| Climate change and forests of the future: managing in the face of uncertainty CI Millar, NL Stephenson, SL Stephens Ecological applications 17 (8), 2145-2151, 2007 | 2385 | 2007 |
| Federal forest‐fire policy in the United States SL Stephens, LW Ruth Ecological applications 15 (2), 532-542, 2005 | 788 | 2005 |
| Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western US forests SL Stephens, JJ Moghaddas, C Edminster, CE Fiedler, S Haase, ... Ecological Applications 19 (2), 305-320, 2009 | 519 | 2009 |
| Managing forests and fire in changing climates SL Stephens, JK Agee, PZ Fule, MP North, WH Romme, TW Swetnam, ... Science 342 (6154), 41-42, 2013 | 503 | 2013 |
| Experimental fuel treatment impacts on forest structure, potential fire behavior, and predicted tree mortality in a California mixed conifer forest SL Stephens, JJ Moghaddas Forest Ecology and Management 215 (1-3), 21-36, 2005 | 481 | 2005 |
| Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services R Seidl, TA Spies, DL Peterson, SL Stephens, JA Hicke Journal of applied ecology 53 (1), 120-129, 2016 | 478 | 2016 |
| Reform forest fire management MP North, SL STePhens, BM Collins, JK Agee, G APleT, JF FrAnklin, ... Science 349 (6254), 1280-1281, 2015 | 462 | 2015 |
| The effects of forest fuel-reduction treatments in the United States SL Stephens, JD McIver, REJ Boerner, CJ Fettig, JB Fontaine, ... BioScience 62 (6), 549-560, 2012 | 445 | 2012 |
| Evaluation of the effects of silvicultural and fuels treatments on potential fire behaviour in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests SL Stephens Forest ecology and management 105 (1-3), 21-35, 1998 | 396 | 1998 |
| The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California DA Perry, PF Hessburg, CN Skinner, TA Spies, SL Stephens, AH Taylor, ... Forest Ecology and Management 262 (5), 703-717, 2011 | 389 | 2011 |
| Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed F Moreira, D Ascoli, H Safford, MA Adams, JM Moreno, JMC Pereira, ... Environmental Research Letters 15 (1), 011001, 2020 | 387 | 2020 |
| Using fire to increase the scale, benefits, and future maintenance of fuels treatments M North, BM Collins, S Stephens Journal of Forestry 110 (7), 392-401, 2012 | 386 | 2012 |
| Temperate and boreal forest mega‐fires: characteristics and challenges SL Stephens, N Burrows, A Buyantuyev, RW Gray, RE Keane, R Kubian, ... Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12 (2), 115-122, 2014 | 373 | 2014 |
| Drought, tree mortality, and wildfire in forests adapted to frequent fire SL Stephens, BM Collins, CJ Fettig, MA Finney, CM Hoffman, EE Knapp, ... BioScience 68 (2), 77-88, 2018 | 350 | 2018 |
| Interactions among wildland fires in a long-established Sierra Nevada natural fire area BM Collins, JD Miller, AE Thode, M Kelly, JW Van Wagtendonk, ... Ecosystems 12, 114-128, 2009 | 328 | 2009 |
| Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands SL Stephens, RE Martin, NE Clinton Forest Ecology and Management 251 (3), 205-216, 2007 | 316 | 2007 |
| The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels DW Schwilk, JE Keeley, EE Knapp, J McIver, JD Bailey, CJ Fettig, ... Ecological applications 19 (2), 285-304, 2009 | 309 | 2009 |
| The worldwide “wildfire” problem AM Gill, SL Stephens, GJ Cary Ecological applications 23 (2), 438-454, 2013 | 303 | 2013 |
| Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles PF Hessburg, DJ Churchill, AJ Larson, RD Haugo, C Miller, TA Spies, ... Landscape Ecology 30, 1805-1835, 2015 | 289 | 2015 |
| Spatial patterns of large natural fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas BM Collins, M Kelly, JW Van Wagtendonk, SL Stephens Landscape Ecology 22, 545-557, 2007 | 287 | 2007 |