| Declining soil quality in South Africa: effects of land use on soil organic matter and surface crusting AJ Mills, MV Fey South African Journal of Science 99 (9), 429-436, 2003 | 197 | 2003 |
| Frequent fires intensify soil crusting: physicochemical feedback in the pedoderm of long-term burn experiments in South Africa AJ Mills, MV Fey Geoderma 121 (1-2), 45-64, 2004 | 183 | 2004 |
| Rate of carbon sequestration at two thicket restoration sites in the Eastern Cape, South Africa AJ Mills, RM Cowling Restoration Ecology 14 (1), 38-49, 2006 | 133 | 2006 |
| Effects of goat pastoralism on ecosystem carbon storage in semiarid thicket, Eastern Cape, South Africa AJ Mills, RM Cowling, MV Fey, GIH Kerley, JS Donaldson, ... Austral ecology 30 (7), 797-804, 2005 | 114 | 2005 |
| Do the large termite mounds of Macrotermes concentrate micronutrients in addition to macronutrients in nutrient-poor African savannas? CL Seymour, AV Milewski, AJ Mills, GS Joseph, GS Cumming, ... Soil Biology and Biochemistry 68, 95-105, 2014 | 107 | 2014 |
| The role of botanic gardens in the science and practice of ecological restoration KA Hardwick, P Fiedler, LC Lee, B Pavlik, RJ Hobbs, J Aronson, ... Conservation Biology 25 (2), 265-275, 2011 | 106 | 2011 |
| Soils of Namaqualand: compensations for aridity ML Francis, MV Fey, HP Prinsloo, F Ellis, AJ Mills, TV Medinski Journal of Arid Environments 70 (4), 588-603, 2007 | 102 | 2007 |
| Do soil properties constrain species richness? Insights from boundary line analysis across several biomes in south western Africa TV Medinski, AJ Mills, KJ Esler, U Schmiedel, N Jürgens Journal of Arid Environments 74 (9), 1052-1060, 2010 | 88 | 2010 |
| Transformation of thicket to savanna reduces soil quality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa A Mills, M Fey Plant and Soil 265, 153-163, 2004 | 86 | 2004 |
| A framework for scaling sustainable land management options R Thomas, M Reed, K Clifton, N Appadurai, A Mills, C Zucca, E Kodsi, ... Land Degradation & Development 29 (10), 3272-3284, 2018 | 72 | 2018 |
| Mapping soil organic carbon stocks and trends with satellite-driven high resolution maps over South Africa ZS Venter, HJ Hawkins, MD Cramer, AJ Mills Science of the Total Environment 771, 145384, 2021 | 71 | 2021 |
| Unravelling the effects of soil properties on water infiltration: segmented quantile regression on a large data set from arid south-west Africa AJ Mills, MV Fey, A Gröngröft, A Petersen, TV Medinski Soil Research 44 (8), 783-797, 2006 | 71 | 2006 |
| Declining soil quality in South Africa: effects of land use on soil organic matter and surface crusting MV Mills, AJ* & Fey South African Journal of Plant and Soil 21 (5), 388-398, 2004 | 64 | 2004 |
| Ecosystem carbon storage under different land uses in three semi-arid shrublands and a mesic grassland in South Africa AJ Mills, TG O'Connor, JS Donaldson, MV Fey, AL Skowno, AM Sigwela, ... South African Journal of Plant and Soil 22 (3), 183-190, 2005 | 62 | 2005 |
| Below-ground carbon stocks in intact and transformed subtropical thicket landscapes in semi-arid South Africa. RM Mills, A.J. & Cowling Journal of Arid Environments. 74, 93-100, 2010 | 61 | 2010 |
| Rare earth and trace element geochemistry of termite mounds in central and northeastern Namibia: Mechanisms for micro-nutrient accumulation A Sako, AJ Mills, AN Roychoudhury Geoderma 153 (1-2), 217-230, 2009 | 59 | 2009 |
| Geophagy and nutrient supplementation in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, with particular reference to selenium, cobalt and molybdenum A Mills, A Milewski Journal of zoology 271 (1), 110-118, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| The impact of browsing-induced degradation on the reproduction of subtropical thicket canopy shrubs and trees AM Sigwela, GIH Kerley, AJ Mills, RM Cowling South African Journal of Botany 75 (2), 262-267, 2009 | 57 | 2009 |
| Soil infiltrability as a driver of plant cover and species richness in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa. L Mills, A.J., Fey, M.V., Donaldson, J., Todd, S. & Theron Plant and Soil 320, 321-332, 2009 | 57 | 2009 |
| A framework for exploring the determinants of savanna and grassland distribution AJ Mills, KH Rogers, M Stalmans, ETF Witkowski BioScience 56 (7), 579-589, 2006 | 57 | 2006 |
