Measuring the changing state of nature

The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

1997 • 20,169 citations

Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems

1998 • 5,300 citations

The Diversity of Life

1992 • 2,599 citations

The Future of Biodiversity

1995 • 2,104 citations

Determination of Deforestation Rates of the World's Humid Tropical Forests

2002 • 1,991 citations

Habitat Loss and Extinction in the Hotspots of Biodiversity

2002 • 1,958 citations

Agricultural intensification and the collapse of Europe's farmland bird populations

2001 • 1,885 citations

Mangrove Forests: One of the World's Threatened Major Tropical Environments

2001 • 1,685 citations

Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature

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Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines

2000 • 1,322 citations

Natural and human-induced disturbance of seagrasses

1996 • 1,294 citations

How Many Species Are There on Earth?

1988 • 1,174 citations

Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 Main Report

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The Skeptical Environmentalist

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Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests

1999 • 949 citations

Mammal Population Losses and the Extinction Crisis

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Collapse and recovery of marine fishes

2000 • 899 citations

The skeptical environmentalist: measuring the real state of the world

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Economic and Environmental Benefits of Biodiversity

1997 • 733 citations

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

2002 • 725 citations

Global Environment Outlook

1998 • 685 citations

State of the States

1998 • 622 citations

Population diversity and ecosystem services

2003 • 607 citations

Population Diversity: Its Extent and Extinction

1997 • 592 citations

The future of coral reefs

2001 • 574 citations

Time Lag between Deforestation and Bird Extinction in Tropical Forest Fragments

1999 • 561 citations

Biodiversity II: understanding and protecting our biological resources

1997 • 555 citations

Limits to the use of threatened species lists

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Bushmeat Exploitation in Tropical Forests: an Intercontinental Comparison

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Biodiversity II

1997 • 352 citations

The Skeptical Environmentalist

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The biotic crisis and the future of evolution

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Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World

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Tropical deforestation and species extinction

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Forest losses predict bird extinctions in eastern North America.

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Taxonomy of taxonomists

1992 • 260 citations

The Sinking Ark: A New Look at the Problem of Disappearing Species

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Deforestation Predicts the Number of Threatened Birds in Insular Southeast Asia

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Tropical deforestation and species extinction

1992 • 250 citations

Predicting the Pattern of Decline of African Primate Diversity: an Extinction Debt from Historical Deforestation

1999 • 249 citations

Lessons from the past: Evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions

2001 • 229 citations

A Study of Plant Species Extinction in Singapore: Lessons for the Conservation of Tropical Biodiversity

1994 • 210 citations

Using birds as indicators of biodiversity

2003 • 205 citations

Atlantic forest extinctions

1996 • 195 citations

Estimating extinction rates

1993 • 184 citations

Dynamics of extinction

1986 • 182 citations

Science, Sustainability, and the Human Prospect

2002 • 178 citations

How much do we know about the current extinction rate?

1993 • 167 citations

Declines of biomes and biotas and the future of evolution

2001 • 162 citations

How many named species are valid?

2002 • 141 citations

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: the effect of population and land tenure

1994 • 133 citations

The Currency and Tempo of Extinction

2001 • 115 citations

Uncertainties in extinction rates

1994 • 75 citations

Living Planet Report 2000

2002 • 64 citations

The Challenge of Measuring Global Change in Wild Nature: Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

2003 • 57 citations

The monitoring of British breeding birds: a success story for conservation science?

2003 • 49 citations

Global amphibian population declines

2001 • 47 citations

No need to worry about the future

2001 • 41 citations

Extinction rate estimates

1993 • 28 citations

U.N. Report Suggests Slowed Forest Losses

2001 • 27 citations

The Currency and Tempo of Extinction

2001 • 20 citations

Habitats in crisis: Why we should care about the loss of species

1990 • 18 citations

On the Termination of Species

2001 • 18 citations

Reviving the Tasmanian Tiger

2002 • 3 citations

Mammoth Hunters Put Hopes on Ice

2001 • 1 citations