Publications
2023
Hertel, T. W., Irwin, E., Polasky, S., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). Focus on global–local–global analysis of sustainability. Environmental Research Letters, 18(10), 100201.
Klassen, S., Luna-Perez, E., Bridson, N., Castrejón Violante, L., Wittman, H., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). Beyond equivalency: comparing governance and sustainability of three North American organic standards. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(10), pp.1607-1633.
Ramankutty, N. (2023). Both technological innovations and cultural change are key to a sustainability transition. PLoS Biology, 21(9), e3002298.
Gogoi, J., Newlands, N. K., Mehrabi, Z., Coops, N. C., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). Assessing the Performance of Satellite-Based Models for Crop Yield Estimation in the Canadian Prairies. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 49(1), p.2252926.
Wei, D., Gephart, J. A., Iizumi, T., Ramankutty, N., & Davis, K. F. (2023). Key role of planted and harvested area fluctuations in US crop production shocks. Nature Sustainability, pp.1-9.
Melnick, R. L., Jarvis, L., Hendley, P., Garcia-Alonso, M., Metzger, M. J., Ramankutty, N., Teem, J. L., & Roberts, A. (2023). GEnZ explorer: A tool for visualizing agroclimate to inform research and regulatory risk assessment. Transgenic Research, 32(4), pp.321–337.
Cisneros-Pineda, A., Dukes, J. S., Johnson, J., Brouder, S., Ramankutty, N., Corong, E., & Chaudhary, A. (2023). The missing markets link in global-to-local-to-global analyses of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Environmental Research Letters, 18(4), p.041003.
Löfqvist, S., Kleinschroth, F., Bey, A., de Bremond, A., DeFries, R., Dong, J., Fleischman, F., Lele, S., Martin, D. A., Messerli, P., Meyfroidt, P., Pfeifer, M., Rakotonarivo, S. O., Ramankutty, N., Ramprasad, V., Rana, P., Rhemtulla, J. M., Ryan, C. M., Vieira, I. C. G., … Garrett, R. D. (2023). How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration. BioScience, 73(2), pp.134–148.
Sidhu, B. S., Mehrabi, Z., Ramankutty, N., & Kandlikar, M. (2023). How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields?. Environmental Research Letters, 18(2), p.024008.
James, D., Blesh, J., Levers, C., Ramankutty, N., Bicksler, A. J., Mottet, A., & Wittman, H. (2023). The state of agroecology in Brazil: An indicator-based approach to identifying municipal “bright spots”. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1).
Seufert, V., Austin, S. E., Badami, M. G., Turner, S., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). The diversity of organic farmer motivations and livelihoods in the Global South–A case study in Kerala, India. Geoforum, 138, p.103670.
2022
Hoffmann, V., Paul, B., Falade, T., Moodley, A., Ramankutty, N., Olawoye, J., Djouaka, R., Lekei, E., de Haan, N., Ballantyne, P. and Waage, J., 2022. A one health approach to plant health. CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 3(1), pp.1-7.
Mehrabi, Z., Delzeit, R., Ignaciuk, A., Levers, C., Braich, G., Bajaj, K., Amo-Aidoo, A., Anderson, W., Balgah, R. A., Benton, T. G., Chari, M. M., Ellis, E. C., Gahi, N. Z., Gaupp, F., Garibaldi, L. A., Gerber, J. S., Godde, C. M., Grass, I., Heimann, T., … You, L. (2022). Research priorities for global food security under extreme events. One Earth (Cambridge, Mass.), 5(7), 756–766.
Chrysafi, A., Virkki, V., Jalava, M., Sandström, V., Piipponen, J., Porkka, M., Lade, S.J., La Mere, K., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Scherer, L., Andersen, L.S., Bennett, E., Brauman, K.A., Cooper, G.S., De Palma, A., Döll, P., Downing, A.S., DuBois, T.C., Fetzer, I., Fulton, E.A., Gerten, D., Jaafar, H., Jägermeyr, J., Jaramillo, F., Jung, M., Kahiluoto, H., Lassaletta, L., Mackway, A.W., Mason-D'Croz, D., Mekonnen, M.M., Nash, K.L., Pastor, A.V., Ramankutty, N., Ridoutt, B., Siebert, S., Simmons, B.I., Staal, A., Sun, Z., Tobian, A., Usubiaga-Liaño, A., van der Ent, R.J., van Soesbergen, A., Verburg, P.H., Wada, Y., Zipper, S., Kummu, M. 2022. Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation. Nature Sustainability. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00940-6
Sidhu, B.S., Mehrabi, Z., Kandlikar, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2022. On the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic factors in crop yield models. Climatic Change, 173(1), pp.1-21. doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03404-0
Brennan, A., Naidoo, R., Greenstreet, L., Mehrabi, Z., Ramankutty, N. and Kremen, C., 2022. Functional connectivity of the world’s protected areas. Science, 376(6597), pp.1101-1104. doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8974
Meyfroidt, P., de Bremond, A., Ryan, C.M., Archer, E., Aspinall, R., Chhabra, A., Camara, G., Corbera, E., DeFries, R., Díaz, S., Dong, J., Ellis, E.C., Erb, K-H., Fisher, J.A., Garrett, R.D., Golubiewski, N.E., Grau, H.R., Grove, J.M., Haberl, H., Heinimann, A., Hostert, P., Jobbágy, E.G., Kerr, S., Kuemmerle, T., Lambin, E.F., Lavorel, S., Lele, S., Mertz, O., Messerli, P., Metternicht, G., Munroe, D.K., Nagendra, H., Østergaard Nielsen, J., Ojima, D.S., Parker, D.C., Pascual, U., Porter, J.R., Ramankutty, N., Reenberg, A., Chowdhury, R.R., Seto, K.C., Seufert, V., Shibata, H., Thomson, A., Turner, B.L., Urabe, J., Veldkamp, T., Verburg, P.H., Zeleke, G., Zu Ermgassen, E.K.H.J., 2022. Ten facts about land systems for sustainability . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(7), p.e2109217118. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109217118
2021
Kim, K.H., Doi, Y., Ramankutty, N. and Iizumi, T., 2021. A review of global gridded cropping system data products. Environmental Research Letters, 16(9), p.093005. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac20f4
Ramankutty, N. and Dowlatabadi, H., 2021. Beyond productivism versus agroecology: lessons for sustainable food systems from Lovins’ soft path energy policies. Environmental Research Letters. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1e3f
Barbieri, P., Pellerin, S., Seufert, V., Smith, L., Ramankutty, N. and Nesme, T., 2021. Global option space for organic agriculture is delimited by nitrogen availability. Nature Food, 2(5), pp.363-372. doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00276-y
Ricciardi, V., Mehrabi, Z., Wittman, H., James, D., and Ramankutty, N. Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms. Nature Sustainability. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00699-2
2020
Mitchell, M.G., Chan, K., Newlands, N.K. and Ramankutty, N., 2020. Spatial Correlations Don't Predict Changes in Agricultural Ecosystem Services: A Canada-Wide Case Study. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4, p.235. doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.539892
Mehrabi, Z., McDowell, M. J., Ricciardi, V., Levers, C., Martinez, J. D., Mehrabi, N., Wittman, H., Ramankutty, N., and Jarvis, A., 2020. The global divide in data-driven farming. Nat Sustain. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00631-0
Mehrabi, Z., Gill, M., van Wijk, M., Herrero, M., Ramankutty, N., 2020. Livestock policy for sustainable development. Nature Food, 1, pp.160-165. doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0042-9
Sidhu, B.S., Kandlikar, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2020. Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs. World Development, 128, p.104836. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104836
2019
Ramankutty, N., Ricciardi, V., Mehrabi, Z. and Seufert, V., 2019. Trade‐offs in the performance of alternative farming systems. Agricultural Economics, 50, pp.97-105. doi.org/10.1111/agec.12534
Taheripour, F., Hertel, T.W. and Ramankutty, N., 2019. Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903476116
Khoury, C.K., Kisel, Y., Kantar, M., Barber, E., Ricciardi, V., Klirs, C., Kucera, L., Mehrabi, Z., Johnson, N., Klabin, S., Valiño, Á., Nowakowski, K., Bartomeus, I., Ramankutty, N., Miller, A., Schipanski, M., Gore, M.A., Novy, A., 2019. Science–graphic art partnerships to increase research impact. Commun Biol, 2, 1–5. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0516-1
Meyfroidt, P., Abeygunawardane, D., Ramankutty, N., Thomson, A. and Zeleke, G., 2019. Interactions between land systems and food systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 38, pp.60-67. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.010
Thomson, A.M., Ellis, E.C., Grau, H.R., Kuemmerle, T., Meyfroidt, P., Ramankutty, N. and Zeleke, G., 2019. Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 38, pp.37-43. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.011
Merhabi, Z. and Ramankutty, N., 2019. Synchronized failure of global crop production. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0862-x
Mehrabi, Z., Donner, S., Rios, P., Guha-Sapir, D., Rowhani, P., Kandlikar, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2019. Can we sustain success in reducing deaths to extreme weather in a hotter world?. World Development Perspectives. doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2019.02.018
