| Stationarity is dead: Whither water management? PCD Milly, J Betancourt, M Falkenmark, RM Hirsch, ZW Kundzewicz, ... Science 319 (5863), 573-574, 2008 | 3405 | 2008 |
| Applied historical ecology: using the past to manage for the future TW Swetnam, CD Allen, JL Betancourt Ecological applications 9 (4), 1189-1206, 1999 | 1464 | 1999 |
| Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest TW Swetnam, JL Betancourt Journal of Climate 11 (12), 3128-3147, 1998 | 1036 | 1998 |
| Pacific and Atlantic Ocean influences on multidecadal drought frequency in the United States GJ McCabe, MA Palecki, JL Betancourt Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (12), 4136-4141, 2004 | 1023 | 2004 |
| Fire-southern oscillation relations in the southwestern United States TW Swetnam, JL Betancourt Science 249 (4972), 1017-1020, 1990 | 788 | 1990 |
| Packrat middens: the last 40,000 years of biotic change JL Betancourt, TR Van Devender, PS Martin University of Arizona Press, 1990 | 662 | 1990 |
| Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change EM Wolkovich, BI Cook, JM Allen, TM Crimmins, JL Betancourt, ... Nature 485 (7399), 494, 2012 | 580 | 2012 |
| A tree‐ring based reconstruction of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation since 1567 AD ST Gray, LJ Graumlich, JL Betancourt, GT Pederson Geophysical Research Letters 31 (12), 2004 | 565 | 2004 |
| Ecology and the ratchet of events: climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions ST Jackson, JL Betancourt, RK Booth, ST Gray Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (Supplement 2), 19685-19692, 2009 | 401 | 2009 |
| A 22,000-year record of monsoonal precipitation from northern Chile's Atacama Desert JL Betancourt, C Latorre, JA Rech, J Quade, KA Rylander science 289 (5484), 1542-1546, 2000 | 344 | 2000 |
| The unusual nature of recent snowpack declines in the North American Cordillera GT Pederson, ST Gray, CA Woodhouse, JL Betancourt, DB Fagre, ... science 333 (6040), 332-335, 2011 | 261 | 2011 |
| Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science S Pau, EM Wolkovich, BI Cook, TJ Davies, NJB Kraft, K Bolmgren, ... Global Change Biology 17 (12), 3633-3643, 2011 | 254 | 2011 |
| Vegetation history of the deserts of southwestern North America: The nature and timing of the Late Wisconsin-Holocene transition TR Van Devender, RS Thompson, JL Betancourt North America and adjacent oceans during the last deglaciation 3, 323-352, 1987 | 252 | 1987 |
| Climatic variability and flood frequency of the Santa Cruz river, Pima County, Arizona RH Webb, JL Betancourt Water Supply Paper, 1992 | 245 | 1992 |
| Evolution of body size in the woodrat over the past 25,000 years of climate change FA Smith, JL Betancourt, JH Brown Science 270 (5244), 2012-2014, 1995 | 238 | 1995 |
| Trends in stomatal density and 13C/12C ratios of Pinus flexilis needles during last glacial-interglacial cycle PK Van de Water, SW Leavitt, JL Betancourt Science 264 (5156), 239-243, 1994 | 225 | 1994 |
| Leaf δ13C variability with elevation, slope aspect, and precipitation in the southwest United States PK Van de Water, SW Leavitt, JL Betancourt Oecologia 132 (3), 332-343, 2002 | 201 | 2002 |
| Patterns and sources of multidecadal oscillations in drought‐sensitive tree‐ring records from the central and southern Rocky Mountains ST Gray, JL Betancourt, CL Fastie, ST Jackson Geophysical Research Letters 30 (6), 2003 | 199 | 2003 |
| Vegetation invasions into absolute desert: A 45; th000 yr rodent midden record from the Calama–Salar de Atacama basins, northern Chile (lat 22–24 S) C Latorre, JL Betancourt, KA Rylander, J Quade Geological Society of America Bulletin 114 (3), 349-366, 2002 | 196 | 2002 |
| Late quaternary biogeography of the Colorado Plateau JL Betancourt Packrat middens: the last 40 (000), 259-292, 1990 | 176 | 1990 |
