem services in mountains. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment (IF 8.5 / 10)
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Sloan, S. 2016. Tropical forest-cover gain and interactions amongst agents of forest change. Forests 16(3): Article 55. (IF 1.6 / 1.7)
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Rudel, T., Sloan, S., Chazdon, R., and Grau, R. 2016. The drivers of tree cover expansion: global, tropical, temperate zone analyses. Land Use Policy 58:502-513. (IF 2.8 / 3.3)
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Sloan, S., Gooseman, M., Laurance, M. 2016. Tropical forest regeneration following land abandonment is driven by primary rainforest distribution in an old pastoral region. Landscape Ecology. 31(3):601-618. (IF 3.6 / 3.9)
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Laurance, W.F., Sloan, S., Weng, L. Sayer, J.A. 2015. Estimating the environmental costs of Africa’s massive ‘development corridors’. Current Biology. 24(24):3202-3208. (IF 9.6 / 10.1)
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Sloan, S. and Sayer, J. 2015. Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries. Forest Ecology and Management. Special Issue: The 2015 FAO Forest Resource Assessment. 352: 134-145. (IF 2.7 / 3.2)
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Sloan, S. 2015. The development-driven forest transition and its utility for REDD+. Ecological Economics. 116(Aug): 1-11. (IF 2.7 / 3.9)
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Laurance, W.F., Clements, R., Sloan, S., O’Connell, C., Mueller, N., Gooseman, M., Venter, O., Edwards, D.P., Phalan, B., Balmford, A., Van der Ree, R., Burgues, A.I. 2014 A global strategy for road building. Nature 513(7517): 229-232. (IF 41.5 / 41.3)
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Gaveau, D.L.A., Salim, A., Hergoualch, K., Locatelli, B., Sloan, S., Defries, R.., Molidenam E., Husnayaem, Marlier, M., Nasi, R., Verchot, L., Murdiyarso, D., Holmgren, P., Sheil, D. 2014 Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires. Scientific Reports 4(Article No. 6112): 1-7. (IF 5.6 / 5.6)
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Sloan, S., Jenkins, C., Joppa, L., Gaveau, D.L.A., Laurance, W.F. Remaining natural vegetation in the global biodiversity hotspots. 2014 Biological Conservation 117(Sept.): 12-24. (IF 3.8 / 4.7)
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* Edwards, F., Edwards, D.P., Sloan, S., Hamer, K. 2014 Sustainable management in crop monocultures: the impact of retaining forest on oil palm yield. PloS One 9(3): e91695. (IF 3.2 / 3.7)
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* Edwards, D.P., Sloan, S. Weng, L., Sayer, J., Dirks, P., Laurance W.F. 2014 Mining and the African environment. Conservation Letters 7(3): 302-311. (IF 7.2 / 6.4)
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Linkie, M., Sloan, S., Kasia, R., Kiswayadi, D., Azmi, W. 2014 Breaking the vicious circle of illegal logging in Indonesia. Conservation Biology 28(4): 1023-1033. (IF 4.2 / 5.2)
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Sloan, S. 2014 Indonesia’s moratorium on new forest licenses: an update. Land Use Policy 38(May): 37-40. (IF 2.6 / 3.1)
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Gaveau, D.L.A., Sloan, S., Molidena, M., Husnayanem, Wijaya, A., Ancrenaz, M., Nasi, R., Wielaard, N., Meijaard, E. 2014 Four decades of forest persistence, loss and clearance in Borneo. PLoS One 9(7): e101654. (IF 3.2 / 3.7)
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Sloan, S. 2014. A dynamic landscape of forest regeneration in a deforesting frontier: harmony and independence amongst agents of forest-cover change. In Bouza, C. (ed.) Deforestation: Conservation Policies, Economic Implications and Environmental Impact. Nova Publishers, New York, pp. 153-183. (Peer-reviewed chapter).