Mehrabi, Z., Pironon, S., Kantar, M., Ramankutty, N. and Rieseberg, L., 2019. Shifts in the abiotic and biotic environment of cultivated sunflower under future climate change. OCL, 26, p.9. doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2019003
Coomes, O.T., Barham, B.L., MacDonald, G.K., Ramankutty, N. and Chavas, J.P., 2019. Leveraging total factor productivity growth for sustainable and resilient farming. Nature Sustainability, 2(1), p.22. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0200-3
2018
Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Waha, K., Jarvis, L., Kremen, C., Herrero, M. and Rieseberg, L.H., 2018. Trends in global agricultural land use: implications for environmental health and food security. Annual review of plant biology, 69, pp.789-815. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-042817-040256
Graesser, J., Ramankutty, N. and Coomes, O.T., 2018. Increasing expansion of large-scale crop production onto deforested land in sub-Andean South America. Environmental Research Letters, 13(8), p.084021. Environ. Res. Lett. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad5bf
Mehrabi, Z. and Ramankutty, N., 2018. On the synchronized failure of global crop production. bioRxiv, p.287391. doi.org/10.1101/287391
Ricciardi, V., Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Jarvis, L. and Chookolingo, B., 2018. How much of the world's food do smallholders produce? Global food security, 17, pp.64-72. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2018.05.002
Ricciardi, V., Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Jarvis, L. and Chookolingo, B., 2018. An open-access dataset of crop production by farm size from agricultural censuses and surveys. Data in brief, 19, pp.1970-1988. doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.06.057
Mehrabi, Z., Ellis, E.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2018. The challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet. Nature Sustainability, 1(8), p.409. doi.org/10.14288/1.0376069
2017
Graesser, J. and Ramankutty, N., 2017. Detection of cropland field parcels from Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 201, pp.165-180. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.027
Fox, T.A., Rhemtulla, J.M., Ramankutty, N., Lesk, C., Coyle, T., and Kunhamu, T.K., 2017. Agricultural land-use change in Kerala, India: Perspectives from above and below the canopy. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 245, 1-10. doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.05.002
Seufert, V., and Ramankutty, N., 2017. Many shades of gray—The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture. Science Advances, 3(3). doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602638
Seufert, V., Ramankutty, N., and Mayerhofer, T., 2017. What is this thing called organic? – How organic farming is codified in regulations. Food Policy, 68, 10-20. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.12.009
Ramankutty, N and Graesser, J., 2017. Latin American oil palm follows an unfamiliar route to avoid deforestation. Environmental Research Letters 12 (4). doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6940
2016
Samberg, L.H., Gerber, J.S., Ramankutty, N., Herrero, M., and West, P.C., 2016. Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production. Environmental Research Letters, 11(12). doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/124010
Chen, D.M., Tucker, B., Badami, M.G., Ramankutty, N., and Rhemtulla, J.M., 2016. A multi-dimensional metric for facilitating sustainable food choices in campus cafeterias. Journal of Cleaner Production, 135, 1351-1362. doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.143
Landry, J.S., Parrott, L., Price, D.T., Ramankutty, N. and Matthews, H.D., 2016. Modelling long-term impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on merchantable biomass, ecosystem carbon, albedo, and radiative forcing. Biogeosciences, 13(18), pp.5277-5295. doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5277-2016
N. Ramankutty and Coomes, O., 2016. Land-use regime shifts: an analytical framework and agenda for future land-use research. Ecology and Society, 21(2), doi.org/10.5751/ES-08370-210201
Landry, J.S., Price, D.T., Ramankutty, N., Parrott, L. and Matthews, H.D., 2016. Implementation of a Marauding Insect Module(MIM, version 1.0) in the Integrated BIosphere Simulator (IBIS, version 2.6 b4) dynamic vegetation–land surface model. Geoscientific Model Development, 9(3), pp.1243-1261. doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1243-2016
Iizumi, T. and Ramankutty, N., 2016. Changes in yield variability of major crops for 1981–2010 explained by climate change. Environmental Research Letters, 11(3), p.034003. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034003
Landry, J.S., Ramankutty, N. and Parrott, L., 2016. Investigating the effects of subgrid cell dynamic heterogeneity on the large-scale modeling of albedo in boreal forests. Earth Interactions, 20(5), pp.1-23. doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-15-0022.1
Seto, K.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2016. Hidden linkages between urbanization and food systems. Science, 352(6288), pp.943-945. doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf7439
Lesk, C., Rowhani, P. and Ramankutty, N., 2016. Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production. Nature, 529(7584), p.84. doi.org/10.1038/nature16467, 2016
2015
Landry, J-S., Matthews, H. D., and Ramankutty, N. 2015. A global assessment of the carbon cycle and temperature responses to major changes in future fire regime. Climatic Change, 153(2), pp.179-192. doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1461-8.
Martellozzo, F., Ramankutty, N., Hall, R.J., Price, D.T., Purdy, B. and Friedl, M.A., 2015. Urbanization and the loss of prime farmland: A case study in the Calgary–Edmonton corridor of Alberta. Regional Environmental Change, 15(5), pp.881-893. doi.org/10.1007/s10113-014-0658-0
Iizumi, T. and Ramankutty, N., 2015. How do weather and climate influence cropping area and intensity?. Global Food Security, 4, pp.46-50. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2014.11.003
See, L., Fritz, S., You, L., Ramankutty, N., Herrero, M., Justice, C., Becker-Reshef, I., Thornton, P., Erb, K., Gong, P. and Tang, H., 2015. Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security. Global Food Security, 4, pp.37-45. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2014.10.004
Badami, M.G. and Ramankutty, N., 2015. Urban agriculture and food security: A critique based on an assessment of urban land constraints. Global Food Security, 4, pp.8-15. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2014.10.003
Siebert, S., Kummu, M., Porkka, M., Döll, P., Ramankutty, N. and Scanlon, B.R., 2015. A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19(3), pp.1521-1545. doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1521-2015
Graesser, J., Aide, T.M., Grau, H.R. and Ramankutty, N., 2015. Cropland/pastureland dynamics and the slowdown of deforestation in Latin America. Environmental Research Letters, 10(3), p.034017. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034017
Landry, J.S. and Ramankutty, N., 2015. Carbon cycling, climate regulation, and disturbances in Canadian forests: Scientific principles for management. Land, 4(1), pp.83-118. doi.org/10.3390/land4010083
2014
Gray, J.M., Frolking, S., Kort, E.A., Ray, D.K., Kucharik, C.J., Ramankutty, N. and Friedl, M.A., 2014. Direct human influence on atmospheric CO 2 seasonality from increased cropland productivity. Nature, 515(7527), p.398. doi.org/10.1038/nature13957
Hertel, T.W., Ramankutty, N. and Baldos, U.L.C., 2014. Global market integration increases likelihood that a future African Green Revolution could increase crop land use and CO2 emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(38), pp.13799-13804.
Gray, J., Friedl, M., Frolking, S., Ramankutty, N., Nelson, A. and Gumma, M.K., 2014. Mapping Asian cropping intensity with MODIS. IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 7(8), pp.3373-3379.
Martellozzo, F., Landry, J.S., Plouffe, D., Seufert, V., Rowhani, P. and Ramankutty, N., 2014. Urban agriculture: a global analysis of the space constraint to meet urban vegetable demand. Environmental Research Letters, 9(6), p.064025.
Deryng, D., Conway, D., Ramankutty, N., Price, J. and Warren, R., 2014. Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures. Environmental Research Letters, 9(3), p.034011.
Bennett, E., Carpenter, S., Gordon, L., Ramankutty, N., Balvanera, P., Campbell, B., Cramer, W., Foley, J., Folke, C., Karlberg, L. and Liu, J., 2014. Toward a more resilient agriculture. Solutions, 5(5), pp.65-75.
2013
Ramankutty, N. and Rhemtulla, J., 2013. Land sparing or land sharing: context dependent. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11(4), p.178.
