| 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 | 993 | 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 | 164 | 2022 |
| 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 | 128 | 2020 |
| Repeated fires reduce plant diversity in low‐elevation Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems (1984–2014) AL Mahood, JK Balch Ecosphere 10 (2), e02591, 2019 | 97* | 2019 |
| 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 | 79 | 2019 |
| Social‐environmental extremes: Rethinking extraordinary events as outcomes of interacting biophysical and social systems JK Balch, V Iglesias, AE Braswell, MW Rossi, MB Joseph, AL Mahood, ... Earth's Future 8 (7), e2019EF001319, 2020 | 54 | 2020 |
| A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage RC Nagy, EJ Fusco, JK Balch, JT Finn, A Mahood, JM Allen, BA Bradley Journal of Applied Ecology 58 (2), 327-337, 2021 | 49 | 2021 |
| Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires PE Higuera, MC Cook, JK Balch, EN Stavros, AL Mahood, LA St. Denis PNAS nexus 2 (3), pgad005, 2023 | 46 | 2023 |
| FIRED (Fire Events Delineation): an open, flexible algorithm and database of US fire events derived from the MODIS burned area product (2001–2019) JK Balch, LA St. Denis, AL Mahood, NP Mietkiewicz, TM Williams, ... Remote Sensing 12 (21), 3498, 2020 | 46 | 2020 |
| The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes EJ Fusco, JK Balch, AL Mahood, RC Nagy, AD Syphard, BA Bradley Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 20 (2), 117-126, 2022 | 37 | 2022 |
| 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 | 29 | 2021 |
| Country-level fire perimeter datasets (2001–2021) AL Mahood, EJ Lindrooth, MC Cook, JK Balch Scientific data 9 (1), 458, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
| Interannual climate variability mediates changes in carbon and nitrogen pools caused by annual grass invasion in a semiarid shrubland AL Mahood, RO Jones, DI Board, JK Balch, JC Chambers Global Change Biology 28 (1), 267-284, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| Six central questions about biological invasions to which NEON data science is poised to contribute NS Gill, AL Mahood, CL Meier, R Muthukrishnan, RC Nagy, E Stricker, ... Ecosphere 12 (9), e03728, 2021 | 13 | 2021 |
| Cover-based allometric estimate of aboveground biomass of a non-native, invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum L.) in the Great Basin, USA AL Mahood, E Fleishman, JK Balch, F Fogarty, N Horning, M Leu, M Zillig, ... Journal of Arid Environments 193, 104582, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Fuel connectivity, burn severity, and seed bank survivorship drive ecosystem transformation in a semiarid shrubland AL Mahood, MJ Koontz, JK Balch Ecology 104 (3), e3968, 2023 | 9 | 2023 |
| The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020) JK Balch, V Iglesias, AL Mahood, MC Cook, C Amaral, A DeCastro, ... Science 386 (6720), 425-431, 2024 | 8 | 2024 |
| Wildfire and climate change amplify knowledge gaps linking mountain source-water systems and agricultural water supply in the western United States DM Barnard, TR Green, KR Mankin, KC DeJonge, CC Rhoades, ... Agricultural Water Management 286, 108377, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
| Modern pyromes: Biogeographical patterns of fire characteristics across the contiguous United States ME Cattau, AL Mahood, JK Balch, CA Wessman Fire 5 (4), 95, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| Ten simple rules for working with high resolution remote sensing data AL Mahood, MB Joseph, AI Spiers, MJ Koontz, N Ilangakoon, KK Solvik, ... Peer Community Journal 3, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |