Publications

Peer-reviewed journals

Dalmagro H.J, Lathuillière M.J., de Arruda P.H.Z., da Silva Júnior A.A., Sallo F.S., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2022). Carbon exchange in rainfed and irrigated cropland in the Brazilian Cerrado. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 316: 108881, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108881. Link.

Lathuillière M.J., Patouillard L., Margni M., Ayre B., Löfgren P., Ribeiro V., West C., Gardner T., Suavet C. (2021). A commodity supply mix for more regionalized life cycle assessment. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(17): 12054-12065, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c03060. Link.

Boulay A.M., Drastig K., Amanullah, Chapagain A., Charlon V., Civit B., DeCamillis C., de Souza M., Hess T., Hoekstra A.Y., Ibidhi R., Lathuillière M.J., et al. (2021). Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: outcomes and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership. Ecological Indicators, 124: 107391, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107391. Link.

Ermgassen E.K.H.J., Godar J., Lathuillière M.J., Löfgren P., Gardner T.A., Vasconcelos A., Meyfroidt P. (2020) The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil’s beef exports. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 17(59): 202003270, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003270117. Link.

Reis T.N.P., Meyfroidt P., Ermgassen K.H.J., West C., Gardner T.A., Bager S.L., Croft S., Lathuillière M.J., et al. (2020) Understanding the stickiness of commodity supply chains is key to improving their sustainability. One Earth, 3, 110-115, doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.012. Link.

zu Ermgassen E.K.H.J., Ayre B., Godar J., Bastos Lima M.G., Bauch S., Garrett R., Green J., Lathuillière M.J., et al. (2020) Using supply chain data to monitor zero deforestation commitments: an assessment of progress in the Brazilian soy sector. Environmental Research Letters, 15(3), 035003, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6497. Link.

Lathuillière M.J., Solvik K., Macedo M.N., Graesser J., Miranda E.J., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2019) Cattle production in Southern Amazonia: implications for land and water management. Environmental Research Letters, 14(11), 114025, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab30a7. Link.

Dalmagro H.J., Arruda P.H.Z., Vourlitis G.L., Lathuillière M.J., de Souza Nogueira J., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2019) Radiative forcing of methane offsets net carbon dioxide uptake for a tropical flooded forest. Global Change Biology, 4, 1-15, doi: 10.1111/gcb.14615. Link.

Dalmagro H.J., Lathuillière M.J., Sallo F.S., Guerreiro M.F., Pinto Jr. O.B., Arruda P.H.Z., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2019) Streams with riparian forest buffers vs. impoundments differ in discharge and DOM characteristics for pasture catchments in Southern Amazonia. Water, 11(2), 390, doi: 10.3390/w11020390. Link.

Lathuillière M.J., Bulle C., Johnson M.S. (2019) Complementarity in mid-point impacts for water use in life cycle assessment applied to cropland and cattle production in Southern Amazonia. Journal of Cleaner Production, 219, 497-507, doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.021. Link.

Pradinaud C., Northey S., Amor B., Bare J., Benini L., Berger M., Boulay A.M., Junqua G., Lathuillière M.J., et al. (2019) Defining freshwater as a natural resource: A framework linking water use to the area of protection natural resources. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 24(5), 960-974, doi: 10.1007/s11367-018-1543-8. Link.

Lathuillière M.J., Bulle C., Johnson M.S. (2018) A contribution to harmonize water footprint assessments. Global Environmental Change, 53, 252-264, doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.10.004. Link.

Dalmagro H.J., Lathuillière M.J., Hawthorne I., Morais D.M., Pinto Jr O.B., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2018) Carbon biogeochemistry of a flooded Pantanal forest over three annual flood cycles. Biogeochemistry, 139(1), 1-18, doi: 10.1007/s10533-018-0450-1. Link.

Lathuillière, M.J., Dalmagro, H.J., Black, A.T., Arruda, P.H., Hawthorne, I., Couto, E.G., Johnson, M.S. (2018) Rain-fed and irrigated cropland-atmosphere water fluxes and their implications for agricultural production in Southern Amazonia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 256-257, 407-419, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.03.023. Link.

Núñez, M., Rosenbaum, R., Karimpour, S., Boulay, A.-M., Lathuillière, M.J., Margni, M., Scherer, L., Verones, F., Pfister, S. (2018) A multimedia hydrological fate modelling framework to assess water consumption impacts in Life Cycle Assessment. Environmental Science and Technology,52(8), 4658-4667, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05207. Link.

