Stephens J; Joseph M; Bitters ME; Iglesias V; Tuff T; Mahood A; Rangwala I; Wolken J; O’Connor CD; Balch JK ( May 2026 ) Fires of Unusual Size: Future of Extreme and Emerging Wildfire in a Warming United States (2020–2060). Fire ,9 (5) ,208-208. 10.3390/fire9050208

Tang W; Wiedinmyer C; Emmons LK; Holder AL; Uhl JH; St Denis LA; Cook M; Abolafia-Rosenzweig R; He C; Barsanti KC ( Dec 2025 ) Emissions from burned structures in wildfires as significant yet unaccounted sources of US air pollution.. Nature Communications 10.1038/s41467-025-66292-9

Mahood AL; Tuff T; Cattau ME; Iglesias V; Hanson TE; Stephens J; Ilangakoon N; Cook MC; Nagy RC; Barnard D ( Oct 2025 ) The Properties of Individual Fire Events Are Essential for Understanding Global Fire Regimes. Global Ecology and Biogeography ,34 (11) 10.1111/geb.70145

Spiers AI; Scholl VM; Mcglinchy J; Balch J; Cattau ME ( Jan 2025 ) A review of UAS-based estimation of forest traits and characteristics in landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology ,40 (2) 10.1007/s10980-024-01991-0

Jennings L; Jones K; Taitingfong R; Martinez A; David-Chavez D; Alegado Rʻ; Tofighi-Niaki A; Maldonado J; Thomas B; Dye D ( Jan 2025 ) Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science.. Nature Communications ,16 (1) 10.1038/s41467-024-53480-2

Balch JK; Iglesias V; Mahood AL; Cook MC; Amaral C; DeCastro A; Leyk S; McIntosh TL; Nagy RC; St. Denis L ( Oct 2024 ) The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020). Science ,386 (6720) ,425-431. 10.1126/science.adk5737

Balch JK; Williams AP ( Sep 2024 ) Extreme fire seasons are looming - science can help us adapt.. Nature ,634 (8036) ,1041-1044. 10.1038/d41586-024-03433-y

McConnell K; Fussell E; DeWaard J; Whitaker S; Curtis KJ; St. Denis L; Balch J; Price K ( Aug 2024 ) Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S.. Nature Communications ,15 (1) 10.1038/s41467-024-50630-4

Quarderer NA; Wasser L; Gold AU; Montaño P; Herwehe L; Halama K; Biggane E; Logan J; Parr D; Brady S ( Jun 2024 ) Fostering the Development of Earth Data Science Skills in a Diverse Community of Online Learners: A Case Study of the Earth Data Science Corps. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education ,1-22. 10.1080/26939169.2024.2362886

Cook M; Chapman T; Hart S; Paudel A; Balch J ( Apr 2024 ) Mapping Quaking Aspen Using Seasonal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Composite Imagery across the Southern Rockies, USA. Remote Sensing ,16 (9) ,1619-1619. 10.3390/rs16091619

Brando PM; Silverio D; Maracahipes L; Benzi R; Paolucci L; Maracahipes-Santos L; Rattis L; Macedo MN; Balch JK ( Jan 2024 ) Legacies of multiple disturbances on fruit and seed patterns in Amazonia: Implications for forest functional traits. Ecosphere ,15 (2) 10.1002/ecs2.4780

Platt RV; Chapman TB; Balch JK ( Dec 2023 ) Fire refugia are robust across Western US forested ecoregions, 1986-2021. Environmental Research Letters ,19 (1) 10.1088/1748-9326/ad11bf

Stavros EN; Gezon C; St. Denis L; Iglesias V; Zapata C; Byrne M; Cooper L; Cook M; Doyle E; Stephens J ( Sep 2023 ) Environmental Resilience Technology: Sustainable Solutions Using Value-Added Analytics in a Changing World. Applied Sciences ,13 (19) 10.3390/app131911034

Mahood AL; Joseph MB; Spiers A; Koontz MJ; Ilangakoon N; Solvik K; Quarderer N; McGlinchy J; Scholl V; St. Denis LA ( Jun 2023 ) Ten simple rules for working with high resolution remote sensing data. 10.31219/osf.io/kehqz

Abatzoglou JT; Kolden CA; Williams AP; Sadegh M; Balch JK; Hall A ( Apr 2023 ) Downslope Wind-Driven Fires in the Western United States. Earth's Future ,11 (5) 10.1029/2022EF003471

