| Paleoecological perspectives on fire ecology: revisiting the fire-regime concept C Whitlock, PE Higuera, DB McWethy, CE Briles The Open Ecology Journal 3 (1), 2010 | 409 | 2010 |
| Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement DB McWethy, C Whitlock, JM Wilmshurst, MS McGlone, M Fromont, X Li, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (50), 21343-21348, 2010 | 348 | 2010 |
| Rethinking resilience to wildfire DB McWethy, T Schoennagel, PE Higuera, M Krawchuk, BJ Harvey, ... Nature Sustainability 2 (9), 797-804, 2019 | 281 | 2019 |
| Returning fire to the land: celebrating traditional knowledge and fire FK Lake, V Wright, P Morgan, M McFadzen, D McWethy, ... Journal of Forestry 115 (5), 343-353, 2017 | 261 | 2017 |
| A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes DB McWethy, PE Higuera, C Whitlock, TT Veblen, D Bowman, GJ Cary, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 22 (8), 900-912, 2013 | 182 | 2013 |
| Rapid deforestation of south island, New Zealand, by early Polynesian fires DB McWethy, C Whitlock, JM Wilmshurst, MS McGlone, X Li The Holocene 19 (6), 883-897, 2009 | 173 | 2009 |
| Landscape drivers of recent fire activity (2001-2017) in south-central Chile DB McWethy, A Pauchard, RA García, A Holz, ME González, TT Veblen, ... PloS one 13 (8), e0201195, 2018 | 140 | 2018 |
| Explaining fire‐driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of N ew Z ealand's prehistory GLW Perry, JM Wilmshurst, MS McGlone, DB McWethy, C Whitlock Global Change Biology 18 (5), 1609-1621, 2012 | 125 | 2012 |
| A high-resolution chronology of rapid forest transitions following Polynesian arrival in New Zealand DB McWethy, JM Wilmshurst, C Whitlock, JR Wood, MS McGlone PLoS One 9 (11), e111328, 2014 | 107 | 2014 |
| Pinus contorta invasions increase wildfire fuel loads and may create a positive feedback with fire KT Taylor, BD Maxwell, DB McWethy, A Pauchard, MA Nuñez, C Whitlock Ecology 98 (3), 678-687, 2017 | 90 | 2017 |
| Lake sediment fecal and biomass burning biomarkers provide direct evidence for prehistoric human-lit fires in New Zealand E Argiriadis, D Battistel, DB McWethy, M Vecchiato, T Kirchgeorg, ... Scientific Reports 8 (1), 12113, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
| Is the effect of forest structure on bird diversity modified by forest productivity JP Verschuyl, AJ Hansen, DB McWethy, R Sallabanks, RL Hutto Ecological Applications 18 (5), 1155-1170, 2008 | 75 | 2008 |
| Assessment of site index and forest growth capacity across the Pacific and Inland Northwest USA with a MODIS satellite-derived vegetation index RH Waring, KS Milner, WM Jolly, L Phillips, D McWethy Forest Ecology and Management 228 (1-3), 285-291, 2006 | 72 | 2006 |
| Method for the determination of specific molecular markers of biomass burning in lake sediments T Kirchgeorg, S Schuepbach, N Kehrwald, DB McWethy, C Barbante Organic Geochemistry 71, 1-6, 2014 | 62 | 2014 |
| Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene JK Shuman, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera, CI Roos, DW Schwilk, ... PNAS nexus 1 (3), pgac115, 2022 | 58 | 2022 |
| Past and present vulnerability of closed-canopy temperate forests to altered fire regimes: a comparison of the Pacific Northwest, New Zealand, and Patagonia C Whitlock, DB McWethy, AJ Tepley, TT Veblen, A Holz, MS McGlone, ... BioScience 65 (2), 151-163, 2015 | 57 | 2015 |
| Integrating subjective and objective dimensions of resilience in fire-prone landscapes PE Higuera, AL Metcalf, C Miller, B Buma, DB McWethy, EC Metcalf, ... BioScience 69 (5), 379-388, 2019 | 56 | 2019 |
| Hemispheric black carbon increase after the 13th-century Māori arrival in New Zealand JR McConnell, NJ Chellman, R Mulvaney, S Eckhardt, A Stohl, G Plunkett, ... Nature 598 (7879), 82-85, 2021 | 37 | 2021 |
| Bird response to disturbance varies with forest productivity in the northwestern United States DB McWethy, AJ Hansen, JP Verschuyl Landscape Ecology 25, 533-549, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Edge effects for songbirds vary with forest productivity DB McWethy, AJ Hansen, JP Verschuyl Forest Ecology and Management 257 (2), 665-678, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