2012
Ray, D.K., Ramankutty, N., Mueller, N.D., West, P.C. and Foley, J.A., 2012. Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation. Nature communications, 3, p.1293.
Houghton, R.A., House, J.I., Pongratz, J., Van Der Werf, G.R., DeFries, R.S., Hansen, M.C., Quéré, C.L. and Ramankutty, N., 2012. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Biogeosciences, 9(12), pp.5125-5142.
Ramankutty, N. and Rhemtulla, J., 2012. Can intensive farming save nature?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(9), pp.455-455.
Mueller, N.D., Gerber, J.S., Johnston, M., Ray, D.K., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2012. Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management. Nature, 490(7419), p.254.
Heller, E., Rhemtulla, J.M., Lele, S., Kalacska, M., Badiger, S., Sengupta, R. and Ramankutty, N., 2012. Mapping crop types, irrigated areas, and cropping intensities in heterogeneous landscapes of Southern India using multi-temporal medium-resolution imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 78(8), pp.815-827.
Seufert, V., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2012. Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture. Nature, 485(7397), p.229.
2011
Foley, J.A., Ramankutty, N., Brauman, K.A., Cassidy, E.S., Gerber, J.S., Johnston, M., Mueller, N.D., O’Connell, C., Ray, D.K., West, P.C. and Balzer, C., 2011. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature, 478(7369), p.337.
MacDonald, G.K., Bennett, E.M., Potter, P.A. and Ramankutty, N., 2011. Agronomic phosphorus imbalances across the world's croplands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(7), pp.3086-3091.
Pelletier, J., Ramankutty, N. and Potvin, C., 2011. Diagnosing the uncertainty and detectability of emission reductions for REDD+ under current capabilities: an example for Panama. Environmental Research Letters, 6(2), p.024005.
Deryng, D., Sacks, W.J., Barford, C.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2011. Simulating the effects of climate and agricultural management practices on global crop yield. Global biogeochemical cycles, 25(2). doi:10.1029/2009GB003765, 18 pp., 2011.
Rowhani, P., Lobell, D.B., Linderman, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2011. Climate variability and crop production in Tanzania. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 151(4), pp.449-460.
Ahmed, S.A., Diffenbaugh, N.S., Hertel, T.W., Lobell, D.B., Ramankutty, N., Rios, A.R. and Rowhani, P., 2011. Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania. Global Environmental Change, 21(1), pp.46-55.
2010
Ellis, E.C., Klein Goldewijk, K., Siebert, S., Lightman, D. and Ramankutty, N., 2010. Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000. Global ecology and biogeography, 19(5), pp.589-606.
Licker, R., Johnston, M., Foley, J.A., Barford, C., Kucharik, C.J., Monfreda, C. and Ramankutty, N., 2010. Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?. Global ecology and biogeography, 19(6), pp.769-782.
Gibbs, H.K., Ruesch, A.S., Achard, F., Clayton, M.K., Holmgren, P., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2010. Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(38), pp.16732-16737.
Vancouver
Sacks, W.J., Deryng, D., Foley, J.A. and Ramankutty, N., 2010. Crop planting dates: an analysis of global patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19(5), pp.607-620.
Ramankutty, N., Heller, E. and Rhemtulla, J., 2010. Prevailing myths about agricultural abandonment and forest regrowth in the United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(3), pp.502-512.
Barona, E., Ramankutty, N., Hyman, G. and Coomes, O.T., 2010. The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters, 5(2), p.024002.
Potter, P., Ramankutty, N., Bennett, E.M. and Donner, S.D., 2010. Characterizing the spatial patterns of global fertilizer application and manure production. Earth Interactions, 14(2), pp.1-22.
Friedl, M.A., Sulla-Menashe, D., Tan, B., Schneider, A., Ramankutty, N., Sibley, A. and Huang, X., 2010. MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets. Remote sensing of Environment, 114(1), pp.168-182.
Churkina, G., Zaehle, S., Hughes, J., Viovy, N., Chen, Y., Jung, M., Heumann, B.W., Ramankutty, N., Heimann, M. and Jones, C., 2010. Interactions between nitrogen deposition, land cover conversion, and climate change determine the contemporary carbon balance of Europe. Biogeosciences, 7(9), pp.2749-2764.
2009
Ramankutty, N., 2010. Agriculture and forests: Recent trends, future prospects. A chapter submitted to: Linkages of sustainability (pp.11-31). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Seto, K.C., Groot, R.D., Bringezu, S., Erb, K., Graedel, T.E., Ramankutty, N., Reenberg, A., Schmitz, O.J. and Skole, D.L., 2010. Stocks, flows, and prospects of land. In Graedel, T.E. and van der Voet, E. eds., 2010. A chapter submitted to: Linkages of sustainability (p. 132). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Zaks, D.P.M., Barford, C.C., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2009. Producer and consumer responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production—a perspective from the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters, 4(4), p.044010.
Monfreda, C., Ramankutty, N. and Hertel, T.W., 2009. Global agricultural land use data for climate change analysis. In Economic analysis of land use in global climate change policy 14(33), pp. 53-68. Routledge.
2008
Gibbs, H.K., Johnston, M., Foley, J.A., Holloway, T., Monfreda, C., Ramankutty, N. and Zaks, D., 2008. Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology. Environmental research letters, 3(3), p.034001. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034001.
Ellis, E.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2008. Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6(8), pp.439-447.
Ramankutty, N., Evan, A.T., Monfreda, C. and Foley, J.A., 2008. Farming the Planet. Part 1: The Geographic Distribution of Global Agricultural Lands in the Year 2000. doi:10.1029/2007GB002952.
Monfreda, C., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2008. Farming the planet, Part 2: Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000. Global biogeochemical cycles, 22(1). doi:10.1029/2007GB002947.
Committee on Scientific Accomplishments of Earth Observations from Space, National Research Council, Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements, The National Academies Press, 2008.
Ramankutty, N., J.A. Foley and N.J. Olejniczak, 2008. Land-use change and global food production. A chapter submitted to: Land use and soil resources (pp.23-40). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.
2007
Foley, J.A., Ramankutty, N., Leff, B. and Gibbs, H.K., 2007. Global land use changes. A chapter submitted to: Our changing planet: a view from space. Cambridge, UK,: Cambridge University Press.
Foley, J.A., Monfreda, C., Ramankutty, N. and Zaks, D., 2007. Our share of the planetary pie. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(31), pp.12585-12586.
Zaks, D.P., Ramankutty, N., Barford, C.C. and Foley, J.A., 2007. From Miami to Madison: Investigating the relationship between climate and terrestrial net primary production. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21(3). doi:3010.1029/2006GB002705
Ramankutty, N., Hertel, T., Lee, H.L. and Rose, S.K., 2007. Global agricultural land use data for integrated assessment modeling. A chapter submitted to: Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, pp.252-265. Cambridge, UI: Cambridge University Press.
Narisma, G.T., Foley, J.A., Licker, R. and Ramankutty, N., 2007. Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(6). doi:10.1029/2006GL028628.
Li, K.Y., Coe, M.T., Ramankutty, N. and De Jong, R., 2007. Modeling the hydrological impact of land-use change in West Africa. Journal of hydrology, 337(3-4), pp.258-268. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.01.038
Mahowald, N.M., Ballantine, J.A., Feddema, J. and Ramankutty, N., 2007. Global trends in visibility: implications for dust sources. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7(12), pp.3309-3339.
Betts, R.A., Falloon, P.D., Goldewijk, K.K. and Ramankutty, N., 2007. Biogeophysical effects of land use on climate: Model simulations of radiative forcing and large-scale temperature change. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 142(2-4), pp.216-233.
Foley, J.A., Asner, G.P., Costa, M.H., Coe, M.T., DeFries, R., Gibbs, H.K., Howard, E.A., Olson, S., Patz, J., Ramankutty, N. and Snyder, P., 2007. Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 5(1), pp.25-32.
Ramankutty, N., Gibbs, H.K., Achard, F., Defries, R., Foley, J.A. and Houghton, R.A., 2007. Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation. Global change biology, 13(1), pp.51-66. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01272.x
2006
Ramankutty, N., Delire, C. and Snyder, P., 2006. Feedbacks between agriculture and climate: An illustration of the potential unintended consequences of human land use activities. Global and Planetary Change, 54(1-2), pp.79-93.
