Ruth DeFries

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Ruth DeFries is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Maryland, College Park, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University

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PhD Geography University of Maryland, College Park
Masters Geography University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelors Earth Science University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Ruth S. DeFries is an environmental geographer who specializes in the use of remote sensing to study Earth's habitability under the influence of human activities, such as deforestation, that influence regulating biophysical and biogeochemical processes. She was one of 24 recipients of the 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, and was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

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Global Consequences of Land Use (2005) (9982)
Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997-2009) (2010) (2587)
Fire in the Earth System (2009) (2240)
Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach (2000) (2213)
Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles (2014) (2037)
Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2009) (1904)
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research (1998) (1413)
CO 2 emissions from forest loss (2009) (1355)
Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century (2010) (1208)
A global overview of the conservation status of tropical dry forests (2006) (1066)
Global Percent Tree Cover at a Spatial Resolution of 500 Meters: First Results of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields Algorithm (2003) (1032)
NDVI-derived land cover classifications at a global scale (1994) (1023)
Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon (2006) (980)
The Amazon basin in transition (2012) (930)
Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change (2012) (882)
Land‐use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function (2004) (842)
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth (2011) (828)
Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World (2013) (767)
Global distribution of C3 and C4 vegetation: Carbon cycle implications (2003) (743)
Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s (2002) (717)
INCREASING ISOLATION OF PROTECTED AREAS IN TROPICAL FORESTS OVER THE PAST TWENTY YEARS (2005) (703)
Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data (2008) (698)
Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products (2009) (606)
A human-driven decline in global burned area (2017) (592)
Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin (2007) (561)
Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s (2012) (560)
Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires (2012) (555)
Ecological mechanisms linking protected areas to surrounding lands. (2007) (544)
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005 (2009) (533)
Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation (2009) (532)
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Research Needs (2006) (531)
Towards an operational MODIS continuous field of percent tree cover algorithm: examples using AVHRR and MODIS data (2002) (519)
A Synthesis of Information on Rapid Land-cover Change for the Period 1981–2000 (2005) (491)
Classification trees: an alternative to traditional land cover classifiers (1996) (487)
Land‐use change and hydrologic processes: a major focus for the future (2004) (484)
A new global 1‐km dataset of percentage tree cover derived from remote sensing (2000) (466)
A Contemporary Assessment of Change in Humid Tropical Forests (2009) (445)
Land use change around protected areas: management to balance human needs and ecological function. (2007) (420)
Earth observations for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries (2007) (407)
Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation (2007) (407)
Global discrimination of land cover types from metrics derived from AVHRR pathfinder data (1995) (378)
The consequences of urban land transformation on net primary productivity in the United States (2004) (376)
Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia (2008) (376)
Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview (2006) (344)
Effects of Land Cover Conversion on Surface Climate (2002) (343)
Combining satellite data and biogeochemical models to estimate global effects of human‐induced land cover change on carbon emissions and primary productivity (1999) (339)
Detection of land cover changes using MODIS 250 m data (2002) (330)
Derivation and Evaluation of Global 1-km Fractional Vegetation Cover Data for Land Modeling (2000) (316)
Ecosystem management as a wicked problem (2017) (308)
Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires (2014) (305)
