Management of tropical soils as sinks or sources of atmospheric carbon

Analysis of Factors Controlling Soil Organic Matter Levels in Great Plains Grasslands

1987 • 3,730 citations

Ecology of Coarse Woody Debris in Temperate Ecosystems

1986 • 3,687 citations

Biogeochemistry: an Analysis of Global Change

1991 • 3,572 citations

Soil carbon pools and world life zones

1982 • 2,250 citations

Life zone ecology.

1967 • 2,033 citations

Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics

1977 • 1,340 citations

Tropical secondary forests

1990 • 1,323 citations

Forest environments in tropical life zones: a pilot study.

1971 • 1,024 citations

Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics

2019 • 930 citations

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

1982 • 869 citations

Abandoned Pastures in Eastern Amazonia. I. Patterns of Plant Succession

1988 • 854 citations

The soil resource. Origin and behavior

1984 • 830 citations

The soil under shifting cultivation.

1960 • 779 citations

Evidence from chronosequence studies for a low carbon-storage potential of soils

1990 • 744 citations

The Soil Resource

1980 • 724 citations

Soils and the greenhouse effect.

1990 • 647 citations

Attributes of trees as crop plants

1985 • 494 citations

Biological Strategies of Nutrient Cycling in Soil Systems

1983 • 443 citations

Mineral Nutrients in Tropical Forest and Savanna Ecosystems.

1990 • 378 citations

Amazon Rain-Forest Fires

1985 • 374 citations

Comparison of Tropical Tree Plantations with Secondary Forests of Similar Age

1992 • 369 citations

Changes in Soil Carbon Storage and Associated Properties with Disturbance and Recovery

1986 • 315 citations

Tropical forest resources

1982 • 309 citations

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

1986 • 285 citations

Studies of Mineral Cycling in a Montane Rain Forest in New Guinea: I. The Distribution of Organic Matter in the Vegetation and Soil

1977 • 243 citations

Effects of forest clearing and succession on the carbon and nitrogen content of soils in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands

1990 • 238 citations

Changes in the soil after clearing tropical forest

1964 • 233 citations

Tropical forests as sinks of atmospheric carbon

1992 • 217 citations

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

1976 • 215 citations

Soil Fertility Dynamics after Clearing a Tropical Rainforest in Peru

1983 • 210 citations

Land use and organic carbon content of some subtropical soils

1986 • 179 citations

Biomass of tropical forests of south and southeast Asia

1991 • 162 citations

Changes in the landscape of Latin America between 1850 and 1985 II. Net release of CO2 to the atmosphere

1991 • 153 citations

Above- and belowground organic matter storage and production in a tropical pine plantation and a paired broadleaf secondary forest

1991 • 150 citations

Biomass of tropical tree plantations and its implications for the global carbon budget

1986 • 142 citations

Nature and behaviour of organic matter in soils under natural forest, and after deforestation, burning and cultivation, near Manaus

1991 • 135 citations

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

1985 • 122 citations

ESTIMATING AREAS OF DEGRADED TROPICAL LANDS REQUIRING REPLENISHMENT OF FOREST COVER

1988 • 118 citations

Root development in simple and complex tropical successional ecosystems

1988 • 103 citations

Age And Growth Rate Of Tropical Trees: New Directions For Research

1981 • 99 citations

Soil conditions and nutrient cycling under natural and plantation forests in Tanzanian highlands.

1978 • 97 citations

An analytical review of production rates and stemwood biomass of tropical forest plantations

1988 • 94 citations

Alternatives to deforestation

1993 • 84 citations

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

1971 • 82 citations

Nutrients and mass in litter and top soil of ten tropical tree plantations

1990 • 81 citations

The Future of the Forest

1988 • 79 citations

Consequences of clearing and tillage on the soil of a natural Amazonian ecosystem

1991 • 77 citations

Traditional management of tropical forests in Mexico.

1990 • 73 citations

Historical analysis of changes in land use and carbon stock of vegetation in south and southeast Asia

1991 • 66 citations

Soil Organic Matter in Secondary Forests of Puerto Rico

1987 • 62 citations

Simulation of soil organic matter formations and mineralization in semiarid agroecosystems

1983 • 60 citations

Biological Interactions in Soil.

1989 • 57 citations

Soil changes associated with Loblolly Pine succession on abandoned agricultural land of the Piedmont plateau.

1940 • 57 citations

A comparative analysis of biomass production in five tropical tree species

1990 • 51 citations

Alley Farming with Leucaena: Effect of Short Grazed Fallows on Soil Fertility and Crop Yields

1990 • 45 citations

The Distribution of Nardus Stricta in Relation to Peat

1918 • 37 citations

Pasture Development on Cleared Forest Land in Northern Amazonia

1990 • 35 citations

Age and growth rate of tropical trees

1981 • 24 citations

Comparing Tropical and Temperate Forests

1991 • 16 citations

Nutrient dynamics in forest fallows in South-East Asia.

1989 • 12 citations

Effects of shifting cultivation on a tropical rain forest soil in Southwestern Nigeria

1988 • 10 citations

A Temporal Sequence (Chronosequence) of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Development after Phosphate Mining on Nauru Island

1991 • 10 citations

Interactions between soil-inhabiting invertebrates and microorganisms in relation to plant growth and ecosystem processes: An introduction

1988 • 9 citations

The nature of soil properties under mature forest and plantations of fruiting and exotic trees in the tropical rain forest fringes of SW Nigeria

1991 • 6 citations