Forthcoming Publications

Heller, E., J. Rhemtulla, S. Lele, M. Kalacska, S. Badiger, R. Sengupta, and N. Ramankutty, Mapping irrigated areas and cropping intensities: the contribution of multi-season data in highly heterogeneous agricultural regions of southern India, Photogramm. Eng. Remote Sens., In Revision After Review.

Monfreda, C., N. Ramankutty, and J. A. Foley, Mapping Farming Systems of the World: Towards a Detailed Description of Global Agricultural Land Use, Front Ecol Environ, Submitted.

2011

Foley, J. A., N. Ramankutty, K. A. Brauman, E. S. Cassidy, J. S. Gerber, M. Johnston, N. D. Mueller, C. O'Connell, D. K. Ray, P. C. West, C. Balzer, E. M. Bennett, S. R. Carpenter, J. Hill, C. Monfreda, S. Polasky, J. Rockstrom, J. Sheehan, S. Siebert, D. Tilman, and D. P. M. Zaks, Solutions for a cultivated planet, Nature, 478(7369), 337-342, 2011.

MacDonald, G. K., E. M. Bennett, P. A. Potter, and N. Ramankutty, Agronomic phosphorus imbalances across the world's croplands, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(7), 3086-3091, 2011.

Pelletier, J., N. Ramankutty, and C. Potvin, Diagnosing the uncertainty and detectability of emission reductions for REDD + under current capabilities: an example for Panama, Environmental Research Letters, 6(2), 024005, 2011.

Deryng, D., W. J. Sacks, C. C. Barford, and N. Ramankutty, Simulating the effects of climate and agricultural management practices on global crop yield, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25, GB2006, doi:10.1029/2009GB003765, 18 pp., 2011.

Rowhani, P., D. B. Lobell, M. Linderman, and N. Ramankutty, Climate variability and crop production in Tanzania, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 151(4), 449-460, 2011.

Ahmed, S. A., N. S. Diffenbaugh, T. W. Hertel, D. B. Lobell, N. Ramankutty, A. R. Rios, and P. Rowhani, Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania, Global Environmental Change, 21(1), 46-55, 2011.

2010
Ellis, E., K. Klein Goldewijk, S. Siebert, D. Lightman, and N. Ramankutty, Anthropogenic Transformation of the Biomes, 1700 to 2000, Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 19(5), 589-606, 2010.

Licker, R., M. Johnston, J. A. Foley, C. Barford, C. J. Kucharik, C. Monfreda, and N. Ramankutty, Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?, Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 19(6), 769-782, 2010.

Gibbs, H. K., A. S. Ruesch, F. Achard, M. K. Clayton, P. Holmgren, N. Ramankutty, and J. A. Foley, Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 107(38), 16732-16737, 2010.

Sacks, W., D. Deryng, J. Foley, and N. Ramankutty, Crop planting dates: An analysis of global patterns, Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., in press, published online, 2010.

Ramankutty, N., E. Heller, and J. Rhemtulla, Prevailing Myths about Agricultural Abandonment and Forest Regrowth in the United States, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(3), 1-11, 2010.

Barona, E., N. Ramankutty, G. Hyman, and O. T. Coomes, The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon, Environmental Research Letters, 5(2), 024002, 2010.

Potter, P., N. Ramankutty, E. Bennett, and S. Donner., Characterizing the Spatial Patterns of Global Fertilizer Application and Manure Production, Earth Interactions, 14, 2010.

Friedl, M. A., Damien Sulla‐Menashe, B. Tan, A. Schneider, N. Ramankutty, and A. S. X. Huang, MODIS Collection 5 Global Land Cover: Algorithm Refinements and Characterization of New Datasets, Remote Sens. Environ., 114(1), 168-182; doi: 110.1016/j.rse.2009.1008.1016, 2010.

Churkina, G., S. Zaehle, J. Hughes, N. Viovy, Y. Chen, M. Jung, B. Heumann, N. Ramankutty, C. Rödenbeck, M. Heimann, and C. Jones, Interactions between nitrogen deposition, land cover conversion, and climate change determine the contemporary carbon balance of Europe, Biogeosciences Discussions, 7, 2227-2265, 2010.

2009
Ramankutty, N., Agriculture and Forests: Recent Trends, Future Prospects, in Linkages of Sustainability, Strungmann Forum Report, vol. 4., edited by T. Graedel and E. van der Voet, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009.
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Seto, K. C., R. de Groot, S. Bringezu, K. Erb, T. E. Graedel, N. Ramankutty, A. Reenberg, O. J. Schmitz, and D. L. Skole, Stocks, Flows, and Prospects of Land, in Linkages of Sustainability, Strungmann Forum Report, vol. 4., edited by T. Graedel and E. van der Voet, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009.
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http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/esforum/

Zaks, D. P. M., C. C. Barford, N. Ramankutty, and J. A. Foley, Producer and consumer responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production – A perspective from the Brazilian Amazon, Environmental Research Letters, 4, 044010 (12pp), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044010, 2009.

2008
Gibbs, H. K., M. Johnston, J. A. Foley, T. Holloway, C. Monfreda, N. Ramankutty & D. Zaks, Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology. Environ. Res. Lett. , 3, 034001 (10pp) doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034001, 2008.

Ellis, E. C., and N. Ramankutty, Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6, 439-447, 2008.

Ramankutty, N., A. Evan, C. Monfreda, and J. A. Foley, Farming the Planet. Part 1: The Geographic Distribution of Global Agricultural Lands in the Year 2000, Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles, doi:10.1029/2007GB002952, 2008.

Monfreda, C., N. Ramankutty, and J. A. Foley, Farming the Planet. Part 2: The Geographic Distribution of Crop Areas and Yields in the Year 2000, Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles, doi:10.1029/2007GB002947, 2008.

Committee on Scientific Accomplishments of Earth Observations from Space, National Research Council, Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements, The National Academies Press, 2008.

2007
Foley, J.A., N. Ramankutty and B. Leff. Global land use changes. A chapter submitted to Our Changing Planet: A View From Space, Cambridge University Press.

Foley, J. A., C. Monfreda, N. Ramankutty, and D. Zaks, Our share of the planetary pie, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 104(31), 12585-12586, 2007.

Zaks, D. P. M., N. Ramankutty, C. C. Barford, and J. A. Foley, From Miami to Madison: Investigating the relationship between climate and terrestrial net primary production, Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles, 21, GB3004, doi:3010.1029/2006GB002705, 2007.

Ramankutty, N., T. Hertel, H.-L. Lee, and S. K. Rose, Global Agricultural Land Use Data for Integrated Assessment Modeling, in Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, edited by M. Schlesinger, et al., pp. 252-265, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2007

Narisma, G. T., J. A. Foley, R. Licker, and N. Ramankutty, Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L06710, doi:10.1029/2006GL028628, 2007.

Li, K. Y., M.T. Coe, N. Ramankutty, and R. De Jong, Modeling the hydrological impact of land-use change in West Africa, Journal of Hydrology, 337, 258-268, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.01.038, 2007

Mahowald, N. M., J. A. Ballantine, J. Feddema, and N. Ramankutty, Global trends in visibility: implications for dust sources, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7, 3013–3071, 2007.

Betts, R. A., P. D. Falloon, K. K. Goldewijk, and N. Ramankutty, Biogeophysical effects of land use on climate: Model simulations of radiative forcing and large-scale temperature change, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 142, 216-233, 2007.

Foley, J.A., G.P. Asner, M.H. Costa, M.T. Coe, R. DeFries, H.K. Gibbs, E.A. Howard, S. Olson, J. Patz, N. Ramankutty, P. Snyder, Amazônia Revealed: forest degradation and losses of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 5, 25-32, 2007.

Ramankutty, N., H. K. Gibbs, F. Achard, R. DeFries, J. A. Foley, and R. A. Houghton, Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation, Glob. Change Biol., 13, 51-66; doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01272.x, 2007.

2006
Ramankutty, N., C. Delire, and P. Snyder, Feedbacks between agriculture and climate: An illustration of the potential unintended consequences of human land use activities, Global and Planetary Change, 54, 79-93, 2006.

Cassman, K.G., S. Wood, (and many others including N. Ramankutty), (2005) Cultivated Systems. In Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, Volume 1 (eds. Hassan, R., R. Scholes, and N. Ash), pp. 745-794. Island Press, Washington D.C.

Ramankutty, N., L. Graumlich, F. Achard, D. Alves, A. Chhabra, R. DeFries, J. Foley, H. Geist, R. Houghton, K. Klein Goldewijk, E. Lambin, A. Millington, K. Rasmussen, R. Reid, and B.L. Turner II, Global Land Cover Change: Recent Progress, Remaining Challenges, in Land Use and Land Cover Change: Local Processes, Global Impacts, edited by E. Lambin, and H. Geist, Springer Verlag, New York.

