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Ruth DeFries
also known as DEFRIES Ruth, DeFries, R.S., DeFries, Ruth
Climate Central · Ecologie & Evolution · Columbia University · Central University of Karnataka
About this author
Works
453
Cited by
74,031
h-index
114
i10
243
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Top papers
Global Consequences of Land Use
Jonathan A. Foley, Ruth DeFries, Gregory P. Asner, et al.
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2005
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Science
↗ 12,824
OA
Fire in the Earth System
David M. J. S. Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, et al.
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2009
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Science
↗ 3,236
OA
Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009)
Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Louis Giglio, et al.
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2010
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Atmospheric chemistry and physics
↗ 3,229
OA
Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach
Matthew C. Hansen, Ruth DeFries, J. R. Townshend, et al.
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2000
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International Journal of Remote Sensing
↗ 2,329
Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Stephen R. Carpenter, Harold A. Mooney, John Agard, et al.
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2009
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
↗ 2,213
OA
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research
Chris Justice, Éric Vermote, J. R. Townshend, et al.
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1998
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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
↗ 1,617
CO2 emissions from forest loss
Guido R. van der Werf, Douglas C. Morton, Ruth DeFries, et al.
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2009
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Nature Geoscience
↗ 1,414
OA
Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century
Ruth DeFries, Thomas K. Rudel, María Uriarte, et al.
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2010
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Nature Geoscience
↗ 1,411
A global overview of the conservation status of tropical dry forests
Lera Miles, Adrian C. Newton, Ruth DeFries, et al.
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2006
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Journal of Biogeography
↗ 1,387
Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change
R. A. Houghton, Joanna I. House, Julia Pongratz, et al.
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2012
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Biogeosciences
↗ 1,336
OA
The Amazon basin in transition
Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro Araùjo, Paulo Artaxo, et al.
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2012
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Nature
↗ 1,263
A human-driven decline in global burned area
Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton, Louis Giglio, et al.
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2017
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Science
↗ 1,244
OA
Books
What Would Nature Do? - a Guide for Our Uncertain Times
2021
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Columbia University Press
Big Ratchet
2014
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Basic Books
Ecosystems and Land Use Change
2013
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Wiley & Sons, Limited, John