OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Forest Research is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Fifty years of wildland fire science in Canada	39
Recent evidence of Mexican temperate forest decline and the need for ex situ conservation, assisted migration, and translocation of species ensembles as adaptive management to face projected climatic	33
Tree establishment and growth drive treeline advance and change treeline form on Pikes Peak (Colorado) in response to recent anthropogenic warming	32
Evidence of elevation-specific growth changes of spruce, fir, and beech in European mixed mountain forests during the last three centuries	32
From comprehensive field inventories to remotely sensed wall-to-wall stand attribute data — a brief history of management inventories in the Nordic countries	31
Evolution, history, and use of stem taper equations: a review of their development, application, and implementation	30
Influence of topography and fuels on fire refugia probability under varying fire weather conditions in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA	28
National mapping and estimation of forest area by dominant tree species using Sentinel-2 data	28
Pan-European sustainable forest management indicators for assessing Climate-Smart Forestry in Europe	27
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-based canopy height modeling under leaf-on and leaf-off conditions for determining tree height and crown diameter (case study: Hyrcanian mixed forest)	26
Building on the last “new” thing: exploring the compatibility of ecological and adaptation silviculture	26
Natural recovery of skid trails: a review	26
A new generation of sensors and monitoring tools to support climate-smart forestry practices	24
The development and implementation of a human-caused wildland fire occurrence prediction system for the province of Ontario, Canada	24
Trends in studies of edge influence on vegetation at human-created and natural forest edges across time and space	23
Trends in wildfire burn severity across Canada, 1985 to 2015	22
Mixedwood silviculture in North America: the science and art of managing for complex, multi-species temperate forests	21
Citizen views on wood as a construction material: results from seven European countries	20
Exposure of the Canadian wildland–human interface and population to wildland fire, under current and future climate conditions	20
Profitability of continuous-cover forestry in Norway spruce dominated peatland forest and the role of water table	19
Spatial optimization of ground-based primary extraction routes using the BestWay decision support system	19
Optimizing continuous cover and rotation forestry in mixed-species boreal forests	19
Reinforcement learning in optimizing forest management	18
Detection of wood decay and cavities in living trees: a review	17
Tree regeneration on industrial linear disturbances in treed peatlands is hastened by wildfire and delayed by loss of microtopography	16

Remotely piloted aircraft systems and forests: a global state of the art and future challenges	16
Paradigm shifts in forestry and forest research: a bibliometric analysis	15
Water budget fluxes in catchments under grassland and Eucalyptus plantations of different ages	15
Mitigating post-fire regeneration failure in boreal landscapes with reforestation and variable retention harvesting: At what cost?	15
Stand density, drought, and herbivory constrain ponderosa pine regeneration pulse	14
The interactive effect of competition and climate on growth of boreal tree species in western Canada and Alaska	14
Stand density management diagrams: modelling approaches, variants, and exemplification of their potential utility in crop planning	14
Reforestation policy has constrained options for managing risks on public forests	14
Potential for individual tree monitoring in ponderosa pine dominated forests using unmanned aerial system structure from motion point clouds	13
Post-fire early successional vegetation buffers surface microclimate and increases survival of planted conifer seedlings in the southwestern United States	13
Individual-based dendrogenomic analysis of forest dieback driven by extreme droughts	13
Importance of considering the growth response after partial harvesting and economic risk of discounted net revenues when optimizing uneven-aged forest management	13
Public and forest landowner attitudes towards longleaf pine ecosystem restoration using prescribed fire	13
Understory plant diversity and composition across a postfire tree density gradient in a Siberian Arctic boreal forest	12
Understanding compositional stability in mixedwood forests of eastern North America	12
Disturbing to restore? Effects of mounding on understory communities on seismic lines in treed peatlands	12
On the use of the Weibull distribution in modeling and describing diameter distributions of clonal eucalypt stands	12
Forest bioenergy harvesting changes carbon balance and risks biodiversity in boreal forest landscapes	12
Pyrosilviculture: Combining prescribed fire with gap-based silviculture in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada	11
Continuous-cover management and attractiveness of managed Scots pine forests	11
Biorefinery potential ofEucalyptus grandisto produce phenolic compounds and biogas	11
Foliar sampling with an unmanned aerial system (UAS) reveals spectral and functional trait differences within tree crowns	11
Positive response of tree productivity to warming is reversed by increased tree density at the Arctic tundra–taiga ecotone	10
Early avian functional assemblages after fire, clearcutting, and post-fire salvage logging in North American forests	10