Higuera PE; Cook MC; Balch JK; Stavros EN; Mahood AL; St. Denis LA ( Mar 2023 ) Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires. ,2 (3) 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad005

Denis LAS; Short KC; McConnell K; Cook MC; Mietkiewicz NP; Buckland M; Balch JK ( Feb 2023 ) All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020. Scientific Data ,10 (1) 10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0

Mahood AL; Koontz MJ; Balch JK ( Dec 2022 ) Fuel connectivity, burn severity, and seedbank survivorship drive ecosystem transformation in a semiarid shrubland. Ecology 10.1002/ecy.3968

Iglesias V; Travis WR; Balch JK ( Aug 2022 ) Recent droughts in the United States are among the fastest-developing of the last seven decades. Weather and Climate Extremes ,37 10.1016/j.wace.2022.100491

Shuman JK; Balch JK; Barnes RT; Higuera PE; Roos CI; Schwilk DW; Stavros EN; Banerjee T; Bela MM; Bendix J ( Aug 2022 ) Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene. ,1 (3) 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac115

Koontz MJ; Scholl VM; Spiers A; Cattau ME; Adler J; McGlinchy J; Goulden T; Melbourne BA; Balch JK ( Jul 2022 ) Democratizing macroecology: Integrating unoccupied aerial systems with the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere ,13 (8) 10.1002/ecs2.4206

Cattau ME; Mahood AL; Balch JK; Wessman CA ( Jul 2022 ) Modern Pyromes: Biogeographical Patterns of Fire Characteristics across the Contiguous United States. Fire ,5 (4) 10.3390/fire5040095

Mahood AL; Lindrooth EJ; Cook MC; Balch JK ( Jul 2022 ) Country-level fire perimeter datasets (2001-2021). Scientific Data ,9 (1) 10.1038/s41597-022-01572-3

DeCastro A; Siems-Anderson A; Smith E; Knievel JC; Kosovic B; Brown BG; Balch JK ( May 2022 ) Weather Research and Forecasting-Fire Simulated Burned Area and Propagation Direction Sensitivity to Initiation Point Location and Time. Fire ,5 (3) 10.3390/fire5030058

Iglesias V; Balch JK; Travis WR ( Mar 2022 ) U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s. Science Advances ,8 (11) 10.1126/sciadv.abc0020

Juang CS; Williams AP; Abatzoglou JT; Balch JK; Hurteau MD; Moritz MA ( Mar 2022 ) Rapid Growth of Large Forest Fires Drives the Exponential Response of Annual Forest-Fire Area to Aridity in the Western United States. Geophysical Research Letters ,49 (5) 10.1029/2021GL097131

Iglesias V; Stavros N; Balch JK; Barrett K; Cobian-Iñiguez J; Hester C; Kolden C; Leyk S; Nagy RC; Reid C ( Mar 2022 ) Fires that matter: Reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment. Environmental Research Letters 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5c0c

DeCastro AL; Juliano TW; Kosovic B; Ebrahimian H; Balch JK ( Feb 2022 ) A Computationally Efficient Method for Updating Fuel Inputs for Wildfire Behavior Models Using Sentinel Imagery and Random Forest Classification. Remote Sensing ,14 (6) 10.3390/rs14061447

Balch JK; Abatzoglou JT; Joseph MB; Koontz MJ; Mahood AL; McGlinchy J; Cattau ME; Williams AP ( Feb 2022 ) Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire. Nature ,602 (7897) ,442-448. 10.1038/s41586-021-04325-1

Williams AP; Balch JK ( Feb 2022 ) The night brakes on fires are failing. Nature 10.1038/d41586-022-00352-8

Nagy RC; Balch JK; Bissell EK; Cattau ME; Glenn NF; Halpern BS; Ilangakoon N; Johnson B; Joseph MB; Marconi S ( Nov 2021 ) Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community. Ecosphere ,12 (12) 10.1002/ecs2.3833

Fusco EJ; Balch JK; Mahood AL; Nagy RC; Syphard AD; Bradley BA ( Nov 2021 ) The human-grass-fire cycle: how people and invasives co-occur to drive fire regimes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10.1002/fee.2432

