Cited by 3,160Land Use and Ecosystem ServicesSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsSustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis

Agricultural Intensification and Ecosystem Properties

Matson, P. A., Parton, W. J., Power, A. G., Swift, M. J.·1997·Science

Abstract

Expansion and intensification of cultivation are among the predominant global changes of this century. Intensification of agriculture by use of high-yielding crop varieties, fertilization, irrigation, and pesticides has contributed substantially to the tremendous increases in food production over the past 50 years. Land conversion and intensification, however, also alter the biotic interactions and patterns of resource availability in ecosystems and can have serious local, regional, and global environmental consequences. The use of ecologically based management strategies can increase the sustainability of agricultural production while reducing off-site consequences.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1126/science.277.5325.504

Cites

53 of 53 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Agricultural intensification-the adoption of technologies enabling dramatic increases in food production from a given area of agricultural land-has made possible declining rates of growth in agricultural land use.

    “This has been made possible by agricultural intensification, the adoption of technologies enabling dramatic increases in food production from a given area of agricultural land (23).”

    From Used planet: a global history (2013) · cites this paper as [23]

  • The most densely settled and intensively used agricultural landscapes tend to be the most profoundly and permanently transformed by land clearing, soil tillage, increased erosion and runoff, nutrient enrichment, domesticated species, and unintentional species introductions.

    “The most densely settled and intensively used agricultural landscapes tend to be the mostly profoundly and permanently transformed by the impacts of land clearing, soil tillage, increased erosion and runoff, nutrient enrichment, domesticated species, and unintentional species introductions (23, 115).”

    From Used planet: a global history (2013) · cites this paper as [23]

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Matson, P. A., Parton, W. J., Power, A. G., & Swift, M. J.
Affiliations
UNESCO (FR)
Corresponding author
Matson, P. A.
Venue
Science
Published
1997-07-25
Volume
277
Issue
5325
Pages
504-509
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2097102631
Cited by
3,160
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 68 · 2025: 104 · 2024: 111 · 2023: 103 · 2022: 120 · 2021: 184 · 2020: 163 · 2019: 189 · 2018: 173 · 2017: 205 · 2016: 178 · 2015: 168 · 2014: 159 · 2013: 157 · 2012: 130
FWCI
25.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
Keywords
agricultural intensification, land conversion, ecosystem properties, species interactions, resource availability, global change, food production, fertilization, irrigation, pesticides, high-yielding varieties, sustainable agriculture, environmental consequences
MeSH terms
Agriculture, Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Humans, Time Factors, Ecosystem, Crops, Agricultural, Biodiversity

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review