| 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 | 561 | 2020 |
| Get the science right when paying for nature's services Science 347 (6227), 1206-1207, 2015 | 319 | 2015 |
| 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 (1), 555-581, 2019 | 215 | 2019 |
| Sources of anthropogenic fire ignitions on the peat-swamp landscape in Kalimantan, Indonesia ME Cattau, ME Harrison, I Shinyo, S Tungau, M Uriarte, R DeFries Global Environmental Change 39, 205-219, 2016 | 175 | 2016 |
| Denial of long‐term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences LS Wijedasa, J Jauhiainen, M Könönen, M Lampela, H Vasander, ... Global change biology 23 (3), 977-982, 2017 | 164 | 2017 |
| Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire JK Balch, JT Abatzoglou, MB Joseph, MJ Koontz, AL Mahood, ... Nature 602 (7897), 442-448, 2022 | 156 | 2022 |
| Effectiveness of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for reducing fires on oil palm concessions in Indonesia from 2012 to 2015 ME Cattau, ME Marlier, R DeFries Environmental Research Letters 11 (10), 105007, 2016 | 146 | 2016 |
| Anthropogenic and lightning‐started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the USA ME Cattau, C Wessman, A Mahood, JK Balch Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (4), 668-681, 2020 | 126 | 2020 |
| Switching on the Big Burn of 2017 JK Balch, T Schoennagel, AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, ME Cattau, ... Fire 1 (1), 17, 2018 | 93 | 2018 |
| Risky development: Increasing exposure to natural hazards in the United States V Iglesias, AE Braswell, MW Rossi, MB Joseph, C McShane, M Cattau, ... Earth's future 9 (7), e2020EF001795, 2021 | 90 | 2021 |
| Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima MB Joseph, MW Rossi, NP Mietkiewicz, AL Mahood, ME Cattau, ... Ecological Applications 29 (6), e01898, 2019 | 80 | 2019 |
| Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene JK Shuman, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera, CI Roos, DW Schwilk, ... PNAS nexus 1 (3), pgac115, 2022 | 66 | 2022 |
| How long do restored ecosystems persist? 1 JL Reid, SJ Wilson, GS Bloomfield, ME Cattau, ME Fagan, KD Holl, ... Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 102 (2), 258-265, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
| Integrating National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) airborne remote sensing and in-situ data for optimal tree species classification VM Scholl, ME Cattau, MB Joseph, JK Balch Remote Sensing 12 (9), 1414, 2020 | 53 | 2020 |
| Tracking rates of postfire conifer regeneration vs. deciduous vegetation recovery across the western United States MK Vanderhoof, TJ Hawbaker, A Ku, K Merriam, E Berryman, M Cattau Ecological Applications 31 (2), e02237, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
| Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data‐capable community RC Nagy, JK Balch, EK Bissell, ME Cattau, NF Glenn, BS Halpern, ... Ecosphere 12 (12), e03833, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |
| An assessment of adherence to basic ecological principles by payments for ecosystem service projects CM Prager, A Varga, P Olmsted, JC Ingram, M Cattau, C Freund, ... Conservation Biology, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
| Fire prevention in managed landscapes: Recent success and challenges in Indonesia S Sloan, L Tacconi, ME Cattau Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 26, 1-30, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
| Impacts of the 2015 fire season on peat-swamp forest biodiversity in Indonesian Borneo ME Harrison, B Ripoll Capilla, SA Thornton, ME Cattau, SE Page 15th International Peat Congress, 713-717, 2016 | 21 | 2016 |
| Distribution and abundance of lions in northwest tete Province, Mozambique AP Jacobson, ME Cattau, JS Riggio, LS Petracca, DA Fedak Tropical Conservation Science 6 (1), 87-107, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |