Ruth DeFries

Climate Central — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

114h-index73.3kcitations456works5.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(87), Remote Sensing in Agriculture(82), Fire effects on ecosystems(71), Land Use and Ecosystem Services(67), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics(40)

Publications456 total

The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025
Socioeconomic and land use drivers of weedy grass infestation in the Peruvian Amazon
Regional Environmental Change·2025
Indicators for equitable restoration of commons through invasive species removal in central India
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators·2025Open Access
Mapping of food access points of Indigenous tribal communities of Madhya Pradesh with Geospatial tools: a study protocol
BMC Nutrition·2025Open Access
An evidenced-based, farmer-focused revival of traditional cereals
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Grassland Bird Species Decline With Colonial‐Era Landscape Change in a Tropical Montane Ecosystem
Global Change Biology·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Forest Transitions in Dry Tropical Forests of Central India
2025
Conflicting stakeholder priorities produce sustainability tradeoffs for cereal production in Northeast China
Environmental Research Communications·2025Open Access
Achieving high-integrity tree-planting projects in the voluntary carbon market
Environmental Research Letters·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Open-source, environmentally dynamic machine learning models demonstrate behavior-dependent utilization of mixed-use landscapes by jaguars (Panthera onca)
Biological Conservation·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Indicators for Equitable Restoration of Commons Through Invasive Species Removal in Central India
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions simultaneously reduce the production of multiple cereals across India
Environmental Research Letters·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Expert review of the science underlying nature-based climate solutions
Nature Climate Change·2024· 78 citedOpen Access
Toward a holistic and data-driven framework to evaluate livestock-derived protein systems
One Earth·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Crop switching in the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India can improve water and food sustainability with increased farmers’ profit
2024Open Access
An Open-Source, Environmentally Dynamic Machine Learning Framework for Behavior-Specific Insights into Jaguar (Panthera Onca) Movement in Mixed-Use Landscapes
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
Indicators for Equitable Restoration of Commons Through Invasive Species Removal in Central India
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
Land cover and forest health indicator datasets for central India using very-high resolution satellite data
Scientific Data·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Social and ecological outcomes of tropical dry forest restoration through invasive species removal in central India
Ecological Indicators·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Crop switching for water sustainability in India’s food bowl yields co-benefits for food security and farmers’ profits
Nature Water·2023· 61 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Matthew C. Hansen(10), G. J. Collatz(9), Guido R. van der Werf(8), James T. Randerson(7), Douglas C. Morton(7), Navin Ramankutty(6), Louis Giglio(6), P. S. Kasibhatla(6), J. R. Townshend(6), Jonathan A. Foley(4), Gregory P. Asner(4), Thomas Dietz(4), Éric F. Lambin(4), Stephen R. Carpenter(3), Michael T. Coe(3), David M. J. S. Bowman(3), Jennifer K. Balch(3), Paulo Artaxo(3), Fay H. Johnston(3), R. A. Sohlberg(3)