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Navin Ramankutty's Degrees
- PhD Geography University of British Columbia
- Masters Geography University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Agricultural Sciences University of Kerala
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Navin Ramankutty is an agricultural geographer. As of 2015 he is a professor of Global Food Security and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia Ramankutty studies changes in land use and agricultural practices, and the effect on global food production.
Navin Ramankutty's Published Works
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Published Works
- Global Consequences of Land Use (2005) (9982)
- Solutions for a cultivated planet (2011) (5911)
- MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets (2010) (2650)
- Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management (2012) (2071)
- Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models (2001) (2004)
- Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992 (1999) (1912)
- Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production (2016) (1758)
- Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000 (2008) (1649)
- Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture (2012) (1560)
- Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s (2010) (1530)
- Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000 (2008) (1508)
- Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world (2008) (1454)
- An oscillation in the global climate system of period 65–70 years (1994) (1395)
- An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes (1996) (1207)
- Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation (2012) (1140)
- Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000 (2010) (1069)
- Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change (2012) (882)
- Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models (2001) (806)
- Crop planting dates: an analysis of global patterns. (2010) (711)
- Testing the performance of a dynamic global ecosystem model: Water balance, carbon balance, and vegetation structure (2000) (675)
- Agronomic phosphorus imbalances across the world's croplands (2011) (665)
- Geographic distribution of major crops across the world (2004) (655)
- The global distribution of cultivable lands: current patterns and sensitivity to possible climate change (2002) (632)
- Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin (2007) (561)
- The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon (2010) (538)
- Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world? (2010) (523)
- A Synthesis of Information on Rapid Land-cover Change for the Period 1981–2000 (2005) (491)
- Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures (2014) (482)
- Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018) (473)
- Climate variability and crop production in Tanzania (2011) (468)
- Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology (2008) (467)
- Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries (2017) (444)
- Characterizing patterns of global land use: An analysis of global croplands data (1998) (409)
- Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation (2007) (407)
- Characterizing the Spatial Patterns of Global Fertilizer Application and Manure Production (2010) (377)
- Green surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth’s climate (2003) (365)
- Biogeophysical effects of land use on climate : Model simulations of radiative forcing and large-scale temperature change (2007) (327)
- Simulating the effects of climate and agricultural management practices on global crop yield (2011) (311)
- How do weather and climate influence cropping area and intensity (2015) (293)
- Many shades of gray—The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture (2017) (284)
- A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005 (2014) (280)
- Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production (2016) (278)
- Hidden linkages between urbanization and food systems (2016) (268)
- How much of the world's food do smallholders produce? (2018) (241)
- Biogeophysical effects of historical land cover changes simulated by six Earth system models of intermediate complexity (2006) (239)
- Land cover change over the last three centuries due to human activities: The availability of new global data sets (2004) (231)
- Estimating historical changes in land cover:North American croplands from 1850 to 1992 (1999) (230)
- Global trends in visibility: Implications for dust sources (2007) (214)
- Modeling the hydrological impact of land-use change in West Africa (2007) (210)
- People on the Land: Changes in Global Population and Croplands during the 20th Century (2002) (205)
- Cropland/pastureland dynamics and the slowdown of deforestation in Latin America (2015) (195)
- Climate Volatility and Poverty Vulnerability in Tanzania (2009) (182)
- Physiology on a Landscape Scale: Plant-Animal Interactions1 (2002) (176)
- Global Land-Cover Change: Recent Progress, Remaining Challenges (2006) (173)
- Calculating Climate Effects on Birds and Mammals: Impacts on Biodiversity, Conservation, Population Parameters, and Global Community Structure1 (2000) (167)
- Changes in yield variability of major crops for 1981–2010 explained by climate change (2016) (166)
- Urban agriculture and food security: A critique based on an assessment of urban land constraints (2015) (163)
- Reconciling apparent inconsistencies in estimates of terrestrial CO2 sources and sinks (2003) (145)
- Towards An Integrated Land Use Database for Assessing the Potential for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation (2005) (143)
- What is this thing called organic? – How organic farming is codified in regulations (2017) (137)
- Urban agriculture: a global analysis of the space constraint to meet urban vegetable demand (2014) (131)
- Global market integration increases likelihood that a future African Green Revolution could increase crop land use and CO2 emissions (2014) (126)
- Direct human influence on atmospheric CO2 seasonality from increased cropland productivity (2014) (119)
- Implications for global warming of intercycle solar irradiance variations (1992) (116)
- Trends and Variability in U.S. Corn Yields Over the Twentieth Century (2005) (116)
- Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century (2007) (111)
- Our share of the planetary pie (2007) (104)
- Prevailing Myths About Agricultural Abandonment and Forest Regrowth in the United States (2010) (100)
- Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security (2015) (100)
- Global Agricultural Land Use Data for Climate Change Analysis (2008) (99)
- The challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet (2018) (96)
- Urbanization and the loss of prime farmland: a case study in the Calgary–Edmonton corridor of Alberta (2015) (92)
- Toward a more resilient agriculture (2014) (83)
- People on the land: changes in global population and croplands during the 20th century. (2002) (81)
- Multiple Impacts of Land-Use/Cover Change (2006) (80)
- Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms (2021) (77)
- Detection of cropland field parcels from Landsat imagery (2017) (76)
- Leveraging total factor productivity growth for sustainable and resilient farming (2019) (75)
- Long‐term variations of climate and carbon fluxes over the Amazon basin (2002) (75)
- Diagnosing the uncertainty and detectability of emission reductions for REDD + under current capabilities: an example for Panama (2011) (74)
- Root-Water-Uptake Based upon a New Water Stress Reduction and an Asymptotic Root Distribution Function (2006) (74)
- From Miami to Madison: Investigating the relationship between climate and terrestrial net primary production (2007) (71)
- The Need for Improved Maps of Global Cropland (2013) (70)
- Producer and consumer responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production—a perspective from the Brazilian Amazon (2009) (69)
- Feedbacks between agriculture and climate: An illustration of the potential unintended consequences of human land use activities (2006) (67)
- Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models with atmospheric CO2 measurements: Results from transient simulations considering increasing CO2, climate, and land‐use effects (2002) (64)
- Livestock policy for sustainable development (2020) (60)
- Interactions between nitrogen deposition, land cover conversion, and climate change determine the contemporary carbon balance of Europe (2010) (59)
- Ten facts about land systems for sustainability (2022) (59)
- Investigation of Hydrological Variability in West Africa Using Land Surface Models (2005) (59)
- Land-use regime shifts: an analytical framework and agenda for future land-use research (2016) (57)
- Mapping Asian Cropping Intensity With MODIS (2014) (57)
- The global divide in data-driven farming (2020) (57)
- Chapter G2 Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change (2012) (55)
- Croplands in West Africa: A Geographically Explicit Dataset for Use in Models (2004) (51)
- Farming the Planet. Part 1: The 1 Geographic Distribution of Global Agricultural Lands in the Year 2000 (2007) (50)
- Can intensive farming save nature (2012) (44)
- Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts (2019) (42)
- Synchronized failure of global crop production (2019) (41)
- Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia (2019) (39)
- Farming the Planet. 2: The Geographic Distribution of Crop Areas and Yields in the Year 2000 (2007) (39)
- Global option space for organic agriculture is delimited by nitrogen availability (2021) (37)
