Standout Papers

Global Consequences of Land Use 2000 2026 2008 2017 9.0k
  1. Global Consequences of Land Use (2005)
    Jonathan A. Foley, Ruth DeFries et al. Science
  2. Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009) (2010)
    Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson et al. Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  3. Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach (2000)
    Matthew C. Hansen, Ruth DeFries et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing
  4. Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2009)
    Stephen R. Carpenter, Harold A. Mooney et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  5. A global overview of the conservation status of tropical dry forests (2006)
    Lera Miles, Adrian C. Newton et al. Journal of Biogeography
  6. Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century (2010)
    Ruth DeFries, Thomas K. Rudel et al. Nature Geoscience
  7. CO2 emissions from forest loss (2009)
    Guido R. van der Werf, Douglas C. Morton et al. Nature Geoscience
  8. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change (2012)
    Joanna I. House, Julia Pongratz et al. Biogeosciences
  9. The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth (2011)
    David M. J. S. Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch et al. Journal of Biogeography
  10. The Amazon basin in transition (2012)
    Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro Araùjo et al. Nature
  11. Global Percent Tree Cover at a Spatial Resolution of 500 Meters: First Results of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields Algorithm (2003)
    Matthew C. Hansen, Ruth DeFries et al. Earth Interactions
  12. NDVI-derived land cover classifications at a global scale (1994)
    Ruth DeFries, J. R. Townshend International Journal of Remote Sensing
  13. A human-driven decline in global burned area (2017)
    Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton et al. Science
  14. Land-use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function (2004)
    Ruth DeFries, Jonathan A. Foley et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  15. Global distribution of C3and C4vegetation: Carbon cycle implications (2003)
    Christopher J. Still, Joseph A. Berry et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  16. Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires (2012)
    Fay H. Johnston, Sarah B. Henderson et al. Environmental Health Perspectives
  17. Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s (2012)
    Márcia N. Macedo, Ruth DeFries et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  18. Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005 (2009)
    Thomas K. Rudel, Laura Schneider et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  19. Ecosystem management as a wicked problem (2017)
    Ruth DeFries, Harini Nagendra Science

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Author Peers

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Ruth DeFries 28779 15944 7771 233 44.9k
Jonathan A. Foley 23386 12939 6069 130 47.5k
Marten Scheffer 24766 17453 4310 306 54.2k
Navin Ramankutty 23412 13507 6043 153 47.3k
Jianguo Wu 20763 9768 3550 312 35.4k
Matthew C. Hansen 23102 18326 4731 187 36.5k
Christopher B. Field 37581 21370 13026 334 74.2k
Gordon B. Bonan 26713 9265 13574 176 39.3k
Éric F. Lambin 21923 9921 2907 240 33.8k
Monica G. Turner 22467 16620 3048 287 35.1k
Josep G. Canadell 17955 7713 8750 198 35.0k

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