| Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems NM Haddad, LA Brudvig, J Clobert, KF Davies, A Gonzalez, RD Holt, ... Science advances 1 (2), e1500052, 2015 | 4397 | 2015 |
| The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection SL Pimm, CN Jenkins, R Abell, TM Brooks, JL Gittleman, LN Joppa, ... science 344 (6187), 1246752, 2014 | 3948 | 2014 |
| Global, 30-m resolution continuous fields of tree cover: Landsat-based rescaling of MODIS vegetation continuous fields with lidar-based estimates of error JO Sexton, XP Song, M Feng, P Noojipady, A Anand, C Huang, DH Kim, ... International Journal of Digital Earth 6 (5), 427-448, 2013 | 829 | 2013 |
| US protected lands mismatch biodiversity priorities CN Jenkins, KS Van Houtan, SL Pimm, JO Sexton Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (16), 5081-5086, 2015 | 464 | 2015 |
| A global, high-resolution (30-m) inland water body dataset for 2000: First results of a topographic–spectral classification algorithm M Feng, JO Sexton, S Channan, JR Townshend International Journal of Digital Earth 9 (2), 113-133, 2016 | 368 | 2016 |
| Global characterization and monitoring of forest cover using Landsat data: opportunities and challenges JR Townshend, JG Masek, C Huang, EF Vermote, F Gao, S Channan, ... International Journal of Digital Earth 5 (5), 373-397, 2012 | 366 | 2012 |
| Accelerated deforestation in the humid tropics from the 1990s to the 2000s DH Kim, JO Sexton, JR Townshend Geophysical Research Letters 42 (9), 3495-3501, 2015 | 305 | 2015 |
| Global, Landsat-based forest-cover change from 1990 to 2000 DH Kim, JO Sexton, P Noojipady, C Huang, A Anand, S Channan, M Feng, ... Remote sensing of environment 155, 178-193, 2014 | 300 | 2014 |
| Urban growth of the Washington, DC–Baltimore, MD metropolitan region from 1984 to 2010 by annual, Landsat-based estimates of impervious cover JO Sexton, XP Song, C Huang, S Channan, ME Baker, JR Townshend Remote Sensing of Environment 129, 42-53, 2013 | 293 | 2013 |
| Urban warming drives insect pest abundance on street trees EK Meineke, RR Dunn, JO Sexton, SD Frank PloS one 8 (3), e59687, 2013 | 283 | 2013 |
| High resolution analysis of tropical forest fragmentation and its impact on the global carbon cycle K Brinck, R Fischer, J Groeneveld, S Lehmann, M Dantas De Paula, ... Nature Communications 8 (1), 14855, 2017 | 270 | 2017 |
| Characterizing the magnitude, timing and duration of urban growth from time series of Landsat-based estimates of impervious cover XP Song, JO Sexton, C Huang, S Channan, JR Townshend Remote Sensing of Environment 175, 1-13, 2016 | 258 | 2016 |
| Long-term land cover dynamics by multi-temporal classification across the Landsat-5 record JO Sexton, DL Urban, MJ Donohue, C Song Remote sensing of environment 128, 246-258, 2013 | 251 | 2013 |
| Conservation policy and the measurement of forests JO Sexton, P Noojipady, XP Song, M Feng, DX Song, DH Kim, A Anand, ... Nature Climate Change 6 (2), 192-196, 2016 | 210 | 2016 |
| Sex matters: Modeling male and female habitat differences for jaguar conservation DA Conde, F Colchero, H Zarza, NL Christensen Jr, JO Sexton, ... Biological Conservation 143 (9), 1980-1988, 2010 | 203 | 2010 |
| Satellite‐based evidence for shrub and graminoid tundra expansion in northern Quebec from 1986 to 2010 KM McManus, DC Morton, JG Masek, D Wang, JO Sexton, JR Nagol, ... Global Change Biology, 2012 | 178 | 2012 |
| Urban areas may serve as habitat and corridors for dry-adapted, heat tolerant species; an example from ants SB Menke, B Guénard, JO Sexton, MD Weiser, RR Dunn, J Silverman Urban Ecosystems 14, 135-163, 2011 | 162 | 2011 |
| A comparison of lidar, radar, and field measurements of canopy height in pine and hardwood forests of southeastern North America JO Sexton, T Bax, P Siqueira, JJ Swenson, S Hensley Forest Ecology and Management 257 (3), 1136-1147, 2009 | 156 | 2009 |
| Improved forest change detection with terrain illumination corrected Landsat images B Tan, JG Masek, R Wolfe, F Gao, C Huang, EF Vermote, JO Sexton, ... Remote Sensing of Environment 136, 469-483, 2013 | 140 | 2013 |
| Global, long-term surface reflectance records from Landsat: Assessment using coincident MODIS measurements M Feng, JO Sexton, C Huang, JG Masek, EF Vermote, F Gao, ... Remote Sensing of Environment 134, 276-293, 2013 | 139* | 2013 |
John TownshendProfessor of Geography, University of MarylandVerified email at umd.edu