A Global 9-yr Biophysical Land Surface Dataset from NOAA AVHRR Data (2000) (302)
Toward a whole-landscape approach for sustainable land use in the tropics (2010) (296)
Public health impacts of the severe haze in Equatorial Asia in September–October 2015: demonstration of a new framework for informing fire management strategies to reduce downwind smoke exposure (2016) (286)
Global continuous fields of vegetation characteristics: A linear mixture model applied to multi-year 8 km AVHRR data (2000) (282)
El Niño and health risks from landscape fire emissions in Southeast Asia (2012) (273)
Daily and 3‐hourly variability in global fire emissions and consequences for atmospheric model predictions of carbon monoxide (2011) (267)
Multiple Criteria for Evaluating Machine Learning Algorithms for Land Cover Classification from Satellite Data (2000) (263)
A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation (2012) (258)
Continuous fields of vegetation characteristics at the global scale at 1‐km resolution (1999) (242)
Detecting Long-term Global Forest Change Using Continuous Fields of Tree-Cover Maps from 8-km Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Data for the Years 1982–99 (2004) (238)
Model–data synthesis in terrestrial carbon observation: methods, data requirements and data uncertainty specifications (2005) (235)
Interactions between protected areas and their surroundings in human-dominated tropical landscapes (2010) (234)
Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions (2014) (233)
Beware of per-pixel characterization of land cover (2000) (226)
Agricultural intensification increases deforestation fire activity in Amazonia (2008) (206)
Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere‐biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties (1995) (205)
Forecasting Fire Season Severity in South America Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (2011) (198)
Human modification of the landscape and surface climate in the next fifty years (2002) (197)
Role of land surface processes in monsoon development: East Asia and West Africa (2004) (183)
Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future (2012) (182)
Impact of sensor's point spread function on land cover characterization: Assessment and deconvolution (2002) (181)
Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system (2013) (178)
Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes (2014) (178)
Estimation of tree cover using MODIS data at global, continental and regional/local scales (2005) (175)
Global Land-Cover Change: Recent Progress, Remaining Challenges (2006) (173)
Understorey fire frequency and the fate of burned forests in southern Amazonia (2013) (172)
Monitoring the world's agriculture (2010) (165)
Is voluntary certification of tropical agricultural commodities achieving sustainability goals for small-scale producers? A review of the evidence (2017) (159)
High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon (2011) (158)
Pan-tropical monitoring of deforestation (2007) (157)
Urbanization, the energy ladder and forest transitions in India's emerging economy (2010) (150)
Metrics for land-scarce agriculture (2015) (150)
Annual multi-resolution detection of land cover conversion to oil palm in the Peruvian Amazon (2013) (149)
Ecosystems and land use change (2004) (148)
Fire emissions and regional air quality impacts from fires in oil palm, timber, and logging concessions in Indonesia (2015) (147)
Seasonal impact of regional outdoor biomass burning on air pollution in three Indian cities: Delhi, Bengaluru, and Pune (2018) (146)
Subpixel forest cover in central Africa from multisensor, multitemporal data (1997) (142)
Assessing Patterns of Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Compensation around a Central Indian Protected Area (2012) (140)
Rapid assessment of annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon using MODIS data (2005) (138)
Fire emissions from C3 and C4 vegetation and their influence on interannual variability of atmospheric CO2 and δ13CO2 (2005) (137)
Measuring nutritional diversity of national food supplies (2014) (137)
Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
Synergies and tradeoffs between cash crop production and food security: a case study in rural Ghana (2014) (132)
Significance of telecoupling for exploration of land-use change (2014) (130)
Connecting the dots: mapping habitat connectivity for tigers in central India (2016) (129)
Quantifying the influence of agricultural fires in northwest India on urban air pollution in Delhi, India (2018) (128)
Mapping cropping intensity of smallholder farms: A comparison of methods using multiple sensors (2013) (123)
The 250 m global land cover change product from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer of NASA's Earth Observing System (2000) (120)
