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A Glimpse Out the Window: Landscapes, Livelihoods, and the Environment

A contemporary assessment of change in humid tropical forests

scientific article

A global overview of the conservation status of tropical dry forests

article published in 2006

A human-driven decline in global burned area

scientific article

Achieving forest carbon information with higher certainty: A five-part plan

Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970-2005

scientific article

Aligning conservation efforts with resource use around protected areas

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Alternative cereals can improve water use and nutrient supply in India.

scientific article

Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin

article

An Automated Approach to Map Winter Cropped Area of Smallholder Farms across Large Scales Using MODIS Imagery

article

Annual multi-resolution detection of land cover conversion to oil palm in the Peruvian Amazon

scholarly article

Assessing Patterns of Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Compensation around a Central Indian Protected Area ⬇️

scientific article published on December 5, 2012

Assessing the sustainability of post-Green Revolution cereals in India

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products

article by L. Giglio et al published 31 March 2010 in Biogeosciences

Assessment of Deforestation in Near Real Time Over the Brazilian Amazon Using Multitemporal Fraction Images Derived From Terra MODIS

article

Author Correction: Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being

scholarly article published in 2023

Biogas Cook Stoves for Healthy and Sustainable Diets? A Case Study in Southern India

scientific article

CO2 emissions from forest loss

Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change

article by R. A. Houghton et al published 13 December 2012 in Biogeosciences

Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s

scientific article

Changing drivers of deforestation and new opportunities for conservation

scientific article

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2008)

Climate resilience of dry season cereals in India

Climate, landowner residency, and land cover predict local scale fire activity in the Western Amazon

scientific article published in 2015

Combining satellite data and biogeochemical models to estimate global effects of human-induced land cover change on carbon emissions and primary productivity

scientific article published in 1999

Convincing evidence of tropical forest decline

scholarly article

Correction: Human Impacts Flatten Rainforest-Savanna Gradient and Reduce Adaptive Diversity in a Rainforest Bird.

scientific article

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)

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Crop residue burning practices across north India inferred from household survey data: bridging gaps in satellite observations

scientific article published on 29 February 2020

Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon

scholarly article

Daily and 3-hourly variability in global fire emissions and consequences for atmospheric model predictions of carbon monoxide

article

Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk

scientific article published in 2021

Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s

scientific article published on 9 January 2012

Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

scientific article published on 08 February 2010

Delineating the Ecosystems Containing Protected Areas for Monitoring and Management

article

Depopulation of rural landscapes exacerbates fire activity in the western Amazon ⬇️

scientific article published on December 10, 2012

Derivation and Evaluation of Global 1-km Fractional Vegetation Cover Data for Land Modeling

article

Detection of delay in post-monsoon agricultural burning across Punjab, India: potential drivers and consequences for air quality

scientific article published in January 2021

Detection of delay in post-monsoon agricultural burning across Punjab, India: potential drivers and consequences for air quality

scientific article published on 2 February 2019

Diagnosing spatial biases and uncertainties in global fire emissions inventories: Indonesia as regional case study

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Dynamics and determinants of land change in India: integrating satellite data with village socioeconomics

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

Earth observations for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries

article

Ecological mechanisms linking protected areas to surrounding lands

scientific article

Ecology, economy and management of an agroindustrial frontier landscape in the southeast Amazon

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

Ecology. Millennium ecosystem assessment: research needs

scientific article

Ecosystem management as a wicked problem.

scientific article

Editorial

Editorial: Paths of Transition/TOC/Contributes

Effective monitoring of agriculture: a response

scientific article published in February 2012

El Niño and health risks from landscape fire emissions in Southeast Asia

scientific article

El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions simultaneously reduce the production of multiple cereals across India

scientific article published on 9 September 2024

Erratum to: Living with Wildlife and Mitigating Conflicts Around Three Indian Protected Areas

scientific article published on 19 October 2013

Erratum: Corrigendum: The Amazon basin in transition

scientific article published in Nature

Estimated global mortality attributable to smoke from landscape fires

scientific article (publication date: May 2012)

Estimates of fire emissions from an active deforestation region in the southern Amazon based on satellite data and biogeochemical modelling

article

Examining the relationship between environmental factors and conflict in pastoralist areas of East Africa

scientific article

Expert review of the science underlying nature-based climate solutions

Export-oriented deforestation in Mato Grosso: harbinger or exception for other tropical forests?