Mahood AL; Jones RO; Board DI; Balch JK; Chambers JC ( Oct 2021 ) Interannual climate variability mediates changes in carbon and nitrogen pools caused by annual grass invasion in a semi‐arid shrubland. Global Change Biology 10.1111/gcb.15921

Mahood AL; Fleishman E; Balch JK; Fogarty F; Horning N; Leu M; Zillig M; Bradley BA ( Sep 2021 ) Cover-based allometric estimate of aboveground biomass of a non-native, invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum L.) in the Great Basin, USA. Journal of Arid Environments ,193 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104582

Scholl VM; McGlinchy J; Price-Broncucia T; Balch JK; Joseph MB ( Jul 2021 ) Fusion neural networks for plant classification: learning to combine RGB, hyperspectral, and lidar data. PeerJ ,9 10.7717/peerj.11790

Iglesias V; Braswell AE; Rossi MW; Joseph MB; McShane C; Cattau M; Koontz MJ; McGlinchy J; Nagy RC; Balch J ( Jun 2021 ) Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States. Earths Future|0401 Atmospheric Sciences, 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, 0502 Environmental Science and Management 10.1029/2020ef001795

Armenteras D; Meza MC; Gonzalez TM; Oliveras I; Balch JK; Retana J ( Dec 2020 ) Fire threatens the diversity and structure of tropical gallery forests. Ecosphere ,12 (1) 10.1002/ecs2.3347

Balch JK; St. Denis LA; Mahood AL; Mietkiewicz NP; Williams TM; McGlinchy J; Cook MC ( Oct 2020 ) FIRED (Fire Events Delineation): An Open, Flexible Algorithm and Database of US Fire Events Derived from the MODIS Burned Area Product (2001-2019). Remote Sensing ,12 (21) 10.3390/rs12213498

Nagy RC; Fusco EJ; Balch JK; Finn JT; Mahood A; Allen JM; Bradley BA ( Oct 2020 ) A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage. Journal of Applied Ecology ,58 (2) ,327-337. 10.1111/1365-2664.13770

Mietkiewicz N; Balch JK; Schoennagel T; Leyk S; St. Denis LA; Bradley BA ( Sep 2020 ) In the Line of Fire: Consequences of Human-Ignited Wildfires to Homes in the U.S. (1992–2015). Fire ,3 (3) ,50-50. 10.3390/fire3030050

dos Santos Cury RT; Montibeller-Santos C; Balch JK; Brando PM; Torezan JMD ( Jul 2020 ) Effects of Fire Frequency on Seed Sources and Regeneration in Southeastern Amazonia. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change ,3 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00082

Cury RTDS; Balch JK; Brando PM; Andrade RB; Scervino RP; Torezan JMD ( Jun 2020 ) Higher fire frequency impaired woody species regeneration in a south-eastern Amazonian forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology ,36 (4) ,190-198. 10.1017/S0266467420000176

Balch JK; Iglesias V; Braswell AE; Rossi MW; Joseph MB; Mahood AL; Shrum TR; White CT; Scholl VM; McGuire B ( Jun 2020 ) y Social-Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems. Earths Future|0401 Atmospheric Sciences, 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, 0502 Environmental Science and Management ,8 (7) 10.1029/2019EF001319

Raymond C; Horton RM; Zscheischler J; Martius O; AghaKouchak A; Balch J; Bowen SG; Camargo SJ; Hess J; Kornhuber K ( Jun 2020 ) Understanding and managing connected extreme events. Nature Climate Change ,10 (7) ,611-621. 10.1038/s41558-020-0790-4

McLauchlan KK; Higuera PE; Miesel J; Rogers BM; Schweitzer J; Shuman JK; Tepley AJ; Varner JM; Veblen TT; Adalsteinsson SA ( Jun 2020 ) Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers. Journal of Ecology ,108 (5) ,2047-2069. 10.1111/1365-2745.13403

Leyk S; Uhl JH; Connor DS; Braswell AE; Mietkiewicz N; Balch JK; Gutmann M ( May 2020 ) Two centuries of settlement and urban development in the United States. Science Advances ,6 (23) 10.1126/sciadv.aba2937

Scholl VM; Cattau ME; Joseph MB; Balch JK ( Apr 2020 ) Integrating National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Airborne Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data for Optimal Tree Species Classification. Remote Sensing ,12 (9) 10.3390/rs12091414

Rogers BM; Balch JK; Goetz SJ; Lehmann CER; Turetsky M ( Feb 2020 ) Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society. Environmental Research Letters ,15 (3) 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d3a