Li, K.Y., R. De Jong, M.T. Coe, and N. Ramankutty, Root-water-uptake based upon a new water stress reduction- and asymptotic root distribution function, Earth Interactions, 10, 1-22, 2006.

Brovkin, V., M. Claussen, E. Driesschaert, T. Fichefet, D. Kicklighter, M.F. Loutre, H.D. Matthews, N. Ramankutty, M. Schaeffer, and A. Sokolov, Biogeophysical effects of historical land cover changes simulated by six Earth system models of intermediate complexity, Climate Dynamics, 1-14; DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0092-6, 2006.

2005
El Maayar, M., N. Ramankutty, and C.J. Kucharik, Modeling Global and Regional Net Primary Production under Elevated Atmospheric CO2: On a Potential Source of Uncertainty, Earth Interactions, 10, 1-20, 2005.

Foley, J.A., R. DeFries, G.P. Asner, C. Barford, G. Bonan, S.R. Carpenter, F.S. Chapin, M.T. Coe, G.C. Daily, H.K. Gibbs, J.H. Helkowski, T. Holloway, E.A. Howard, C.J. Kucharik, C. Monfreda, J.A. Patz, I.C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, and P.K. Snyder, Global Consequences of Land Use, Science, 309, 570-574, 2005.

Li, K.Y., M.T. Coe, and N. Ramankutty, Investigation of Hydrological Variability in West Africa Using Land Surface Models, J. Climate, 18, 3173-3188, 2005.

Lepers, E., E.F. Lambin, A.C. Janetos, R. DeFries, F. Achard, N. Ramankutty, and R.J. Scholes, A synthesis of information on rapid land-cover change for the period 1981-2000, Bioscience, 55 (2), 115-124, 2005.

Kucharik, C.J., and N. Ramankutty, Trends and Variability in U.S. Corn Yields Over the 20th Century, Earth Interactions, 9, 1-29, 2005.

2004
Klein Goldewijk K and N. Ramankutty, Land cover change over the last three centuries due to human activities: The availability of new global data sets, Geojournal, 61, 335-344, 2004.

Ramankutty, N, Croplands in West Africa: A Geographically-explicit Data Set For Use in Models, Earth Interactions, 8, 1-22, 2004.

Leff, B., N. Ramankutty, and J. Foley, Geographic distribution of major crops across the world, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18, GB1009, doi:10.1029/2003GB002108, 2004.

K. Klein Goldewijk and N. Ramankutty (2004) Land use changes during the past 300 years. In Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences, In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (ed Verheye WH). Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net].

Foley, J.A., and N. Ramankutty, A primer on the terrestrial carbon cycle: What we don't know but should, in The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World, edited by C.B. Field, and M.R. Raupach, pp. 279-294, Island Press, Washington D.C., 2004.

2003
House, J.I., I.C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, R.A. Houghton, and M. Heimann, Reconciling apparent inconsistencies in estimates of terrestrial CO2 sources and sinks, Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 55 (2), 345-363, 2003.

Foley, J.A., M.H. Costa, C. Delire, N. Ramankutty, and P. Snyder, Green Surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect the future of earth’s climate, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1(1), 38-44, 2003.

Porter, W.P., J.L. Sabo, C.R. Tracy, O.J. Reichman, and N. Ramankutty, Physiology on a landscape scale: plant-animal interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 42(3), 431-453, 2003.

2002
Dargaville, R.J., Heimann, M., McGuire, A.D., Sitch, S., Clein, J.S., Esser, G., Foley, J., Joos, F., Kaplan, J., Kicklighter, D.W., Meier, R.A., Melillo, J.M., III, B.M., Prentice, I.C., Ramankutty, N., Reichenau, T., Schloss, A., Tian, H., Williams, L.J. and U. Wittenberg, Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models through simulations of the seasonal cycle of CO2: Results from transient simulations considering increasing CO2, climate and land-use effects. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 10.1029/2001GB001426, 2002.

Ramankutty, N., J.A. Foley, J. Norman, and K. McSweeney, The global distribution of cultivable lands: current patterns and sensitivity to possible climate change, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 11 (5), 377-392, 2002.

