OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Forest Research 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparing landscape partitioning approaches to protect wildlife habitat in managed forests	60
Contextualizing recent increases in Canadian boreal wildfire activity: decadal burn rates still within historical variability of the two past centuries	32
Evaluating the use of Ca/Sr and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios to track Ca sources in sugar maple in Ontario	31
Hydrological and nutrient regulation per occupation unit differ between structurally contrasting native and planted forests in the Northern Andes	28
Predicting distribution overlaps between Dendroctonus adjunctus Blandford 1897 and six Pinus species in Mexico under global climate change	25
The impact of rural labor migration on forestry input allocation: evidence from Guizhou Province, China	24
Correction: Recovery rates of white spruce and balsam fir on seismic lines in NW Alberta, Canada	23
Cumulative effects of biomass harvesting and herbicide application on litter-dwelling arthropod communities in jack pine-dominated forests: 7th year postharvest assessment	22
Rodent-mediated seed limitation affects woody seedling establishment more than invasive shrubs and downed woody debris	20
Do Azospirillum brasiliense and Chlorella sp. microalgae benefit the production of Hymenaea courbaril L. seedlings?	18
Diversity, phytosociological aspects, and indicator species of natural forests in Paraguay	18
Early stages of decay in Eucalyptus grandis trees inoculated with brown-rot fungi	15
Effects of cutting speed and feed per knife on energy requirements for processing black spruce logs with a chipper-canter	14
Whitebark pine persistence potential highly variable following disturbance in the Intermountain West, USA	13
Excluding deer browse increases stump sprouting success and height growth following regeneration harvests	13
Long-term (17-year) dynamics of herbaceous plant communities after shelterwood regeneration harvests in southern Appalachian cove- and upland hardwood forests	13
Six year efficacy of silvicultural treatments to control American beech regeneration in stands affected by beech bark disease in Ontario, Canada	12
Enhanced forest inventories in Canada: implementation, status, and research needs	12
Linking burn severity to pre-fire forest structure and weather on the Dixie fire offers potential to map prospective burn severity	12
Impact of single and combined soil amendments on the growth and foliar nutrients of white spruce (Picea glauca) on a poorly regenerated logged site	12
Age structure of saplings in canopy openings of mature longleaf pine woodlands	12
Correction: A data compilation and synthesis of the impacts of seismic surveys on surface soil properties in boreal Alberta, Canada	11
Citizen beliefs concerning wood as a construction material under extreme weather events	11
Seed coatings containing capsaicin reduce seed removal in temperate woody species	11
Can’t see the flowers for the trees: factors driving floral abundance within early-successional forests in the central Appalachian Mountains	11

Variable synchrony in insect outbreak cycling across a forest landscape gradient: multi-scale evidence from trembling aspen in Alberta	11
On the characterization of patterning in spruce budworm time-series data	11
Introduction to a celebration of Tim Fahey’s career and contributions to forest ecology	10
Defoliation level interacts with tree species and soil richness to determine volume increment reduction and recovery from simulated spruce budworm attack	10
Effect of tillage on soil mechanical parameters, fine root growth, and productivity of young Pinus taeda plantations	10
Effect of 3-year amendment measures on coastal saline–alkali soil conditions during the growing season	10
Effects of Ganoderma lucidum cultivation in forests on soil organic carbon pool and microbial community physiological profiles	10
How consistent are citizen science data sources, an exploratory study using free automated image recognition apps for woody plant identification	9
Global value chain participation, trade cost and benefits of timber industry	9
Fuzzy logic applied in the prospecting of suitable areas for the establishment of commercial forest plantations	9
Mapping old-growth forests using airborne lidar data and satellite images: how do plot size and rarity affect accuracy?	9
Sugar maple seedling regeneration of a natural cohort across a latitudinal gradient in New Hampshire	9
Optimal allocation model of forest fire detection towers in protected areas based on fire occurrence risk: Where and how to act?	9
A comparison of fast-growing maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton.) plantations with native broadleaved vegetation for greenhouse gas balances	8
Which factors influence consumers’ selection of wood as a building material for houses?	8
Trembling aspen biomass equations and carbon estimations for southern Saskatchewan copses	8
Forest restoration mitigates drought vulnerability of coast Douglas-fir in a Mediterranean climate	8
Melampsora larici-populina homologous effectors Mlp72983 and Mlp52166 display cell-type specific accumulation in Arabidopsis and Populus	8
