| Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100 OE Sala, F Stuart Chapin, JJ Armesto, E Berlow, J Bloomfield, R Dirzo, ... science 287 (5459), 1770-1774, 2000 | 11934 | 2000 |
| The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths EF Lambin, BL Turner, HJ Geist, SB Agbola, A Angelsen, JW Bruce, ... Global environmental change 11 (4), 261-269, 2001 | 5110 | 2001 |
| Defaunation in the Anthropocene R Dirzo, HS Young, M Galetti, G Ceballos, NJB Isaac, B Collen science 345 (6195), 401-406, 2014 | 4630 | 2014 |
| Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines G Ceballos, PR Ehrlich, R Dirzo Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 114 (30), E6089-E6096, 2017 | 3107 | 2017 |
| Global state of biodiversity and loss R Dirzo, PH Raven Annual review of Environment and Resources 28 (1), 137-167, 2003 | 1929 | 2003 |
| Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas WF Laurance, D Carolina Useche, J Rendeiro, M Kalka, CJA Bradshaw, ... Nature 489 (7415), 290-294, 2012 | 1394 | 2012 |
| Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores WJ Ripple, TM Newsome, C Wolf, R Dirzo, KT Everatt, M Galetti, ... Science advances 1 (4), e1400103, 2015 | 1113 | 2015 |
| Deforestation of seasonally dry tropical forest: a national and local analysis in Mexico I Trejo, R Dirzo Biological conservation 94 (2), 133-142, 2000 | 873 | 2000 |
| Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals WJ Ripple, K Abernethy, MG Betts, G Chapron, R Dirzo, M Galetti, T Levi, ... Royal Society open science 3 (10), 160498, 2016 | 627 | 2016 |
| Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future CJA Bradshaw, PR Ehrlich, A Beattie, G Ceballos, E Crist, J Diamond, ... Frontiers in Conservation Science 1, 615419, 2021 | 587 | 2021 |
| Forests as human-dominated ecosystems IR Noble, R Dirzo Science 277 (5325), 522-525, 1997 | 587 | 1997 |
| Rates of deforestation in Los Tuxtlas, a neotropical area in southeast Mexico R Dirzo, MC García Conservation Biology 6 (1), 84-90, 1992 | 563 | 1992 |
| Patterns, causes, and consequences of anthropocene defaunation HS Young, DJ McCauley, M Galetti, R Dirzo Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics 47 (1), 333-358, 2016 | 545 | 2016 |
| Floristic diversity of Mexican seasonally dry tropical forests I Trejo, R Dirzo Biodiversity & conservation 11, 2063-2084, 2002 | 428 | 2002 |
| Altered patterns of herbivory and diversity in the forest understory: a case study of the possible consequences of contemporary defaunation R Dirzo, A Miranda Plant-animal interactions: evolutionary ecology in tropical and temperate …, 1991 | 424 | 1991 |
| Carbon emissions from Mexican forests: current situation and long-term scenarios OR Masera, MJ Ordóñez, R Dirzo Climatic change 35 (3), 265-295, 1997 | 401 | 1997 |
| Deep into the mud: ecological and socio-economic impacts of the dam breach in Mariana, Brazil GW Fernandes, FF Goulart, BD Ranieri, MS Coelho, K Dales, N Boesche, ... Natureza & Conservação 14 (2), 35-45, 2016 | 349 | 2016 |
| Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world M Galetti, R Dirzo Biological Conservation 163, 1-6, 2013 | 338 | 2013 |
| Contemporary neotropical defaunation and forest structure, function, and diversity-a sequel to John Terborgh R Dirzo, A Miranda Conservation Biology 4 (4), 444-447, 1990 | 337 | 1990 |
| Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems AD Barnosky, EA Hadly, P Gonzalez, J Head, PD Polly, AM Lawing, ... Science 355 (6325), eaah4787, 2017 | 328 | 2017 |
