| Effects of large-scale changes in land cover on the discharge of the Tocantins River, Southeastern Amazonia MH Costa, A Botta, JA Cardille Journal of hydrology 283 (1-4), 206-217, 2003 | 938 | 2003 |
| Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin JA Foley, GP Asner, MH Costa, MT Coe, R DeFries, HK Gibbs, ... Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5 (1), 25-32, 2007 | 775 | 2007 |
| Evaluation of MODIS NPP and GPP products across multiple biomes DP Turner, WD Ritts, WB Cohen, ST Gower, SW Running, M Zhao, ... Remote sensing of environment 102 (3-4), 282-292, 2006 | 690 | 2006 |
| Pervasive transition of the Brazilian land-use system DM Lapola, LA Martinelli, CA Peres, JPHB Ometto, ME Ferreira, ... Nature climate change 4 (1), 27-35, 2014 | 564 | 2014 |
| Combined Effects of Deforestation and Doubled Atmospheric CO 2 Concentrations on the Climate of Amazonia MH Costa, JA Foley Journal of Climate 13 (1), 18-34, 2000 | 515 | 2000 |
| Green surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth’s climate JA Foley, MH Costa, C Delire, N Ramankutty, P Snyder Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1 (1), 38-44, 2003 | 492 | 2003 |
| Regional climate change over eastern Amazonia caused by pasture and soybean cropland expansion G Sampaio, C Nobre, MH Costa, P Satyamurty, BS Soares‐Filho, ... Geophysical Research Letters 34 (17), 2007 | 465 | 2007 |
| Variação espacial e temporal da precipitação no estado do Pará BC Moraes, JMN Costa, ACL Costa, MH Costa Acta amazonica 35, 207-214, 2005 | 396 | 2005 |
| Surface water dynamics in the Amazon Basin: Application of satellite radar altimetry CM Birkett, LAK Mertes, T Dunne, MH Costa, MJ Jasinski Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 107 (D20), LBA 26-1-LBA 26-21, 2002 | 358 | 2002 |
| The influence of historical and potential future deforestation on the stream flow of the Amazon River–Land surface processes and atmospheric feedbacks MT Coe, MH Costa, BS Soares-Filho Journal of hydrology 369 (1-2), 165-174, 2009 | 337 | 2009 |
| Effects of Amazon and Central Brazil deforestation scenarios on the duration of the dry season in the arc of deforestation MH Costa, GF Pires International Journal of Climatology 30 (13), 1970-1979, 2010 | 301 | 2010 |
| Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought TL Powell, DR Galbraith, BO Christoffersen, A Harper, HMA Imbuzeiro, ... New Phytologist 200 (2), 350-365, 2013 | 285 | 2013 |
| Incorporating dynamic vegetation cover within global climate models JA Foley, S Levis, MH Costa, W Cramer, D Pollard Ecological Applications 10 (6), 1620-1632, 2000 | 281 | 2000 |
| Patterns of land use, extensification, and intensification of Brazilian agriculture LCP Dias, FM Pimenta, AB Santos, MH Costa, RJ Ladle Global change biology 22 (8), 2887-2903, 2016 | 278 | 2016 |
| Widespread decline in greenness of Amazonian vegetation due to the 2010 drought L Xu, A Samanta, MH Costa, S Ganguly, RR Nemani, RB Myneni Geophysical Research Letters 38 (7), 2011 | 269 | 2011 |
| Dependence of hydropower energy generation on forests in the Amazon Basin at local and regional scales CM Stickler, MT Coe, MH Costa, DC Nepstad, DG McGrath, LCP Dias, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (23), 9601-9606, 2013 | 261 | 2013 |
| Climate-regulation services of natural and agricultural ecoregions of the Americas KJ Anderson-Teixeira, PK Snyder, TE Twine, SV Cuadra, MH Costa, ... Nature Climate Change 2 (3), 177-181, 2012 | 230 | 2012 |
| El Niño–Southern oscillation and the climate, ecosystems and rivers of Amazonia JA Foley, A Botta, MT Coe, MH Costa Global biogeochemical cycles 16 (4), 79-1-79-20, 2002 | 229 | 2002 |
| Trends in the hydrologic cycle of the Amazon basin MH Costa, JA Foley Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 104 (D12), 14189-14198, 1999 | 229 | 1999 |
| Climate change in Amazonia caused by soybean cropland expansion, as compared to caused by pastureland expansion MH Costa, SNM Yanagi, PJOP Souza, A Ribeiro, EJP Rocha Geophysical Research Letters 34 (7), 2007 | 227 | 2007 |