The rapid expansion of Populus tremuloides due to anthropogenic disturbances in eastern Canada	8
Model-based small-area estimation with area-effects for sampled and non-sampled domains	8
Aboveground carbon stock of scarified black spruce stands—a 20-year study in boreal ecosystems	8
Ash population dynamics after two decades of Emerald Ash Borer infestations in Canada	8
Shifting balance between natural mortality and harvesting in forests of the northeastern USA	8
Modelling diameter at breast height distribution of jack pine and black spruce natural stands in eastern Canada	8
Modeling the distribution of hemlock woolly adelgid under several climate change scenarios	8
A decision support tool for forwarding operations with sequence-dependent loading	8
Mexican mixed-species forest shows resilience to high-intensity fire	7
Long-term effects of herbivory on tree growth are not consistent with browsing preferences	7
Fire regime changes in Canada: an update	7
Canopy Disturbance and Growth Dynamics of Carolina Hemlock Forests Infested with Hemlock Woolly Adelgid	7
Fungal community dynamics in coarse woody debris across decay stage, tree species, and stand development stage in northern boreal forests	7
Females as forest machine operators	7
Tree and stand characteristics associated with the occurrence of false heartwood in individual Japanese white birch trees	7
Evaluation of mobile laser scanning acquisition scenarios for automated wood volume estimation in a temperate hardwood forest using quantitative structural models	7
The vulnerability of Canadian forest-dependent communities to climate change: an indicator-based approach	7
Correction: Integrating the effects of climate change into long-term strategic forest management planning using a process-based stand model	7
Genome-Wide SNP Profiling Reveals Fine-scale Population Structure in Vitellaria paradoxa spp. paradoxa across the Guineo-Sahelian Eco-gradient	7
Residual canopy cover provides buffering of near-surface temperatures, but benefits are limited under extreme conditions	7
Fire, bugs, and logging: what the public thinks about forest disturbance and management in Canada	7
Development of tree recruitment models for 10 species groups in the sugar maple-dominated mixed forests of eastern Canada	7
A correction for serial nonindependence in mountain pine beetle aerial survey data to reduce overestimation of cumulative damage	6
The dynamics of a changing Lutz spruce (Picea × lutzii) hybrid zone on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska	6
Freeze–thaw events differently affect survival of seeds of two native and two invasive woody species	6
Biomass accumulation in trees and downed wood in northern hardwood forests: Repeated measures of a successional chronosequence in New Hampshire, USA	6
Complex network analysis of global forest products trade pattern	6
New perspectives on radial profiles of specific gravity in North American conifers	6
α-Pinene concentrations in bark tissue affect intra-specific variation in the susceptibility to vole gnawing of Japanese larch	6
Economics of strip harvesting in drained boreal peatland forests	6
Collection: Changing wildfire regimes, their impacts, and the path forward	6
Documenting forest juvenilization in high-elevation old-growth forests in southern inland British Columbia, with implications for the winter ecology of Canada’s endangered Deep-Snow Caribou	6

Species diversity assessment and aboveground biomass estimation of mangroves using remote sensing and field observations	6
CO₂ flux from Acer saccharum logs: sources of variation and the influence of silvicultural treatments	6
Light patterns align with successful Quercus and Carya regeneration but reveal continued challenges in managing dry-mesic southern Appalachian upland hardwood forests	6
Response of moose to forest harvest and management: a literature review	6
Comparing outbreak regimes of western spruce budworm at low- and high-elevation sites in Idaho using dendrochronology	6
Physical and mechanical properties affecting the suitability of black ash wood for W8banaki basketry	6
Spruce budworm defoliation patterns during outbreak rise are influenced by tree species, insecticide spraying, and spatial autocorrelation	6
Effects of tree stump treatments for reducing Armillaria root disease within conifer plantations of southeastern British Columbia	6
Understanding the diversity of objectives among women forest owners in Finland	6
Modeling stand fire probabilities with unobserved heterogeneity. Estimating stand age and climate change effects in Chilean radiata pine plantations	5
Building a high-resolution site index map using boosted regression trees: the Norwegian case	5
Aggregated retention protects trees against wind, but not against disease: a long-term study in mixed forests	5
Identifying (less) vulnerable forest structures to storms in different conifer-dominated European forest landscapes by simple spaceborne proxies	5
Cross-site comparison of ecosystem nutrient cycling in hardwood and conifer forests on contrasting soils	5
The role of uncertain forest data in a hierarchical forest planning setting with misaligned objectives	5
A quantitative approach to defining soil nutrient regimes within ecosystem classifications for Northwestern Ontario	5
Intensive management increases flexibility in managing wood supply	5
