Fire Ecology

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia155
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data79
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk62
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems58
Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other45
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data44
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA43
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades43
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA41
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree40
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection40
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 201734
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework33
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)31
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction30
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire30
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub25
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests24
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China23
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method21
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts20
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 woodland20
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States18
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 202018
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage18
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin17
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives17
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA16
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review16
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change16
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests16
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal16
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds15
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region15
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests14
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer14
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review14
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA14
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival14
Wildfire risk perception survey: insights from local communities in Tuscany, Italy13
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja13
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum13
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative13
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes12
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam12
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction12
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters11
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA11
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration11
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan11
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees11
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.11
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA11
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)10
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 people10
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters10
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia10
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China10
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae10
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas10
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling9
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity9
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 States9
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience9
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama9
Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands9
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis9
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices9
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire9
Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada8
Causal impact of fire on a globally rare wetland plant: a 40-year Bayesian time series analysis8
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region8
Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?8
Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires8
Wind climate analysis for prescribed fire planning: case study of Tallahassee, Florida8
Disentangling the drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests of the Tibetan Plateau8
A machine learning model to predict wildfire burn severity for pre-fire risk assessments, Utah, USA8
Soil temperature and moisture near downed trees and log barriers 5 years after a wildfire8
Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management8
Long-term recovery of Mexican spotted owl nesting habitat after fire in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico8
Fire severity shows limited dependence on fuel structure under adverse fire weather conditions: a case study of two extreme wildfire events7
Effects of fire season on flowering phenology in a pine savanna7
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California7
Use of airborne LiDAR to predict fine dead fuel load in Mediterranean forest stands of Southern Europe7
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA7
Principles of fire ecology7
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications7
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire7
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study7
Cheatgrass alters flammability of native perennial grasses in laboratory combustion experiments7
Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers7
Characterising land cover—wildfire interactions in Catalonia and their implications for resilience7
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room6
Taking the next step in wildfire education: integrating multiple knowledge forms into co-produced high school fire science curricula6
Predicting snag fall in an old-growth forest after fire6
The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana6
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity6
Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects6
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa6
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research6
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network6
3D imaging as a method of measuring serotiny6
Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration6
The effectiveness of past wildfire at limiting reburning is short-lived in a Mediterranean humid climate6
Forest landowner values and perspectives of prescribed fire in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States5
Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy5
Assessment of the surface forest fuel load in the Ukrainian Polissia5
Fire-type heat increases the germination of Cistaceae seeds in contrast to summer heat5
Dynamic correction of forest fire spread prediction using observation error covariance matrix estimation technique based on FLC-GRU5
The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes5
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes5
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes5
Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States5
Short-term vegetation responses to the first prescribed burn in an urban pine rockland preserve5
Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades5
Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA5
Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain5
Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather5
Retraction Note: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications5
Midwest prairie management practices benefit the non-target prairie crayfish5
Prescribed fire promotes colonization by the Florida bog frog5
Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes4
Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America4
Correction: Has the tortoise scale exacerbated fire severity in Mediterranean stone pine forests?4
Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau4
A fast spectral recovery does not necessarily indicate post-fire forest recovery4
Private landowner interest in prescribed fire in California: findings from workshops in the Sierra Nevada4
The scientific value of fire in wilderness4
Interpreting the shifts in forest structure, plant community composition, diversity, and functional identity by using remote sensing-derived wildfire severity4
Reliability of fire danger forecasts for Czech agricultural and forestry landscapes4
Plant community response to fuel break construction and goat grazing in a southern California shrubland4
Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration4
Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem4
Correction: Frequent burning and limited stand‑replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy3
Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity3
Spatial and temporal drivers of post-fire tree establishment and height growth in a managed forest landscape3
Prescribed burning mitigates the severity of subsequent wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands3
Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds3
System-level feedbacks of active fire regimes in large landscapes3
Stand diversity increases pine resistance and resilience to compound disturbance3
A framework for natural resource management with geospatial machine learning: a case study of the 2021 Almora forest fires3
Ecological trade-offs associated with fuel breaks in sagebrush ecosystems3
Impacts of a single fire event on large, old trees in a grass-invaded arid river system3
Extreme wildfire supersedes long-term fuel treatment influences on fuel and vegetation in chaparral ecosystems of northern California, USA3
Multi-scale assessment of wildfire use on carbon stocks in the Sierra Nevada, CA3
Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval3
Modeling fuel moisture dynamics under climate change in Spain’s forests3
The REBURN model: simulating system-level forest succession and wildfire dynamics3
Direct and indirect effects of fire on germination of shortleaf pine seeds3
Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire3
Plant-plant interactions influence post-fire recovery depending on fire history and nurse growth form3
Fire history and vegetation data reveal ecological benefits of recent mixed-severity fires in the Cumberland Mountains, West Virginia, USA3
How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?3
Short-term drivers of post-fire forest regeneration in the Western Alps3
Topographic conditions dominate tree species recovery over 15 years post-fire in a temperate Pinus sylvestris forest3
Lightning ignition efficiency in Canadian forests3
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