Most cited papers in Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
What are the most cited papers in Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management?
The most cited paper in Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management is "Global Consequences of Land Use" (Jonathan A. Foley, Ruth DeFries, Gregory P. Asner et al., 2005), with 13,282 citations. Next come "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change" (11,936) and "Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity" (7,502).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,386 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Global Consequences of Land Use Jonathan A. Foley, Ruth DeFries, Gregory P. Asner et al. · Science | 22 Jul 2005 | 13,282 |
| 2 | High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Rebecca Moore et al. · Science | 14 Nov 2013 | 11,936 |
| 3 | Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez et al. · Nature | Jun 2012 | 7,502 |
| 4 | Changes in the global value of ecosystem services Robert Costanza, R.S. de Groot, Paul C. Sutton et al. · Global Environmental Change | May 2014 | 6,332 |
| 5 | Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines Stuart H. M. Butchart et al. · Science | 29 Apr 2010 | 4,942 |
| 6 | Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity Tim Newbold et al. · Nature | 31 Mar 2015 | 4,413 |
| 7 | Consequences of changing biodiversity F. Stuart Chapin, Erika S. Zavaleta, Valerie T. Eviner et al. · Nature | May 2000 | 4,302 |
| 8 | The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation Milton Cézar Ribeiro, Jean Paul Metzger, Alexandre Camargo Martensen et al. · Biological Conservation | 25 Mar 2009 | 4,293 |
| 9 | The Struggle to Govern the Commons Thomas M. Dietz, Элинор Остром, Paul C. Stern · Science | 11 Dec 2003 | 4,175 |
| 10 | REDISCOVERY OF TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, Carl Folke · Ecological Applications | Oct 2000 | 3,895 |
| 11 | Systematic conservation planning. Chris R. Margules, Robert L. Pressey · PubMed | 11 May 2000 | 3,871 |
| 12 | The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths Éric F. Lambin et al. · Global Environmental Change | Dec 2001 | 3,797 |
| 13 | Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being GT Pecl et al. · Science | 30 Mar 2017 | 3,714 |
| 14 | Natural climate solutions Bronson W. Griscom et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Oct 2017 | 3,490 |
| 15 | Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making R.S. de Groot, Rob Alkemade, Leon Braat et al. · Ecological Complexity | 21 Nov 2009 | 3,474 |
| 16 | Farmland biodiversity: is habitat heterogeneity the key? Tim G. Benton, Juliet A. Vickery, Jeremy D. Wilson · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Apr 2003 | 3,203 |
| 17 | Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making Brendan Fisher, R. Kerry Turner, Paul Morling · Ecological Economics | 29 Oct 2008 | 3,163 |
| 18 | Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity Éric F. Lambin, Patrick Meyfroidt · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 14 Feb 2011 | 3,162 |
| 19 | The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital Robert Costanza, Ralph C. d’Arge, R.S. de Groot et al. · Ecological Economics | Apr 1998 | 2,995 |
| 20 | Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation Arun Agrawal, Clark C. Gibson · World Development | Apr 1999 | 2,922 |
| 21 | Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? Robert Costanza, R.S. de Groot, Leon Braat et al. · Ecosystem Services | 27 Sep 2017 | 2,855 |
| 22 | Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges Элинор Остром, Joanna Burger, Christopher B. Field et al. · Science | 9 Apr 1999 | 2,821 |
| 23 | A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas Элинор Остром · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 Sep 2007 | 2,735 |
| 24 | Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services Patricia Balvanera, Andrea B. Pfisterer, Nina C. Buchmann et al. · Ecology Letters | 29 Aug 2006 | 2,670 |
| 25 | The IPBES Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people Sandra M. Díaz et al. · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 19 Dec 2014 | 2,619 |
| 26 | An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm Eric Dinerstein et al. · BioScience | 30 Jan 2017 | 2,505 |
| 27 | Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services Elena M. Bennett, Garry Peterson, Line Josefin Gordon · Ecology Letters | 21 Oct 2009 | 2,489 |
| 28 | Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues Stefanie Engel, Stefano Pagiola, Sven Wunder · Ecological Economics | 18 Apr 2008 | 2,471 |
| 29 | A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change David U. Hooper, E. Carol Adair, Bradley J. Cardinale et al. · Nature | May 2012 | 2,416 |
| 30 | Global Biodiversity Conservation Priorities Thomas M. Brooks, R. A. Mittermeier, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca et al. · Science | 6 Jul 2006 | 2,397 |
| 31 | The performance and potential of protected areas James E. M. Watson, Nigel Dudley, Daniel B. Segan et al. · Nature | Nov 2014 | 2,385 |
| 32 | Classifying drivers of global forest loss Philip G. Curtis, Christy M. Slay, Nancy L. Harris et al. · Science | 13 Sep 2018 | 2,373 |
| 33 | Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies Alison G. Power · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 16 Aug 2010 | 2,321 |
| 34 | A Theory of Access* Jesse Ribot, Nancy Lee Peluso · Rural Sociology | Jun 2003 | 2,312 |
| 35 | Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Stephen R. Carpenter, Harold A. Mooney, John B. R. Agard et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 28 Jan 2009 | 2,253 |
| 36 | A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes Claudia Pahl‐Wostl · Global Environmental Change | 16 Jul 2009 | 2,251 |
| 37 | Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature Rhys E. Green, Stephen J. Cornell, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann et al. · Science | 24 Dec 2004 | 2,236 |
| 38 | The global tree restoration potential Jean‐François Bastin, Yelena Finegold, Claude García et al. · Science | 4 Jul 2019 | 2,223 |
| 39 | The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability Billie Lee Turner, Éric F. Lambin, Anette Reenberg · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 Dec 2007 | 2,217 |
| 40 | Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity Luke Gibson, Tien Ming Lee, Lian Pin Koh et al. · Nature | 13 Sep 2011 | 2,162 |
| 41 | Mapping ecosystem service supply, demand and budgets Benjamin Burkhard, Franziska Kroll, Stoyan Nedkov et al. · Ecological Indicators | 16 Sep 2011 | 2,161 |
| 42 | Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century Henrique M. Pereira et al. · Science | 26 Oct 2010 | 2,100 |
| 43 | Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification Teja Tscharntke, Yann Clough, Thomas Cherico Wanger et al. · Biological Conservation | 12 Mar 2012 | 2,083 |
| 44 | Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management Crawford S. Holling, Gary K. Meffe · Conservation Biology | Apr 1996 | 2,056 |
| 45 | Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources Arun Agrawal · World Development | Oct 2001 | 2,039 |
| 46 | Ecosystem service bundles for analyzing tradeoffs in diverse landscapes Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Garry Peterson, Elena M. Bennett · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Mar 2010 | 2,022 |
| 47 | Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges Nathalie Seddon, Alexandre M. Chausson, Pam M. Berry et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 27 Jan 2020 | 2,007 |
| 48 | Ecosystem Services in Decision Making: Time to Deliver James Salzman, Gretchen C. Daily, Stephen Polasky et al. · Duke Law Scholarship Repository (Duke University) | 2009 | 1,962 |
| 49 | Global land change from 1982 to 2016 Xiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman et al. · Nature | Aug 2018 | 1,952 |
| 50 | Citizen Participation in Decision Making: Is It Worth the Effort? Renée A. Irvin, John S. Stansbury · Public Administration Review | 7 Jan 2004 | 1,938 |
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