OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Forestry is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping tree species ecograms based on soil pH and soil water availability across Denmark	77
A new approach to small area estimation: improving forest management unit estimates with advanced preprocessing in a multivariate Fay–Herriot model	72
Impact of coarse woody debris on habitat use of two sympatric rodent species in the temperate Białowieża Forest	69
Drought, wildfire and forest transformation: characterizing trailing edge forests in the eastern Cascade Range, Washington, USA	41
Commentary to the paper by Roell, Nord-Larsen et al. ‘Mapping tree species ecograms based on soil pH and soil water availability across Denmark’	27
Forest practitioners’ requirements for remote sensing-based canopy height, wood-volume, tree species, and disturbance products	25
Managing harvesting residues: a systematic review of management treatments around the world	22
Management of mushroom resources in Spanish forests: a review	20
Alternative approaches to forest sector carbon accounting and assessment: a literature review and synthesis	19
Deep learning for forest inventory and planning: a critical review on the remote sensing approaches so far and prospects for further applications	18
Ecological factors related to seed germination and early seedling establishment inUlmus minorMill., an endangered riparian tree species	16
Effects of model-overfit on model-assisted forest inventory in boreal forests with remote sensing data	14
Climate change has limited effect on the growth of Afzelia africana Sm. and Anogeissus leiocarpus (DC.) Guill. and Perr. in riparian forests in the savannas of Ghana	14
Eucalyptus scab and shoot malformation: a new disease in South Africa caused by a novel species, Elsinoe masingae	13
Effects of Norway spruce shelter density and soil scarification method on mortality and height growth of underplanted European beech, European silver fir and Douglas fir	13
Acute and Chronic Oak Decline in urban and forest ecosystems in Southern Italy	12
The impact of natural constraints in linear regression of log transformed response variables	12
Evaluating the impact of prescribed surface fire on seedlings in the Central Hardwood Region, USA	11
Xylem function and leaf physiology in European beech saplings during and after moderate and severe drought stress	11
Taper equations for eight major forest tree species in flat land Ukraine	10
Soil change and broadleaf tree growth 10 years after wood ash and brash co-application to a clearfelled lowland conifer site in Britain	9
Do biomass partitioning and growth efficiency contribute to growth heterosis in inter-specific hybrid larchLarix x eurolepis?	9
Genetic variation in susceptibility of Phytophthora cinnamomi-infected holm oak in the absence or presence of severe drought	9
A bootstrap-based approach to combine individual-based forest growth models and remotely sensed data	9
Drought-related mortality modifies mixing effects on light absorption and growth in mono-specific and mixed stands of Fagus sylvatica, Alnus glutinosa, and Betula pendula	9

Natural forests support higher mycological diversity and more edible mushroom species than plantation forests in Ethiopia	8
Diameter, height and volume increment single tree models for improved Sitka spruce in Great Britain	8
Economic evaluation of reopening a dormant tree improvement programme: a case study with Scots pine in Scotland	8
Subalpine fir response to drought in northern British Columbia, Canada	8
Generating synthetic laser scanning data of forests by combining forest inventory information, a tree point cloud database and an open-source laser scanning simulator	8
Natural disturbances as drivers of tipping points in forest ecosystems under climate change – implications for adaptive management	8
Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting	8
Disentangling interspecific and intraspecific variability in height–diameter allometry of dominant tree species in the Rocky Mountains across broad spatial scales	8
Relating soil moisture and Sentinel-2 vegetation index patterns to spruce bark beetle infestations prior to outbreak	8
Effects of temperature, moisture content and storage on dormancy release and germination of European hornbeam (Carpinus betulusL.) seeds	8
Reducing tree volume overestimation in quantitative structure models using modeled branch topology and direct twig measurements	7
Assessing the potential of mobile laser scanning for stand-level forest inventories in near-natural forests	7
The impact of climate and management on recent mortality inPinus pinasterresin-tapped forests of inland Spain	7
Identity of Pyrus pyraster (L.) Burgsdorf, 1787 and implications for conservation and silviculture	7
New insights toward the design of an effective trapping method for Coraebus undatus F. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)	7
Use of virtual reality technology in chainsaw operations, education and training	7
Early performance of eight broadleaved species grown as short rotation forest in England	6
Conflicts among ecosystem services may depend on environmental awareness: a multi-municipality analysis	6
Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes from clonal eucalyptus forests in different spacing arrangements	6
Modelling the impact of climate change on the occurrence of frost damage in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) in Great Britain	6
Effects of climate and soil variables on a simultaneous crown radius model system: a case study for Korean pine plantations in Northeast China	6
Tree detection and diameter estimation based on deep learning	6
Using winter diet composition and forage plant availability to determine browse selection and importance for moose (Alces alces) in a landscape modified by industrial forestry	6
Correction to: Relating soil moisture and Sentinel-2 vegetation index patterns to spruce bark beetle infestations prior to outbreak	6
Physiological responses of a black locust plantation to drought stress based on a throughfall exclusion experiment in semi-arid northwestern China	6
Large-scale remote sensing reveals that tree mortality in Germany appears to be greater than previously expected	6
Nothofagus pumilio regeneration failure following wildfire in the sub-Antarctic forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	5
Forest site classification and grading using mixed-variables clustering and nonlinear mixed-effects modeling based on forest inventory data	5
Detailed validation of large-scale Sentinel-2-based forest disturbance maps across Germany	5
A method for identifying and segmenting branches of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees using terrestrial laser scanning	5
Contrasting Norway spruce disturbance dynamics in managed forests and strict forest reserves in Slovakia	5
Development of activity recognition models for mechanical fuel treatments using consumer-grade GNSS-RF devices and lidar	5
Comprehensive review and evaluation of whole stand volume yield models for the aspen forest type in Minnesota, USA	5
Trees and forests’ contribution to well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: how did people adapt to change?	5
When economically optimal is ecologically complicated: modeling tree-by-tree cutting decisions to maximize financial returns from northern hardwood stands	5
Biomass estimates derived from sector subsampling of 360° spherical images	4
Close-to-nature management of tropical timber plantations is economically viable and provides biodiversity benefits	4
Differential associations between nucleotide polymorphisms and physiological traits in Norway spruce (Picea abiesKarst.) plants under contrasting water regimes	4
Computation of prediction intervals for forest aboveground biomass predictions using generalized linear models in a large-extent boreal forest region	4
Assessing heat stress tolerance in Castanea sativa	4
Canopy and surface fuel estimations using RPAS and ground-based point clouds	4
The changing culture of silviculture	4
A remote sensing-guided forest inventory concept using multispectral 3D and height information from ZiYuan-3 satellite data	4
Growth and yield model comparisons for mid-rotation loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations in the southeastern US	4
Fire spread prediction models for surface fuels in subtropical forests of southern China	4
Nonresponse bias in change estimation: a national forest inventory example	4
Fine roots of Scots pine and European beech respond differently to changes in nutrient availability in a mixed forest: results from a 4-year experiment	4
Methods for identifying and measuring the diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi	3
Modelling tree diameter of less commonly planted tree species in New Zealand using a machine learning approach	3
The influence of age on the timber properties and grading of Scots pine and larch in Ireland	3

Tree height-growth trajectory estimation using uni-temporal UAV laser scanning data and deep learning	3
Long-term effects of group selection, single-tree selection, and clearcutting on individual-tree and stand volume growth in northern hardwoods of the Great Lakes region	3
Determinants of the relative abundance of rodents in landscapes dominated by Eucalyptus plantations	3
Large-scale genetic structure of Quercus robur in its eastern distribution range enables assignment of unknown seed sources	3
What we know about Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) — from evolutionary history to species ecology	3
Mitigating the risk of wind damage at the forest landscape level by using stand neighbourhood and terrain elevation information in forest planning	3
Adaptation strategies for spruce forests—economic potential of bark beetle management and Douglas fir cultivation in future tree species portfolios	3
Long-term study into the development of a plenter structure in a forest comprising a mix of European and north American species	3
Current and future wood availability: a simulation of interacting climate, land use, and management scenarios in Flanders, Belgium	3
Tree belowground biomass in Congo Basin forests: allometric equations and scaling with aboveground biomass	3
Comparing the effects of ground cultivation and protection against browsing upon the natural regeneration of Scots pine and birch in a Caledonian pinewood	3
Institutions and power relations and the implementation of community forestry: a case study of Taiwan	3