Global and regional land cover characterization from satellite data: an introduction to the Special Issue (2000) (119)
Understanding the causes and consequences of differential decision-making in adaptation research: Adapting to a delayed monsoon onset in Gujarat, India (2015) (117)
Program on ecosystem change and society : an international research strategy for integrated social-ecological systems (2012) (115)
Mapping canopy damage from understory fires in Amazon forests using annual time series of Landsat and MODIS data (2011) (112)
Land-use-driven stream warming in southeastern Amazonia (2013) (112)
The NOAA/NASA pathfinder AVHRR 8-Km land data set (1997) (106)
Development of a MODIS tree cover validation data set for Western Province, Zambia (2002) (105)
Nature‐based tourism in Indian protected areas: New challenges for park management (2011) (105)
LAND-USE AND LAND-COVER CHANGE PATHWAYS AND IMPACTS (2004) (105)
Sources of anthropogenic fire ignitions on the peat-swamp landscape in Kalimantan, Indonesia (2016) (103)
Terrestrial Vegetation in the Coupled Human-Earth System: Contributions of Remote Sensing (2008) (102)
Long-term trends and interannual variability of forest, savanna and agricultural fires in South America (2013) (102)
Global land cover characterization from satellite data: from research to operational implementation? (1999) (101)
Estimates of fire emissions from an active deforestation region in the southern Amazon based on satellite data and biogeochemical modelling (2008) (99)
Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica (2013) (95)
Export-oriented deforestation in Mato Grosso: harbinger or exception for other tropical forests? (2013) (95)
Comparisons of 210Pb and Pollen Methods for Determining Rates of Estuarine Sediment Accumulation (1982) (92)
Trade and the equitability of global food nutrient distribution (2018) (89)
Ecology, economy and management of an agroindustrial frontier landscape in the southeast Amazon (2013) (86)
Physical Landscape Correlates of the Expansion of Mechanized Agriculture in Mato Grosso, Brazil (2005) (85)
North Tropical Atlantic influence on western Amazon fire season variability (2011) (84)
Delineating the Ecosystems Containing Protected Areas for Monitoring and Management (2011) (82)
Enhanced algorithm performance for land cover classification from remotely sensed data using bagging and boosting (2001) (81)
Natural climate solutions are not enough (2019) (81)
Achieving forest carbon information with higher certainty: A five-part plan (2010) (79)
Effectiveness of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for reducing fires on oil palm concessions in Indonesia from 2012 to 2015 (2016) (78)
Chapter 6: Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles (2014) (78)
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries: Considerations for monitoring and measuring (2006) (76)
Living with Wildlife and Mitigating Conflicts Around Three Indian Protected Areas (2013) (76)
Assessment of deforestation in near real time over the Brazilian Amazon using multitemporal fraction images derived from Terra MODIS (2005) (75)
Extreme Air Pollution in Global Megacities (2016) (75)
Alternative cereals can improve water use and nutrient supply in India (2018) (73)
Range-wide analysis of wildlife habitat: Implications for conservation (2010) (73)
Diagnosing spatial biases and uncertainties in global fire emissions inventories: Indonesia as regional case study (2019) (72)
One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment (1990) (72)
The Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Energy and Water Balance in Mato Grosso, Brazil (2006) (70)
Healthy, affordable and climate-friendly diets in India (2018) (64)
Biophysical and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Forest Transitions at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales (2011) (61)
Mapping Species Composition of Forests and Tree Plantations in Northeastern Costa Rica with an Integration of Hyperspectral and Multitemporal Landsat Imagery (2015) (61)
From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales (2010) (61)
Synergies and trade-offs for sustainable agriculture: nutritional yields and climate-resilience for cereal crops in central India. (2016) (60)
Interannual variability and decadal trend of global fractional vegetation cover from 1982 to 2000 (2003) (60)
Spatial and temporal deforestation dynamics in protected and unprotected dry forests: a case study from Myanmar (Burma) (2009) (60)
Ten facts about land systems for sustainability (2022) (59)
Conservation and management in human-dominated landscapes: Case studies from India (2010) (55)
Chapter G2 Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change (2012) (55)
Burned-Area Mapping of the Serengeti–Mara Region Using MODIS Reflectance Data (2007) (55)
Spatial distributions of pollen in surface sediments of the Potomac estuary1 (1981) (54)
