OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Forest Ecology and Management is 43. 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
Devastating outbreak of bark beetles in the Czech Republic: Drivers, impacts, and management implications	163
The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe	131
The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review	127
Decomposition and transformations along the continuum from litter to soil organic matter in forest soils	114
Individual tree detection and species classification of Amazonian palms using UAV images and deep learning	113
Terrain gradient variations in ecosystem services of different vegetation types in mountainous regions: Vegetation resource conservation and sustainable development	105
Mechanisms of forest resilience	104
Forest fire susceptibility mapping via multi-criteria decision analysis techniques for Mugla, Turkey: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS	99
What is the potential for replacing monocultures with mixed-species stands to enhance ecosystem services in boreal forests in Fennoscandia?	95
Early detection of pine wilt disease using deep learning algorithms and UAV-based multispectral imagery	92
Application of conventional UAV-based high-throughput object detection to the early diagnosis of pine wilt disease by deep learning	82
Tamm review: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is both a determinant and a consequence of important processes in vegetation canopies	82
Remote sensing of temperate and boreal forest phenology: A review of progress, challenges and opportunities in the intercomparison of in-situ and satellite phenological metrics	68
Soil organic matter, nitrogen and pH driven change in bacterial community following forest conversion	67
Impacts of climate change scenarios on European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior L.) in Turkey	66
The importance of Indigenous cultural burning in forested regions of the Pacific West, USA	65
Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests	60
Tamm review: Does salvage logging mitigate subsequent forest disturbances?	58
Tamm review: The effects of prescribed fire on wildfire regimes and impacts: A framework for comparison	57
Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies	55
Variable thinning and prescribed fire influence tree mortality and growth during and after a severe drought	52
Forest thinning increases soil carbon stocks in China	52
Satellite evidence for China's leading role in restoring vegetation productivity over global karst ecosystems	52
Ecological restoration projects did not increase the value of all ecosystem services in Northeast China	52
Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States	50

Mass fire behavior created by extensive tree mortality and high tree density not predicted by operational fire behavior models in the southern Sierra Nevada	50
Functional traits indicate a continuum of tree drought strategies across a soil water availability gradient in a tropical dry forest	49
Biological control of emerging forest diseases: How can we move from dreams to reality?	49
Climate and large-sized trees, but not diversity, drive above-ground biomass in subtropical forests	47
Forests of the future: Climate change impacts and implications for carbon storage in the Pacific Northwest, USA	46
Irrigation management in poplar (Populus spp.) plantations: A review	45
The course of tree growth. Theory and reality	45
The negative effect of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) monoculture plantations on soil physicochemical properties, microbial biomass, fungal communities, and enzymatic activities	45
Effects of forest harvesting and biomass removal on soil carbon and nitrogen: Two complementary meta-analyses	45
Effects of different vegetation restoration on soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and microbial communities in degraded karst landscapes in southwest China	45
Dual inoculations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria boost drought resistance and essential oil yield of common myrtle	45
Litter manipulation effects on microbial communities and enzymatic activities vary with soil depth in a subtropical Chinese fir plantation	45
Mixing with broad-leaved trees shapes the rhizosphere soil fungal communities of coniferous tree species in subtropical forests	44
Mixed vs. monospecific mountain forests in response to climate change: structural and growth perspectives of Norway spruce and European beech	44
A global synthesis on the effects of thinning on hydrological processes: Implications for forest management	44
California spotted owl habitat selection in a fire-managed landscape suggests conservation benefit of restoring historical fire regimes	43
The effects of nitrogen addition on soil organic carbon decomposition and microbial C-degradation functional genes abundance in a Pinus tabulaeformis forest	43
Predicting potential mangrove distributions at the global northern distribution margin using an ecological niche model: Determining conservation and reforestation involvement	43
Nitrous oxide emissions of undrained, forestry-drained, and rewetted boreal peatlands	43
Stand structure determines aboveground biomass across temperate forest types and species mixture along a local-scale elevational gradient	43