OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Fire Ecology is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Fire regimes and management options in mixed grassland-fynbos vegetation, South Africa	100
Review of Fire ecology and management: past, present, and future of US forested ecosystems by Cathryn H. Greenberg and Beverly Collins (editors) and 75 contributing authors	89
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy	41
Impacts of a short-interval severe fire on forest structure and regeneration in a temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus forest	35
Five social and ethical considerations for using wildfire visualizations as a communication tool	30
Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States	29
Stand diversity increases pine resistance and resilience to compound disturbance	24
Effectiveness of pre-fire forest management on post-fire forest conditions in southeastern Arizona	23
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA	23
Plant-plant interactions influence post-fire recovery depending on fire history and nurse growth form	23
Fire frequency and severity mediate recruitment response of a threatened shrub following severe megafire	22
A tree-ring record of historical fire activity in a piedmont longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) woodland in North Carolina, USA	21
Ecosystem type and species’ traits help explain bird responses to spatial patterns of fire	19
Direct and indirect effects of fire on germination of shortleaf pine seeds	19
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	18
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	17
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	16
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room	15
Service-learning to improve training, knowledge transfer, and awareness in forest fire management	14
Extreme wildfire supersedes long-term fuel treatment influences on fuel and vegetation in chaparral ecosystems of northern California, USA	13
Principles of fire ecology	13
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network	12
New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation	12
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	12
Moisture and vegetation cover limit ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches in the southwestern US	12

Modeling fuel break effectiveness in southern Spain wildfires	11
Vegetation’s influence on fire behavior goes beyond just being fuel	11
Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers’ perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects	10
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	10
A framework for natural resource management with geospatial machine learning: a case study of the 2021 Almora forest fires	10
Prescribed burning mitigates the severity of subsequent wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands	10
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	10
Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval	9
Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers	9
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study	9
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California	9
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity	9
Correction: Frequent burning and limited stand‑replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy	8
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	8
Cheatgrass alters flammability of native perennial grasses in laboratory combustion experiments	8
Correction: Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	8
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	8
Correction: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds	8
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	8
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	8
How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?	7
Fire history and dendroecology of Catoctin Mountain, Maryland, USA, with newspaper corroboration	7
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes	7
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	7
Forest fire and law: an analysis of Turkish forest fire legislation based on Food and Agriculture Organization criteria	7
Blanket bog vegetation response to wildfire and drainage suggests resilience to low severity, infrequent burning	7
Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California	7
Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration	7
Understory community shifts in response to repeated fire and fire surrogate treatments in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA	7
Modeling fuel moisture dynamics under climate change in Spain’s forests	7
Wildfires alter stream ecosystem functioning through effects on leaf litter	7
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data	6
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes	6
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	6
The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana	6
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	6
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	6
Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas	5
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	5
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	5
Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather	5
3D imaging as a method of measuring serotiny	5
Taking the next step in wildfire education: integrating multiple knowledge forms into co-produced high school fire science curricula	5
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa	5
Predicting snag fall in an old-growth forest after fire	5
The effectiveness of past wildfire at limiting reburning is short-lived in a Mediterranean humid climate	5
Governing wildfire in a global change context: lessons from water management in the Netherlands	5
Fire severity and prolonged drought do not interact to reduce plant regeneration capacity but alter community composition in a Mediterranean shrubland	5
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	4
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	4

Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	4
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	4
System-level feedbacks of active fire regimes in large landscapes	4
North-facing aspects, shade objects, and microtopographic depressions promote the survival and growth of tree seedlings planted after wildfire	4
Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy	4
Forest fires and climate attributes interact in central Himalayas: an overview and assessment	4
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	4
Contribution of remote sensing to wildfire trend and dynamic analysis in two of Ghana’s ecological zones: Guinea-savanna and Forest-savanna mosaic	4
Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects	4
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research	4
Short-term drivers of post-fire forest regeneration in the Western Alps	4
Modeling spatial patterns of longleaf pine needle dispersal using long-term data	4
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	4
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	3
The legacy of fire: long-term changes to the forest understory from periodic burns in a New England oak-hickory forest	3
Frequent burning and limited stand-replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy	3
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	3
Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses	3
Retraction Note: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	3
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	3
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	3
Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada	3
Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain	3
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	3
Examining socioeconomic factors associated with wildfire occurrence and burned area in Galicia (Spain) using spatial and temporal data	3
Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA	3
The REBURN model: simulating system-level forest succession and wildfire dynamics	3
Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds	3
Response of vulnerable karst forest ecosystems under different fire severities in the Northern Dinaric Karst mountains (Slovenia)	3
Fire frequency effects on plant community characteristics in the Great Basin and Mojave deserts of North America	2
When do contemporary wildfires restore forest structures in the Sierra Nevada?	2
Indigenous use of fire in the paramo ecosystem of southern Ecuador: a case study using remote sensing methods and ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa Saraguro people	2
Landscape-scale fuel treatment effectiveness: lessons learned from wildland fire case studies in forests of the western United States and Great Lakes region	2
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	2
Operational fuel model map for Atlantic landscapes using ALS and Sentinel-2 images	2
Forest landowner values and perspectives of prescribed fire in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States	2
Large California wildfires: 2020 fires in historical context	2
Climate and humans interact to shape the fire regime of a chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) forest in eastern Bhutan	2
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	2
Retraction Note: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	2
Evaluating crown scorch predictions from a computational fluid dynamics wildland fire simulator	2
Overstory and fuel traits drive moisture dynamics of mesophytic and pyrophytic leaf litter and 10-h woody debris fuels in a mixed longleaf pine-hardwood woodland	2
What is the color when black is burned? Quantifying (re)burn severity using field and satellite remote sensing indices	2
Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States	2
Assessing changes in global fire regimes	2
Effects of recent wildfires on giant sequoia groves were anomalous at millennial timescales: a response to Hanson et al.	2
Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management	2
Fire-type heat increases the germination of Cistaceae seeds in contrast to summer heat	2
Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas	2
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	2
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	2
Bats and fire: a global review	2
A spatially explicit analytical framework to assess wildfire risks on brown bear habitat and corridors in conservation areas	2