- Is the recently reported 65‐ to 70‐year surface‐temperature oscillation the result of climatic noise? (1995) (35)
- Increasing expansion of large-scale crop production onto deforested land in sub-Andean South America (2018) (35)
- Corrigendum: Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management (2013) (33)
- Mapping Crop Types, Irrigated Areas, and Cropping Intensities in Heterogeneous Landscapes of Southern India Using Multi-Temporal Medium-Resolution Imagery: Implications for Assessing Water Use in Agriculture (2012) (31)
- Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements (2007) (30)
- ISLSCP II Potential Natural Vegetation Cover (2010) (30)
- A global assessment of the carbon cycle and temperature responses to major changes in future fire regime (2015) (29)
- Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs (2020) (28)
- Modelling Land Use Changes in GTAP (2003) (28)
- Science–graphic art partnerships to increase research impact (2019) (27)
- A Synthesis of Rapid Land-Cover Change Information for the 1981-2000 Period. (2005) (27)
- Functional Connectivity of the World’s Protected Areas (2021) (26)
- Synchronized failure of global crop production (2018) (26)
- A multi-dimensional metric for facilitating sustainable food choices in campus cafeterias (2016) (24)
- Interactions between land systems and food systems (2019) (23)
- Modeling Land Supply and Demand in the Long Run (2006) (23)
- Modeling and simulation of climate and climate change (1997) (23)
- Stocks, Flows, and Prospects of Land (2009) (22)
- ISLSCP II Historical Croplands Cover, 1700-1992 (2010) (21)
- Agricultural land-use change in Kerala, India : perspectives from above and below the canopy (2017) (20)
- A Primer on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: What We Don't Know, But Should (2004) (18)
- Chapter G 2 Carbon emissions from land use and landcover change (2012) (17)
- A review of global gridded cropping system data products (2021) (16)
- Trade‐offs in the performance of alternative farming systems (2019) (16)
- Implementation of a Marauding Insect Module (MIM, version 1.0) in the Integrated BIosphere Simulator (IBIS, version 2.6b4) dynamic vegetation–land surface model (2015) (16)
- Physiology on a landscape scale Applications in ecological theory and conservation practice (2000) (15)
- Modeling Global and Regional Net Primary Production under Elevated Atmospheric CO2: On a Potential Source of Uncertainty (2006) (15)
- Biogeosciences Carbon emissions from land use and landcover change (2012) (14)
- Historical Irrigation Dataset (HID) (2015) (14)
- Low-frequency oscillation (1994) (14)
- Land sparing or land sharing: context dependent (2013) (12)
- Human-Induced Climate Change: Global agricultural land-use data for integrated assessment modeling (2007) (12)
- A Global, Spatially Explicit Open-Source Data Base for Analysis of Agriculture, Forestry, and the Environment: Proposal and Institutional Considerations (2014) (12)
- Perennial Staple Crops: Yields, Distribution, and Nutrition in the Global Food System (2020) (11)
- Global Land Use and Land Cover Data for Integrated Assessment Modeling (2004) (11)
- The Conventional Versus Alternative Agricultural Divide: A Response to Garibaldi et al. (2017) (11)
- An open-access dataset of crop production by farm size from agricultural censuses and surveys (2018) (10)
- Land-Use Change and Global Food Production (2008) (10)
- Modelling long-term impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks onmerchantable biomass, ecosystem carbon, albedo, and radiative forcing (2016) (10)
- The cost of heat waves and droughts for global crop production (2017) (9)
- Shifts in the abiotic and biotic environment of cultivated sunflower under future climate change (2019) (8)
- Can we sustain success in reducing deaths to extreme weather in a hotter world? (2019) (8)
- Investigating the Effects of Subgrid Cell Dynamic Heterogeneity on the Large-Scale Modeling of Albedo in Boreal Forests* (2016) (7)
- Temperature Oscillations in the North Atlantic (2000) (7)
- The effects of CO2, climate and land-use on terrestrial carbon balance, 1920-1992: An analysis with four process-based ecosystem models (2001) (7)
- Carbon Cycling, Climate Regulation, and Disturbances in Canadian Forests: Scientific Principles for Management (2015) (7)
- Spatial Correlations Don't Predict Changes in Agricultural Ecosystem Services: A Canada-Wide Case Study (2020) (6)
- How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration (2022) (6)
- Evaluating Alternative Options for Managing Nitrogen Losses from Corn Production (2018) (5)
- The role of croplands in the terrestrial biosphere : past, present, and future (2000) (4)
- A one health approach to plant health (2022) (3)
- Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation (2021) (3)