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

Extending AGU's digital library

Fire emissions and regional air quality impacts from fires in oil palm, timber, and logging concessions in Indonesia

scholarly article by Miriam E Marlier et al published 1 August 2015 in Environmental Research Letters

Fire emissions from C3and C4vegetation and their influence on interannual variability of atmospheric CO2and δ13CO2

Fire in the Earth system

scientific article

Fire-related carbon emissions from land use transitions in southern Amazonia

scholarly article

Fires, Smoke Exposure, and Public Health: An Integrative Framework to Maximize Health Benefits From Peatland Restoration

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Food security and livelihoods of post-resettlement households around Kanha National Park

scientific article published on 28 December 2020

Forecasting fire season severity in South America using sea surface temperature anomalies

scientific article published on November 2011

Fragmentation increases wind disturbance impacts on forest structure and carbon stocks in a western Amazonian landscape

scientific article

Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

article

From plot to landscape scale: linking tropical biodiversity measurements across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2010

Future fire emissions associated with projected land use change in Sumatra

scientific article published on 18 August 2014

Global consequences of land use

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2005)

Global distribution of C<sub>3</sub>and C<sub>4</sub>vegetation: Carbon cycle implications

scientific article published on 23 May 2003

Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009)

scholarly article published in 2010

Global nutrition. Metrics for land-scarce agriculture

scientific article published in July 2015

Greater stability of carbon capture in species-rich natural forests compared to species-poor plantations

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Healthy, affordable and climate-friendly diets in India

article by Narasimha D. Rao et al published March 2018 in Global Environmental Change

Human impacts flatten rainforest-savanna gradient and reduce adaptive diversity in a rainforest bird

scientific article

Human modification of the landscape and surface climate in the next fifty years

scientific article published in 2002

Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

scientific article

Impact of Historical Changes in Coarse Cereals Consumption in India on Micronutrient Intake and Anemia Prevalence

Impact of sensor's point spread function on land cover characterization: assessment and deconvolution

article

Improved household living standards can restore dry tropical forests

Inadequate Zinc Intake in India: Past, Present, and Future

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Interactions between protected areas and their surroundings in human-dominated tropical landscapes

Interannual Variability and Decadal Trend of Global Fractional Vegetation Cover from 1982 to 2000

article by Xubin Zeng et al published October 2003 in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Introducing ‘Anthropocene Science’: A New International Journal for Addressing Human Impact on the Resilience of Planet Earth

Is voluntary certification of tropical agricultural commodities achieving sustainability goals for small-scale producers? A review of the evidence

article

Land cover and forest health indicator datasets for central India using very-high resolution satellite data

Land cover change interacts with drought severity to change fire regimes in Western Amazonia.

scientific article published in January 2014

Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica

scholarly article by M E Fagan et al published 5 August 2013 in Environmental Research Letters

Land management can contribute to net zero

scientific article published on 10 June 2022

Land use change around nature reserves: implications for sustaining biodiversity

scientific article

Land use change around protected areas: management to balance human needs and ecological function

scientific article

Land-use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function

article published in 2004

Land-use-driven stream warming in southeastern Amazonia

scientific article

Living with wildlife and mitigating conflicts around three Indian protected areas

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

Long-term trends and interannual variability of forest, savanna and agricultural fires in South America

Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires

scientific article

Mapping Species Composition of Forests and Tree Plantations in Northeastern Costa Rica with an Integration of Hyperspectral and Multitemporal Landsat Imagery

article

Mapping canopy damage from understory fires in Amazon forests using annual time series of Landsat and MODIS data

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

Mapping cropping intensity of smallholder farms: A comparison of methods using multiple sensors

scholarly article

Mapping smallholder forest plantations in Andhra Pradesh, India using multitemporal harmonized landsat sentinel‐2 S10 data

scientific article published on 22 August 2021

Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere-biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties

scientific article published on 04 February 2004

Measuring nutritional diversity of national food supplies

Migration, assets, and forest degradation in a tropical deciduous forest of South Asia

scientific article published in 2021

Missing emissions from post-monsoon agricultural fires in northwestern India: regional limitations of MODIS burned area and active fire products