St Denis LA; Mietkiewicz NP; Short KC; Buckland M; Balch JK ( Feb 2020 ) All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2014. Scientific Data ,7 (1) 10.1038/s41597-020-0403-0

Balch JK; Nagy RC; Halpern BS ( Jan 2020 ) NEON is seeding the next revolution in ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ,18 (1) ,3-3. 10.1002/fee.2152

Cattau ME; Wessman C; Mahood A; Balch JK ( Jan 2020 ) Anthropogenic and lightning-started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the USA. Global Ecology and Biogeography ,29 (4) ,668-681. 10.1111/geb.13058

Sun, R; Balch, C ( Nov 2019 ) Comparison Between 1-D and 3-D Geoelectric Field Methods to Calculate Geomagnetically Induced Currents: A Case Study. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER DELIVERY ,34 (6) 10.1109/TPWRD.2019.2905532

Fusco, EJ; Finn, JT; Balch, JK; Nagy, RC; Bradley, BA ( Nov 2019 ) Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,116 (47) 10.1073/pnas.1908253116

Brando PM; Silverio D; Maracahipes-Santos L; Oliveira-Santos C; Levick SR; Coe MT; Migliavacca M; Balch JK; Macedo MN; Nepstad DC ( Aug 2019 ) Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO2 and H2O fluxes. Global Change Biology ,25 (9) ,2855-2868. 10.1111/gcb.14659

Joseph, M; Rossi, MW; Mietkiewicz, NP; Mahood, AL; Cattu, ME; St Dents, LA; Nagy, RC; Iglesias, V; Abatzoglou, JT; Balch, JK ( Aug 2019 ) Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ,29 (6) 10.1002/eap.1898

Williams, AP; Abatzoglou, JT; Gershunov, A; Guzman-Morales, J; Bishop, DA; Balch, JK; Lettenmaier, DP ( Jul 2019 ) Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California. EARTHS FUTURE ,7 (8) 10.1029/2019EF001210

R. Chelsea Nagy, Emily J. Fusco, Jennifer Balch, John T. Finn, Adam Mahood, Jenica Allen, Bethany A. Bradley ( Dec 2018 ) A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on U.S. Great Basin carbon storage. 10.1002/ece3.3414

Brando, PM; Paolucci, L; Ummenhofer, CC; Ordway, EM; Hartmann, H; Cattau, ME; Rattis, L; Medjibe, V; Coe, MT; Balch, J ( Dec 2018 ) Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis. ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, VOL 47 ,47 10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010235

Mahood, Adam L., Jennifer K. Balch ( Dec 2018 ) Repeated fires reduce plant diversity in low elevation Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems 1984-2014. ,10 (2) 10.1002/ecs2.2591

Fusco, EJ; Finn, JT; Abatzoglou, JT; Balch, JK; Dadashi, S; Bradley, BA ( Dec 2018 ) Detection rates and biases of fire observations from MODIS and agency reports in the conterminous United States. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT ,220 10.1016/j.rse.2018.10.028

Smith AMS; Kolden CA; Prichard SJ; Gray RW; Hessburg PF; Balch JK ( Aug 2018 ) Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science. Fire ,1 (2) 10.3390/fire1020030

Metcalfe, DB, W Rocha, JK Balch, PM Brando, CE Doughty and Y Malhi ( Jul 2018 ) Impacts of fire on sources of soil CO2 efflux in a dry Amazon rain forest. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ,24 (8) 10.1111/gcb.14305

Bradley, BA, CA Curtis, EJ Fusco, JT Abatzoglou, JK Balch, S Dadashi and MN Tuanmu ( May 2018 ) Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS ,20 (6) 10.1007/s10530-017-1641-8

Nagy, RC, E Fusco, B Bradley, JT Abatzoglou, and J Balch ( Dec 2017 ) Human-Related Ignitions Increase the Number of Large Wildfires across U.S. Ecoregions. ,1 (1) 10.3390/fire1010004

Balch, J., Schoennagel, T., Williams, P., Abatzoglou, J., Cattau, M. E., Mietkiewicz, N., St. Denis, L. ( Dec 2017 ) Switching on the Big Burn of 2017. ,1 (1) 10.3390/fire1010017