Cassman, K. G., Wood, S., Choo, P. S., Cooper, H. D., Devendra, C., Dixon, J., Gaskell, J., Khan, S., Lal, R., Lipper, L., Pretty, J., Primavera, J., Ramankutty, N., Viglizzo, E., Wiebe, K., Kadungure, S., Kanbar, N., Khan, Z., Leakey, R., Porter, S., Sebastian, K. and Tharme, R., 2005. Cultivated systems. In Hassan, R.; Scholes, R.; Ash, N. (Eds.). Ecosystems and human well-being: current state and trends. Volume 1. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. pp.745-794.
Ramankutty, N., Graumlich, L., Achard, F., Alves, D., Chhabra, A., DeFries, R.S., Foley, J.A., Geist, H., Houghton, R.A., Goldewijk, K.K. and Lambin, E.F., 2006. Global land-cover change: Recent progress, remaining challenges. In Land-use and land-cover change (pp. 9-39). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Li, K.Y., De Jong, R., Coe, M.T. and Ramankutty, N., 2006. Root-water-uptake based upon a new water stress reduction and an asymptotic root distribution function. Earth Interactions, 10(14), pp.1-22.
Brovkin, V., Claussen, M., Driesschaert, E., Fichefet, T., Kicklighter, D., Loutre, M.F., Matthews, H.D., Ramankutty, N., Schaeffer, M. and Sokolov, A., 2006. Biogeophysical effects of historical land cover changes simulated by six Earth system models of intermediate complexity. Climate Dynamics, 26(6), pp.587-600.
Chhabra, A., Geist, H., Houghton, R.A., Haberl, H., Braimoh, A.K., Vlek, P.L., Patz, J., Xu, J., Ramankutty, N., Coomes, O. and Lambin, E.F., 2006. Multiple impacts of land-use/cover change. In Land-use and land-cover change (pp. 71-116). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
2005
El Maayar, M., Ramankutty, N. and Kucharik, C.J., 2006. Modeling global and regional net primary production under elevated atmospheric CO2: On a potential source of uncertainty. Earth Interactions, 10(2), pp.1-20.
Foley, J.A., DeFries, R., Asner, G.P., Barford, C., Bonan, G., Carpenter, S.R., Chapin, F.S., Coe, M.T., Daily, G.C., Gibbs, H.K., Helkowski, J.H., Holloway, T., Howard, E.A., Kucharik, C.J., Monfreda, C., Patz, J.A., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N. and Snyder, P.K., 2005. Global consequences of land use. Science, 309(5734), pp.570-574.
Li, K.Y., Coe, M.T. and Ramankutty, N., 2005. Investigation of hydrological variability in West Africa using land surface models. Journal of Climate, 18(16), pp.3173-3188.
Lepers, E., Lambin, E.F., Janetos, A.C., DeFries, R., Achard, F., Ramankutty, N. and Scholes, R.J., 2005. A synthesis of information on rapid land-cover change for the period 1981–2000. BioScience, 55(2), pp.115-124.
Kucharik, C.J. and Ramankutty, N., 2005. Trends and variability in US corn yields over the twentieth century. Earth Interactions, 9(1), pp.1-29.
2004
Goldewijk, K.K. and Ramankutty, N., 2004. Land cover change over the last three centuries due to human activities: The availability of new global data sets. GeoJournal, 61(4), pp.335-344.
Ramankutty, N., 2004. Croplands in West Africa: A geographically explicit dataset for use in models. Earth Interactions, 8(23), pp.1-22.
Leff, B., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2004. Geographic distribution of major crops across the world. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18(1). doi:10.1029/2003GB002108
Goldewijk, K.K. and Ramankutty, N., 2009. Land use changes during the past 300 years. Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences-Volume I: Land Cover, Land Use and the Global Change, p.147. In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (ed Verheye WH). Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net].
Foley, J.A. and Ramankutty, N., 2004. A primer on the terrestrial carbon cycle: What we don't know but should. SCOPE-SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC UNIONS, 62, pp.279-294.
2003
House, J.I., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Houghton, R.A. and Heimann, M., 2003. Reconciling apparent inconsistencies in estimates of terrestrial CO2 sources and sinks. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 55(2), pp.345-363.
Foley, J.A., Costa, M.H., Delire, C., Ramankutty, N. and Snyder, P., 2003. Green surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth’s climate. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1(1), pp.38-44.
Porter, W.P., Sabo, J.L., Tracy, C.R., Reichman, O.J. and Ramankutty, N., 2002. Physiology on a landscape scale: plant-animal interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 42(3), pp.431-453.
2002
Dargaville, R.J., Heimann, M., McGuire, A.D., Prentice, I.C., Kicklighter, D.W., Joos, F., Clein, J.S., Esser, G., Foley, J., Kaplan, J., Meier, R.A., Melillo, J.M., III, B.M., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Reichenau, T., Schloss, A., Tian, H., Williams, L.J. and U. Wittenberg, 2002. Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models with atmospheric CO2 measurements: Results from transient simulations considering increasing CO2, climate, and land‐use effects. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16(4), pp.39-1. doi.org/10.1029/2001GB001426
Ramankutty, N., Foley, J.A., Norman, J. and McSweeney, K., 2002. The global distribution of cultivable lands: current patterns and sensitivity to possible climate change. Global Ecology and biogeography, 11(5), pp.377-392.
Ramankutty, N., Foley, J.A. and Olejniczak, N.J., 2002. People on the land: Changes in global population and croplands during the 20th century. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 31(3), pp.251-258.
Botta, A., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2002. Long‐term variations of climate and carbon fluxes over the Amazon basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(9), pp.33-1.
2001
Cramer, W., Bondeau, A., Woodward, F.I., Prentice, I.C., Betts, R.A., Brovkin, V., Cox, P.M., Fisher, V., Foley, J.A., Friend, A.D., Kucharik, C., Lomas, M.R., Ramankutty, N., Sitch, S., Smith, B., White, A., and Young-Molling, C., 2001. Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models. Global change biology, 7(4), pp.357-373.
McGuire, A.D., Sitch, S., Clein, J.S., Dargaville, R.J., Esser, G., Foley, J., Heimann, M., Joos, F., Kaplan, J., Kicklighter, D.W., Meier, R.A., Melillo, J.M., Ill, B.M., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Reichenau, T., Schloss, A., Tian, H., and Wittenberg, U., 2001. The effects of CO2, climate and land-use on terrestrial carbon balance, 1920-1992: an analysis with four process-based ecosystem models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
2000
Kucharik, C.J., Foley, J.A., Delire, C., Fisher, V.A., Coe, M.T., Lenters, J.D., Young‐Molling, C., Ramankutty, N., Norman, J.M. and Gower, S.T., 2000. Testing the performance of a dynamic global ecosystem model: water balance, carbon balance, and vegetation structure. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14(3), pp.795-825.
Porter, W.P., Budaraju, S., Stewart, W.E. and Ramankutty, N., 2000. Calculating climate effects on birds and mammals: impacts on biodiversity, conservation, population parameters, and global community structure. American Zoologist, 40(4), pp.597-630.
Schlesinger, M.E., Ramankutty, N. and Andronova, N., 2000. Temperature oscillations in the North Atlantic. Science, 289(5479), pp.547-548.
1999
Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 1999. Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992. Global biogeochemical cycles, 13(4), pp.997-1027.
Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 1999. Estimating historical changes in land cover: North American croplands from 1850 to 1992. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 8(5), pp.381-396.
1998
Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 1998. Characterizing patterns of global land use: An analysis of global croplands data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 12(4), pp.667-685.
1997
Schlesinger, M.E., Andronova, N.G., Entwistle, B., Ghanem, A., Ramankutty, N., Wang, W. and Yang, F., 1997. Modeling and simulation of climate and climate change. In Past and present variability of the solar-terrestrial system: measurement, data analysis and theoretical models (p. 389).
1996
Foley, J.A., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Levis, S., Pollard, D., Sitch, S. and Haxeltine, A., 1996. An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics. Global biogeochemical cycles, 10(4), pp.603-628.
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1996. A 65–70 Year Oscillation in Observed Surface Temperatures. In Climate Sensitivity to Radiative Perturbations (pp. 305-316). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
1995
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1995. Is the recently reported 65‐to 70‐year surface‐temperature oscillation the result of climatic noise?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 100(D7), pp.13767-13774.
1994
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1994. Have Solar-Irradiance Variations Influenced Climate?. In The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate (pp. 493-506). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1994. Low-frequency Oscillation. Reply. Nature, 372, 508-509.
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1994. An oscillation in the global climate system of period 65–70 years. Nature, 367(6465), p.723.