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Missing emissions from post-monsoon agricultural fires in northwestern India: regional limitations of MODIS burned area and active fire products

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Model-data synthesis in terrestrial carbon observation: methods, data requirements and data uncertainty specifications

article

Monitoring the world's agriculture

scientific article published in Nature

Multiple cropping alone does not improve year-round food security among smallholders in rural India

scientific article published in June 2021

Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes

Natural climate solutions are not enough

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Observing and monitoring land use and land cover change

scientific article published in 2004

Pathways towards people-oriented conservation in a human-dominated landscape: the network for conserving Central India

scientific article published on 30 July 2021

Physical Landscape Correlates of the Expansion of Mechanized Agriculture in Mato Grosso, Brazil

article

Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future

article by Ruth S. DeFries et al published June 2012 in BioScience

Planetary health: from concept to decisive action

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Preface

Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being

scholarly article published in 2023

Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems

article

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

article

Pushing the Planetary Boundaries

scientific article published in Science

Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes

article

QnAs with Ruth S. DeFries. Interview by Nicholette Zeliadt

scientific article published on 7 May 2012

Quantifying fluctuations in winter productive cropped area in the Central Indian Highlands

article

Range-wide analysis of wildlife habitat: Implications for conservation

article

Rapid Assessment of Annual Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Using MODIS Data

article

Regional air quality impacts of future fire emissions in Sumatra and Kalimantan

Robust assessment comes of age

scientific article published on 01 September 2017

Role of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the Transport of Smoke From Sumatra to the Malay Peninsula During Severe Non-El Niño Haze Events

scholarly article

Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

scientific article

Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

Sensitivity of crop cover to climate variability: insights from two Indian agro-ecoregions

scientific article

Sensitivity of population smoke exposure to fire locations in Equatorial Asia

article

Sensitivity of seasonal migration to climatic variability in central India

scientific article published in June 2021

Shedding light on the evidence blind spots confounding the multiple objectives of SDG 2

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions

Social and ecological outcomes of tropical dry forest restoration through invasive species removal in central India

scientific article published in 2023

Sources of anthropogenic fire ignitions on the peat-swamp landscape in Kalimantan, Indonesia

scientific article published in 2016

Substitution of inland fisheries with aquaculture and chicken undermines human nutrition in the Peruvian Amazon

scientific article

Sustainable Pathways for Meeting Future Food Demand

Synergies and trade-offs for sustainable agriculture: Nutritional yields and climate-resilience for cereal crops in Central India

article by Ruth DeFries et al published December 2016 in Global food security

Synergies and tradeoffs between cash crop production and food security: a case study in rural Ghana

Targeted reforestation could reverse declines in connectivity for understory birds in a tropical habitat corridor

scientific article

Targeting restoration sites to improve connectivity in a tiger conservation landscape in India

article

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

scientific article published in 2022

The Amazon basin in transition

scientific article

The Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Energy and Water Balance in Mato Grosso, Brazil

article

The expansion of intensive agriculture and ranching in Brazilian Amazonia

article

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus

scientific article published in 2022

Toward a whole-landscape approach for sustainable land use in the tropics ⬇️

scientific article published on November 16, 2010

Trade and the equitability of global food nutrient distribution

Trade-offs in land-use decisions: Towards a framework for assessing multiple ecosystem responses to land-use change

article

Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human‐dominated landscapes ⬇️

scholarly article

Typological responses of ecosystems to land use change

article

Understanding dietary and staple food transitions in China from multiple scales.

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Understanding the causes and consequences of differential decision-making in adaptation research: Adapting to a delayed monsoon onset in Gujarat, India

scholarly article by Meha Jain et al published March 2015 in Global Environmental Change

Understorey fire frequency and the fate of burned forests in southern Amazonia ⬇️

scientific article published on April 22, 2013

Urban versus rural health impacts attributable to PM2.5 and O3 in northern India

article

Using citizen science to parse climatic and land cover influences on bird occupancy in a tropical biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2022

Why India Needs a Unique Approach to Sustainability

scientific article published in 1970

Winter crop sensitivity to inter-annual climate variability in central India

article

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