- Global spatial data of 18 Agro-ecological Zones (AEZs) (2009) (3)
- Metroglyph analysis of yield attributes in certain tall indica rice (Oryza sativa) varieties in north Kerala (1988) (3)
- How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields? (2023) (3)
- The role of land heterogeneity in determining climate change mitigation costs (2006) (2)
- Agriculture and Forests (2009) (2)
- Leveraging agricultural total factor productivity growth for productive, sustainable and resilient farming systems (2018) (2)
- Latin American oil palm follows an unfamiliar route to avoid deforestation (2017) (2)
- Global land use data for integrated assessment modeling (2005) (2)
- Multi-scale Analysis of Nitrogen Loss Mitigation in the US Corn Belt (2022) (2)
- PAPER Crop planting dates: an analysis of (2010) (2)
- On the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic factors in crop yield models (2022) (2)
- Have Solar-Irradiance Variations Influenced Climate? (1994) (2)
- Rates And Patterns Of Historical Land-use Change: Lessons For Modeling The Future (2007) (1)
- LBA Regional Historical Croplands, 5-min, 1900-1992 (Ramankutty and Foley) (2003) (1)
- Science–graphic art partnerships to increase research impact (2019) (1)
- Extreme weather and the impacts on agriculture (2017) (1)
- Is Net Primary Production a function of human population density (2008) (1)
- Land-cover change over the three last centuries due to human activities. (2001) (1)
- Jeerakasala--a tall scented rice variety in Kerala, India (1980) (1)
- A 65–70 Year Oscillation in Observed Surface Temperatures (1996) (1)
- Biodiversity in Organic Farmland - How Does Landscape Context Influence Species Diversity in Organic Vs. Conventional Agricultural Fields? (2014) (1)
- The diversity of organic farmer motivations and livelihoods in the Global South – A case study in Kerala, India (2023) (1)
- Using Targeted Policies to Manage Nitrogen for Sustainable Agriculture in the US (2018) (1)
- Beyond productivism versus agroecology: lessons for sustainable food systems from Lovins’ soft path energy policies (2021) (1)
- Data for: How much of the world’s food do smallholders produce? (2018) (1)
- Nitrogen deposition, land cover conversion, climate, and contemporary carbon balance of Europe (Invited) (2009) (0)
- Are the yields of major cereal crops stagnating? Results from the newly developed high spatial resolution crop yield time series (2011) (0)
- The missing markets link in global-to-local-to-global analyses of biodiversity and ecosystem services (2023) (0)
- La hamburguesa no tan Americana - Spanish (2019) (0)
- Agricultural Management Practices Explain Variation in Global Yield Gaps of Major Crops (2010) (0)
- LBA Regional Potential Vegetation, 5-min (Ramankutty and Foley) (2003) (0)
- Footprint of agriculture (2014) (0)
- Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: a comparison of process-based and statistical yield models (2017) (0)
- Abnormal rice panicle (1981) (0)
- Increasing the Resilience of Indian Agriculture to Intra-seasonal Monsoon Variability Through Optimized Irrigation Strategies (2019) (0)
- Thampuran - a tall Kerala rice variety with a stiff straw (1978) (0)
- 1 CLIMATE VOLATILITY AND POVERTY VULNERABILITY IN TANZANIA (2009) (0)
- The Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Yields in Tanzania: Comparing an Empirical and a Process-Based Model (2018) (0)
- Mapping Human-Dominated Landscapes: the Distribution and Yield of Major Crops of the World (2005) (0)
- SAFARI 2000 Potential Vegetation, 5-min (Ramankutty and Foley) (2002) (0)
- Grafting and hybridization of grapevines (2019) (0)
- UNCORRECTED PROOF 2 Modeling the hydrological impact of land-use (2007) (0)
- The Influence of Weather Extremes on Historical Crop Production (2014) (0)
- Carbon Cycle Model Linkage Project (CCMLP): Evaluating Biogeochemical Process Models with Atmospheric Measurements and Field Experiments (2001) (0)
- Modelling Changes to Crop Yield Under Climate Change Scenarios (2010) (0)
- El pad thai no tan Tailandés - Spanish (2019) (0)
- Land (2020) (0)
- Human Transformation of the Terrestrial Biosphere: Form, Extent, Duration, and Intensity (2009) (0)
- Anthropogenic Biomes: A Framework for Earth Science and Ecology in the 21st Century (2007) (0)
- Climate-Induced Changes in Year-to-Year Variations in Yields of Major Crops (2014) (0)
- Large scale maps of cropping intensity in Asia from MODIS (2013) (0)
- Regional Hydrological Modeling in Africa: Calibration and Performance Test of IBIS (2003) (0)
- Opportunities and tradeoffs for global agricultural intensification (2011) (0)
- VII.7 Agriculture, Land Use, and the Transformation of Planet Earth (2009) (0)
- Climate volatility and the poor in Tanzania (2009) (0)
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