| Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas Z Ratajczak, JB Nippert, SL Collins Ecology 93 (4), 697-703, 2012 | 552 | 2012 |
| Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities MG Turner, WJ Calder, GS Cumming, TP Hughes, A Jentsch, SL LaDeau, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1794), 20190105, 2020 | 245 | 2020 |
| Rethinking resilience to wildfire DB McWethy, T Schoennagel, PE Higuera, M Krawchuk, BJ Harvey, ... Nature Sustainability 2 (9), 797-804, 2019 | 234 | 2019 |
| Abrupt change in ecological systems: inference and diagnosis Z Ratajczak, SR Carpenter, AR Ives, CJ Kucharik, T Ramiadantsoa, ... Trends in Ecology & Evolution 33 (7), 513-526, 2018 | 226 | 2018 |
| Fire dynamics distinguish grasslands, shrublands and woodlands as alternative attractors in the Central Great Plains of North America Z Ratajczak, JB Nippert, JM Briggs, JM Blair Journal of Ecology, 1374-1385, 2014 | 171 | 2014 |
| Resilience in the global food system D Seekell, J Carr, J Dell’Angelo, P D’Odorico, M Fader, J Gephart, ... Environmental Research Letters 12 (2), 025010, 2017 | 161 | 2017 |
| Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks P Marchand, JA Carr, J Dell’Angelo, M Fader, JA Gephart, M Kummu, ... Environmental Research Letters 11 (9), 095009, 2016 | 142 | 2016 |
| Positive feedbacks amplify rates of woody encroachment in mesic tallgrass prairie Z Ratajczak, JB Nippert, JC Hartman, TW Ocheltree Ecosphere 2 (11), 1-14, 2011 | 131 | 2011 |
| Abrupt transition of mesic grassland to shrubland: evidence for thresholds, alternative attractors, and regime shifts Z Ratajczak, JB Nippert, TW Ocheltree Ecology 95 (9), 2633-2645, 2014 | 130 | 2014 |
| The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales Z Ratajczak, P D'Odorico, SL Collins, BT Bestelmeyer, FI Isbell, JB Nippert Ecological Monographs 87 (2), 198-218, 2017 | 80 | 2017 |
| Assessing the potential for transitions from tallgrass prairie to woodlands: are we operating beyond critical fire thresholds? Z Ratajczak, JM Briggs, DG Goodin, L Luo, RL Mohler, JB Nippert, ... Rangeland Ecology & Management 69 (4), 280-287, 2016 | 78 | 2016 |
| Simulating forest resilience: A review K Albrich, W Rammer, MG Turner, Z Ratajczak, KH Braziunas, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (12), 2082-2096, 2020 | 71 | 2020 |
| Beyond arctic and alpine: the influence of winter climate on temperate ecosystems LM Ladwig, ZR Ratajczak, TW Ocheltree, KA Hafich, AC Churchill, ... Ecology 97 (2), 372-382, 2016 | 57 | 2016 |
| Fire frequency, state change and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie SL Collins, JB Nippert, JM Blair, JM Briggs, P Blackmore, Z Ratajczak Ecology Letters 24 (4), 636-647, 2021 | 55 | 2021 |
| Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition Z Ratajczak, P D'Odorico, JB Nippert, SL Collins, NA Brunsell, S Ravi Journal of Ecology 105 (3), 750-760, 2017 | 51 | 2017 |
| 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 | 50 | 2019 |
| Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity Z Ratajczak, SL Collins, JM Blair, SE Koerner, AM Louthan, MD Smith, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (36), e2210433119, 2022 | 42 | 2022 |
| Holding the line: three decades of prescribed fires halt but do not reverse woody encroachment in grasslands JED Miller, EI Damschen, Z Ratajczak, M Özdoğan Landscape Ecology 32, 2297-2310, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
| Evidence of physiological decoupling from grassland ecosystem drivers by an encroaching woody shrub JB Nippert, TW Ocheltree, GL Orozco, Z Ratajczak, B Ling, AM Skibbe PLoS One 8 (12), e81630, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Comment on “Global resilience of tropical forest and savanna to critical transitions” Z Ratajczak, JB Nippert science 336 (6081), 541-541, 2012 | 40 | 2012 |
Jesse B. NippertProfessor of Biology, Kansas State UniversityVerified email at ksu.edu