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Gaveau, D.P., Kshatiyam, M., Shield, D., Sloan, S. Wijaya, A., Wich, S., Ancrenaz, M., Hansen, M., Broich, M., Molidena, E., Guariguata, M., Pacheco, P., Potapov, P., Turubanova, S., Meijaard, E 2013 Reconciling logging and forest conservation in Indonesian Borneo. PLoS One. 8(8): e69887. (IF 3.2 / 3.7)
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* Wijedasa, L., Sloan, S., Michelakis, D.G., Clements, R. 2012 Overcoming limitations with Landsat imagery for mapping of peat swamp forest in Sundaland. Remote Sensing 4(9): 2595-2618. (IF 3.2 / 3.3)
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Laurance, W.F., Carolina Useche, D., Rendiero, J., Kalka, M., Bradshaw, C.J.A., Sloan, S. Laurance, S., Campbell, M. et al. 2012 Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical protected areas. Nature 290(489): 290-294. (IF 41.5 / 41.3)
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Garcia-Ulloa, J., Sloan, S., Pacheco, P., Ghazoul, J., and Koh, L. 2012 Lowering environmental costs of oil-palm expansion in Colombia. Conservation Letters 5(5): 366-375. (IF 7.2 / 6.4)
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Sloan, S., Edwards D.P.; Laurance, W.F. 2012 Does Indonesia’s REDD+ moratorium on new concessions spare imminently-threatened forests? Conservation Letters 5(3): 222-231. (IF 7.2 / 6.4)
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Sloan, S. 2012. Historical tropical successional forest cover observed with Landsat MSS satellite imagery. The International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33(24): 7902-7935. (IF 1.7 / 1.9)
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Sloan, S. and Pelletier, J. 2012 How accurately may we project forest-cover change: a validation of a projected forest baseline for REDD+. Global Environmental Change 22(2): 440-453. (IF 5.1 / 7.8)
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Sloan, S. and Stork, N. 2010. Geography and Indonesian oil-palm expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America. 10(1073): www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.101 2026107 (NB. Reviewed and accepted by multiple editors). (IF 9.7 / 10.6)
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Stork, N.E., Coddington, J.A., Colwell, R.K., Chazdon, R.L., Dick, C.W., Peres, C.A., Sloan, S, and Willis, K. 2009 Vulnerability and resilience of tropical forest species to land-use change: an historical and multi-taxon synthesis. Conservation Biology. 23(6): 1438-1447. (IF 4.2 / 5.2)
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Oestreicher, J., Sloan, S., Ruiz, M.C., Benessaiah, K., Turner, K., Pelletier, J., Guay, B. Clark, K.E., Roche, D., Meiners, M., and 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(2): 279-291. (IF 5.1 / 7.8)
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Sloan, S. 2008 Reforestation amidst deforestation simultaneity and succession. Global Environmental Change 18(3): 425-441. (IF 5.1 / 7.8)
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Sloan, S., Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. 2008 Assessing the impact of rising petroleum prices on agricultural production in rural and regional Australia Queensland Planner. 48(4): 37-40.
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Sloan, S. 2008 GPS Principles and Applications (book review). Journal of Spatial Science. 53(2): 194. (NB. reviewed and accepted by two editors familiar with the book).
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Sloan, S. 2007 Fewer people may not mean more forest in Latin American forest frontiers. Biotropica 39(4): 443-446. (IF 2.1 / 2.5)
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Sloan, S. 2005 You can only do that ‘outside the village’: spatiality and the accumulation of agricultural land in Nairukuruku, Naitasiri, Fiji. The Journal of Pacific Studies 28(2): 246-268.
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* Collaboration with graduate student.
∞ Co-lead and corresponding author (where not first author)
Peer Reviewed
Book Chapters
Other Publications
Peer-Reviewed Forthcoming
Bibliometric Links
(outdated)
Dodson, J.; Sipe, N.; Rickson, R; Sloan, S. 2009 Energy security, agriculture and food. In Lawrence, G., Lyons, K., and Wallington, T. (eds.) Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability. Earthscan, London, pp. 97-114.
* Wijedasa, L., Sloan, S. et al. In Press. Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences. Global Change Biology.
* Collaboration with graduate student.
Sloan, S., Locatelli, B. Wooster, M and Gaveau, D. Fire activity in Borneo driven by land conversion and drought: Spatial and temporal dynamics over 1982-2010. Forthcoming in Global Environmental Change.