Assessing the sustainability of post-Green Revolution cereals in India (2019) (50)
Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes (2014) (50)
Depopulation of rural landscapes exacerbates fire activity in the western Amazon (2012) (48)
Regional air quality impacts of future fire emissions in Sumatra and Kalimantan (2015) (47)
Urban versus rural health impacts attributable to PM2.5 and O3 in northern India (2018) (47)
Sensitivity of population smoke exposure to fire locations in Equatorial Asia (2015) (47)
Texture classification of logged forests in tropical Africa using machine-learning algorithms (2003) (46)
The Expansion of Intensive Agriculture and Ranching in Brazilian Amazonia (2013) (46)
Fire‐related carbon emissions from land use transitions in southern Amazonia (2008) (45)
Wildlife tourists in India's emerging economy: potential for a conservation constituency? (2012) (45)
Sensitivity of grain yields to historical climate variability in India (2019) (45)
Groundwater depletion will reduce cropping intensity in India (2021) (44)
LAND USE AND CLIMATE (2012) (44)
Dynamics and determinants of land change in India: integrating satellite data with village socioeconomics (2016) (44)
Missing emissions from post-monsoon agricultural fires in northwestern India: regional limitations of MODIS burned area and active fire products (2019) (44)
Understanding dietary and staple food transitions in China from multiple scales (2018) (43)
Consequences of land use change for ecosystem services: A future unlike the past (2004) (42)
Sensitivity of crop cover to climate variability: insights from two Indian agro-ecoregions. (2015) (41)
Examining the relationship between environmental factors and conflict in pastoralist areas of East Africa. (2016) (40)
Impact of Historical Changes in Coarse Cereals Consumption in India on Micronutrient Intake and Anemia Prevalence (2018) (40)
Land cover change interacts with drought severity to change fire regimes in Western Amazonia. (2014) (39)
Greater stability of carbon capture in species-rich natural forests compared to species-poor plantations (2020) (39)
Land-use dynamics influence estimates of carbon sequestration potential in tropical second-growth forest (2017) (39)
Past and future sensitivity of primary production to human modification of the landscape (2002) (39)
Fragmentation increases wind disturbance impacts on forest structure and carbon stocks in a western Amazonian landscape. (2017) (37)
LAND USE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY A Synthesis of Rates and Consequences during the Period of Satellite Imagery (2012) (37)
Future fire emissions associated with projected land use change in Sumatra (2015) (35)
Linking Land-Change Science and Policy: Current Lessons and Future Integration (2006) (35)
Trade‐offs in Land‐Use Decisions: Towards a Framework for Assessing Multiple Ecosystem Responses to Land‐Use Change (2013) (35)
A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (2014) (32)
Biogas Cook Stoves for Healthy and Sustainable Diets? A Case Study in Southern India (2015) (31)
Land Use Change and Biodiversity (2012) (31)
Pushing the planetary boundaries. (2012) (30)
Identifying Important Forest Patches for the Long-Term Persistence of the Endangered Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus Chrysomelas) (2010) (30)
Fires, Smoke Exposure, and Public Health: An Integrative Framework to Maximize Health Benefits From Peatland Restoration (2019) (30)
Land use and local climate: A case study near Santa Cruz, Bolivia (2004) (29)
Global change and our common future: papers from a forum (1989) (29)
Targeted reforestation could reverse declines in connectivity for understory birds in a tropical habitat corridor. (2016) (28)
Winter crop sensitivity to inter-annual climate variability in central India (2014) (27)
Bits and pieces: Forest fragmentation by linear intrusions in India (2020) (26)
Climate, landowner residency, and land cover predict local scale fire activity in the Western Amazon (2015) (25)
Land Use Change around Nature Reserves: Implications for Sustaining Biodiversity1 (2007) (25)
Planetary health: from concept to decisive action. (2019) (23)
The missing economic risks in assessments of climate change impacts (2019) (23)
The association between crop and income diversity and farmer intra-household dietary diversity in India (2020) (22)
Impact of biogas interventions on forest biomass and regeneration in southern India (2017) (22)
A Glimpse Out the Window: Landscapes, Livelihoods, and the Environment (2006) (22)
An Automated Approach to Map Winter Cropped Area of Smallholder Farms across Large Scales Using MODIS Imagery (2017) (21)
Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture (2013) (20)
Effective monitoring of agriculture: a response. (2012) (19)
