| Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming SC Elmendorf, GHR Henry, RD Hollister, RG Björk, N Boulanger-Lapointe, ... Nature climate change 2 (6), 453-457, 2012 | 1008 | 2012 |
| Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils XJ Walker, JL Baltzer, SG Cumming, NJ Day, C Ebert, S Goetz, ... Nature 572 (7770), 520-523, 2019 | 410 | 2019 |
| Carbon loss from boreal forest wildfires offset by increased dominance of deciduous trees MC Mack, XJ Walker, JF Johnstone, HD Alexander, AM Melvin, M Jean, ... Science 372 (6539), 280-283, 2021 | 168 | 2021 |
| Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest JL Baltzer, NJ Day, XJ Walker, D Greene, MC Mack, HD Alexander, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (45), e2024872118, 2021 | 155 | 2021 |
| Stable carbon isotope analysis reveals widespread drought stress in boreal black spruce forests XJ Walker, MC Mack, JF Johnstone Global Change Biology 21 (8), 3102-3113, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
| Widespread negative correlations between black spruce growth and temperature across topographic moisture gradients in the boreal forest X Walker, JF Johnstone Environmental Research Letters 9 (6), 064016, 2014 | 107 | 2014 |
| Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions XJ Walker, BM Rogers, S Veraverbeke, JF Johnstone, JL Baltzer, ... Nature Climate Change 10 (12), 1130-1136, 2020 | 105 | 2020 |
| Cross‐scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest megafires XJ Walker, BM Rogers, JL Baltzer, SG Cumming, NJ Day, SJ Goetz, ... Global Change Biology 24 (9), 4251-4265, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| Wildfire severity reduces richness and alters composition of soil fungal communities in boreal forests of western Canada NJ Day, KE Dunfield, JF Johnstone, MC Mack, MR Turetsky, XJ Walker, ... Global change biology 25 (7), 2310-2324, 2019 | 99 | 2019 |
| Postfire seed rain of black spruce, a semiserotinous conifer, in forests of interior Alaska J Johnstone, L Boby, E Tissier, M Mack, D Verbyla, X Walker Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39 (8), 1575-1588, 2009 | 71 | 2009 |
| Wildfire combustion and carbon stocks in the southern Canadian boreal forest: Implications for a warming world CM Dieleman, BM Rogers, S Potter, S Veraverbeke, JF Johnstone, ... Global change biology 26 (11), 6062-6079, 2020 | 67 | 2020 |
| Soil organic layer combustion in boreal black spruce and jack pine stands of the Northwest Territories, Canada XJ Walker, JL Baltzer, SG Cumming, NJ Day, JF Johnstone, BM Rogers, ... International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2), 125-134, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |
| Reproduction as a bottleneck to treeline advance across the circumarctic forest tundra ecotone CD Brown, G Dufour‐Tremblay, RG Jameson, SD Mamet, AJ Trant, ... Ecography 42 (1), 137-147, 2019 | 51 | 2019 |
| Predicting ecosystem resilience to fire from tree ring analysis in black spruce forests XJ Walker, MC Mack, JF Johnstone Ecosystems 20, 1137-1150, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
| Reproduction and seedling establishment of Picea glauca across the northernmost forest‐tundra region in Canada X Walker, GHR Henry, K McLeod, A Hofgaard Global Change Biology 18 (10), 3202-3211, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| Direct and longer-term carbon emissions from arctic-boreal fires: A short review of recent advances S Veraverbeke, CJF Delcourt, E Kukavskaya, M Mack, X Walker, T Hessilt, ... Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health 23, 100277, 2021 | 38 | 2021 |
| Climate change decreases the cooling effect from postfire albedo in boreal North America S Potter, K Solvik, A Erb, SJ Goetz, JF Johnstone, MC Mack, ... Global change biology 26 (3), 1592-1607, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
| Fire characteristics and environmental conditions shape plant communities via regeneration strategy NJ Day, AL White, JF Johnstone, GÉ Degré‐Timmons, SG Cumming, ... Ecography 43 (10), 1464-1474, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
| Impacts of climate and insect herbivory on productivity and physiology of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Alaskan boreal forests MA Boyd, LT Berner, P Doak, SJ Goetz, BM Rogers, D Wagner, XJ Walker, ... Environmental Research Letters 14 (8), 085010, 2019 | 30 | 2019 |
| Patterns of ecosystem structure and wildfire carbon combustion across six ecoregions of the North American boreal forest XJ Walker, JL Baltzer, L Bourgeau-Chavez, NJ Day, CM Dieleman, ... Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3, 87, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
