OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Fire Ecology is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	123
Moisture and vegetation cover limit ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches in the southwestern US	110
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	58
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	48
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	37
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data	36
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	35
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	34
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	34
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	32
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	30
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	29
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	27
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	24
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	24
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	22
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	22
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	21
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	19
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	18
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020	17
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	17
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States	16
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	16
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	16

Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	15
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage	15
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	13
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests	13
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	13
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	13
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region	12
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	12
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA	12
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds	12
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	11
Frequent burning in chir pine forests, Uttarakhand, India	11
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	11
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer	11
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	11
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum	11
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival	11
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	10
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	10
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	10
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	10
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	10
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	9
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	9
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	9
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	9
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	9
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	9
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	9
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	9
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	8
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama	8
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	8
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	8
Fuel load, stand structure, and understory species composition following prescribed fire in an old-growth coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forest	8
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions	8
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	8
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	8
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	8
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	8
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region	7
Large-scale wildfire reduces population growth in a peripheral population of sage-grouse	7
Climate influences on future fire severity: a synthesis of climate-fire interactions and impacts on fire regimes, high-severity fire, and forests in the western United States	7
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire	7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	7
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	7
Wind climate analysis for prescribed fire planning: case study of Tallahassee, Florida	6
A machine learning model to predict wildfire burn severity for pre-fire risk assessments, Utah, USA	6
Long-term recovery of Mexican spotted owl nesting habitat after fire in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico	6
Use of airborne LiDAR to predict fine dead fuel load in Mediterranean forest stands of Southern Europe	6

Causal impact of fire on a globally rare wetland plant: a 40-year Bayesian time series analysis	6
Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management	6
Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?	6
Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada	5
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	5
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA	5
Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration	5
Soil temperature and moisture near downed trees and log barriers 5 years after a wildfire	5
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy	5
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	5
Cheatgrass alters flammability of native perennial grasses in laboratory combustion experiments	5
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study	5
Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers	5
Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires	5
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity	5
Principles of fire ecology	5
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network	5
Disentangling the drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests of the Tibetan Plateau	5
Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy	4
The effectiveness of past wildfire at limiting reburning is short-lived in a Mediterranean humid climate	4
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research	4
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room	4
Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects	4
Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather	4
Dynamic correction of forest fire spread prediction using observation error covariance matrix estimation technique based on FLC-GRU	4
Plant community response to fuel break construction and goat grazing in a southern California shrubland	4
Retraction Note: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	4
Correction to: A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire	4
Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain	4
Taking the next step in wildfire education: integrating multiple knowledge forms into co-produced high school fire science curricula	4
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes	4
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California	4
Effects of fire season on flowering phenology in a pine savanna	4
Prescribed fire promotes colonization by the Florida bog frog	4
Midwest prairie management practices benefit the non-target prairie crayfish	4
Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States	4
Fire-type heat increases the germination of Cistaceae seeds in contrast to summer heat	4
The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana	4
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa	4
Predicting snag fall in an old-growth forest after fire	4
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes	4
3D imaging as a method of measuring serotiny	4
Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA	4
Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades	4
Short-term vegetation responses to the first prescribed burn in an urban pine rockland preserve	4
Assessment of the surface forest fuel load in the Ukrainian Polissia	4
Forest landowner values and perspectives of prescribed fire in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States	4
Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes	3
Impacts of a single fire event on large, old trees in a grass-invaded arid river system	3
Fire, land cover, and temperature drivers of bat activity in winter	3
Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire	3
Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration	3
Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America	3
Reliability of fire danger forecasts for Czech agricultural and forestry landscapes	3
Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem	3
The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes	3
A fast spectral recovery does not necessarily indicate post-fire forest recovery	3
The scientific value of fire in wilderness	3
Private landowner interest in prescribed fire in California: findings from workshops in the Sierra Nevada	3