ISLSCP II University of Maryland Global Land Cover Classifications, 1992-1993 (2010) (18)
Observing and Monitoring Land Use and Land Cover Change (2013) (18)
Crop residue burning practices across north India inferred from household survey data: Bridging gaps in satellite observations (2020) (18)
Land cover change detection with change vector in the red and near-infrared reflectance space (1998) (18)
Human Impacts Flatten Rainforest-Savanna Gradient and Reduce Adaptive Diversity in a Rainforest Bird (2010) (18)
Chapter G 2 Carbon emissions from land use and landcover change (2012) (17)
ISLSCP II C4 Vegetation Percentage (2009) (17)
Changes in the dry tropical forests in Central India with human use (2016) (17)
Targeting restoration sites to improve connectivity in a tiger conservation landscape in India (2018) (16)
Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human‐dominated landscapes (2020) (16)
Detection of delay in post-monsoon agricultural burning across Punjab, India: potential drivers and consequences for air quality (2019) (16)
Role of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation in the Transport of Smoke From Sumatra to the Malay Peninsula During Severe Non‐El Niño Haze Events (2018) (16)
Erratum: Long-term trends and interannual variability of forest, savanna and agricultural fires in South America (Carbon Management (2013) 4:6 (617-638)) (2014) (15)
Navigating paved paradise: Evaluating landscape permeability to movement for large mammals in two conservation priority landscapes in India (2020) (15)
Land use change around nature reserves: implications for sustaining biodiversity. (2004) (15)
A comparative assessment of the financial costs and carbon benefits of REDD + strategies in Southeast Asia (2016) (14)
Inadequate Zinc Intake in India: Past, Present, and Future (2019) (14)
ISLSCP II Continuous Fields of Vegetation Cover, 1992-1993 (2009) (14)
Remote Sensing and Image Processing (2013) (14)
Biogeosciences Carbon emissions from land use and landcover change (2012) (14)
Resettlement and landscape-level conservation: Corridors, human-wildlife conflict, and forest use in Central India (2019) (13)
174 Ecosystems and Human Well-being : Scenarios BOXES 7 (2006) (12)
Substitution of inland fisheries with aquaculture and chicken undermines human nutrition in the Peruvian Amazon (2021) (12)
Aligning conservation efforts with resource use around protected areas (2018) (11)
Synthesis : Condition and Trends in Systems and Services , Trade-offs for Human Well-being , and Implications for the Future Coordinating Lead (2006) (11)
THE MODIS 500 METER GLOBAL VEGETATION CONTINUOUS FIELD PRODUCTS (2004) (11)
Improved household living standards can restore dry tropical forests (2021) (11)
LONG TERM CHANGE DETECTION USING CONTINUOUS FIELDS OF TREE COVER FROM 8KM AVHRR DATA FOR THE YEARS 1982-2000 (2002) (11)
Conservation challenge at the agricultural frontier: deforestation, fire, and land use dynamics in Mato Grosso (2007) (10)
Title Long-term trends and interannual variability of forest , savanna and agricultural fires in South America Permalink (2015) (10)
Factors associated with long-term species composition in dry tropical forests of Central India (2016) (10)
Firewood, forests, and fringe populations: Exploring the inequitable socioeconomic dimensions of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) adoption in India. (2021) (10)
Contributions of financial, social and natural capital to food security around Kanha National Park in central India (2020) (10)
Developing the spectral trajectories of major land cover change processes (1998) (10)
Effects of land-use history on sedimentation in the Potomac Estuary, Maryland (1986) (10)
Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk (2021) (10)
Development of 500 meter vegetation continuous field maps using MODIS data (2003) (9)
Texture features for land cover change detection at 250 m resolution-an application of machine learning feature subset selection (2000) (9)
State of the art in simulating future changes in ecosystem services (2005) (8)
Sustainable Pathways for Meeting Future Food Demand (2019) (8)
Utilization of SAR and optical remote sensing data for habitat conservation in the tropical forest of Brazil (1995) (8)
Red and infrared space partitioning for detecting land cover change (1998) (7)
Celebrating 50 Years (2008) (7)
The improved Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) version 3: contribution of savanna, forest, deforestation, and peat fires to the global fire emissions budget (2010) (7)
Detecting land cover changes based on their trajectories in the spectral space (2000) (7)
Shedding light on the evidence blind spots confounding the multiple objectives of SDG 2 (2020) (7)
Land cover dynamics investigation using parallel computers (1995) (7)
Land management can contribute to net zero. (2022) (7)