1992
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1992. Implications for global warming of intercycle solar irradiance variations. Nature, 360(6402), p.330.
Hertel, T. W., Irwin, E., Polasky, S., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). Focus on global–local–global analysis of sustainability. Environmental Research Letters, 18(10), 100201.
Klassen, S., Luna-Perez, E., Bridson, N., Castrejón Violante, L., Wittman, H., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). Beyond equivalency: comparing governance and sustainability of three North American organic standards. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(10), pp.1607-1633.
Ramankutty, N. (2023). Both technological innovations and cultural change are key to a sustainability transition. PLoS Biology, 21(9), e3002298.
Gogoi, J., Newlands, N. K., Mehrabi, Z., Coops, N. C., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). Assessing the Performance of Satellite-Based Models for Crop Yield Estimation in the Canadian Prairies. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 49(1), p.2252926.
Wei, D., Gephart, J. A., Iizumi, T., Ramankutty, N., & Davis, K. F. (2023). Key role of planted and harvested area fluctuations in US crop production shocks. Nature Sustainability, pp.1-9.
Melnick, R. L., Jarvis, L., Hendley, P., Garcia-Alonso, M., Metzger, M. J., Ramankutty, N., Teem, J. L., & Roberts, A. (2023). GEnZ explorer: A tool for visualizing agroclimate to inform research and regulatory risk assessment. Transgenic Research, 32(4), pp.321–337.
Cisneros-Pineda, A., Dukes, J. S., Johnson, J., Brouder, S., Ramankutty, N., Corong, E., & Chaudhary, A. (2023). The missing markets link in global-to-local-to-global analyses of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Environmental Research Letters, 18(4), p.041003.
Löfqvist, S., Kleinschroth, F., Bey, A., de Bremond, A., DeFries, R., Dong, J., Fleischman, F., Lele, S., Martin, D. A., Messerli, P., Meyfroidt, P., Pfeifer, M., Rakotonarivo, S. O., Ramankutty, N., Ramprasad, V., Rana, P., Rhemtulla, J. M., Ryan, C. M., Vieira, I. C. G., … Garrett, R. D. (2023). How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration. BioScience, 73(2), pp.134–148.
Sidhu, B. S., Mehrabi, Z., Ramankutty, N., & Kandlikar, M. (2023). How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields?. Environmental Research Letters, 18(2), p.024008.
James, D., Blesh, J., Levers, C., Ramankutty, N., Bicksler, A. J., Mottet, A., & Wittman, H. (2023). The state of agroecology in Brazil: An indicator-based approach to identifying municipal “bright spots”. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1).
Seufert, V., Austin, S. E., Badami, M. G., Turner, S., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). The diversity of organic farmer motivations and livelihoods in the Global South–A case study in Kerala, India. Geoforum, 138, p.103670.
2022
Hoffmann, V., Paul, B., Falade, T., Moodley, A., Ramankutty, N., Olawoye, J., Djouaka, R., Lekei, E., de Haan, N., Ballantyne, P. and Waage, J., 2022. A one health approach to plant health. CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 3(1), pp.1-7.
Mehrabi, Z., Delzeit, R., Ignaciuk, A., Levers, C., Braich, G., Bajaj, K., Amo-Aidoo, A., Anderson, W., Balgah, R. A., Benton, T. G., Chari, M. M., Ellis, E. C., Gahi, N. Z., Gaupp, F., Garibaldi, L. A., Gerber, J. S., Godde, C. M., Grass, I., Heimann, T., … You, L. (2022). Research priorities for global food security under extreme events. One Earth (Cambridge, Mass.), 5(7), 756–766.
Chrysafi, A., Virkki, V., Jalava, M., Sandström, V., Piipponen, J., Porkka, M., Lade, S.J., La Mere, K., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Scherer, L., Andersen, L.S., Bennett, E., Brauman, K.A., Cooper, G.S., De Palma, A., Döll, P., Downing, A.S., DuBois, T.C., Fetzer, I., Fulton, E.A., Gerten, D., Jaafar, H., Jägermeyr, J., Jaramillo, F., Jung, M., Kahiluoto, H., Lassaletta, L., Mackway, A.W., Mason-D'Croz, D., Mekonnen, M.M., Nash, K.L., Pastor, A.V., Ramankutty, N., Ridoutt, B., Siebert, S., Simmons, B.I., Staal, A., Sun, Z., Tobian, A., Usubiaga-Liaño, A., van der Ent, R.J., van Soesbergen, A., Verburg, P.H., Wada, Y., Zipper, S., Kummu, M. 2022. Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation. Nature Sustainability. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00940-6
Sidhu, B.S., Mehrabi, Z., Kandlikar, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2022. On the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic factors in crop yield models. Climatic Change, 173(1), pp.1-21. doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03404-0
Brennan, A., Naidoo, R., Greenstreet, L., Mehrabi, Z., Ramankutty, N. and Kremen, C., 2022. Functional connectivity of the world’s protected areas. Science, 376(6597), pp.1101-1104. doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8974
Meyfroidt, P., de Bremond, A., Ryan, C.M., Archer, E., Aspinall, R., Chhabra, A., Camara, G., Corbera, E., DeFries, R., Díaz, S., Dong, J., Ellis, E.C., Erb, K-H., Fisher, J.A., Garrett, R.D., Golubiewski, N.E., Grau, H.R., Grove, J.M., Haberl, H., Heinimann, A., Hostert, P., Jobbágy, E.G., Kerr, S., Kuemmerle, T., Lambin, E.F., Lavorel, S., Lele, S., Mertz, O., Messerli, P., Metternicht, G., Munroe, D.K., Nagendra, H., Østergaard Nielsen, J., Ojima, D.S., Parker, D.C., Pascual, U., Porter, J.R., Ramankutty, N., Reenberg, A., Chowdhury, R.R., Seto, K.C., Seufert, V., Shibata, H., Thomson, A., Turner, B.L., Urabe, J., Veldkamp, T., Verburg, P.H., Zeleke, G., Zu Ermgassen, E.K.H.J., 2022. Ten facts about land systems for sustainability . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(7), p.e2109217118. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109217118
2021
Kim, K.H., Doi, Y., Ramankutty, N. and Iizumi, T., 2021. A review of global gridded cropping system data products. Environmental Research Letters, 16(9), p.093005. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac20f4
Ramankutty, N. and Dowlatabadi, H., 2021. Beyond productivism versus agroecology: lessons for sustainable food systems from Lovins’ soft path energy policies. Environmental Research Letters. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1e3f
Barbieri, P., Pellerin, S., Seufert, V., Smith, L., Ramankutty, N. and Nesme, T., 2021. Global option space for organic agriculture is delimited by nitrogen availability. Nature Food, 2(5), pp.363-372. doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00276-y
Ricciardi, V., Mehrabi, Z., Wittman, H., James, D., and Ramankutty, N. Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms. Nature Sustainability. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00699-2
2020
Mitchell, M.G., Chan, K., Newlands, N.K. and Ramankutty, N., 2020. Spatial Correlations Don't Predict Changes in Agricultural Ecosystem Services: A Canada-Wide Case Study. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4, p.235. doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.539892
Mehrabi, Z., McDowell, M. J., Ricciardi, V., Levers, C., Martinez, J. D., Mehrabi, N., Wittman, H., Ramankutty, N., and Jarvis, A., 2020. The global divide in data-driven farming. Nat Sustain. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00631-0
Mehrabi, Z., Gill, M., van Wijk, M., Herrero, M., Ramankutty, N., 2020. Livestock policy for sustainable development. Nature Food, 1, pp.160-165. doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0042-9
Sidhu, B.S., Kandlikar, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2020. Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs. World Development, 128, p.104836. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104836
2019
Ramankutty, N., Ricciardi, V., Mehrabi, Z. and Seufert, V., 2019. Trade‐offs in the performance of alternative farming systems. Agricultural Economics, 50, pp.97-105. doi.org/10.1111/agec.12534
Taheripour, F., Hertel, T.W. and Ramankutty, N., 2019. Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903476116
Khoury, C.K., Kisel, Y., Kantar, M., Barber, E., Ricciardi, V., Klirs, C., Kucera, L., Mehrabi, Z., Johnson, N., Klabin, S., Valiño, Á., Nowakowski, K., Bartomeus, I., Ramankutty, N., Miller, A., Schipanski, M., Gore, M.A., Novy, A., 2019. Science–graphic art partnerships to increase research impact. Commun Biol, 2, 1–5. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0516-1
Meyfroidt, P., Abeygunawardane, D., Ramankutty, N., Thomson, A. and Zeleke, G., 2019. Interactions between land systems and food systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 38, pp.60-67. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.010
Thomson, A.M., Ellis, E.C., Grau, H.R., Kuemmerle, T., Meyfroidt, P., Ramankutty, N. and Zeleke, G., 2019. Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 38, pp.37-43. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.011
Merhabi, Z. and Ramankutty, N., 2019. Synchronized failure of global crop production. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0862-x
