Selected Scientific Publications
Opportunities for carbon sequestration from removing or intensifying pasture-based beef production - PNAS
Matthew N. Hayek, Johannes Piipponen, Matti Kummu, Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Shelby C. McClelland, Kimberly Carlson, 4 November 2024
Feeding global aquaculture - Science Advances
Spencer Roberts, Jennifer Jacquet, Patricia Majluf, Matthew Hayek, 16 October, 2024
Research needs for a food system transition - Climatic Change
Sonali Shukla McDermid, Matthew Hayek, Dale W. Jamieson, Galina Hale & David Kanter, 5 April 2023
Animal agency in wildlife conservation and management - Conservation Biology
Émilie Edelblutte, Roopa Krithivasan and Matthew Hayek, Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2023 - PDF
The infectious disease trap of animal agriculture - Science Advances
Matthew Hayek, 2 November 2022
Missing the grassland for the cows: Scaling grass-finished beef production entails tradeoffs - Agricultural and Environmental Letters
Matthew Hayek, 11 July 2022
The ‘Sustainability Gap’ of US Broiler Chicken Production - Royal Society Open Science
Iris Chan, Becca Franks and Matthew Hayek, 1 June 2022
Pre-and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems - Earth System Science Data
Francesco N. Tubiello, Kevin Karl, Alessandro Flammini, Johannes Gütschow, Griffiths Obli-Laryea, Giulia Conchedda, Xueyao Pan, Sally Yue Qi, Hörn Halldórudóttir Heiðarsdóttir, Nathan Wanner, Roberta Quadrelli, Leonardo Rocha Souza, Philippe Benoit, Matthew Hayek, David Sandalow, Erik Mencos Contreras, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Jose Rosero Moncayo, Piero Conforti and Maximo Torero, 14 April 2022.
Underestimates of methane from intensively raised animals could undermine goals of sustainable development - Environmental Research Letters
Matthew Hayek and Scot Miller, 4 June 2021
Finding and fixing food system emissions: the double helix of science and policy - Environmental Research Letters
Cynthia Rosenzweig, Francesco N Tubiello, David Sandalow, Philippe Benoit and Matthew Hayek, 8 June 2021
Closing Research Investment Gaps for a Global Food Transformation - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Alex Bollington, Marcia DeLonge, Dhara Mungra, Matthew Hayek, Mustafa Saifuddin and Sonali Shukla McDermid, 30 November 2021
The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land - Nature Sustainability
Matthew Hayek, Helen Harwatt, William Ripple and Nathaniel Mueller, 07 September 2020 - PDF
Nationwide shift to grass-fed beef requires larger cattle population - Environmental Research Letters
Matthew Hayek and Rachael Garrett, 25 July 2018
Carbon exchange in an Amazon forest: from hours to years - Biogeosciences
Matthew Hayek, Marcos Longo, Jin Wu, Marielle N. Smith, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Raphael Tapajós6, Rodrigo da Silva6, David R. Fitzjarrald, Plinio B. Camargo, Lucy R. Hutyra, Luciana F. Alves, Bruce Daube, J. William Munger, Kenia T. Wiedemann, Scott R. Saleska and Steven C. Wofsy, 15 Aug 2018