Joseph, M. B., Rossi, M., Mietkiewicz, N. P., Mahood, A. L., Cattau, M. E., St. Denis, L. A., Nagy, R. C., Iglesias, V., Abatzaglou, J., Balch, J. K.. ( Dec 2017 ) Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima. ,384115 10.1101/384115

Abatzoglou JT; Balch JK; Bradley BA; Kolden CA ( Dec 2017 ) Human-related ignitions concurrent with high winds promote large wildfires across the USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire ,27 (6) ,377-386. 10.1071/WF17149

Schoennagel, T, JK Balch, H Brenkert-Smith, PE Dennison, BJ Harvey, MA Krawchuk, N Mietkiewicz, P Morgan, MA Moritz, R Rasker, MG Turner and C Whitlock ( May 2017 ) Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,114 (18) 10.1073/pnas.1617464114

Balch, JK, BA Bradley, JT Abatzoglou, RC Nagy, EJ Fusco and AL Mahood ( Mar 2017 ) Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,114 (11) 10.1073/pnas.1617394114

de Andrade, RB, JK Balch, AL Parsons, D Armenteras, RM Roman-Cuesta and J Bulkan ( Mar 2017 ) Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD. CARBON BALANCE AND MANAGEMENT ,12 10.1186/s13021-017-0074-0

de Andrade, RB, JK Balch, JYO Carreira, PM Brando and AVL Freitas ( Dec 2016 ) The impacts of recurrent fires on diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a south-eastern Amazon forest. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY ,33 10.1017/S0266467416000559

Fusco, EJ, JT Abatzoglou, JK Balch, JT Finn and BA Bradley ( Nov 2016 ) Quantifying the human influence on fire ignition across the western USA. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ,26 (8) 10.1002/eap.1395

Huang, JX, ML Guan, J Balch, E Wu, HY Rao, A Lin, L Wei and AS Lok ( Oct 2016 ) Survey of hepatitis B knowledge and stigma among chronically infected patients and uninfected persons in Beijing, China. LIVER INTERNATIONAL ,36 (11) 10.1111/liv.13168

Balch, JK, RC Nagy, S Archibald, DMJS Bowman, MA Moritz, CI Roos, AC Scott and GJ Williamson ( Jun 2016 ) Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997-2010). PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ,371 (1696) 10.1098/rstb.2015.0177

Abatzoglou, JT, CA Kolden, JK Balch and BA Bradley ( Mar 2016 ) Controls on interannual variability in lightning-caused fire activity in the western US. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS ,11 (4) 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/045005

Balch, JK, PM Brando, DC Nepstad, MT Coe, D Silverio, TJ Massad, EA Davidson, P Lefebvre, C Oliveira-Santos, W Rocha, RTS Cury, A Parsons and KS Carvalho ( Aug 2015 ) The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment. BIOSCIENCE ,65 (9) 10.1093/biosci/biv106

Massad, TJ, JK Balch, CL Mews, P Porto, B Marimon, RM Quintino, PM Brando, SA Vieira and SE Trumbore ( Jun 2015 ) Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon. OECOLOGIA ,178 (3) 10.1007/s00442-015-3259-9

Parsons, AL, JK Balch, RB de Andrade and PM Brando ( Dec 2014 ) The role of leaf traits in determining litter flammability of south-eastern Amazon tree species. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE ,24 (8) 10.1071/WF14182

Langen, TA, T Mourad, BW Grant, WK Gram, BJ Abraham, DS Fernandez, M Carroll, A Nuding, JK Balch, J Rodriguez and SE Hampton ( Jul 2014 ) Using large public datasets in the undergraduate ecology classroom. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ,12 (6) 10.1890/1540-9295-12.6.362

Brando, PM, JK Balch, DC Nepstad, DC Morton, FE Putz, MT Coe, D Silverio, MN Macedo, EA Davidson, CC Nobrega, A Alencar and BS Soares ( Apr 2014 ) Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,111 (17) 10.1073/pnas.1305499111

Roos, CI, DMJS Bowman, JK Balch, P Artaxo, WJ Bond, M Cochrane, CM DAntonio, R DeFries, M Mack, FH Johnston, MA Krawchuk, CA Kull, MA Moritz, S Pyne, AC Scott and TW Swetnam ( Mar 2014 ) Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY ,41 (4) 10.1111/jbi.12285

Balch, JK ( Feb 2014 ) ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE Drought and fire change sink to source. NATURE ,506 (7486) 10.1038/506041a