Mehrabi, Z., Donner, S., Rios, P., Guha-Sapir, D., Rowhani, P., Kandlikar, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2019. Can we sustain success in reducing deaths to extreme weather in a hotter world?. World Development Perspectives. doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2019.02.018
Mehrabi, Z., Pironon, S., Kantar, M., Ramankutty, N. and Rieseberg, L., 2019. Shifts in the abiotic and biotic environment of cultivated sunflower under future climate change. OCL, 26, p.9. doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2019003
Coomes, O.T., Barham, B.L., MacDonald, G.K., Ramankutty, N. and Chavas, J.P., 2019. Leveraging total factor productivity growth for sustainable and resilient farming. Nature Sustainability, 2(1), p.22. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0200-3
2018
Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Waha, K., Jarvis, L., Kremen, C., Herrero, M. and Rieseberg, L.H., 2018. Trends in global agricultural land use: implications for environmental health and food security. Annual review of plant biology, 69, pp.789-815. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-042817-040256
Graesser, J., Ramankutty, N. and Coomes, O.T., 2018. Increasing expansion of large-scale crop production onto deforested land in sub-Andean South America. Environmental Research Letters, 13(8), p.084021. Environ. Res. Lett. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad5bf
Mehrabi, Z. and Ramankutty, N., 2018. On the synchronized failure of global crop production. bioRxiv, p.287391. doi.org/10.1101/287391
Ricciardi, V., Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Jarvis, L. and Chookolingo, B., 2018. How much of the world's food do smallholders produce? Global food security, 17, pp.64-72. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2018.05.002
Ricciardi, V., Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Jarvis, L. and Chookolingo, B., 2018. An open-access dataset of crop production by farm size from agricultural censuses and surveys. Data in brief, 19, pp.1970-1988. doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.06.057
Mehrabi, Z., Ellis, E.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2018. The challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet. Nature Sustainability, 1(8), p.409. doi.org/10.14288/1.0376069
2017
Graesser, J. and Ramankutty, N., 2017. Detection of cropland field parcels from Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 201, pp.165-180. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.027
Fox, T.A., Rhemtulla, J.M., Ramankutty, N., Lesk, C., Coyle, T., and Kunhamu, T.K., 2017. Agricultural land-use change in Kerala, India: Perspectives from above and below the canopy. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 245, 1-10. doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.05.002
Seufert, V., and Ramankutty, N., 2017. Many shades of gray—The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture. Science Advances, 3(3). doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602638
Seufert, V., Ramankutty, N., and Mayerhofer, T., 2017. What is this thing called organic? – How organic farming is codified in regulations. Food Policy, 68, 10-20. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.12.009
Ramankutty, N and Graesser, J., 2017. Latin American oil palm follows an unfamiliar route to avoid deforestation. Environmental Research Letters 12 (4). doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6940
2016
Samberg, L.H., Gerber, J.S., Ramankutty, N., Herrero, M., and West, P.C., 2016. Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production. Environmental Research Letters, 11(12). doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/124010
Chen, D.M., Tucker, B., Badami, M.G., Ramankutty, N., and Rhemtulla, J.M., 2016. A multi-dimensional metric for facilitating sustainable food choices in campus cafeterias. Journal of Cleaner Production, 135, 1351-1362. doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.143
Landry, J.S., Parrott, L., Price, D.T., Ramankutty, N. and Matthews, H.D., 2016. Modelling long-term impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on merchantable biomass, ecosystem carbon, albedo, and radiative forcing. Biogeosciences, 13(18), pp.5277-5295. doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5277-2016
N. Ramankutty and Coomes, O., 2016. Land-use regime shifts: an analytical framework and agenda for future land-use research. Ecology and Society, 21(2), doi.org/10.5751/ES-08370-210201
Landry, J.S., Price, D.T., Ramankutty, N., Parrott, L. and Matthews, H.D., 2016. Implementation of a Marauding Insect Module(MIM, version 1.0) in the Integrated BIosphere Simulator (IBIS, version 2.6 b4) dynamic vegetation–land surface model. Geoscientific Model Development, 9(3), pp.1243-1261. doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1243-2016
Iizumi, T. and Ramankutty, N., 2016. Changes in yield variability of major crops for 1981–2010 explained by climate change. Environmental Research Letters, 11(3), p.034003. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034003
Landry, J.S., Ramankutty, N. and Parrott, L., 2016. Investigating the effects of subgrid cell dynamic heterogeneity on the large-scale modeling of albedo in boreal forests. Earth Interactions, 20(5), pp.1-23. doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-15-0022.1
Seto, K.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2016. Hidden linkages between urbanization and food systems. Science, 352(6288), pp.943-945. doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf7439
Lesk, C., Rowhani, P. and Ramankutty, N., 2016. Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production. Nature, 529(7584), p.84. doi.org/10.1038/nature16467, 2016
2015
Landry, J-S., Matthews, H. D., and Ramankutty, N. 2015. A global assessment of the carbon cycle and temperature responses to major changes in future fire regime. Climatic Change, 153(2), pp.179-192. doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1461-8.
Martellozzo, F., Ramankutty, N., Hall, R.J., Price, D.T., Purdy, B. and Friedl, M.A., 2015. Urbanization and the loss of prime farmland: A case study in the Calgary–Edmonton corridor of Alberta. Regional Environmental Change, 15(5), pp.881-893. doi.org/10.1007/s10113-014-0658-0
Iizumi, T. and Ramankutty, N., 2015. How do weather and climate influence cropping area and intensity?. Global Food Security, 4, pp.46-50. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2014.11.003
See, L., Fritz, S., You, L., Ramankutty, N., Herrero, M., Justice, C., Becker-Reshef, I., Thornton, P., Erb, K., Gong, P. and Tang, H., 2015. Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security. Global Food Security, 4, pp.37-45. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2014.10.004
Badami, M.G. and Ramankutty, N., 2015. Urban agriculture and food security: A critique based on an assessment of urban land constraints. Global Food Security, 4, pp.8-15. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2014.10.003
Siebert, S., Kummu, M., Porkka, M., Döll, P., Ramankutty, N. and Scanlon, B.R., 2015. A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19(3), pp.1521-1545. doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1521-2015
Graesser, J., Aide, T.M., Grau, H.R. and Ramankutty, N., 2015. Cropland/pastureland dynamics and the slowdown of deforestation in Latin America. Environmental Research Letters, 10(3), p.034017. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/3/034017
Landry, J.S. and Ramankutty, N., 2015. Carbon cycling, climate regulation, and disturbances in Canadian forests: Scientific principles for management. Land, 4(1), pp.83-118. doi.org/10.3390/land4010083
2014
Gray, J.M., Frolking, S., Kort, E.A., Ray, D.K., Kucharik, C.J., Ramankutty, N. and Friedl, M.A., 2014. Direct human influence on atmospheric CO 2 seasonality from increased cropland productivity. Nature, 515(7527), p.398. doi.org/10.1038/nature13957
Hertel, T.W., Ramankutty, N. and Baldos, U.L.C., 2014. Global market integration increases likelihood that a future African Green Revolution could increase crop land use and CO2 emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(38), pp.13799-13804.
Gray, J., Friedl, M., Frolking, S., Ramankutty, N., Nelson, A. and Gumma, M.K., 2014. Mapping Asian cropping intensity with MODIS. IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 7(8), pp.3373-3379.
Martellozzo, F., Landry, J.S., Plouffe, D., Seufert, V., Rowhani, P. and Ramankutty, N., 2014. Urban agriculture: a global analysis of the space constraint to meet urban vegetable demand. Environmental Research Letters, 9(6), p.064025.
Deryng, D., Conway, D., Ramankutty, N., Price, J. and Warren, R., 2014. Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures. Environmental Research Letters, 9(3), p.034011.
Bennett, E., Carpenter, S., Gordon, L., Ramankutty, N., Balvanera, P., Campbell, B., Cramer, W., Foley, J., Folke, C., Karlberg, L. and Liu, J., 2014. Toward a more resilient agriculture. Solutions, 5(5), pp.65-75.
2013
Ramankutty, N. and Rhemtulla, J., 2013. Land sparing or land sharing: context dependent. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 11(4), p.178.