Effects of numbers of observations and predictors for various model types on the performance of forest inventory with airborne laser scanning	10
Non-uniform growth dynamics of a dominant boreal tree species (Picea mariana) in the face of rapid climate change	10
Conflicting portrayals of remaining old growth: the British Columbia case	10
Water relations and drought response of Pinus strobiformis	10
Untapped potential? Attitudes and behaviours of forestry employers toward the Indigenous workforce in Quebec, Canada	9
Climate change experiment suggests divergent responses of tree seedlings in eastern North America’s Acadian Forest Region over the 21st century	9
Incorporating stand density effects in modeling the taper of red pine plantations	9
Spatial and competition models increase the progeny testing efficiency of Japanese larch	9
Modeling of tree height–diameter relationships in the Atlantic Forest: effect of forest type on tree allometry	9
Riparian forest conditions along three northern Michigan rivers following Emerald Ash Borer invasion	9
Historical roots and the evolving science of forest management under a systemic perspective	9
Airborne laser scanning for quantifying criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management in Canada	9
Soil moisture strongly limits Douglas-fir seedling establishment near its upper elevational limit in the southern Rocky Mountains	9
Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America	9
Relative conservation value of Nova Scotia’s forests: forested wetlands as avian diversity hotspots	9
Improving living biomass C-stock loss estimates by combining optical satellite, airborne laser scanning, and NFI data	9
Stand density biases the estimation of the site index especially on dry sites	9
Evaluating fire management effectiveness with a burn probability model in Daxing’anling, China	9
Applying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to map shrubland structural attributes in northern Patagonia, Argentina	9
Dynamics of fine-root production and mortality of Scots pine in waterlogged peat soil during the growing season	8
Integrating forest restoration, adaptation, and proactive fire management: Rogue River Basin case study	8
Bumble bee (Bombus spp.) diversity differs between forested wetlands and clearcuts in the Acadian forest	8
Monitoring genetic diversity acrossPinus tabuliformisseed orchard generations using SSR markers	8
Pedunculate oak decline in southern Belgium: a long-term process highlighting the complex interplay among drought, winter frost, biotic attacks, and masting	8
Precision of exogenous post-stratification in small-area estimation based on a continuous national forest inventory	8
Variation in seedling budburst phenology and structural traits among southwestern ponderosa pine provenances	8

Mixtures of airborne lidar-based approaches improve predictions of forest structure	8
Evaluation of the mixed-effects model and quantile regression approaches for predicting tree height in larch (Larix olgensis) plantations in northeastern China	8
Growth and mortality response of forest regeneration to partial harvesting varies by species’ shade tolerance	8
The role of temperate treed swamps as a carbon sink in southwestern Nova Scotia	8
Long-term evolution of composition and structure after repeated group selection over eight decades	8
Repeated thinning treatments reduce long-term soil carbon and nitrogen storage: an 87-year study at the Petawawa Research Forest, Canada	8
Managing plantation density through initial spacing and commercial thinning: yield results from a 60-year-old red pine spacing trial experiment	7
Synchronized movement between US lumber futures and southern pine sawtimber prices and COVID-19 impacts	7
The effects of variable retention forestry on coarse woody debris dynamics and concomitant impacts on American marten habitat after 27 years	7
Integration of small RNAs, degradome, and transcriptome sequencing in Populus × euramericana “Neva” provides insights into the allelopathic interference of para-hydroxybenzoic aci	7
Contemporary status, distribution, and trends of mixedwoods in the northern United States	7
Biochar effects on germination and radicle extension in temperate tree seedlings under field conditions	7
Responses of evapotranspiration to droughts across global forests: a systematic assessment	7
Fragmentation dynamics in an Abies religiosa forest of central Mexico	7
Optimized locations of landings in forest operations	7
Secondary invasion? Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) induced ash (Fraxinus spp.) mortality interacts with ecological integrity to facilitate European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathart	7
Synthesis towards Future-Fittest for mature forest sector multinationals	7
Development of the Ontario Forest Resources Inventory: a historical review	7
Delayed effect of drought on xylem vulnerability to embolism in Fagus sylvatica	7
Initial productivity and genetic parameters of three Corymbia species in Brazil: designing a breeding strategy	7
Boreal peatland forests: ditch network maintenance effort and water protection in a forest rotation framework	7
Effect of biochar amendment on the properties of growing media and growth of containerized Norway spruce, Scots pine, and silver birch seedlings	7
Public engagement in forest governance in Canada: whose values are being represented anyway?	7
Persistent impact of conventional seismic lines on boreal vegetation structure following wildfire	7
A collaborative typology of boreal Indigenous landscapes	7