Lathuillière, M.J., Coe, M.T., Castanho, A., Graesser, J., Johnson, M.S. (2018) Evaluating water use for agricultural intensification in Southern Amazonia using the Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment. Water, 10(4), 349, doi: 10.3390/w10040349. Link.

Boulay, A-M., Bare, J., Benini, L., Berger, M., Lathuillière, M.J., et al. (2018) The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining (AWARE). International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23(2): 368-378, doi: 10.1007/s11367-017-1333-8. Linkpdf.

Lathuillière, M.J., Pinto Jr, O.B., Johnson, M.S., Jassal, R.S., Dalmagro, H.J., Leite, N.K., Speratti, A.B., Krampe, D., Couto, E.G. (2017) Soil CO2 concentrations and efflux dynamics of a tree island in the Pantanal wetland. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 122(8): 2154-2169, doi: 10.1002/2017JG003877. Link.

Dalmagro, H.J., Johnson, M.S., de Musis, C., Lathuillière, M.J., Graesser, J., Pinto Jr, O.B., Couto, E.G. (2017). Spatial patterns of DOC concentration and DOM optical properties in a Brazilian tropical river-wetland system. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 122(8): 1883-1902, doi: 10.1002/2017JG003797. Link.

Lathuillière, M.J., Miranda, E.J., Bulle, C., Couto, E.G., Johnson, M.S. (2017). Land transformation and occupation impacts of soybean production in Southern Amazonia, Brazil. Journal of Cleaner Production 149, 680-689,  doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.02.120. Link.

Lathuillière, M.J., Bulle, C., Johnson, M.S. (2016). Land use in LCA: including regionally altered precipitation to quantify ecosystem damage. Environmental Science and Technology 50(21), 11769-11778, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02311. pdf.

Lathuillière, M.J., Coe, M.T., Johnson, M.S. (2016). A review of green- and blue- water resources and their trade-offs for future agricultural production in the Amazon Basin: What could irrigated agriculture mean for Amazonia? Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20(6), 2179-2194, doi: 10.5194/hess-20-2179-2016. pdf.

Dalmagro, H.J., Lathuillière, M.J., Vourlitis, G.L., Campos, R.C., Pinto Jr, O.B., Johnson, M.S., Ortíz, C.E.R., Lobo, F.d.A., Couto, E.G. (2016). Physiological responses to extreme hydrological events in the Pantanal wetland: heterogeneity of a plant community containing super dominant species. Journal of Vegetation Science 27, 568-577, doi: 10.1111/jvs.12379. Link.

Johnson, M.S., Lathuillière, M.J., Tooke, T.R., Coops, N.C. (2015). Attenuation of urban agricultural production potential and crop water footprint due to shading from buildings and trees. Environmental Research Letters 10(6), 064007, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064007. pdf.

Lathuillière, M.J., Johnson, M.S., Galford, G.L., Couto, E.C. (2014). Environmental footprints show China and Europe’s evolving resource appropriation for soybean production in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Environmental Research Letters 9(7), 074001, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074001. pdf.

Lathuillière, M.J., Johnson, M.S., Donner, S. (2012). Water use by terrestrial ecosystems: temporal variability in rainforest and agricultural contributions to evapotranspiration in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Environmental Research Letters 7(2), 024024, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024024. pdf.

Bizzotto, D., Yang, Y., Shepherd, J., Stoodley, R., Agak, J., Stauffer, V., Lathuillière, M., Akhtar, A., Chung, E. (2004). Electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical characterization of lipid organization in an electric field. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 574 (1): 167-184.

Conference proceedings (peer-reviewed)

Lathuillière M.J., Godar J., Croft S., Tyldesley M., Ayre B., Löfgren P., Ribeiro V., zu Ermgassen E.K.H.J., Gardner T.A., West C., Reid T., Suavet C. (2020). Mapping South America’s soybean supply chain for regionalized life cycle assessments, in: Eberle, U., Smetana, S., Bos, U. (Eds.) 2020 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food (LCAFood2020) 13-16 October 2020, Berlin Virtually, Germany, DIL, Quakenbrück, Germany: 449-453.