2012
Ray, D.K., Ramankutty, N., Mueller, N.D., West, P.C. and Foley, J.A., 2012. Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation. Nature communications, 3, p.1293.
Houghton, R.A., House, J.I., Pongratz, J., Van Der Werf, G.R., DeFries, R.S., Hansen, M.C., Quéré, C.L. and Ramankutty, N., 2012. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Biogeosciences, 9(12), pp.5125-5142.
Ramankutty, N. and Rhemtulla, J., 2012. Can intensive farming save nature?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(9), pp.455-455.
Mueller, N.D., Gerber, J.S., Johnston, M., Ray, D.K., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2012. Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management. Nature, 490(7419), p.254.
Heller, E., Rhemtulla, J.M., Lele, S., Kalacska, M., Badiger, S., Sengupta, R. and Ramankutty, N., 2012. Mapping crop types, irrigated areas, and cropping intensities in heterogeneous landscapes of Southern India using multi-temporal medium-resolution imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 78(8), pp.815-827.
Seufert, V., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2012. Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture. Nature, 485(7397), p.229.
2011
Foley, J.A., Ramankutty, N., Brauman, K.A., Cassidy, E.S., Gerber, J.S., Johnston, M., Mueller, N.D., O’Connell, C., Ray, D.K., West, P.C. and Balzer, C., 2011. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature, 478(7369), p.337.
MacDonald, G.K., Bennett, E.M., Potter, P.A. and Ramankutty, N., 2011. Agronomic phosphorus imbalances across the world's croplands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(7), pp.3086-3091.
Pelletier, J., Ramankutty, N. and Potvin, C., 2011. Diagnosing the uncertainty and detectability of emission reductions for REDD+ under current capabilities: an example for Panama. Environmental Research Letters, 6(2), p.024005.
Deryng, D., Sacks, W.J., Barford, C.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2011. Simulating the effects of climate and agricultural management practices on global crop yield. Global biogeochemical cycles, 25(2). doi:10.1029/2009GB003765, 18 pp., 2011.
Rowhani, P., Lobell, D.B., Linderman, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2011. Climate variability and crop production in Tanzania. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 151(4), pp.449-460.
Ahmed, S.A., Diffenbaugh, N.S., Hertel, T.W., Lobell, D.B., Ramankutty, N., Rios, A.R. and Rowhani, P., 2011. Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania. Global Environmental Change, 21(1), pp.46-55.
2010
Ellis, E.C., Klein Goldewijk, K., Siebert, S., Lightman, D. and Ramankutty, N., 2010. Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000. Global ecology and biogeography, 19(5), pp.589-606.
Licker, R., Johnston, M., Foley, J.A., Barford, C., Kucharik, C.J., Monfreda, C. and Ramankutty, N., 2010. Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?. Global ecology and biogeography, 19(6), pp.769-782.
Gibbs, H.K., Ruesch, A.S., Achard, F., Clayton, M.K., Holmgren, P., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2010. Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(38), pp.16732-16737.
Vancouver
Sacks, W.J., Deryng, D., Foley, J.A. and Ramankutty, N., 2010. Crop planting dates: an analysis of global patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19(5), pp.607-620.
Ramankutty, N., Heller, E. and Rhemtulla, J., 2010. Prevailing myths about agricultural abandonment and forest regrowth in the United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(3), pp.502-512.
Barona, E., Ramankutty, N., Hyman, G. and Coomes, O.T., 2010. The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters, 5(2), p.024002.
Potter, P., Ramankutty, N., Bennett, E.M. and Donner, S.D., 2010. Characterizing the spatial patterns of global fertilizer application and manure production. Earth Interactions, 14(2), pp.1-22.
Friedl, M.A., Sulla-Menashe, D., Tan, B., Schneider, A., Ramankutty, N., Sibley, A. and Huang, X., 2010. MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets. Remote sensing of Environment, 114(1), pp.168-182.
Churkina, G., Zaehle, S., Hughes, J., Viovy, N., Chen, Y., Jung, M., Heumann, B.W., Ramankutty, N., Heimann, M. and Jones, C., 2010. Interactions between nitrogen deposition, land cover conversion, and climate change determine the contemporary carbon balance of Europe. Biogeosciences, 7(9), pp.2749-2764.
2009
Ramankutty, N., 2010. Agriculture and forests: Recent trends, future prospects. A chapter submitted to: Linkages of sustainability (pp.11-31). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Seto, K.C., Groot, R.D., Bringezu, S., Erb, K., Graedel, T.E., Ramankutty, N., Reenberg, A., Schmitz, O.J. and Skole, D.L., 2010. Stocks, flows, and prospects of land. In Graedel, T.E. and van der Voet, E. eds., 2010. A chapter submitted to: Linkages of sustainability (p. 132). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Zaks, D.P.M., Barford, C.C., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2009. Producer and consumer responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production—a perspective from the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters, 4(4), p.044010.
Monfreda, C., Ramankutty, N. and Hertel, T.W., 2009. Global agricultural land use data for climate change analysis. In Economic analysis of land use in global climate change policy 14(33), pp. 53-68. Routledge.
2008
Gibbs, H.K., Johnston, M., Foley, J.A., Holloway, T., Monfreda, C., Ramankutty, N. and Zaks, D., 2008. Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology. Environmental research letters, 3(3), p.034001. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034001.
Ellis, E.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2008. Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6(8), pp.439-447.
Ramankutty, N., Evan, A.T., Monfreda, C. and Foley, J.A., 2008. Farming the Planet. Part 1: The Geographic Distribution of Global Agricultural Lands in the Year 2000. doi:10.1029/2007GB002952.
Monfreda, C., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2008. Farming the planet, Part 2: Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000. Global biogeochemical cycles, 22(1). doi:10.1029/2007GB002947.
Committee on Scientific Accomplishments of Earth Observations from Space, National Research Council, Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements, The National Academies Press, 2008.
Ramankutty, N., J.A. Foley and N.J. Olejniczak, 2008. Land-use change and global food production. A chapter submitted to: Land use and soil resources (pp.23-40). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands.
2007
Foley, J.A., Ramankutty, N., Leff, B. and Gibbs, H.K., 2007. Global land use changes. A chapter submitted to: Our changing planet: a view from space. Cambridge, UK,: Cambridge University Press.
Foley, J.A., Monfreda, C., Ramankutty, N. and Zaks, D., 2007. Our share of the planetary pie. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(31), pp.12585-12586.
Zaks, D.P., Ramankutty, N., Barford, C.C. and Foley, J.A., 2007. From Miami to Madison: Investigating the relationship between climate and terrestrial net primary production. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21(3). doi:3010.1029/2006GB002705
Ramankutty, N., Hertel, T., Lee, H.L. and Rose, S.K., 2007. Global agricultural land use data for integrated assessment modeling. A chapter submitted to: Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, pp.252-265. Cambridge, UI: Cambridge University Press.
Narisma, G.T., Foley, J.A., Licker, R. and Ramankutty, N., 2007. Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(6). doi:10.1029/2006GL028628.
Li, K.Y., Coe, M.T., Ramankutty, N. and De Jong, R., 2007. Modeling the hydrological impact of land-use change in West Africa. Journal of hydrology, 337(3-4), pp.258-268. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.01.038
Mahowald, N.M., Ballantine, J.A., Feddema, J. and Ramankutty, N., 2007. Global trends in visibility: implications for dust sources. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7(12), pp.3309-3339.
Betts, R.A., Falloon, P.D., Goldewijk, K.K. and Ramankutty, N., 2007. Biogeophysical effects of land use on climate: Model simulations of radiative forcing and large-scale temperature change. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 142(2-4), pp.216-233.
Foley, J.A., Asner, G.P., Costa, M.H., Coe, M.T., DeFries, R., Gibbs, H.K., Howard, E.A., Olson, S., Patz, J., Ramankutty, N. and Snyder, P., 2007. Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 5(1), pp.25-32.
Ramankutty, N., Gibbs, H.K., Achard, F., Defries, R., Foley, J.A. and Houghton, R.A., 2007. Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation. Global change biology, 13(1), pp.51-66. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01272.x
2006
Ramankutty, N., Delire, C. and Snyder, P., 2006. Feedbacks between agriculture and climate: An illustration of the potential unintended consequences of human land use activities. Global and Planetary Change, 54(1-2), pp.79-93.
