| Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: a global assessment N Van Vliet, O Mertz, A Heinimann, T Langanke, U Pascual, B Schmook, ... Global environmental change 22 (2), 418-429, 2012 | 730 | 2012 |
| Australian wattle species in the Drakensberg region of South Africa–An invasive alien or a natural resource? A de Neergaard, C Saarnak, T Hill, M Khanyile, AM Berzosa, ... Agricultural systems 85 (3), 216-233, 2005 | 139 | 2005 |
| Adaptation of human coping strategies in a small island society in the SW pacific—50 years of change in the coupled human–environment system on Bellona, Solomon Islands A Reenberg, T Birch-Thomsen, O Mertz, B Fog, S Christiansen Human Ecology 36, 807-819, 2008 | 131 | 2008 |
| A livelihood perspective on natural resource management and environmental change in semiarid Tanzania T Birch-Thomsen, P Frederiksen, HO Sano Economic Geography 77 (1), 41-66, 2001 | 113 | 2001 |
| Should I stay or should I go? Rural youth employment in Uganda and Zambia S Kristensen, T Birch-Thomsen International Development Planning Review 35 (2), 175-201, 2013 | 81 | 2013 |
| Soil organic matter decline and compositional change associated with cereal cropping in southern Tanzania JF McDonagh, TB Thomsen, J Magid Land degradation & development 12 (1), 13-26, 2001 | 80 | 2001 |
| Is there a continuing rationale for swidden cultivation in the 21st century? N Van Vliet, O Mertz, T Birch-Thomsen, B Schmook Human Ecology 41, 1-5, 2013 | 74 | 2013 |
| Transition of shifting cultivation and its impact on people’s livelihoods in the Miombo Woodlands of Northern Zambia and South-Western Tanzania K Grogan, T Birch-Thomsen, J Lyimo Human Ecology 41, 77-92, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Beyond territory and scarcity: Exploring conflicts over natural resource management Q Gausset, MA Whyte, T Birch-Thomsen Nordic Africa Institute, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| Temporal and spatial trends in soil organic carbon stocks following maize cultivation in semi-arid Tanzania, East Africa T Birch-Thomsen, B Elberling, B Fog, J Magid Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 79, 291-302, 2007 | 50 | 2007 |
| Biofuels, land use change and smallholder livelihoods: A case study from Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia J Hought, T Birch-Thomsen, J Petersen, A de Neergaard, M Oelofse Applied Geography 34, 525-532, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| Bridging the rural-urban dichotomy in land use science J van Vliet, T Birch-Thomsen, M Gallardo, LM Hemerijckx, AM Hersperger, ... Journal of Land Use Science 15 (5), 585-591, 2020 | 46 | 2020 |
| The impact of black wattle encroachment of indigenous grasslands on soil carbon, Eastern Cape, South Africa M Oelofse, T Birch-Thomsen, J Magid, A de Neergaard, R van Deventer, ... Biological invasions 18, 445-456, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Transformation of shifting cultivation: Extent, driving forces and impacts on livelihoods in Tanzania CJ Kilawe, O Mertz, T Birch-Thomsen, SM Maliondo Applied geography 94, 84-94, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Continuity and change: spatiotemporal land use dynamics on Bellona Island, Solomon Islands T Birch‐Thomsen, A Reenberg, O Mertz, B Fog Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 31 (1), 27-40, 2010 | 32 | 2010 |
| Urbanisation in rural regions: the emergence of urban centres in Tanzania E Lazaro, J Agergaard, MN Larsen, J Makindara, T Birch-Thomsen The European Journal of Development Research 31, 72-94, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Cassava as an energy crop: A case study of the potential for an expansion of cassava cultivation for bioethanol production in Southern Mali SBP Kristensen, T Birch-Thomsen, K Rasmussen, LV Rasmussen, ... Renewable energy 66, 381-390, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |
| Changes in shifting cultivation systems on small Pacific islands OLE Mertz, T BIRCH‐THOMSEN, BO Elberling, S Rothausen, TB Bruun, ... The geographical journal 178 (2), 175-187, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Subsistence or cash: strategies for change in shifting cultivation O Mertz, AE Christensen, P Hojskov, TB Thomsen Geografisk Tidsskrift, 133-142, 1999 | 24 | 1999 |
| Multi-activity, multi-locality and small-town development in Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania G Steel, T Birch-Thomsen, I Cottyn, EA Lazaro, H Mainet, FJ Mishili, ... The European Journal of Development Research 31, 12-33, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