Lathuillière, M.J., Miranda, E.J., Bulle, C., Couto, E.G., Johnson, M.S. (2016). Past and future soybean land transformation impacts in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Oral presentation 94. Dublin, Ireland, LCA Food 2016, October 2016. pdf.

Boulay, A-M., Bare, J., Benini, L., Berger, M., Lathuillière, M.J., et al. (2016). The WULCA consensus for water scarcity footprints: Assessing impacts of water consumption based on human and ecosystem demands. Oral presentation 235. Dublin, Ireland, LCA Food 2016, October 2016. Link.

Books and book chapters

FAO (2019). Water use in livestock production and supply chains – Guidelines for assessment (Version 1). Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Link.

Boulay, A-M., and Lathuillière, M.J. (2017). Water use LCA – Methodology. In Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies volume 1 (Ed. Abraham, M.A.), Elsevier, pp 293-301, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.10061-2. Link

Conference presentation (non-peer reviewed)

Lathuillière M.J., Godar J., Löfgren P., Ayre B., Gardner T.A., Suavet C. (2019). Introducing the trade “supply mix” to improve regionalisation of Life Cycle Inventory for agricultural commodities. Oral presentation, Helsinki, Finland: SETAC Europe.

Lathuillière M.J., Godar J., Löfgren P., Ayre B., Gardner T.A., Suavet C. (2019). Unlocking product-level life cycle assessments for SDG12 with high-resolution land use and trade information. Oral presentation 536, Bern, Switzerland: 4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme 2019.

Lathuillière M.J., Godar J., Gardner T.A., Suavet C. (2018). Highlighting the Role of Producers and Consumers in Land and Water Use for Agricultural Production in Southern Amazonia. Oral presentation (Invited) U12B-20, Washington, DC: AGU Fall Meeting 2018, doi: 10.1002/essoar.10500745.1. Link

Lathuillière M.J., Dalmagro H.J., Black T.A., Arruda P.Z., Hawthorne I., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2017) Evapotranspiration measurements in rainfed and irrigated cropland illustrate trade-offs in land and water management in Southern Amazonia’s agricultural frontier. Oral presentation B51L-02, New Orleans, LA: AGU Fall Meeting 2017.

Lathuillière M.J., Morillas L., Dalmagro H.J., D’ Achuna B., Kim Y., Suarez A., Couto E.G. (2017) Carbon and water fluxes and footprints in tropical agricultural systems under rainfed and irrigated conditions. Oral presentation B51J-03, New Orleans, LA: AGU Fall Meeting 2017.

Solvik, K., Macedo M., Graesser J., Lathuillière M.J. (2017) An object-based machine learning classification procedure for mapping impoundments in Brazil’s Amazon-Cerrado agricultural frontier. Poster presentation GC23A-1043, New Orleans, LA: AGU Fall Meeting 2017.

Pfister S., Núñez M., Roux P., Lathuillière M.J., et al. (2017) Advances in integrating the hydrological cycle in a multimedia assessment framework for LCIA of water consumption. Poster presentation TU217, Brussels, Belgium: SETAC-Europe 2017.

Dalmagro, H.J., Arruda, P.H.Z., Vourlitis, G.L., Lathuillière, M.J., Pinto Jr, O.B., Couto, E.G., Nogueira, J.S., Johnson, M.S. (2016). Hydrological impacts on methane and carbon dioxide fluxes of hyperseasonal Cerrado forests of the Northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Poster Presentation B11C-0479, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2016.

Johnson, M.S., Dalmagro, H.J., Lathuillière, M.J., Pinto Jr. O.B., Leite, N.K., Couto, E.G. (2016). The breathing of a flooded forest: aquatic metabolism determined from synchronous CO2 and O2 dynamics indicates switches from net heterotrophy to autotrophy and back over annual flood cycle in the Pantanal of South America. Oral presentation. Cuenca, Ecuador, AGU Chapman Conference on Emerging Issues in Tropical Ecohydrology, June 2016.

Lathuillière, M.J., Bulle, C., Johnson, M.S. (2016). Bridging land transformation and occupation impacts with water use in life cycle assessment: linking green water consumption with ecosystem quality impacts in Amazonia. Poster presentation WE249, Nantes, France: SETAC Europe 2016. pdf.

Núñez, M., Roux, P., Bare, J., Bouchard, C., Boulay, A-M., Bulle, C., Lathuillière, M.J., et al. (2016). Prospects by WULCA in the impact modelling of water consumption in LCA. Oral presentation WE260. Nantes, France: SETAC Europe 2016.