Rocha, W, DB Metcalfe, CE Doughty, P Brando, D Silverio, K Halladay, DC Nepstad, JK Balch and Y Malhi ( Dec 2013 ) Ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling in intact and annually burnt forest at the dry southern limit of the Amazon rainforest (Mato Grosso, Brazil). PLANT ECOLOGY & DIVERSITY ,7 10.1080/17550874.2013.798368

Balch, JK, TJ Massad, PM Brando, DC Nepstad and LM Curran ( Jun 2013 ) Effects of high-frequency understorey fires on woody plant regeneration in southeastern Amazonian forests. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ,368 (1619) 10.1098/rstb.2012.0157

Silverio, DV, PM Brando, JK Balch, FE Putz, DC Nepstad, C Oliveira-Santos and MMC Bustamante ( Jun 2013 ) Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ,368 (1619) 10.1098/rstb.2012.0427

Massad, TJ, JK Balch, EA Davidson, PM Brando, CL Mews, P Porto, RM Quintino, SA Vieira, B Marimon and SE Trumbore ( Apr 2013 ) Interactions between repeated fire, nutrients, and insect herbivores affect the recovery of diversity in the southern Amazon. OECOLOGIA ,172 (1) 10.1007/s00442-012-2482-x

Balch, JK, BA Bradley, CM DAntonio and J Gomez-Dans ( Dec 2012 ) Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009). GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ,19 (1) 10.1111/gcb.12046

Davidson, EA, AC de Araujo, P Artaxo, JK Balch, IF Brown, MMC Bustamante, MT Coe, RS DeFries, M Keller, M Longo, JW Munger, W Schroeder, BS Soares, CM Souza and SC Wofsy ( Mar 2012 ) The Amazon basin in transition (vol 481, pg 321, 2012). NATURE ,483 (7388) 10.1038/nature10943

Brando, PM, DC Nepstad, JK Balch, B Bolker, MC Christman, M Coe and FE Putz ( Jan 2012 ) Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ,18 (2) 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02533.x

Davidson, EA, AC de Araujo, P Artaxo, JK Balch, IF Brown, MMC Bustamante, MT Coe, RS DeFries, M Keller, M Longo, JW Munger, W Schroeder, BS Soares, CM Souza and SC Wofsy ( Jan 2012 ) The Amazon basin in transition. NATURE ,481 (7381) 10.1038/nature10717

Bowman, DMJS, J Balch, P Artaxo, WJ Bond, MA Cochrane, CM DAntonio, R DeFries, FH Johnston, JE Keeley, MA Krawchuk, CA Kull, M Mack, MA Moritz, S Pyne, CI Roos, AC Scott, NS Sodhi and TW Swetnam ( Nov 2011 ) The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY ,38 (12) 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02595.x

Balch, JK, DC Nepstad, LM Curran, PM Brando, O Portela, P Guilherme, JD Reuning-Scherer and O de Carvalho ( Dec 2010 ) Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT ,261 (1) 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.09.029

Balch, JK, DC Nepstad, PM Brando and A Alencar ( Dec 2010 ) Comment on "The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD". SCIENCE ,330 (6011) 10.1126/science.1194032

Silveira, JM, J Barlow, AV Krusche, KH Orwin, JK Balch and P Moutinho ( Oct 2009 ) Effects of experimental fires on litter decomposition in a seasonally dry Amazonian forest. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY ,25 10.1017/S0266467409990150

Bowman, DMJS, JK Balch, P Artaxo, WJ Bond, JM Carlson, MA Cochrane, CM DAntonio, RS DeFries, JC Doyle, SP Harrison, FH Johnston, JE Keeley, MA Krawchuk, CA Kull, JB Marston, MA Moritz, IC Prentice, CI Roos, AC Scott, TW Swetnam, GR van der Werf and SJ Pyne ( Apr 2009 ) Fire in the Earth System. SCIENCE ,324 (5926) 10.1126/science.1163886

Balch, JK, DC Nepstad, PM Brando, LM Curran, O Portela, O de Carvalho and P Lefebvre ( Sep 2008 ) Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southeastern Amazonia. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ,14 (10) 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01655.x

Rodriguez, JP, JK Balch and KM Rodriguez-Clark ( Dec 2006 ) Assessing extinction risk in the absence of species-level data: quantitative criteria for terrestrial ecosystems. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION ,16 (1) 10.1007/s10531-006-9102-1