| Plumbing the global carbon cycle: integrating inland waters into the terrestrial carbon budget JJ Cole, YT Prairie, NF Caraco, WH McDowell, LJ Tranvik, RG Striegl, ... Ecosystems 10, 172-185, 2007 | 4306 | 2007 |
| Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate LJ Tranvik, JA Downing, JB Cotner, SA Loiselle, RG Striegl, TJ Ballatore, ... Limnology and oceanography 54 (6part2), 2298-2314, 2009 | 2784 | 2009 |
| The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments JA Downing, YT Prairie, JJ Cole, CM Duarte, LJ Tranvik, RG Striegl, ... Limnology and oceanography 51 (5), 2388-2397, 2006 | 2158 | 2006 |
| Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe CM O'Reilly, S Sharma, DK Gray, SE Hampton, JS Read, RJ Rowley, ... Geophysical Research Letters 42 (24), 10,773-10,781, 2015 | 1380 | 2015 |
| Riverine coupling of biogeochemical cycles between land, oceans, and atmosphere AK Aufdenkampe, E Mayorga, PA Raymond, JM Melack, SC Doney, ... Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9 (1), 53-60, 2011 | 1340 | 2011 |
| Outgassing from Amazonian rivers and wetlands as a large tropical source of atmospheric CO2 JE Richey, JM Melack, AK Aufdenkampe, VM Ballester, LL Hess Nature 416 (6881), 617-620, 2002 | 1283 | 2002 |
| An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research SL Collins, SR Carpenter, SM Swinton, DE Orenstein, DL Childers, ... Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9 (6), 351-357, 2011 | 822 | 2011 |
| Dual-season mapping of wetland inundation and vegetation for the central Amazon basin LL Hess, JM Melack, EMLM Novo, CCF Barbosa, M Gastil Remote sensing of environment 87 (4), 404-428, 2003 | 753 | 2003 |
| The use of imaging radars for ecological applications—A review ES Kasischke, JM Melack, MC Dobson Remote sensing of environment 59 (2), 141-156, 1997 | 659 | 1997 |
| Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources JA Rosentreter, AV Borges, BR Deemer, MA Holgerson, S Liu, C Song, ... Nature Geoscience 14 (4), 225-230, 2021 | 628 | 2021 |
| Landscape indicators of human impacts to riverine systems SE Gergel, MG Turner, JR Miller, JM Melack, EH Stanley Aquatic sciences 64, 118-128, 2002 | 626 | 2002 |
| Delineation of inundated area and vegetation along the Amazon floodplain with the SIR-C synthetic aperture radar LL Hess, JM Melack, S Filoso, Y Wang IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 33 (4), 896-904, 1995 | 610 | 1995 |
| Transport of organic carbon in the world’s rivers WH Schlesinger, JM Melack Tellus 33 (2), 172-187, 1981 | 594 | 1981 |
| Decomposition and carbon cycling of dead trees in tropical forests of the central Amazon JQ Chambers, N Higuchi, JP Schimel, LV Ferreira, JM Melack Oecologia 122, 380-388, 2000 | 546 | 2000 |
| Radar detection of flooding beneath the forest canopy: a review LL Hess, JM Melack, DS Simonett International Journal of Remote Sensing 11 (7), 1313-1325, 1990 | 520 | 1990 |
| Remote sensing of the land surface for studies of global change: Models—algorithms—experiments PJ Sellers, BW Meeson, FG Hall, G Asrar, RE Murphy, RA Schiffer, ... Remote Sensing of Environment 51 (1), 3-26, 1995 | 500 | 1995 |
| Climatic and hydrologic changes in the Tien Shan, central Asia VB Aizen, EM Aizen, JM Melack, J Dozier Journal of Climate 10 (6), 1393-1404, 1997 | 450 | 1997 |
| Interferometric radar measurements of water level changes on the Amazon flood plain DE Alsdorf, JM Melack, T Dunne, LAK Mertes, LL Hess, LC Smith Nature 404 (6774), 174-177, 2000 | 444 | 2000 |
| Episodic rewetting enhances carbon and nitrogen release from chaparral soils AE Miller, JP Schimel, T Meixner, JO Sickman, JM Melack Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37 (12), 2195-2204, 2005 | 441 | 2005 |
| Inundation patterns in the Pantanal wetland of South America determined from passive microwave remote sensing SK Hamilton, SJ Sippel, JM Melack Archiv für Hydrobiologie 137 (1), 1-23, 1996 | 420 | 1996 |