Improved Recognition of Spectrally Mixed Land Cover Classes Using Spatial Textures and Voting Classifications (2001) (6)
Corrigendum: The Amazon basin in transition (2012) (6)
A Changing Planet (2020) (6)
How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration (2022) (6)
The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A Biography of an Ingenious Species (2014) (6)
A landscape approach to conservation and development in the Central Indian Highlands (2016) (6)
Typological Responses of Ecosystems to Land Use Change (2013) (6)
India’s Commitments to Increase Tree and Forest Cover: Consequences for Water Supply and Agriculture Production within the Central Indian Highlands (2021) (6)
Chapter 2 Analytical Approaches for Assessing Ecosystem Condition and Human Well-being Coordinating Lead (2006) (6)
Proportional estimation of land cover characteristics from satellite data (1996) (6)
Deforesting the Earth: from prehistory to global crisis: an abridgement - by Michael Williams (2007) (6)
Evaluation of ISLSCP Initiative II satellite‐based land cover data sets and assessment of progress in land cover data for global modeling (2006) (5)
Rapid cytocidal and cytostatic chemosensitivity test by measuring total amount of mRNA. (1997) (5)
Migration, Assets, and Forest Degradation in a Tropical Deciduous Forest of South Asia (2020) (5)
Signi fi cance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change (2013) (5)
Application of vegetation continuous fields data in atmosphere-biosphere interaction models (2000) (5)
Post-lockdown Spread of COVID-19 from Cities to Vulnerable Forest-Fringe Villages in Central India (2020) (4)
Corrigendum: Missing emissions from post-monsoon agricultural fires in northwestern India: regional limitations of MODIS burned area and active fire products (2019 Environ. Res. Commun. 1 011007) (2019) (4)
MODIS 250m AND 500m TIME SERIES DATA FOR CHANGE DETECTION AND CONTINUOUS REPRESENTATION OF VEGETATION CHARACTERISTICS (2002) (4)
Convincing evidence of tropical forest decline (2008) (4)
Intra-annual dynamics of water stress in the central Indian Highlands from 2002 to 2012 (2016) (4)
Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape (2022) (4)
Ectomycorrhizal diversity and community structure in stands of Quercus oleoides in the seasonally dry tropical forests of Costa Rica (2016) (4)
Space‐based ecological observations: the NASA decadal survey (2006) (4)
Iterative least squares approach to the mixture modeling problem (1995) (3)
TRADE-OFFS AND SYNERGIES AMONG CLIMATE RESILIENCE, HUMAN NUTRITION, AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY OF CEREALS – WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AGENDA? (2018) (3)
Quantifying fluctuations in winter productive cropped area in the Central Indian Highlands (2016) (3)
Sustainability in Higher Education for the Global South: A Conversation across Geographies and Disciplines (2016) (3)
Using citizen science to parse climatic and land cover influences on bird occupancy in a tropical biodiversity hotspot (2022) (3)
What Would Nature Do? (2020) (2)
LBA-ECO LC-22 Land Cover from MODIS Vegetation Indices, Mato Grosso, Brazil (2013) (2)
Distinguishing between conversion and maintenance fires in the Amazon (2006) (2)
What Would Nature Do? A Guide for Our Uncertain Times (2020) (2)
LBA Regional Land Cover from AVHRR, 1-km, 1992-1993 (Hansen et al.) (2003) (2)
India's Environmental Policy Standoff: Reimagining Stakeholder Engagement Spaces (2021) (2)
Land Use Intensification around Nature Reserves in Mountains: Implications for Biodiversity (2005) (2)
Sensitivity of seasonal migration to climatic variability in central India (2021) (2)
Singapore Haze in June 2013: Consequences of Land-Use Change, Fires, and Anomalous Meteorology for Air Quality in Equatorial Asia (2014) (2)
State of art in describing future changes in ecosystem services (2005) (2)
LBA Regional Land Cover from AVHRR, 8-km, 1984 (DeFries et al.) (2003) (2)
Introducing ‘Anthropocene Science’: A New International Journal for Addressing Human Impact on the Resilience of Planet Earth (2021) (2)
Validation of MODIS annual deforestation monitoring with CBERS, Landsat, and field data (2005) (2)
Multiple cropping alone does not improve year-round food security among smallholders in rural India (2021) (2)
The association between crop and income diversity and farmer intra-household dietary diversity in India (2020) (1)
Integrating hyperspectral and multitemporal Landsat imagery to monitor tree plantation expansion in northeastern Costa Rica (2014) (1)
Pathways towards people-oriented conservation in a human-dominated landscape: the network for conserving Central India (2021) (1)
A framework for sustainability in remote coupled (2016) (1)
Scientists rebut NYTimes op-ed ‘To Save the Planet, Don’t Plant Trees’ (2014) (1)
The Future of Small Farms: Innovations for Inclusive Transformation (2021) (1)
