| The fire frequency‐severity relationship and the legacy of fire suppression in California forests ZL Steel, HD Safford, JH Viers Ecosphere 6 (1), 1-23, 2015 | 340 | 2015 |
| The changing landscape of wildfire: burn pattern trends and implications for California’s yellow pine and mixed conifer forests ZL Steel, MJ Koontz, HD Safford Landscape Ecology 33, 1159-1176, 2018 | 116 | 2018 |
| The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future? HD Safford, AK Paulson, ZL Steel, DJN Young, RB Wayman Global Ecology and Biogeography 31 (10), 2005-2025, 2022 | 110 | 2022 |
| The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis ML Viljur, SR Abella, M Adámek, JBR Alencar, NA Barber, B Beudert, ... Biological Reviews 97 (5), 1930-1947, 2022 | 107 | 2022 |
| Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California ZL Steel, GM Jones, BM Collins, R Green, A Koltunov, KL Purcell, ... Ecological Applications 33 (2), e2763, 2023 | 67 | 2023 |
| The effects of wildfire severity and pyrodiversity on bat occupancy and diversity in fire-suppressed forests ZL Steel, B Campos, WF Frick, R Burnett, HD Safford Scientific Reports 9 (1), 16300, 2019 | 67 | 2019 |
| Ecological resilience and vegetation transition in the face of two successive large wildfires ZL Steel, D Foster, M Coppoletta, JM Lydersen, SL Stephens, A Paudel, ... Journal of Ecology 109 (9), 3340-3355, 2021 | 63 | 2021 |
| Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America HI Jager, JW Long, RL Malison, BP Murphy, A Rust, LGM Silva, ... Ecology and Evolution 11 (18), 12259-12284, 2021 | 55 | 2021 |
| Fire, water, and biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada: a possible triple win SL Stephens, S Thompson, G Boisramé, BM Collins, LC Ponisio, ... Environmental Research Communications 3 (8), 081004, 2021 | 52 | 2021 |
| When bigger isn’t better—Implications of large high‐severity wildfire patches for avian diversity and community composition ZL Steel, AM Fogg, R Burnett, LJ Roberts, HD Safford Diversity and Distributions 28 (3), 439-453, 2022 | 50 | 2022 |
| Patterns of bird diversity and habitat use in mixed vineyard-matorral landscapes of Central Chile ZL Steel, AE Steel, JN Williams, JH Viers, PA Marquet, O Barbosa Ecological indicators 73, 345-357, 2017 | 50 | 2017 |
| Do forest fuel reduction treatments confer resistance to beetle infestation and drought mortality? ZL Steel, MJ Goodwin, MD Meyer, GA Fricker, HSJ Zald, MD Hurteau, ... Ecosphere 12 (1), e03344, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| High‐severity burned area and proportion exceed historic conditions in Sierra Nevada, California, and adjacent ranges JN Williams, HD Safford, N Enstice, ZL Steel, AK Paulson Ecosphere 14 (1), e4397, 2023 | 41 | 2023 |
| Quantifying pyrodiversity and its drivers ZL Steel, BM Collins, DB Sapsis, SL Stephens Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1948), 20203202, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |
| Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests JI Levine, BM Collins, ZL Steel, P de Valpine, SL Stephens Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 20 (7), 397-404, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| Conservation investment for rare plants in urban environments MW Schwartz, LM Smith, ZL Steel PloS one 8 (12), e83809, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Proportion of forest area burned at high-severity increases with increasing forest cover and connectivity in western US watersheds EJ Francis, P Pourmohammadi, ZL Steel, BM Collins, MD Hurteau Landscape Ecology 38 (10), 2501-2518, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
| High‐severity fire drives persistent floristic homogenization in human‐altered forests JM Weeks, JED Miller, ZL Steel, EE Batzer, HD Safford Ecosphere 14 (2), e4409, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
| Testing predictions of movement behaviour in a hilltopping moth P Grof-Tisza, Z Steel, EM Cole, M Holyoak, R Karban Animal Behaviour 133, 161-168, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Elevation ranges of birds on the Sierra Nevada’s west slope RB Siegel, RL Wilkerson, JF Saracco, ZL Steel Western Birds 42 (1), 2-26, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |