Standout Papers

Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices 2002 2026 2010 2018 5.2k
  1. Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices (2002)
    David Tilman, Kenneth G. Cassman et al. Nature
  2. Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt (2008)
    Joseph Fargione, Jason Hill et al. Science
  3. Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels (2006)
    Jason Hill, Erik Nelson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  4. Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales (2009)
    Erik Nelson, Guillermo Mendoza et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  5. Ecosystem Services in Decision Making: Time to Deliver (2009)
    Gretchen C. Daily, Stephen Polasky et al. eYLS (Yale Law School)
  6. Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital (2016)
    Zhiyun Ouyang, Hua Zheng et al. Science
  7. Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention (2017)
    David Tilman, Michael Clark et al. Nature
  8. Integrating economic costs into conservation planning (2006)
    Robin Naidoo, Andrew Balmford et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  9. Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values (2008)
    Edward B. Barbier, Evamaria W. Koch et al. Science
  10. Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States (2014)
    Joshua J. Lawler, David J. Lewis et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. Non‐linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection (2009)
    Evamaria W. Koch, Edward B. Barbier et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  12. Species Distributions, Land Values, and Efficient Conservation (1998)
    Amy W. Ando, Jeffrey D. Camm et al. Science
  13. Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions (2012)
    Joshua Goldstein, Thomas Kaeo Duarte et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  14. The Impact of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Returns to Landowners: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota (2010)
    Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson et al. Environmental and Resource Economics
  15. Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China (2017)
    Weihua Xu, Yi Xiao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  16. Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services (2011)
    Peter Kareiva, Heather Tallis et al. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
  17. Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity (2013)
    Forest Isbell, Peter B. Reich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  18. Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system? (2014)
    Max Troell, Rosamond L. Naylor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  19. Notes from the field: Lessons learned from using ecosystem service approaches to inform real-world decisions (2013)
    Mary Ruckelshaus, Emily McKenzie et al. Ecological Economics
  20. Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change (2011)
    Stephen Polasky, Stephen R. Carpenter et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  21. Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services (2012)
    Bonnie Keeler, Stephen Polasky et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  22. Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure (2019)
    Christopher W. Tessum, Joshua S. Apte et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  23. Getting the measure of ecosystem services: a social–ecological approach (2013)
    Belinda Reyers, Reinette Biggs et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  24. Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making (2020)
    Zhiyun Ouyang, Changsu Song et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  25. Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions (2009)
    Brian Walker, Scott Barrett et al. Science
  26. Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation (2024)
    James Gerber, D. K. Ray et al. Nature Food
  27. Mapping the planet’s critical areas for biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (2024)
    Rachel Neugarten, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer et al. Nature Communications

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Air-quality-related health damages of maize
2019
The social costs of nitrogen
2016
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Stephen Polasky 9287 19825 5297 8814 238 39.5k
Detlef P. van Vuuren 12788 22810 2680 5558 467 56.1k
Jonathan A. Foley 2651 23386 2755 12939 130 47.5k
Navin Ramankutty 2918 23412 2945 13507 153 47.3k
Josep G. Canadell 3657 17955 1083 7713 198 35.0k
Gretchen C. Daily 6991 25387 6558 13966 218 48.9k
Johan Rockström 3967 11829 4754 4531 195 36.3k
Peter H. Verburg 4207 26266 4884 8123 465 36.0k
Keywan Riahi 8917 19486 1481 3514 258 42.4k
Jianguo Liu 4058 13389 4107 8412 490 31.1k
Ruth DeFries 3101 28779 3650 15944 233 44.9k

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