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| Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change | Science | 2016 | 511 |
| Global change pressures on soils from land use and management | Global Change Biology | 2016 | 403 |
| Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target | Global Change Biology | 2016 | 203 |
| Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production | Environmental Research Letters | 2016 | 197 |
| Random Forests for Global and Regional Crop Yield Predictions | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 193 |
| Nitrogen use in the global food system: past trends and future trajectories of agronomic performance, pollution, trade, and dietary demand | Environmental Research Letters | 2016 | 151 |
| Realizing Resilient Food Systems | BioScience | 2016 | 109 |
| Comparative life cycle assessment of fossil and bio-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2016 | 94 |
| Environmental health impacts of feeding crops to farmed fish | Environment International | 2016 | 84 |
| Seasonal variation in outdoor, indoor, and personal air pollution exposures of women using wood stoves in the Tibetan Plateau: Baseline assessment for an energy intervention study | Environment International | 2016 | 79 |
| Spatially explicit estimates of N2 O emissions from croplands suggest climate mitigation opportunities from improved fertilizer management | Global Change Biology | 2016 | 77 |
| The social costs of nitrogen | Science Advances | 2016 | 73 |
| Optimizing land use decision-making to sustain Brazilian agricultural profits, biodiversity and ecosystem services | Biological Conservation | 2016 | 70 |
| Feeding the Corn Belt: Opportunities for phosphorus recycling in U.S. agriculture | Science of the Total Environment | 2016 | 58 |
| Seasonal and Diurnal Air Pollution from Residential Cooking and Space Heating in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau | Environmental Science & Technology | 2016 | 50 |
| The Regional Impacts of Cooking and Heating Emissions on Ambient Air Quality and Disease Burden in China | Environmental Science & Technology | 2016 | 46 |
| Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands provide ecosystem service benefits that exceed land rental payment costs | Ecosystem Services | 2016 | 44 |
| The oxidative potential of PM2.5 exposures from indoor and outdoor sources in rural China | Science of the Total Environment | 2016 | 40 |
| Assessing the potential additionality of certification by the Round table on Responsible Soybeans and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil | Environmental Research Letters | 2016 | 40 |
| Bigger is better: Improved nature conservation and economic returns from landscape-level mitigation | Science Advances | 2016 | 35 |
| Climate change in the urban environment: Advancing, measuring and achieving resiliency | Environmental Science and Policy | 2016 | 35 |
| Frontiers in Ecosystem Ecology from a Community Perspective: The Future is Boundless and Bright | Ecosystems | 2016 | 31 |
| Assessing the need and potential of assisted migration using species distribution models | Biological Conservation | 2016 | 30 |
| Forest composition modifies litter dynamics and decomposition in regenerating tropical dry forest | Oecologia | 2016 | 28 |
