Topic · Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Most cited papers in Land Use and Ecosystem Services
What are the most cited papers in Land Use and Ecosystem Services?
The most cited paper in Land Use and Ecosystem Services is "Global Consequences of Land Use" (Jonathan A. Foley, Ruth DeFries, Gregory P. Asner et al., 2005), with 13,282 citations. Next come "Local Indicators of Spatial Association—LISA" (13,022) and "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change" (11,936).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,847 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 | Local Indicators of Spatial Association—LISA Luc Anselin · Geographical Analysis | Apr 1995 | 13,022 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region Waldo Tobler · Economic Geography | Jun 1970 | 9,808 |
| 5 | A soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) ALFREDO R. HUETE · Remote Sensing of Environment | Aug 1988 | 7,978 |
| 6 | Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems Brian Walker, Crawford S. Holling, Stephen R. Carpenter et al. · Ecology and Society | 2004 | 7,755 |
| 7 | Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses Carl Folke · Global Environmental Change | 22 Jul 2006 | 7,678 |
| 8 | Global Change and the Ecology of Cities Nancy B. Grimm, Stanley H. Faeth, Nancy E. Golubiewski et al. · Science | 7 Feb 2008 | 7,209 |
| 9 | NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space Bo‐Cai Gao · Remote Sensing of Environment | Dec 1996 | 7,034 |
| 10 | Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology Steven W. Kembel, Peter D. Cowan, Matthew R. Helmus et al. · Bioinformatics | 15 Apr 2010 | 6,550 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Ecological Methodology Geraint Parry, Michael Sylvester Johnson, R. M. Bell et al. | 1984 | 5,334 |
| 13 | Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools Karen C. Seto, Burak Güneralp, Lucy R. Hutyra · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 17 Sep 2012 | 5,080 |
| 14 | Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems Nick M. Haddad et al. · Science Advances | 6 Mar 2015 | 4,812 |
| 15 | A typology for the classification, description and valuation of ecosystem functions, goods and services R.S. de Groot, Matthew A Wilson, Roelof M. J. Boumans · Ecological Economics | Jun 2002 | 4,803 |
| 16 | Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem, Pablo Inchausti et al. · Science | 26 Oct 2001 | 4,673 |
| 17 | Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity Tim Newbold et al. · Nature | 31 Mar 2015 | 4,413 |
| 18 | Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’ Jennifer R. Wolch, Jason Byrne, Joshua Peter Newell · Landscape and Urban Planning | 2 Mar 2014 | 4,317 |
| 19 | Consequences of changing biodiversity F. Stuart Chapin, Erika S. Zavaleta, Valerie T. Eviner et al. · Nature | May 2000 | 4,302 |
| 20 | Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management Carl Folke, Steve R. Carpenter, Brian Walker et al. · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics | 2 Nov 2004 | 3,866 |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being GT Pecl et al. · Science | 30 Mar 2017 | 3,714 |
| 23 | MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets M. A. Friedl, Damien Sulla‐Menashe, Bin Tan et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 15 Oct 2009 | 3,637 |
| 24 | Using the satellite-derived NDVI to assess ecological responses to environmental change Nathalie Pettorelli, Jon Olav Vik, Atle Mysterud et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 10 Jun 2005 | 3,616 |
| 25 | The 30 m annual land cover dataset and its dynamics in China from 1990 to 2019 Jie Yang, Xin Huang · Earth system science data | 11 Aug 2021 | 3,582 |
| 26 | Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages Daniel A. Sims, John A. Gamon · Remote Sensing of Environment | 25 Jul 2002 | 3,525 |
| 27 | From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What? Stephen R. Carpenter, Brian Walker, J. Marty Anderies et al. · Ecosystems | Dec 2001 | 3,504 |
| 28 | Natural climate solutions Bronson W. Griscom et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Oct 2017 | 3,490 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Global patterns in biodiversity Kevin J. Gaston · Nature | May 2000 | 3,407 |
| 31 | ROADS AND THEIR MAJOR ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS Richard T. T. Forman, Lauren E. Alexander · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 1998 | 3,372 |
| 32 | MATRIX POPULATION MODELS: CONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Floyd W. Weckerly · Natural Resource Modeling | Dec 2001 | 3,269 |
| 33 | Indicators for Monitoring Biodiversity: A Hierarchical Approach Reed F. Noss · Conservation Biology | Dec 1990 | 3,173 |
| 34 | Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making Brendan Fisher, R. Kerry Turner, Paul Morling · Ecological Economics | 29 Oct 2008 | 3,163 |
| 35 | Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change Pontus Olofsson, Giles M. Foody, Martin Herold et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 11 Apr 2014 | 3,094 |
| 36 | A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models Volker Grimm et al. · Ecological Modelling | 15 Jun 2006 | 3,028 |
| 37 | China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management Chi Chen, Taejin Park, Xuhui Wang et al. · Nature Sustainability | 11 Feb 2019 | 3,008 |
| 38 | Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming P. Maeder, Andreas Fließbach, David Dubois et al. · Science | 31 May 2002 | 2,945 |
| 39 | An assessment of the effectiveness of a random forest classifier for land-cover classification Victor Francisco Rodriguez-Galiano, Bardan Ghimire, John S. Rogan et al. · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 6 Dec 2011 | 2,945 |
| 40 | Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development James F. Reynolds, Mark Stafford‐Smith, Éric F. Lambin et al. · Science | 10 May 2007 | 2,941 |
| 41 | Ecosystem services in urban areas Per Bolund, Sven Hunhammar · Ecological Economics | May 1999 | 2,938 |
| 42 | Optimization of soil-adjusted vegetation indices Geneviève Rondeaux, M. D. Steven, Frédéric Baret · Remote Sensing of Environment | Feb 1996 | 2,922 |
| 43 | Use of normalized difference built-up index in automatically mapping urban areas from TM imagery Yong Zha, Jay Gao, Shaoxiang Ni · International Journal of Remote Sensing | 2003 | 2,910 |
| 44 | Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management Nathaniel D. Mueller, James Gerber, Matt Johnston et al. · Nature | 28 Aug 2012 | 2,876 |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review Konstantinos Tzoulas, Kalevi Korpela, Stephen Venn et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning | 8 Mar 2007 | 2,837 |
| 47 | An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson, Larissa R. Fleischer et al. · Nature Communications | 4 Dec 2017 | 2,802 |
| 48 | Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change Sandra M. Díaz et al. · Science | 12 Dec 2019 | 2,746 |
| 49 | A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas Элинор Остром · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 Sep 2007 | 2,735 |
| 50 | Development of a global land cover characteristics database and IGBP DISCover from 1 km AVHRR data Thomas R. Loveland, Bradley C. Reed, Jesslyn F. Brown et al. · International Journal of Remote Sensing | 2000 | 2,692 |
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