| 1 | A quantitative review of the effects of biochar application to soils on crop productivity using meta-analysis | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2011 | 2,011 |
| 2 | The ecological role of biodiversity in agroecosystems | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 1999 | 1,816 |
| 3 | The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2013 | 1,450 |
| 4 | Review of greenhouse gas emissions from crop production systems and fertilizer management effects | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2009 | 1,306 |
| 5 | Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils via cultivation of cover crops – A meta-analysis | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2015 | 1,290 |
| 6 | A synthesis of carbon sequestration, carbon emissions, and net carbon flux in agriculture: comparing tillage practices in the United States | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2002 | 1,228 |
| 7 | Hydrological functions of tropical forests: not seeing the soil for the trees? | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2004 | 1,181 |
| 8 | Physico-chemical properties and microbial responses in biochar-amended soils: Mechanisms and future directions | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2015 | 1,149 |
| 9 | The mobility and degradation of pesticides in soils and the pollution of groundwater resources | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2008 | 1,141 |
| 10 | Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal, and microbe invasions | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2001 | 1,082 |
| 11 | Tillage and soil carbon sequestration—What do we really know? | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2007 | 1,066 |
| 12 | A comparison of soil quality indexing methods for vegetable production systems in Northern California | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2002 | 1,026 |
| 13 | Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2008 | 962 |
| 14 | Biochar's role in mitigating soil nitrous oxide emissions: A review and meta-analysis | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2014 | 906 |
| 15 | Long-term impact of irrigation with sewage effluents on heavy metal content in soils, crops and groundwater—a case study | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2005 | 893 |
| 16 | The environmental consequences of adopting conservation tillage in Europe: reviewing the evidence | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2004 | 810 |
| 17 | Biochar addition to agricultural soil increased CH4 uptake and water holding capacity – Results from a short-term pilot field study | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2011 | 797 |
| 18 | Agroecology: the science of natural resource management for poor farmers in marginal environments | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2002 | 784 |
| 19 | Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2014 | 772 |
| 20 | Effect of biochar amendment on yield and methane and nitrous oxide emissions from a rice paddy from Tai Lake plain, China | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2010 | 769 |
| 21 | Carbon sequestration in tropical agroforestry systems | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2003 | 763 |
| 22 | A review of the use of composted municipal solid waste in agriculture | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2008 | 756 |
| 23 | Soil biodiversity for agricultural sustainability | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2007 | 753 |
| 24 | Land-cover change model validation by an ROC method for the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2001 | 747 |
| 25 | Carabid beetles in sustainable agriculture: a review on pest control efficacy, cultivation impacts and enhancement | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 1999 | 745 |
| 26 | Replacing bare fallows with cover crops in fertilizer-intensive cropping systems: A meta-analysis of crop yield and N dynamics | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2006 | 743 |
| 27 | Predicting land-use change | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2001 | 735 |
| 28 | Efficient soil microorganisms: A new dimension for sustainable agriculture and environmental development | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2011 | 726 |
| 29 | Field margins in northern Europe: their functions and interactions with agriculture | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2002 | 694 |
| 30 | Can no-tillage stimulate carbon sequestration in agricultural soils? A meta-analysis of paired experiments | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2010 | 678 |
| 31 | Coping better with current climatic variability in the rain-fed farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa: An essential first step in adapting to future climate change? | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2008 | 664 |
| 32 | Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2004 | 655 |
| 33 | Further evidence of continent-wide impacts of agricultural intensification on European farmland birds, 1990–2000 | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2006 | 642 |
| 34 | Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and organic farming | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2006 | 641 |
| 35 | Soil health and global sustainability: translating science into practice | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2002 | 639 |
| 36 | Integrated crop–livestock systems: Strategies to achieve synergy between agricultural production and environmental quality | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2014 | 636 |
| 37 | Climate change: Can wheat beat the heat? | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2008 | 625 |
| 38 | The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2006 | 624 |
| 39 | Heavy metal content of vegetables irrigated with mixtures of wastewater and sewage sludge in Zimbabwe: Implications for human health | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2006 | 623 |
| 40 | Intercropping with legume for agroecological cropping systems: Complementarity and facilitation processes and the importance of soil microorganisms. A review | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2017 | 620 |
| 41 | Indicators for evaluating soil quality | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2003 | 615 |
| 42 | Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes—are we asking the right questions? | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2004 | 611 |
| 43 | An approach for estimating net primary productivity and annual carbon inputs to soil for common agricultural crops in Canada | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2007 | 603 |
| 44 | Land use effects on soil quality in a tropical forest ecosystem of Bangladesh | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2000 | 601 |
| 45 | Soil organic matter and biological soil quality indicators after 21 years of organic and conventional farming | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2007 | 601 |
| 46 | Organic inputs for soil fertility management in tropical agroecosystems: application of an organic resource database | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2001 | 599 |
| 47 | Increasing agricultural water use efficiency to meet future food production | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2000 | 568 |
| 48 | Identifying and managing the conflicts between agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Europe–A review | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2008 | 567 |
| 49 | Ammonia volatilization from synthetic fertilizers and its mitigation strategies: A global synthesis | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2016 | 565 |
| 50 | Temperature variability and the yield of annual crops | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2000 | 553 |