Cassman, K. G., Wood, S., Choo, P. S., Cooper, H. D., Devendra, C., Dixon, J., Gaskell, J., Khan, S., Lal, R., Lipper, L., Pretty, J., Primavera, J., Ramankutty, N., Viglizzo, E., Wiebe, K., Kadungure, S., Kanbar, N., Khan, Z., Leakey, R., Porter, S., Sebastian, K. and Tharme, R., 2005. Cultivated systems. In Hassan, R.; Scholes, R.; Ash, N. (Eds.). Ecosystems and human well-being: current state and trends. Volume 1. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. pp.745-794.
Ramankutty, N., Graumlich, L., Achard, F., Alves, D., Chhabra, A., DeFries, R.S., Foley, J.A., Geist, H., Houghton, R.A., Goldewijk, K.K. and Lambin, E.F., 2006. Global land-cover change: Recent progress, remaining challenges. In Land-use and land-cover change (pp. 9-39). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Li, K.Y., De Jong, R., Coe, M.T. and Ramankutty, N., 2006. Root-water-uptake based upon a new water stress reduction and an asymptotic root distribution function. Earth Interactions, 10(14), pp.1-22.
Brovkin, V., Claussen, M., Driesschaert, E., Fichefet, T., Kicklighter, D., Loutre, M.F., Matthews, H.D., Ramankutty, N., Schaeffer, M. and Sokolov, A., 2006. Biogeophysical effects of historical land cover changes simulated by six Earth system models of intermediate complexity. Climate Dynamics, 26(6), pp.587-600.
Chhabra, A., Geist, H., Houghton, R.A., Haberl, H., Braimoh, A.K., Vlek, P.L., Patz, J., Xu, J., Ramankutty, N., Coomes, O. and Lambin, E.F., 2006. Multiple impacts of land-use/cover change. In Land-use and land-cover change (pp. 71-116). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
2005
El Maayar, M., Ramankutty, N. and Kucharik, C.J., 2006. Modeling global and regional net primary production under elevated atmospheric CO2: On a potential source of uncertainty. Earth Interactions, 10(2), pp.1-20.
Foley, J.A., DeFries, R., Asner, G.P., Barford, C., Bonan, G., Carpenter, S.R., Chapin, F.S., Coe, M.T., Daily, G.C., Gibbs, H.K., Helkowski, J.H., Holloway, T., Howard, E.A., Kucharik, C.J., Monfreda, C., Patz, J.A., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N. and Snyder, P.K., 2005. Global consequences of land use. Science, 309(5734), pp.570-574.
Li, K.Y., Coe, M.T. and Ramankutty, N., 2005. Investigation of hydrological variability in West Africa using land surface models. Journal of Climate, 18(16), pp.3173-3188.
Lepers, E., Lambin, E.F., Janetos, A.C., DeFries, R., Achard, F., Ramankutty, N. and Scholes, R.J., 2005. A synthesis of information on rapid land-cover change for the period 1981–2000. BioScience, 55(2), pp.115-124.
Kucharik, C.J. and Ramankutty, N., 2005. Trends and variability in US corn yields over the twentieth century. Earth Interactions, 9(1), pp.1-29.
2004
Goldewijk, K.K. and Ramankutty, N., 2004. Land cover change over the last three centuries due to human activities: The availability of new global data sets. GeoJournal, 61(4), pp.335-344.
Ramankutty, N., 2004. Croplands in West Africa: A geographically explicit dataset for use in models. Earth Interactions, 8(23), pp.1-22.
Leff, B., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2004. Geographic distribution of major crops across the world. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18(1). doi:10.1029/2003GB002108
Goldewijk, K.K. and Ramankutty, N., 2009. Land use changes during the past 300 years. Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences-Volume I: Land Cover, Land Use and the Global Change, p.147. In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (ed Verheye WH). Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net].
Foley, J.A. and Ramankutty, N., 2004. A primer on the terrestrial carbon cycle: What we don't know but should. SCOPE-SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC UNIONS, 62, pp.279-294.
2003
House, J.I., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Houghton, R.A. and Heimann, M., 2003. Reconciling apparent inconsistencies in estimates of terrestrial CO2 sources and sinks. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 55(2), pp.345-363.
Foley, J.A., Costa, M.H., Delire, C., Ramankutty, N. and Snyder, P., 2003. Green surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth’s climate. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1(1), pp.38-44.
Porter, W.P., Sabo, J.L., Tracy, C.R., Reichman, O.J. and Ramankutty, N., 2002. Physiology on a landscape scale: plant-animal interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 42(3), pp.431-453.
2002
Dargaville, R.J., Heimann, M., McGuire, A.D., Prentice, I.C., Kicklighter, D.W., Joos, F., Clein, J.S., Esser, G., Foley, J., Kaplan, J., Meier, R.A., Melillo, J.M., III, B.M., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Reichenau, T., Schloss, A., Tian, H., Williams, L.J. and U. Wittenberg, 2002. Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models with atmospheric CO2 measurements: Results from transient simulations considering increasing CO2, climate, and land‐use effects. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16(4), pp.39-1. doi.org/10.1029/2001GB001426
Ramankutty, N., Foley, J.A., Norman, J. and McSweeney, K., 2002. The global distribution of cultivable lands: current patterns and sensitivity to possible climate change. Global Ecology and biogeography, 11(5), pp.377-392.
Ramankutty, N., Foley, J.A. and Olejniczak, N.J., 2002. People on the land: Changes in global population and croplands during the 20th century. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 31(3), pp.251-258.
Botta, A., Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 2002. Long‐term variations of climate and carbon fluxes over the Amazon basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(9), pp.33-1.
2001
Cramer, W., Bondeau, A., Woodward, F.I., Prentice, I.C., Betts, R.A., Brovkin, V., Cox, P.M., Fisher, V., Foley, J.A., Friend, A.D., Kucharik, C., Lomas, M.R., Ramankutty, N., Sitch, S., Smith, B., White, A., and Young-Molling, C., 2001. Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models. Global change biology, 7(4), pp.357-373.
McGuire, A.D., Sitch, S., Clein, J.S., Dargaville, R.J., Esser, G., Foley, J., Heimann, M., Joos, F., Kaplan, J., Kicklighter, D.W., Meier, R.A., Melillo, J.M., Ill, B.M., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Reichenau, T., Schloss, A., Tian, H., and Wittenberg, U., 2001. The effects of CO2, climate and land-use on terrestrial carbon balance, 1920-1992: an analysis with four process-based ecosystem models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
2000
Kucharik, C.J., Foley, J.A., Delire, C., Fisher, V.A., Coe, M.T., Lenters, J.D., Young‐Molling, C., Ramankutty, N., Norman, J.M. and Gower, S.T., 2000. Testing the performance of a dynamic global ecosystem model: water balance, carbon balance, and vegetation structure. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14(3), pp.795-825.
Porter, W.P., Budaraju, S., Stewart, W.E. and Ramankutty, N., 2000. Calculating climate effects on birds and mammals: impacts on biodiversity, conservation, population parameters, and global community structure. American Zoologist, 40(4), pp.597-630.
Schlesinger, M.E., Ramankutty, N. and Andronova, N., 2000. Temperature oscillations in the North Atlantic. Science, 289(5479), pp.547-548.
1999
Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 1999. Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992. Global biogeochemical cycles, 13(4), pp.997-1027.
Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 1999. Estimating historical changes in land cover: North American croplands from 1850 to 1992. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 8(5), pp.381-396.
1998
Ramankutty, N. and Foley, J.A., 1998. Characterizing patterns of global land use: An analysis of global croplands data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 12(4), pp.667-685.
1997
Schlesinger, M.E., Andronova, N.G., Entwistle, B., Ghanem, A., Ramankutty, N., Wang, W. and Yang, F., 1997. Modeling and simulation of climate and climate change. In Past and present variability of the solar-terrestrial system: measurement, data analysis and theoretical models (p. 389).
1996
Foley, J.A., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Levis, S., Pollard, D., Sitch, S. and Haxeltine, A., 1996. An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics. Global biogeochemical cycles, 10(4), pp.603-628.
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1996. A 65–70 Year Oscillation in Observed Surface Temperatures. In Climate Sensitivity to Radiative Perturbations (pp. 305-316). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
1995
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1995. Is the recently reported 65‐to 70‐year surface‐temperature oscillation the result of climatic noise?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 100(D7), pp.13767-13774.
1994
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1994. Have Solar-Irradiance Variations Influenced Climate?. In The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate (pp. 493-506). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Schlesinger, M.E. and Ramankutty, N., 1994. Low-frequency Oscillation. Reply. Nature, 372, 508-509.
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