Economic impacts of climate change on forests: a PICUS–LANDIS–CGE modeling approach	5
Key omissions in caribou policy modelling: a reply to Yemshanov et al. (2025)	5
Genotype and environment interaction on the wood quality of Eucalyptus spp. for energy purposes	5
Approximating covariances between nested plot sizes in forest inventory	5
Thinning to meet sawlog objectives at shorter rotation in lodgepole pine stands	5
The influence of forestland tenure security on rural labor migration—further discussion based on migration location	5
Efficacy of prescribed fire as a fuel reduction treatment in the Colorado Front Range	5
Designing circular fixed-area plots in large-scale forest inventories: effect of horizontal distance measurement uncertainty and tree position pattern	5
Subalpine fir microsatellite variation reveals the complex relationship between var. lasiocarpa and var. bifolia	5
Assessing the influence of simulated ice storm-induced crown damage on nonstructural carbohydrates, wound closure, and radial growth of maple trees	5
Responses of needle terpene concentrations and characteristics of resin canals to different warming treatments in Scots pine and Norway spruce seedlings grown in a field experiment	5
Biodiversity implications of forest carbon payments	5
Monitoring seedling stands using national forest inventory and multispectral airborne laser scanning data	5
Vessel architecture as a potential factor in tree responses to early snowmelt: physiological trends across diffuse-porous and ring-porous species	5
Allometric options for predicting tropical tree height and crown area from stem diameter in Central Africa	5
Correction: Challenges and opportunities for the operationalization of forest-assisted migration in Canada	5
Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America	5
Anticipating potential wildfire size from fine fuel moisture content	5
Seasonal bird communities in Shelterwood harvests and unmanaged mature forest	5
Can climate variability and landscape position predict white pine blister rust incidence, mortality due to the disease, and regeneration in whitebark pine?	5
Populus deltoides is suitable for moist and short-term flooded soil conditions on the basis of its relative growth rate and stoichiometry	5
Long-term stability of northern hardwoods across a topographic gradient and variations in harvest methods	5
Soil savvy: how stable isotopes are shaping forest ecosystem management	5
Measuring ecological grief to guide inclusive urban forest management	4
Negative effects of belowground competition outweigh potential benefits of arbuscular mycorrhizal facilitation for seedling success in a managed temperate hardwood forest	4
Influence of aerially seeded Pinus massoniana plantations on soil quality in severely eroded and degraded land of subtropical China	4
Assessing and mitigating systematic errors in forest attribute maps utilizing harvester and airborne laser scanning data	4
AFFORESTATION AND MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE CARBON-CLIMATE SYSTEM	4
Small area estimators in a simulation test	4
Prescribed fire effects on understory woody plants and fuels in Quercus–Pinus mixedwoods	4
A bibliometric review of stakeholders' participation in sustainable forest management	4
Small area estimation of growing stock timber volume, basal area, mean stem diameter, and stem density for mountain forests in Austria	4
Correction: Precommercial thinning increased diameter growth while maintaining mixedwood stands composition, 15 years after treatment	4
A new approach for spatializing the Canadian National Forest Inventory (SCANFI) using Landsat dense time series	4
Effects of different nutrient compensation treatments following forest fuel extraction on biomass of young Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.)	4
Determining the effectiveness of using acoustic velocity as an indirect measurement of branchiness in standing longleaf pine	4
Tree stem volume estimation from terrestrial LiDAR point cloud by unwrapping	4
Nutrient ratios, foliar vector analysis, and nutrient use efficiency of four conifer stands growing under contrasting competing vegetation control treatments in the Pacific Northwest of the United Sta	4
Overlooked sources of methane emissions from trees: branches and wounds	4
Spatially detailed tree-ring analysis exposes widespread forest growth decline throughout Canada	4
Impact of the lunar nodal cycle on subalpine tree growth in the North American Cordillera	4
Cutting through market trends: the impact of macroeconomy, COVID-19 pandemic, and climate-related disasters costs on wood product prices in North America	4
Assessing the influence of climate on the growth of green ash trees from five Plant Hardiness Zones growing in a range-wide provenance test near the species’ northern range limit	4
Competition intensity varies with hardwood species identity and constrains stand-level productivity in southeastern pine–hardwood mixtures compared to loblolly pine monocultures	4
Absence of significant effect of nitrogen addition on soil respiration in a subtropical Chinese fir plantation	4
The impact of imported timber price fluctuations on the margins of wood forest product exports: empirical evidence from provincial-level data in China	4