Land use change and the global carbon cycle: the role of tropical soils

Soil carbon pools and world life zones

1982 • 2,250 citations

Factors of Soil Formation: A System of Quantitative Pedology

1945 • 1,600 citations

Estimates of gross and net fluxes of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere from biomass burning

1980 • 1,399 citations

Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics

1977 • 1,340 citations

Factors of Soil Formation, a System of Quantitative Pedology

1941 • 1,317 citations

The tropical rain forest

1952 • 1,291 citations

Carbon Balance in Terrestrial Detritus

1977 • 1,020 citations

Changes in the Carbon Content of Terrestrial Biota and Soils between 1860 and 1980: A Net Release of CO"2 to the Atmosphere

1983 • 958 citations

The Storage and Production of Organic Matter in Tropical Forests and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle

1982 • 869 citations

The soil under shifting cultivation.

1960 • 779 citations

The Biota and the World Carbon Budget

1978 • 597 citations

The Soil under Shifting Cultivation

1961 • 501 citations

Succession and Nutrient Dynamics Following Forest Cutting and Burning in Amazonia

1984 • 382 citations

Tropical soils and soil survey

1976 • 351 citations

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels: a procedure for estimation and results for 1950-1982

1984 • 345 citations

Amazon Basin Soils: Management for Continuous Crop Production

1982 • 316 citations

Tropical forest resources

1982 • 309 citations

Conversion of Tropical Moist Forests

1980 • 306 citations

Changes of Land Biota and Their Importance for the Carbon Cycle

1977 • 289 citations

The primary source: Tropical forests and our future

1984 • 285 citations

Slash and Burn Impacts on a Costa Rican Wet Forest Site

1981 • 284 citations

Changes in the soil after clearing tropical forest

1964 • 233 citations

Early Succession on Cleared Forest Land in Ghana

1983 • 232 citations

The primary source: tropical forests and our future

1985 • 229 citations

The effects of clearing and cropping on the organic reserves and biomass of tropical forest soils

1976 • 215 citations

Estimate of Organic Carbon in World Soils

1976 • 214 citations

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels: a procedure for estimation and results for 1950-1982

1984 • 210 citations

CARBON STORAGE IN THE CALICHE OF ARID SOILS

1982 • 208 citations

Organic Matter Production and Distribution in Slash Pine (Pinus Elliottii) Plantations

1982 • 203 citations

The effect of fallow and continuous cultivation on the chemical and physical properties of an alfisol in western Nigeria

1977 • 192 citations

Soil Carbon Dynamics in a Mixed Deciduous Forest Following Clear‐Cutting with and without Residue Removal

1983 • 172 citations

Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand.

1981 • 168 citations

Ecosystem Recovery in Amazon Caatinga Forest after Cutting, Cutting and Burning, and Bulldozer Clearing Treatments

1982 • 159 citations

The Role of Terrestrial Vegetation in the Global Carbon Cycle: Measurement by Remote Sensing.

1985 • 146 citations

A deconvolution of the tree ring based δ¹³C record

1983 • 131 citations

Modeling Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Global Carbon Cycle With Shifts in Carbon Storage Capacity by Land‐Use Change

1984 • 129 citations

Atmospheric Input of Carbon Dioxide from Burning Wood

1978 • 126 citations

Global chemical cycles and their alterations by man

1977 • 124 citations

Soil Response to Forest Clearing in the United States and the Tropics: Geological and Biological Factors

1985 • 122 citations

THE EFFECT OF CLEARING A TROPICAL FOREST SOIL

1963 • 121 citations

Clearing a tropical forest I. Effects on soil and micro-climate

1979 • 112 citations

Secondary Succession and Soil Fertility Restoration in South-Western Nigeria: II. Soil Fertility Restoration

1981 • 98 citations

Soil Changes Resulting From Long‐term Management Practices in Western Nigeria

1979 • 93 citations

Land use change

1984 • 87 citations

Continuous cultivation of West African soils: Organic matter diminution and effects of applied lime and phosphorus

1971 • 82 citations

Shifting cultivation in Latin America

1960 • 82 citations

Wood Versus Fossil Fuel as a Source of Excess Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere: A Preliminary Report

1977 • 65 citations

Recovery and restoration of damaged ecosystems

1977 • 64 citations

Effects of Forest Conversion on the Carbon Budget of a Tropical Soil

1983 • 58 citations

A Comparison of Two Recent Estimates of Disturbance in Tropical Forests

1985 • 55 citations

Effects of Two Methods of Timber Harvesting on Microbial Processes in Forest Soil

1985 • 54 citations

Changes in Soil Properties During Tropical Wet Forest Succession in Costa Rica

1984 • 54 citations

The Land’s Response to More Carbon Dioxide

1977 • 38 citations

Land use change and carbon exchange in the tropics: I. Detailed estimates for Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, and Bolivia

1985 • 37 citations

Land use change and carbon exchange in the tropics: II. Estimates for the entire region

1985 • 32 citations

On organic soil carbon and CO<sub>2</sub>

1978 • 25 citations

Soil organic matter and soil nitrogen behaviour in cropped soils.

1981 • 21 citations

A Comparison of Soils Under Agriculture and Forests in San Carlos, Costa Rica

1975 • 21 citations

Land use change and carbon exchange in the tropics: III. Structure, basic equations, and sensitivity analysis of the model

1985 • 20 citations

Bioelement loss on clearing a tropical rain forest

1976 • 13 citations

Evolution des sols sous palmeraie après défrichement de la forêt

1978 • 12 citations

Carbon dioxide effects: research and assessment program. Workshop on the global effects of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels

1979 • 8 citations

Alteracoes edaficas em " solos de tabuleiro " (haplorthoxs) por influencia do desmatamento, queima e sistemas de manejo

1981 • 8 citations

Development of soils under oil palm after deforestation.

1978 • 7 citations

Culture itinérante et jachère forestière en Guyane Evolution de la matière organique

1977 • 5 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations