OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Forest Ecology and Management is 41. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Devastating outbreak of bark beetles in the Czech Republic: Drivers, impacts, and management implications	152
The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe	121
The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review	106
Individual tree detection and species classification of Amazonian palms using UAV images and deep learning	105
Decomposition and transformations along the continuum from litter to soil organic matter in forest soils	102
Terrain gradient variations in ecosystem services of different vegetation types in mountainous regions: Vegetation resource conservation and sustainable development	101
Mechanisms of forest resilience	92
Forest fire susceptibility mapping via multi-criteria decision analysis techniques for Mugla, Turkey: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS	88
Early detection of pine wilt disease using deep learning algorithms and UAV-based multispectral imagery	84
What is the potential for replacing monocultures with mixed-species stands to enhance ecosystem services in boreal forests in Fennoscandia?	83
Application of conventional UAV-based high-throughput object detection to the early diagnosis of pine wilt disease by deep learning	77
Tamm review: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is both a determinant and a consequence of important processes in vegetation canopies	71
Economic valuation of ecosystem services from secondary tropical forests: trade-offs and implications for policy making	64
Impacts of climate change scenarios on European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior L.) in Turkey	63
Soil organic matter, nitrogen and pH driven change in bacterial community following forest conversion	63
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	61
Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests	59
The importance of Indigenous cultural burning in forested regions of the Pacific West, USA	56
Tamm review: Does salvage logging mitigate subsequent forest disturbances?	55
Tamm review: The effects of prescribed fire on wildfire regimes and impacts: A framework for comparison	53
Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies	52
Open forest ecosystems: An excluded state	50
Ecological restoration projects did not increase the value of all ecosystem services in Northeast China	50
Variable thinning and prescribed fire influence tree mortality and growth during and after a severe drought	49
Satellite evidence for China's leading role in restoring vegetation productivity over global karst ecosystems	48

Forest thinning increases soil carbon stocks in China	46
Change in forest condition: Characterizing non-stand replacing disturbances using time series satellite imagery	46
Functional traits indicate a continuum of tree drought strategies across a soil water availability gradient in a tropical dry forest	45
Biological control of emerging forest diseases: How can we move from dreams to reality?	45
Climate and large-sized trees, but not diversity, drive above-ground biomass in subtropical forests	45
Mass fire behavior created by extensive tree mortality and high tree density not predicted by operational fire behavior models in the southern Sierra Nevada	44
Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States	44
Impacts and uncertainties of climate change projections on Eucalyptus plantations productivity across Brazil	43
Fire from policy, human interventions, or biophysical factors? Temporal–spatial patterns of forest fire in southwestern China	43
Effects of forest harvesting and biomass removal on soil carbon and nitrogen: Two complementary meta-analyses	43
Litter manipulation effects on microbial communities and enzymatic activities vary with soil depth in a subtropical Chinese fir plantation	42
Forests of the future: Climate change impacts and implications for carbon storage in the Pacific Northwest, USA	42
A comparison of five methods to assess embolism resistance in trees	42
Mixed vs. monospecific mountain forests in response to climate change: structural and growth perspectives of Norway spruce and European beech	42
A global synthesis on the effects of thinning on hydrological processes: Implications for forest management	41
California spotted owl habitat selection in a fire-managed landscape suggests conservation benefit of restoring historical fire regimes	41
Nitrous oxide emissions of undrained, forestry-drained, and rewetted boreal peatlands	41
Mixing with broad-leaved trees shapes the rhizosphere soil fungal communities of coniferous tree species in subtropical forests	41