DeFries, Ruth S.

Global Consequences of Land Use

Foley, J. A., DeFries, R., Asner, G. P., Barford, C., Bonan, G., Carpenter, S. R., Chapin, F. S., Coe, M. T., Daily, G. C., Gibbs, H. K., et al. (2005) · Science

Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesEnvironmental Changes in China

Cited by 13,272

Fire in the Earth System

Bowman, D. M. J. S., Balch, J. K., Artaxo, P., Bond, W. J., Carlson, J. M., Cochrane, M. A., D’Antonio, C. M., DeFries, R. S., Doyle, J. C., Harrison, S. P., et al. (2009) · Science

Fire effects on ecosystemsPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Cited by 3,351

Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Carpenter, S. R., Mooney, H. A., Agard, J., Capistrano, D., DeFries, R. S., Díaz, S., Dietz, T., Duraiappah, A. K., Oteng-Yeboah, A., Pereira, H. M., et al. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesSustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis

Cited by 2,257

Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

DeFries, R. S., Rudel, T., Uriarte, M., & Hansen, M. (2010) · Nature Geoscience

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementLand Use and Ecosystem Services

Cited by 1,413

The Amazon basin in transition

Davidson, E. A., de Araújo, A. C., Artaxo, P., Balch, J. K., Brown, I. F., C. Bustamante, M. M., Coe, M. T., DeFries, R. S., Keller, M., Longo, M., et al. (2012) · Nature

Plant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsClimate variability and models

Cited by 1,273

A human-driven decline in global burned area

Andela, N., Morton, D. C., Giglio, L., Chen, Y., van der Werf, G. R., Kasibhatla, P. S., DeFries, R. S., Collatz, G. J., Hantson, S., Kloster, S., et al. (2017) · Science

Fire effects on ecosystemsLand Use and Ecosystem Services

Cited by 1,262

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

Bowman, D. M. J. S., Balch, J., Artaxo, P., Bond, W. J., Cochrane, M. A., D’Antonio, C. M., DeFries, R., Johnston, F. H., Keeley, J. E., Krawchuk, M. A., et al. (2011) · Journal of Biogeography

Fire effects on ecosystemsRangeland and Wildlife Management

Cited by 1,230

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

Liu, J., Hull, V., Batistella, M., DeFries, R., Dietz, T., Fu, F., Hertel, T. W., Izaurralde, R. C., Lambin, E. F., Li, S., et al. (2013) · Ecology and Society

Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesSustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Cited by 1,099

Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon

Morton, D. C., DeFries, R. S., Shimabukuro, Y. E., Anderson, L. O., Arai, E., del Bon Espirito-Santo, F., Freitas, R., & Morisette, J. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementOil Palm Production and Sustainability

Cited by 1,081

Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires

Johnston, F. H., Henderson, S. B., Chen, Y., Randerson, J. T., Marlier, M., DeFries, R. S., Kinney, P., Bowman, D. M. J. S., & Brauer, M. (2012) · Environmental Health Perspectives

Air Quality and Health ImpactsAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Cited by 852

Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s

Macedo, M. N., DeFries, R. S., Morton, D. C., Stickler, C. M., Galford, G. L., & Shimabukuro, Y. E. (2012) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementOil Palm Production and Sustainability

Cited by 664

Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

Rudel, T. K., Schneider, L., Uriarte, M., Turner, B. L., DeFries, R., Lawrence, D., Geoghegan, J., Hecht, S., Ickowitz, A., Lambin, E. F., et al. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesAgriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Cited by 611

Land-Use Change and Hydrologic Processes: A Major Focus for the Future

DeFries, R., & Eshleman, K. N. (2004) · Hydrological Processes

Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesLand Use and Ecosystem Services

Cited by 516

A synthesis of information on rapid land-cover change for the period 1981–2000

LEPERS, E., LAMBIN, E. F., JANETOS, A. C., DeFRIES, R., ACHARD, F., RAMANKUTTY, N., & SCHOLES, R. J. (2005) · BioScience

Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Cited by 478

Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia

van der Werf, G. R., Dempewolf, J., Trigg, S. N., Randerson, J. T., Kasibhatla, P. S., Giglio, L., Murdiyarso, D., Peters, W., Morton, D. C., Collatz, G. J., et al. (2008) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Fire effects on ecosystemsAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Cited by 370

Effects of Land Cover Conversion on Surface Climate

Bounoua, L., DeFries, R., Collatz, G. J., Sellers, P., & Khan, H. (2002) · Climatic Change

Climate variability and modelsLand Use and Ecosystem Services

Cited by 353

Interactions between protected areas and their surroundings in human-dominated tropical landscapes

DeFries, R., Karanth, K. K., & Pareeth, S. (2010) · Biological Conservation

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementLand Use and Ecosystem Services

Cited by 299

Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes

Meyfroidt, P., Carlson, K. M., Fagan, M. E., Gutiérrez-Vélez, V. H., Macedo, M. N., Curran, L. M., DeFries, R. S., Dyer, G. A., Gibbs, H. K., Lambin, E. F., et al. (2014) · Environmental Research Letters

Agriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Cited by 240

Forecasting Fire Season Severity in South America Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Chen, Y., Randerson, J. T., Morton, D. C., DeFries, R. S., Collatz, G. J., Kasibhatla, P. S., Giglio, L., Jin, Y., & Marlier, M. E. (2011) · Science

Fire effects on ecosystemsClimate variability and models

Cited by 231

Understorey fire frequency and the fate of burned forests in southern Amazonia

Morton, D. C., Le Page, Y., DeFries, R., Collatz, G. J., & Hurtt, G. C. (2013) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Fire effects on ecosystemsConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Cited by 207

Natural climate solutions are not enough

Anderson, C. M., DeFries, R. S., Litterman, R., Matson, P. A., Nepstad, D. C., Pacala, S., Schlesinger, W. H., Shaw, M. R., Smith, P., Weber, C., et al. (2019) · Science

Climate Change Policy and EconomicsForest Management and Policy

Cited by 165

Greater stability of carbon capture in species-rich natural forests compared to species-poor plantations

Osuri, A. M., Gopal, A., Raman, T. R. S., DeFries, R., Cook-Patton, S. C., & Naeem, S. (2020) · Environmental Research Letters

Forest ecology and managementPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Cited by 93

Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes

Roos, C. I., Bowman, D. M. J. S., Balch, J. K., Artaxo, P., Bond, W. J., Cochrane, M., D'Antonio, C. M., DeFries, R., Mack, M., Johnston, F. H., et al. (2014) · Journal of Biogeography

Fire effects on ecosystemsRangeland and Wildlife Management

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