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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Fifty years of wildland fire science in Canada	50
Evolution, history, and use of stem taper equations: a review of their development, application, and implementation	41
National mapping and estimation of forest area by dominant tree species using Sentinel-2 data	40
From comprehensive field inventories to remotely sensed wall-to-wall stand attribute data — a brief history of management inventories in the Nordic countries	37
Pan-European sustainable forest management indicators for assessing Climate-Smart Forestry in Europe	36
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)	35
Natural recovery of skid trails: a review	34
Tree establishment and growth drive treeline advance and change treeline form on Pikes Peak (Colorado) in response to recent anthropogenic warming	34
Building on the last “new” thing: exploring the compatibility of ecological and adaptation silviculture	34
A new generation of sensors and monitoring tools to support climate-smart forestry practices	31
The development and implementation of a human-caused wildland fire occurrence prediction system for the province of Ontario, Canada	29
Trends in wildfire burn severity across Canada, 1985 to 2015	27
Trends in studies of edge influence on vegetation at human-created and natural forest edges across time and space	27
Exposure of the Canadian wildland–human interface and population to wildland fire, under current and future climate conditions	26
Citizen views on wood as a construction material: results from seven European countries	25
Mixedwood silviculture in North America: the science and art of managing for complex, multi-species temperate forests	23
Mitigating post-fire regeneration failure in boreal landscapes with reforestation and variable retention harvesting: At what cost?	22
Post-fire early successional vegetation buffers surface microclimate and increases survival of planted conifer seedlings in the southwestern United States	22
Spatial optimization of ground-based primary extraction routes using the BestWay decision support system	22
Profitability of continuous-cover forestry in Norway spruce dominated peatland forest and the role of water table	22
Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America	22
Reinforcement learning in optimizing forest management	21
Detection of wood decay and cavities in living trees: a review	20
Optimizing continuous cover and rotation forestry in mixed-species boreal forests	19
Water budget fluxes in catchments under grassland and Eucalyptus plantations of different ages	18

Paradigm shifts in forestry and forest research: a bibliometric analysis	17
Individual-based dendrogenomic analysis of forest dieback driven by extreme droughts	17
Stand density management diagrams: modelling approaches, variants, and exemplification of their potential utility in crop planning	17
Airborne laser scanning for quantifying criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management in Canada	16
Understory plant diversity and composition across a postfire tree density gradient in a Siberian Arctic boreal forest	16
Pyrosilviculture: Combining prescribed fire with gap-based silviculture in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada	16
Forest bioenergy harvesting changes carbon balance and risks biodiversity in boreal forest landscapes	16
Understanding compositional stability in mixedwood forests of eastern North America	15
Potential for individual tree monitoring in ponderosa pine dominated forests using unmanned aerial system structure from motion point clouds	14
Positive response of tree productivity to warming is reversed by increased tree density at the Arctic tundra–taiga ecotone	14
Disturbing to restore? Effects of mounding on understory communities on seismic lines in treed peatlands	12
Biorefinery potential ofEucalyptus grandisto produce phenolic compounds and biogas	12
Harmonizing multi-temporal airborne laser scanning point clouds to derive periodic annual height increments in temperate mixedwood forests	12
Historical roots and the evolving science of forest management under a systemic perspective	12
Modeling of tree height–diameter relationships in the Atlantic Forest: effect of forest type on tree allometry	12
Conflicting portrayals of remaining old growth: the British Columbia case	11
Non-uniform growth dynamics of a dominant boreal tree species (Picea mariana) in the face of rapid climate change	11
Effects of numbers of observations and predictors for various model types on the performance of forest inventory with airborne laser scanning	11
Climate change experiment suggests divergent responses of tree seedlings in eastern North America’s Acadian Forest Region over the 21st century	10
Dynamic treatment units in forest planning using cell proximity	10
Repeated thinning treatments reduce long-term soil carbon and nitrogen storage: an 87-year study at the Petawawa Research Forest, Canada	10
Relative conservation value of Nova Scotia’s forests: forested wetlands as avian diversity hotspots	10
