OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Forestry is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A new approach to small area estimation: improving forest management unit estimates with advanced preprocessing in a multivariate Fay–Herriot model	129
Management of mushroom resources in Spanish forests: a review	84
Drought, wildfire and forest transformation: characterizing trailing edge forests in the eastern Cascade Range, Washington, USA	52
Alternative approaches to forest sector carbon accounting and assessment: a literature review and synthesis	43
Commentary to the paper by Roell, Nord-Larsen et al. ‘Mapping tree species ecograms based on soil pH and soil water availability across Denmark’	32
Forest practitioners’ requirements for remote sensing-based canopy height, wood-volume, tree species, and disturbance products	29
Impact of coarse woody debris on habitat use of two sympatric rodent species in the temperate Białowieża Forest	28
Managing harvesting residues: a systematic review of management treatments around the world	21
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and silver birch (Betula pendula) mixed-species growth dynamics in the North York moors	18
Deep learning for forest inventory and planning: a critical review on the remote sensing approaches so far and prospects for further applications	17
Eucalyptus scab and shoot malformation: a new disease in South Africa caused by a novel species, Elsinoe masingae	16
The impact of natural constraints in linear regression of log transformed response variables	15
Xylem function and leaf physiology in European beech saplings during and after moderate and severe drought stress	14
A bootstrap-based approach to combine individual-based forest growth models and remotely sensed data	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
Effects of model-overfit on model-assisted forest inventory in boreal forests with remote sensing data	13
Influence of felling residue management on bark beetles and other insect diversity	13
Evaluating the impact of prescribed surface fire on seedlings in the Central Hardwood Region, USA	12
Ecological factors related to seed germination and early seedling establishment inUlmus minorMill., an endangered riparian tree species	12
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	11
Taper equations for eight major forest tree species in flat land Ukraine	11
Acute and Chronic Oak Decline in urban and forest ecosystems in Southern Italy	11
Assessing the impacts of forest stand structure and landscape on the formation of Ips typographus damage hotspots in Finland	10
Generating synthetic laser scanning data of forests by combining forest inventory information, a tree point cloud database and an open-source laser scanning simulator	10
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	10

Soil change and broadleaf tree growth 10 years after wood ash and brash co-application to a clearfelled lowland conifer site in Britain	10
Do biomass partitioning and growth efficiency contribute to growth heterosis in inter-specific hybrid larchLarix x eurolepis?	9
Assessing the potential of mobile laser scanning for stand-level forest inventories in near-natural forests	9
Natural forests support higher mycological diversity and more edible mushroom species than plantation forests in Ethiopia	9
Genetic variation in susceptibility of Phytophthora cinnamomi-infected holm oak in the absence or presence of severe drought	9
Relating soil moisture and Sentinel-2 vegetation index patterns to spruce bark beetle infestations prior to outbreak	9
Subalpine fir response to drought in northern British Columbia, Canada	9
Disentangling interspecific and intraspecific variability in height–diameter allometry of dominant tree species in the Rocky Mountains across broad spatial scales	9
Quantifying architectural uniqueness of Scots pine trees using terrestrial laser scanning: toward individual tree fingerprinting	8
Effects of temperature, moisture content and storage on dormancy release and germination of European hornbeam (Carpinus betulusL.) seeds	8
Economic evaluation of reopening a dormant tree improvement programme: a case study with Scots pine in Scotland	8
Neutral and adaptive genetic diversity in Neltuma alba (Leguminosae), an emblematic species of the Dry Chaco Forest	7
Natural disturbances as drivers of tipping points in forest ecosystems under climate change – implications for adaptive management	7
Species-specific branching architecture influences sapling resilience to ungulate browsing pressure in temperate forests	7
Diameter, height and volume increment single tree models for improved Sitka spruce in Great Britain	7
Physiological responses of a black locust plantation to drought stress based on a throughfall exclusion experiment in semi-arid northwestern China	7
Identity of Pyrus pyraster (L.) Burgsdorf, 1787 and implications for conservation and silviculture	7
Use of virtual reality technology in chainsaw operations, education and training	7
The impact of climate and management on recent mortality inPinus pinasterresin-tapped forests of inland Spain	7
Conflicts among ecosystem services may depend on environmental awareness: a multi-municipality analysis	6
Correction to: Relating soil moisture and Sentinel-2 vegetation index patterns to spruce bark beetle infestations prior to outbreak	6
Association between simple sequence repeat markers and tree height variation in Pinus yunnanensis	6
Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes from clonal eucalyptus forests in different spacing arrangements	6
Seventeen coniferous tree species show early promise for future commercial timber production in the UK	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
New insights toward the design of an effective trapping method for Coraebus undatus F. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)	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	6
Site index determination in young Norway spruce forests using branch whorls detected from mobile laser scanning data by deep learning	6
Tree detection and diameter estimation based on deep learning	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
Reducing tree volume overestimation in quantitative structure models using modeled branch topology and direct twig measurements	6
Comprehensive review and evaluation of whole stand volume yield models for the aspen forest type in Minnesota, USA	6
A method for identifying and segmenting branches of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees using terrestrial laser scanning	5
A remote sensing-guided forest inventory concept using multispectral 3D and height information from ZiYuan-3 satellite data	5
When economically optimal is ecologically complicated: modeling tree-by-tree cutting decisions to maximize financial returns from northern hardwood stands	5
Canopy and surface fuel estimations using RPAS and ground-based point clouds	5
Development of activity recognition models for mechanical fuel treatments using consumer-grade GNSS-RF devices and lidar	5
Contrasting Norway spruce disturbance dynamics in managed forests and strict forest reserves in Slovakia	5
Forest site classification and grading using mixed-variables clustering and nonlinear mixed-effects modeling based on forest inventory data	5
Trees and forests’ contribution to well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: how did people adapt to change?	5
Water-use strategies of Chinese fir to simulated precipitation change in a subtropical region	5
Optimizing forest residue management after harvesting: nutrient export scenarios in Eucalyptus plantations across high forest and coppice systems	4
The changing culture of silviculture	4
Close-to-nature management of tropical timber plantations is economically viable and provides biodiversity benefits	4
Nonresponse bias in change estimation: a national forest inventory example	4
Current and future wood availability: a simulation of interacting climate, land use, and management scenarios in Flanders, Belgium	4
Large-scale genetic structure of Quercus robur in its eastern distribution range enables assignment of unknown seed sources	4
Determinants of the relative abundance of rodents in landscapes dominated by Eucalyptus plantations	4
Growth and yield model comparisons for mid-rotation loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations in the southeastern US	4

Assessing heat stress tolerance in Castanea sativa	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
Can carbon emission trading policy promote forest carbon sink growth in China?	4
Genetic markers to enable selection of cork oak and holm oak trees tolerant to drought and Phytophthora cinnamomi	4
Detailed validation of large-scale Sentinel-2-based forest disturbance maps across Germany	4
Fire spread prediction models for surface fuels in subtropical forests of southern China	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
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	4
Tree belowground biomass in Congo Basin forests: allometric equations and scaling with aboveground biomass	4
Long-term study into the development of a plenter structure in a forest comprising a mix of European and north American species	4
Timber yield of commercial tree species in the eastern Brazilian Amazon based on 33 years of inventory data	4