| Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change TK Rudel, OT Coomes, E Moran, F Achard, A Angelsen, J Xu, E Lambin Global environmental change 15 (1), 23-31, 2005 | 1830 | 2005 |
| Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century RS DeFries, T Rudel, M Uriarte, M Hansen Nature Geoscience 3 (3), 178-181, 2010 | 1751 | 2010 |
| Changing drivers of deforestation and new opportunities for conservation TK Rudel, R Defries, GP Asner, WF Laurance Conservation Biology 23 (6), 1396-1405, 2009 | 827 | 2009 |
| Forest transitions, trade, and the global displacement of land use P Meyfroidt, TK Rudel, EF Lambin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (49), 20917-20922, 2010 | 752 | 2010 |
| Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005 TK Rudel, L Schneider, M Uriarte, BL Turner, R DeFries, D Lawrence, ... Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 106 (49), 20675-20680, 2009 | 738 | 2009 |
| A contemporary assessment of change in humid tropical forests GP Asner, TK Rudel, TM Aide, R Defries, R Emerson Conservation Biology 23 (6), 1386-1395, 2009 | 573 | 2009 |
| A tropical forest transition? Agricultural change, out‐migration, and secondary forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon TK Rudel, D Bates, R Machinguiashi Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92 (1), 87-102, 2002 | 490 | 2002 |
| Tropical deforestation: small farmers and land clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon TK Rudel, B Horowitz Columbia University Press, 1993 | 437 | 1993 |
| The paths to rain forest destruction: crossnational patterns of tropical deforestation, 1975–1990 T Rudel, J Roper World development 25 (1), 53-65, 1997 | 417 | 1997 |
| Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach EF Lambin, HK Gibbs, L Ferreira, R Grau, P Mayaux, P Meyfroidt, ... Global environmental change 23 (5), 892-901, 2013 | 406 | 2013 |
| Tropical forests: regional paths of destruction and regeneration in the late twentieth century TA Rudel Columbia University Press, 2005 | 382 | 2005 |
| Is There a Forest Transition? Deforestation, Reforestation, and Development1 TK Rudel Rural sociology 63 (4), 533-552, 1998 | 379 | 1998 |
| Population, development and tropical deforestation: a cross-national study T Rudel The causes of tropical deforestation, 96-105, 2023 | 360 | 2023 |
| Causes and trajectories of land-use/cover change H Geist, W McConnell, EF Lambin, E Moran, D Alves, T Rudel Land-use and land-cover change: Local processes and global impacts, 41-70, 2006 | 338 | 2006 |
| Changing agents of deforestation: from state-initiated to enterprise driven processes, 1970–2000 TK Rudel Land use policy 24 (1), 35-41, 2007 | 322 | 2007 |
| The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa TK Rudel Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368 …, 2013 | 294 | 2013 |
| When fields revert to forest: development and spontaneous reforestation in post-war Puerto Rico TK Rudel, M Perez-Lugo, H Zichal The Professional Geographer 52 (3), 386-397, 2000 | 291 | 2000 |
| LivestockPlus—The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics I Rao, M Peters, A Castro, R Schultze-Kraft, D White, M Fisher, J Miles, ... Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales 3 (2), 59-82, 2015 | 229 | 2015 |
| Meta-analyses of case studies: a method for studying regional and global environmental change TK Rudel Global Environmental Change 18 (1), 18-25, 2008 | 222 | 2008 |
| Designing and implementing effective REDD+ policies: A forest transition approach A Angelsen, TK Rudel Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2013 | 212 | 2013 |