Improving living biomass C-stock loss estimates by combining optical satellite, airborne laser scanning, and NFI data	10
Development of the Ontario Forest Resources Inventory: a historical review	10
Early avian functional assemblages after fire, clearcutting, and post-fire salvage logging in North American forests	10
Unsupervised algorithms to detect single trees in a mixed-species and multilayered Mediterranean forest using LiDAR data	10
The role of temperate treed swamps as a carbon sink in southwestern Nova Scotia	10
Responses of evapotranspiration to droughts across global forests: a systematic assessment	10
Spatial and competition models increase the progeny testing efficiency of Japanese larch	9
Mixtures of airborne lidar-based approaches improve predictions of forest structure	9
Public engagement in forest governance in Canada: whose values are being represented anyway?	9
Bumble bee (Bombus spp.) diversity differs between forested wetlands and clearcuts in the Acadian forest	9
Managing plantation density through initial spacing and commercial thinning: yield results from a 60-year-old red pine spacing trial experiment	9
A collaborative typology of boreal Indigenous landscapes	9
Long-term evolution of composition and structure after repeated group selection over eight decades	9
Initial productivity and genetic parameters of three Corymbia species in Brazil: designing a breeding strategy	9
Evaluation of the mixed-effects model and quantile regression approaches for predicting tree height in larch (Larix olgensis) plantations in northeastern China	9
Integrating forest restoration, adaptation, and proactive fire management: Rogue River Basin case study	9
Effect of biochar amendment on the properties of growing media and growth of containerized Norway spruce, Scots pine, and silver birch seedlings	8
Forest restoration mitigates drought vulnerability of coast Douglas-fir in a Mediterranean climate	8
Biochar effects on germination and radicle extension in temperate tree seedlings under field conditions	8
Stand density biases the estimation of the site index especially on dry sites	8
Log landings are methane emission hotspots in managed forests	8
Secondary invasion? Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) induced ash (Fraxinus spp.) mortality interacts with ecological integrity to facilitate European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathart	8
Inconsistent effects of nitrogen canopy enrichment and soil warming on black spruce epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities, taxa, and functions	8
Synchronized movement between US lumber futures and southern pine sawtimber prices and COVID-19 impacts	8
Prediction and model-assisted estimation of diameter distributions using Norwegian national forest inventory and airborne laser scanning data	8
Optimized locations of landings in forest operations	8
Sapling growth dynamics after partial cutting in temperate mixedwood stands	8
The impact of forest science in Chile: history, contribution, and challenges	8

Monitoring genetic diversity acrossPinus tabuliformisseed orchard generations using SSR markers	8
Localwasbest: sourcing tree seed for future climates	8
Radial patterns of specific gravity variation in North American conifers	7
Mixedwood management positively affects forest health during insect infestations in eastern North America¹	7
Effect of gap size on composition and structure of regeneration 19 years after harvest in a southeastern bottomland forest, USA	7
Delayed effect of drought on xylem vulnerability to embolism in Fagus sylvatica	7
Reduction in local white-tailed deer abundance allows the positive response of northern white cedar regeneration to gap dynamics	7
The rapid expansion of Populus tremuloides due to anthropogenic disturbances in eastern Canada	7
Can uneven-aged management improve the economic performance of longleaf pine?	7
Real-time monitoring of deadwood moisture in forests: lessons learned from an intensive case study	7
Synthesis towards Future-Fittest for mature forest sector multinationals	7
Productivity of coastal Douglas-fir and western redcedar in response to species mixture, planting density, and soil carbon:nitrogen ratio	7
Leaf litter dynamics in Western Black Sea mountainous forest ecosystems	7
Contemporary status, distribution, and trends of mixedwoods in the northern United States	7
Persistent impact of conventional seismic lines on boreal vegetation structure following wildfire	7
A regional integrated assessment of the impacts of climate change and of the potential adaptation avenues for Quebec's forests	7
Field calibration of merchantable and sawlog volumes in forest inventories based on airborne laser scanning	6
Deriving a tree growth model from any existing stand growth model	6
Crown structure of European beech (Fagus sylvatica): a noncausal proxy for mechanical–physical wood properties	6
Seeds of change? Seed transfer governance in British Columbia: insights from history	6