Regional differences in stem form between southern and northern red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) populations	3
Molecular evidence of introgression of Asian germplasm into a naturalCastanea sativaforest in Spain	3
Timber yield of commercial tree species in the eastern Brazilian Amazon based on 33 years of inventory data	3
Timber strength variation due to establishment density—can grading cope with it?	3
Estimation of aboveground carbon stock using Sentinel-2A data and Random Forest algorithm in scrub forests of the Salt Range, Pakistan	3
Comparison of population genetic structure of Pinus mugo Turra forest stands in the Giant Mountains by analysis of nSSR molecular marker data	3
Experimental assessment of warming effects on the architecture and growth of the subalpine species Nothofagus pumilio	2
Unveiling the main drivers of tree decline in Zagros semi-arid forests	2
Height growth patterns of genetically improved Scots pine and silver birch	2
The weak genetic structure of Melolontha melolontha (L.) and Melolontha hippocastani (Fabr.), two important forest pests, indicates their large population sizes and effective gene flow	2
An analysis of conifer experiments in Britain to identify productive alternatives to Sitka spruce	2
Mapping mortality rates in boreal mixedwood forest using airborne laser scanning and permanent plot data	2
Moss abundance increased along a gradient of postfire interventions from high to low intensity after a forest fire in Brandenburg, Germany	2
Sapwood area~DBH allometries for 14 common tree species in a successional tropical forest in Thailand	2
Tree crown defoliation in forest monitoring: concepts, findings, and new perspectives for a physiological approach in the face of climate change	2
Influence of cutting attachment on work efficiency, fuel consumption and environmental pollution from plastic wire during tending of young forests with brush cutters	2
The herbicide cycloxydim is an effective alternative to propyzamide or glyphosate for the control of the forest grass weeds Molinia caerulea, Calamagrostis epigejos, Deschampsia flexuosa	2
Updating forest road networks using single photon LiDAR in northern Forest environments	2
Climate sensitive tree growth modelling of Myrocarpus frondosus in Southern Brazil using tree-ring time series and distributed generalized additive lag models	2
Successful colonization of novel spruce hosts by European and North American spruce bark beetles can favour trans-Atlantic range expansion	2
Tree-related microhabitat diversity as a proxy for the conservation of beetle communities in managed forests of Fagus sylvatica	2
Impacts of human forest management on seed dispersal patterns by scatter-hoarding rodents	2
Applying multidate Sentinel-2 data for forest-type classification in complex broadleaf forest stands	2
Response to extreme events: do morphological differences affect the ability of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) to resist drought stress?	2
Reducing disease risks to British forests: an exploration of costs and benefits of nursery best practices	2
The potential of entomopathogenic nematodes of the genera Steinernema and Heterorhabditis for biological control of the pine lappet moth Dendrolimus pini L. (Lepidoptera: Lasiocam	2
Navigating nature’s benefits to people: an examination of asymmetrical stakeholder preferences for local forest ecosystem services in South Korea	2
Pathogen impacts and implications for species diversification in UK forestry	2
Mapping wheel-ruts from timber harvesting operations using deep learning techniques in drone imagery	2
sgsR: a structurally guided sampling toolbox for LiDAR-based forest inventories	2
First report of the wattle rust pathogen, Uromycladium acaciae (Raveneliaceae, Pucciniales) in Ethiopia	2
Using auxiliary data to rationalize smartphone-based pre-harvest forest mensuration	2
Remote sensing in forestry: current challenges, considerations and directions	2
Fertilization modifies forest stand growth but not stand density: consequences for modelling stand dynamics in a changing climate	2
Partial cutting favours northern white-cedar regeneration but does not ensure recruitment to canopy: does browsing matter?	2
Corrigendum to: Continuous cover forestry in Europe: usage and the knowledge gaps and challenges to wider adoption	2
Herbivory and flooding impacts on planted bottomland hardwood seedlings	2
Growth and drought resilience of four native tree species suitable for reforestation of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest	2
Projected winter warming unlikely to affect germination success of balsam fir regeneration in Atlantic Canada	2
Genetic influence on components of wood density variation in white spruce	2
Determination of ring-level dynamic modulus of elasticity in loblolly pine from measurements of ultrasonic velocity and specific gravity	2
Research progress in the climate change vulnerability of urban forests	2
Effects of seasonality and climate on the sporulation of single Heterobasidion annosum sensu stricto and H. parviporum fruiting bodies in Norway spruce stands of Latvia	2
Allometric estimation models for aboveground and belowground biomass of pre-fire and post-fire vegetation in Scots pine forests	2