Ramankutty, N., J.A. Foley, and N.J. Olejniczak, People on the land: Changes in Population and Global Croplands During the 20th Century, Ambio, 31 (3), 251-257, 2002.
Botta, A., N. Ramankutty, and J.A. Foley, Long-term variations of climate and carbon fluxes over the Amazon Basin, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (9), 2002.

2001
Cramer, W., A. Bondeau, F.I. Woodward, I.C. Prentice, R.A. Betts, V. Brovkin, P.M. Cox, V. Fisher, J.A. Foley, A.D. Friend, C. Kucharik, M.R. Lomas, N. Ramankutty, S. Sitch, B. Smith, A. White, and C. Young-Molling, Dynamic responses of global terrestrial vegetation to changes in CO2 and climate, Global Change Biology, 7, 357-373, 2001.

McGuire, A.D., S. Sitch, R. Dargaville, G. Esser, J. Foley, M. Heimann, F. Joos, J. Kaplan, D.W. Kicklighter, R.A. Meier, J.M. Melillo, B.M. III, I.C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, T. Reichenau, A. Schloss, H. Tian, and U. Wittenberg, The effects of CO2, climate and land-use on terrestrial carbon balance, 1920-1992: An analysis with four process-based ecosystem models, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15, 183-206, 2001.

2000
Kucharik, C.J., J.A. Foley, C. Delire, V.A. Fisher, M.T. Coe, J.D. Lenters, C. Young-Molling, N. Ramankutty, J.M. Norman, and S.T. Gower, Testing the performance of a Dynamic Global Ecosystem Model: Water balance, carbon balance, and vegetation structure, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14(3), 795-825, 2000.

Porter, W.P, S. Budaraju, W.E. Stewart, and N. Ramankutty, Calculating climate effects on birds and mammals: Impacts on biodiversity, conservation, population parameters, and global community structure, American Zoologist, 40 (4), 597-630, 2000.

Schlesinger, M.E., N. Ramankutty, and N. Andronova, Temperature Oscillations in the North Atlantic, Science, 289 (5479), 547-548, 2000.

1999
Ramankutty, N., and J. Foley, Estimating Historical Changes in Global Land Cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 13, 997-1028, 1999.

Ramankutty, N., and J. Foley, Estimating Historical Changes in Land Cover: North American Croplands from 1850 to 1992, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 8, 381-396, 1999.

1998
Ramankutty, N., and J. Foley, Characterizing Patterns of Global Land Use: An Analysis of Global Croplands Data, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 12, 667-685, 1998.

1997
Schlesinger, M.E., N.G. Andronova, B. Entwistle, A. Ghanem, N. Ramankutty, W. Wang, and F. Yang, 1997: Modeling and Simulation of Climate and Climate Change. In Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" Course CXXXIII, Castagnoli G.C. and A. Provenzale (eds.), IOS Press, Amsterdam.

1996
Foley, J.A., I.C. Prentice, N. Ramankutty, S. Levis, D. Pollard, S. Sitch, and A. Haxeltine, An Integrated Biosphere Model of Land Surface Processes, Terrestrial Carbon Balance, and Vegetation Dynamics, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 10, 603-628, 1996.

1995
Schlesinger, M.E., and N. Ramankutty, Is the Recently Reported 65-70 Year Surface-Temperature Oscillation the Result of Climatic Noise?, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 13,767-13,774, 1995.

Schlesinger, M.E., and N. Ramankutty, 1995: A 65-70 Year Oscillation in Observed Surface Temperatures. In Climate Sensitivity to Radiative Perturbations: Physical Mechanisms and Validation, NATO ASI Series I, "Global Environmental Change", vol. 34, H. Le Treut (ed.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 305-316.

1994
Schlesinger, M. E., and N. Ramankutty, 1994: Have Solar-Irradiance Variations Influenced Climate? In The Solar Engine and its Influence on the Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate, E. Nemes-Ribes (ed.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 493-506.

Schlesinger, M.E., and N. Ramankutty, Low-frequency Oscillation. Reply. Nature, 372, 508-509, 1994.

Schlesinger, M.E., and N. Ramankutty, An Oscillation in the Global Climate System of Period 65-70 Years. Nature, 367, 723-726, 1994.

1992
Schlesinger, M.E., and N. Ramankutty, Implications for Global Warming of Intercycle Solar-Irradiance Variations. Nature, 360, 328-330, 1992.