Warm, dry conditions inhibit aspen growth, but tree growth and size predict mortality risk in the southwestern United States	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
Increased leaf area compensated photosynthetic downregulation in response to elevated CO₂ and warming in white birch	6
Effects of two-year weather exposure on thermally modifiedPicea abies,Pinus sylvestris, andFraxinus excelsiorwood	6
Predicting stand attributes of loblolly pine in West Gulf Coastal Plain using gradient boosting and random forests	6
Overlooked sources of methane emissions from trees: branches and wounds	6
Interaction of elevation and climate change on fire weather risk	6
Trace metal biogeochemical responses following wood ash addition in a northern hardwood forest	6
Can’t see the flowers for the trees: factors driving floral abundance within early-successional forests in the central Appalachian Mountains	6
Microbial soil biodiversity in beech forests of European mountains	6
Comparison of time-based versus state–space stand growth models for tropical hybrid Eucalyptus clonal plantations in Sumatera, Indonesia	6
Soil erodibility in European mountain beech forests	6
Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981 to 2018	6
Eastern white pine and eastern hemlock growth: possible tradeoffs in response of canopy trees to climate	6
Intraspecific variation in the relationship between weather and masting behavior in valley oak, Quercus lobata	6
Accuracy in estimating basal areas for forest inventories: comparison of Android-based virtual relascope and Spiegel Relaskop	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
Increasing ground-layer plant taxonomic diversity masks declining phylogenetic diversity along a silvicultural disturbance gradient	6
Successional change, restoration success, and resilience in boreal mixedwood vegetation communities over three decades	6
How mounds are made matters: seismic line restoration techniques affect peat physical and chemical properties throughout the peat profile	6
What factors should be accounted for when developing a generalized taper function for black wattle trees?	6
Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of Scots pine seeds and the assessment of germination potential	5
Biomass procurement in boreal forests affected by spruce budworm: effects on regeneration, costs, and carbon balance	5
Bacterial community of reindeer lichens differs between northern and southern lichen woodlands	5
Building a high-resolution site index map using boosted regression trees: the Norwegian case	5
Understory plant communities fail to recover species diversity after excluding deer for nearly 20 years	5
Changes in light spectra modify secondary compound concentrations and BVOC emissions of Norway spruce seedlings	5
Citizen beliefs concerning wood as a construction material under extreme weather events	5
Predicting and calibrating height to crown base: a case for Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii Rupr.) in Northeastern China	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
Afforesting Icelandic land: A promising approach for climate-smart forestry?	5
Reflections on the contributions of Populus research at Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA	5
Modeling the number of the first- and second-order branches within the live tree crown of Korean larch plantations in Northeast China	5
Spread of Heterobasidion genotypes in Norway spruce stands on drained peat soil in Latvia	5
Economics of forest bioeconomy: new results	5
Deer browsing effects on temperate forest soil nitrogen cycling shift from positive to negative across fertility gradients	5
Thinning to meet sawlog objectives at shorter rotation in lodgepole pine stands	5
Effects of simulated acid rain on the photosynthetic physiology of Acer ginnala seedlings	5
Wood density variation in naturally regenerated stands of Pinus ponderosa in northern Arizona, USA	5
Development of tree recruitment models for 10 species groups in the sugar maple-dominated mixed forests of eastern Canada	5
Local characteristics of the standing genetic diversity of European beech with high within-region differentiation at the eastern part of the range	5
Beyond oak regeneration: modelling mesophytic sapling density drivers along topographic, edaphic, and stand-structural gradients in mature oak-dominated forests of Appalachian Ohio	5
Development and performance of timber REITs in the United States: a review and some prospects	5
Root adaptations of black spruce growing in water-saturated soil	5
Crop tree release increased the density of soil nematodes and improved the food web structure	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
Key factors influencing productivity of whole-tree ground-based felling equipment commonly used in the Pacific Northwest	5
A financial analysis of four carbon offset accounting protocols for a representative afforestation project (southern Ontario, Canada)	5
Radial growth decline of white spruce (Picea glauca) during hot summers without drought: preliminary results from a study site south of a boreal forest border	5