Preface-Addressing Issues of Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability on the Ground:Challenges and Opportunities (2016) (1)
Extreme smog challenge of India intensified by increasing lower tropospheric stability (2021) (1)
Sustainability Education as a Pathway to Minority Participation in STEM (2020) (1)
Tropical forests, deforestation and ecosystems services: contributions of remote sensing. (2003) (1)
Mapping smallholder forest plantations in Andhra Pradesh, India using multitemporal Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 S10 data (2020) (1)
Food security and livelihoods of post-resettlement households around Kanha National Park (2020) (1)
Improving Oil Palm Classification in the Peruvian Amazon by Combining Active and Passive Remote Sensing Data (2011) (1)
The Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED4) Burned Area Data Set (2012) (1)
Research, part of a Special Feature on Scenarios of global ecosystem services Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview (2006) (1)
ESTIMATED GLOBAL HUMAN MORTALITY FROM VEGETATION FIRE SMOKE (2011) (0)
Combining socioeconomic and biophysical data to identify people-centric restoration opportunities (2023) (0)
A scientific tool to address severe haze in Equatorial Asia (2017) (0)
Fires, Smoke Exposure, and Public Health (2019) (0)
Scope: Opportunities for International Study of Global Environmental Issues. (1985) (0)
SAFARI 2000 Tree Cover from AVHRR, 1-km, 1992-1993 (DeFries et al.) (2002) (0)
QnAs with Ruth S. DeFries. Interview by Nicholette Zeliadt. (2012) (0)
A Multi-sensor Approach to Identify Crop Sensitivity Related to Climate Variability in Central India (2012) (0)
Correction: Human Impacts Flatten Rainforest-Savanna Gradient and Reduce Adaptive Diversity in a Rainforest Bird (2010) (0)
Why India Needs a Unique Approach to Sustainability (1970) (0)
Author Correction: Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being (2023) (0)
The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus (2022) (0)
EDITORIAL (2011) (0)
Assessing the Impact of Recurrent Fires on Forests in Southern Amazonia (2008) (0)
A remote sensing assessment of the effectiveness of smallholder irrigation to buffer against climate shocks across India (2013) (0)
Socio-economic, Biophysical, and Perceptional Factors Associated with Agricultural Adaptation of Smallholder Farmers in Gujarat, Northwest India (2012) (0)
Listening for change: quantifying the impact of ecological restoration on soundscapes in a tropical dry forest (2023) (0)
Getting Our Priorities Straight (2008) (0)
A Framework for Assessing Ecosystem Responses to Land Use Change (2004) (0)
Bridging science, policy and practice for sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework (2023) (0)
MODIS Vegetation Cover Products for Estimating Tree Cover and Monitoring Change (2001) (0)
We Built an App to Detect Areas Most Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Haze (2019) (0)
Chapter 4 State of the Art in Simulating Future Changes in Ecosystem Services Coordinating Lead (2006) (0)
Vulnerability of carbon stocks in tropical forests (2009) (0)
Correction to: The association between crop and income diversity and farmer intra-household dietary diversity in India (2021) (0)
Human Disturbance around Tropical Nature Reserves and Implications for Biodiversity (2002) (0)
LBA-ECO LC-22 Vegetation Cover Types from MODIS, 500-m, South America: 2000-2001 (2012) (0)
A systems lens to evaluate the compound human health impacts of anthropogenic activities (2021) (0)
Impacts of Landscape Context on Patterns of Wind Downfall Damage in a Fragmented Amazonian Landscape (2015) (0)
A multi-sensor burned area algorithm for crop residue burning in northwestern India: validation and sources of error (2017) (0)
Highlip The : : I---Vm " l I-I lv Pathfinder L . L-IIl , 8-Km Land Data Set (2006) (0)
The Frequency and Fate of Understory Forest Fires in Amazonia (2012) (0)
Robust assessment comes of age (2017) (0)
LBA Regional Land Cover from AVHRR, 1-Degree, 1987 (Defries and Townshend) (2003) (0)
Extending AGU's digital library (2006) (0)
Editorial: Paths of Transition/TOC/Contributes (2009) (0)
Multiple pathways of expansion of commodity crops in tropical forest landscapes (2014) (0)
Changing Dynamics of Forest Clearing in Mato Grosso: Implications for Ecosystem Processes (2004) (0)
LBA Regional Tree Cover from AVHRR, 1-km, 1992-1993 (DeFries et al.) (2003) (0)
Climate Changes Projection for Land and Forest Fire Risk Assessment in West Kalimantan (2017) (0)
Robust assessment comes of age (2017) (0)
Relationship between the interannual variability of satellite-observed fires and sea surface temperature anomalies (2011) (0)
LBA-ECO LC-22 Field Validation of MODIS Deforestation Detection, Brazil, 2003-2004 (2014) (0)
Influence of daily versus monthly fire emissions on atmospheric model applications in the tropics (2012) (0)