Johnson, M.S., Speratti, A., Lathuillière, M.J., Dalmagro, H.J., Couto, E.G. (2015). Soil water and carbon management for agricultural resilience in a key node in the global virtual water trade network: Mato Grosso, Brazil. Oral Presentation H41H-01, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2015.

Dalmagro, H.J., Vourlitis, G.L., Arruda, P.Z., Lathuillière, M.J., Pinto Jr., O.B., Lobo, F.d.A., Couto, E.G., Nogueira, J.d.S., Johnson, M.S. (2015). Ecosystem scale CH4 and CO2 fluxes in a seasonally flooded scrub forest of the Brazilian Pantanal. Poster Presentation B13F-0698, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2015.

Boulay, A.-M., Bare, J., Lorenzo, L., Berger, M., Bulle C., Klemmayer, I., Lathuillière M.J. , Manzardo, A., Margni, M., Motoshita, M., Núñez, M., Oki, T., Ridoutt, B., Worbe, S., Pfister S. (2015). The WULCA experience: building consensus on a water scarcity indicator involving diverse stakeholders in 7 steps. Oral Presentation, Bordeaux, France: 7th International Conference on Life Cycle Management.

Lathuillière M.J., Miranda E.J., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2014). Land transformation and occupation impacts of farming practices for the production of soybean in Mato Grosso, Brazil, using life cycle impact assessment. Poster Presentation GC21B-0528, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2014. pdf.

Couto E.G., Pinto Jr O.B., Lathuillière M.J., Dalmagro H.J., Johnson M.S. (2014). Landscape and seasonal variability in CO2 efflux from soil and water surfaces in the Northern Pantanal. Poster Presentation B31C-0025, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2014.

Tooke T.R., Lathuillière M.J., Coops N., Johnson M.S. (2014). The urban food-water nexus: modeling water footprints of agriculture using CityCrop. Poster Presentation H43E-1006, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2014.

Boulay, A-M, Bare J., Benini L., Berger M., Klemmayer I., Lathuillière M.J., et al. (2014). Building consensus on a generic water scarcity indicator for LCA-based water footprinting: preliminary results from WULCA. Presentation 250, San Francisco, CA: LCA Food 2014. pdf.

Lathuillière M.J., Johnson M.S., Dalmagro H.J., Pinto-Junior O.B., Couto E.G. (2013). Soil oxidation-reduction potential and plant photosynthetic capacity in the Northern Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Poster Presentation H51A-1168, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2013. pdf.

Dalmagro H.J., Johnson M.S., Lathuillière M.J., Pinto-Junior O.B., Couto E.G. (2013). Dissolved organic carbon quality assessed along the Cuiabá river of Mato Grosso, Brazil, using fluorescence spectroscopy. Poster Presentation H41C-1235, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2013. pdf.

Pinto-Junior O.B., Brandão A.A., Lathuillière M.J., Dalmagro H.J., Arruda P.H., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2013). Temporal dynamics of soil CO2 efflux in the Northern Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Poster Presentation GC51D-1012, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2013. pdf.

Couto E.G., Dalmagro H.J., Lathuillière M.J., Pinto-Junior O.B., Johnson M.S. (2013). Temporal variation in water quality parameters under different vegetative communities in two flooded forests of the Northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Poster Presentation B53B-0455, San Francisco, CA: AGU Fall Meeting 2013. pdf.

Lathuillière M.J., Couto E.G., Johnson M.S. (2012). Virtual and Embedded Nutrient Flows from Soybean Production in Mato Grosso, Brazil. AGU Fall Meeting 2012. Eos Trans. AGU 93(52): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC21C-0974, Dec. 3-7, San Francisco. pdf. Link.

Lathuillière M.J., Johnson M.S., Donner S. (2010). Green water fluxes from agricultural expansion in Mato Grosso, Brazil. AGU Fall Meeting 2010. Eos Trans. AGU 91(52): Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H53A-0991, Dec. 13-17, San Francisco. pdf.

Thesis

Lathuillière M.J. (2018). Harmonizing water footprint assessments for agricultural production in Southern Amazonia. Thesis, Ph.D Resources, Environment and Sustainability. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Link.

Lathuillière M.J. (2011). Land use effects on green water fluxes in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Thesis, M.Sc. Resource Management and Environmental Studies. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. pdf.