| Fire in the Earth system DMJS Bowman, JK Balch, P Artaxo, WJ Bond, JM Carlson, MA Cochrane, ... science 324 (5926), 481-484, 2009 | 3304 | 2009 |
| The Amazon basin in transition EA Davidson, AC de Araújo, P Artaxo, JK Balch, IF Brown, ... Nature 481 (7381), 321-328, 2012 | 1371 | 2012 |
| The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth DMJS Bowman, J Balch, P Artaxo, WJ Bond, MA Cochrane, CM D’antonio, ... Journal of biogeography 38 (12), 2223-2236, 2011 | 1258 | 2011 |
| Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States JK Balch, BA Bradley, JT Abatzoglou, RC Nagy, EJ Fusco, AL Mahood Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (11), 2946-2951, 2017 | 885 | 2017 |
| Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, A Gershunov, J Guzman‐Morales, ... Earth's Future 7 (8), 892-910, 2019 | 854 | 2019 |
| Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions PM Brando, JK Balch, DC Nepstad, DC Morton, FE Putz, MT Coe, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (17), 6347-6352, 2014 | 796 | 2014 |
| Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes T Schoennagel, JK Balch, H Brenkert-Smith, PE Dennison, BJ Harvey, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (18), 4582-4590, 2017 | 726 | 2017 |
| Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980–2009) JK Balch, BA Bradley, CM D'Antonio, J Gómez‐Dans Global change biology 19 (1), 173-183, 2013 | 720 | 2013 |
| Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers KK McLauchlan, PE Higuera, J Miesel, BM Rogers, J Schweitzer, ... Journal of Ecology 108 (5), 2047-2069, 2020 | 421 | 2020 |
| Understanding and managing connected extreme events C Raymond, RM Horton, J Zscheischler, O Martius, A AghaKouchak, ... Nature climate change 10 (7), 611-621, 2020 | 389 | 2020 |
| Fire‐induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior PM Brando, DC Nepstad, JK Balch, B Bolker, MC Christman, M Coe, ... Global Change Biology 18 (2), 630-641, 2012 | 312 | 2012 |
| Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions BA Bradley, CA Curtis, EJ Fusco, JT Abatzoglou, JK Balch, S Dadashi, ... Biological invasions 20, 1493-1506, 2018 | 259 | 2018 |
| Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southeastern Amazonia JK Balch, DC Nepstad, PM Brando, LM Curran, O Portela, ... Global Change Biology 14 (10), 2276-2287, 2008 | 251 | 2008 |
| Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses DV Silvério, PM Brando, JK Balch, FE Putz, DC Nepstad, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368 …, 2013 | 213 | 2013 |
| Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions EJ Fusco, JT Finn, JK Balch, RC Nagy, BA Bradley Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (47), 23594-23599, 2019 | 200 | 2019 |
| Droughts, wildfires, and forest carbon cycling: A pantropical synthesis PM Brando, L Paolucci, CC Ummenhofer, EM Ordway, H Hartmann, ... Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 47, 555-581, 2019 | 191 | 2019 |
| Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society BM Rogers, JK Balch, SJ Goetz, CER Lehmann, M Turetsky Environmental Research Letters 15 (3), 030201, 2020 | 151 | 2020 |
| Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon JK Balch, DC Nepstad, LM Curran, PM Brando, O Portela, P Guilherme, ... Forest Ecology and Management 261 (1), 68-77, 2011 | 135 | 2011 |
| The susceptibility of southeastern Amazon forests to fire: insights from a large-scale burn experiment JK Balch, PM Brando, DC Nepstad, MT Coe, D Silvério, TJ Massad, ... Bioscience 65 (9), 893-905, 2015 | 128 | 2015 |
| Human-related ignitions increase the number of large wildfires across US ecoregions RC Nagy, E Fusco, B Bradley, JT Abatzoglou, J Balch Fire 1 (1), 4, 2018 | 125 | 2018 |
