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Ruth DeFries

Climate Central(US)Ecologie & Evolution(FR)Columbia University(US)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Fire effects on ecosystems, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Most-Cited Works

→ Global Consequences of Land Use(2005)12,732 cited
→ Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009)(2010)3,221 cited
→ Fire in the Earth System(2009)3,195 cited
→ Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach(2000)2,322 cited
→ Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment(2009)2,207 cited
→ The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research(1998)1,609 cited

→ CO2 emissions from forest loss(2009)

1,412 cited

→ Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century(2010)1,403 cited

→ A global overview of the conservation status of tropical dry forests(2006)1,382 cited

→ Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change(2012)1,330 cited