Our Common Future Comes of Age (2007) (0)
SAFARI 2000 Land Cover from AVHRR, 1-Deg, 1987 (Defries and Townshend) (2002) (0)
Incorporating SST seasonal forecast into drought and fire predictions in western Amazon (2011) (0)
LBA-ECO LC-39 MODIS Active Fire and Frequency Data for South America: 2000-2007 (2013) (0)
OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE NEXT GENERATION EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE: A REPORT FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE (2021) (0)
New Assessment Focuses on Ecosystems, Human Well-Being, and the Climate System (2006) (0)
LBA-ECO LC-39 Modeled Carbon Flux from Deforestation, Mato Grosso, Brazil: 2000-2006 (2013) (0)
Humanity's Prospects on a Finite Planet (2021) (0)
SAFARI 2000 Land Cover from AVHRR, 8-km, 1984 (DeFries et al.) (2002) (0)
The MODIS Vegetative Cover and Change Products: Validation and Analysis (2002) (0)
Mapping smallholder forest plantations in Andhra Pradesh, India using multitemporal harmonized landsat sentinel‐2 S10 data (2021) (0)
Global Change and Our Common Future: Papers from a Forum. Papers from the Committee on Global Change, National Research Council, 1989. (1989) (0)
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being (2023) (0)
SAFARI 2000 Land Cover from AVHRR, 1-km, 1992-1993 (Hansen et al.) (2002) (0)
Unmasking the story behind forest carbon flux : an integrated remote-sensing based approach (2018) (0)
Using passive acoustic monitoring to examine the impacts of ecological restoration on faunal biodiversity in the Western Ghats (2023) (0)
Quantifying the role of fire in the carbon cycle around the globe, and its climate sensitivity in equatorial Asia (2008) (0)
Prioritizing landscapes to reconcile biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and human well-being in India (2022) (0)
High-resolution hybrid MODIS-Landsat estimation of post-1 monsoon agricultural burned area in northwestern India 2 (2018) (0)
Using Continuous Fields of Tree Cover Maps from Satellite Data to Assess Degradation within Ecoregions, An Example from South America (2001) (0)
Cascading Delays in the Monsoon Rice Growing Season and Postmonsoon Agricultural Fires Likely Exacerbate Air Pollution in North India (2022) (0)
Landsat@50 (2022) (0)
Development of a MODIS Validation Tree Cover Data Set for Western Zambia and its Use in Testing MODIS Data in Mapping Tree Cover (2001) (0)
LBA-ECO LC-22 Post-deforestation Land Use, Mato Grosso, Brazil: 2001-2005 (2012) (0)
Title: Mapping Canopy Damage from Understory Fires in Amazon Forests Using Annual Time Series of Landsat and MODIS Data (2011) (0)
Monitoring the Extent of Forests on National to Global Scales (2001) (0)
Carbon stock in smallholder chocolate forest in southern Cameroon and potential role in climate change mitigation (2017) (0)
Erratum to: Living with Wildlife and Mitigating Conflicts Around Three Indian Protected Areas (2013) (0)
Firewood, Forests, and Fringe Populations: Exploring the Inequitable Socioeconomic Dimensions of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Adoption in India (2021) (0)
Revised estimates of agricultural fire emissions for Punjab, India: bridging gaps in satellite observations using household survey data (2019) (0)
Correction to: The association between crop and income diversity and farmer intra-household dietary diversity in India (2021) (0)
Methods to Map Cropping Intensity Using MODIS Data (Invited) (2013) (0)
Seeing the forest for the streams: a multiscale analysis of land use change and the integrity of freshwater ecosystems in the southeastern Amazon (2012) (0)
Coupled Effects of Climatic and Socio-economic Factors on Winter Cropping in India (2015) (0)
Reducing Hazardous Waste Generation (2003) (0)
Urban-rural variations in air quality and health impacts in northern India (2017) (0)
LBA-ECO LC-15 Vegetation Cover Types from MODIS, 1-km, Amazon Basin: 2000-2001 (2011) (0)
Mitigating near-term future ambient air pollution increases over India with reductions in the transportation and domestic combustion sectors (2018) (0)
Interactive comment on “ Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products ” by L . Giglio et al (2010) (0)
Irrigation as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change: The Relative Influence of Groundwater and Canal Irrigation on Winter Crop Production and its Sensitivity to Weather Variability in India (2014) (0)
Tracking deforestation and tree plantation expansion in a Costa Rican biological corridor using a Landsat time series (2012) (0)
Climate data records from environmental satellites [poster] (2004) (0)
A multidimensional approach to food production decision making (2017) (0)
Synergies and tradeoffs between cash crop production and food security: a case study in rural Ghana (2014) (0)
Editorial (2010) (0)

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