What factors should be accounted for when developing a generalized taper function for black wattle trees?	6
Inconsistent effects of nitrogen canopy enrichment and soil warming on black spruce epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities, taxa, and functions	6
Intraspecific variation in the relationship between weather and masting behavior in valley oak, Quercus lobata	6
Generalized additive models reveal among-stand variation in live tree biomass equations	6
Digital soil mapping workflow for forest resource applications: a case study in the Hearst Forest, Ontario	6
Effects of overstory competition on canopy recruitment patterns of naturally regenerated longleaf pine on two site types	6
Comparison of time-based versus state–space stand growth models for tropical hybrid Eucalyptus clonal plantations in Sumatera, Indonesia	6
Unsupervised algorithms to detect single trees in a mixed-species and multilayered Mediterranean forest using LiDAR data	6
Improving estimation of forest aboveground biomass using Landsat 8 imagery by incorporating forest crown density as a dummy variable	6
Field calibration of merchantable and sawlog volumes in forest inventories based on airborne laser scanning	6
Can uneven-aged management improve the economic performance of longleaf pine?	6
Prediction and model-assisted estimation of diameter distributions using Norwegian national forest inventory and airborne laser scanning data	6
Enhancing plant quality and outplanting growth ofAcacia auriculiformisin dry wasteland plantations by inoculating a selected microbial consortium in the nursery	6
Sapling growth dynamics after partial cutting in temperate mixedwood stands	6
Reduction in local white-tailed deer abundance allows the positive response of northern white cedar regeneration to gap dynamics	6
Factors affecting post-fire regeneration after coppicing of cork oak (Quercus suber) trees in northeastern Algeria	6
A flexible approach for predicting and mapping postfire wood borer attacks in black spruce and jack pine forests using the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR)	6
Real-time monitoring of deadwood moisture in forests: lessons learned from an intensive case study	6
Localwasbest: sourcing tree seed for future climates	6
Effects of overstory tree density, site preparation, and ground vegetation on natural Scots pine seedling emergence and survival in northern boreal pine forests	6
Increasing ground-layer plant taxonomic diversity masks declining phylogenetic diversity along a silvicultural disturbance gradient	5
Spider assemblage structure and functional diversity patterns in clear-cut, logged, and undisturbed areas in a large Atlantic Forest remnant	5
Partitioning and solving large-scale tactical harvest scheduling problems for industrial plantation forests	5
How mounds are made matters: seismic line restoration techniques affect peat physical and chemical properties throughout the peat profile	5
Productivity of coastal Douglas-fir and western redcedar in response to species mixture, planting density, and soil carbon:nitrogen ratio	5
Radiative forcing of forest biomass production and use under different thinning regimes and initial age structures of a Norway spruce forest landscape	5
Mixedwood management positively affects forest health during insect infestations in eastern North America¹	5
Harmonizing multi-temporal airborne laser scanning point clouds to derive periodic annual height increments in temperate mixedwood forests	5
Mechanical response of the real tree root architecture under lateral load	5
Effects of simulated acid rain on the photosynthetic physiology of Acer ginnala seedlings	5
Successional change, restoration success, and resilience in boreal mixedwood vegetation communities over three decades	5
Effects of two-year weather exposure on thermally modifiedPicea abies,Pinus sylvestris, andFraxinus excelsiorwood	5
The effect of buffer strip width and selective logging on streamside polypore communities	5
The rapid expansion of Populus tremuloides due to anthropogenic disturbances in eastern Canada	5
Crown structure of European beech (Fagus sylvatica): a noncausal proxy for mechanical–physical wood properties	5
Lifeboat or sinking ship: will the size and shape of Old-Growth Management Areas provide viable future habitat for temperate rainforest lichens?	5
Can’t see the flowers for the trees: factors driving floral abundance within early-successional forests in the central Appalachian Mountains	5
Spatial patterns of vegetation structure and structural diversity across edges between forested wetlands and upland forest in Atlantic Canada	5
Effects of helix angle and feed per knife on cutting forces, noise, and power consumption produced during helical planing of sugar maple wood	5
Estimation of periodic annual increment of tree ring widths by airborne laser scanning	5
Crown structural properties, wood density, and liana load: influence on growth and mortality in subtropical forests	5
Differences in stem taper of black alder (Alnus glutinosa subsp. barbata) by origin	5
Predicting stand attributes of loblolly pine in West Gulf Coastal Plain using gradient boosting and random forests	5
The impact of forest science in Chile: history, contribution, and challenges	5
Trace metal biogeochemical responses following wood ash addition in a northern hardwood forest	5
Effect of gap size on composition and structure of regeneration 19 years after harvest in a southeastern bottomland forest, USA	5
Dynamic treatment units in forest planning using cell proximity	5
Changes in light spectra modify secondary compound concentrations and BVOC emissions of Norway spruce seedlings	5