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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda	101
Large California wildfires: 2020 fires in historical context	73
Changes to the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program mapping production procedures and data products	53
Forest fire and smoke detection using deep learning-based learning without forgetting	34
Restoration applications of resource objective wildfires in western US forests: a status of knowledge review	34
Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA	27
A large database supports the use of simple models of post-fire tree mortality for thick-barked conifers, with less support for other species	22
Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California	21
From flames to inflammation: how wildfires affect patterns of wildlife disease	18
Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses	16
Forest fire and law: an analysis of Turkish forest fire legislation based on Food and Agriculture Organization criteria	15
Litter to glitter: promoting herbaceous groundcover and diversity in mid-southern USA oak forests using canopy disturbance and fire	14
Retrospective analysis of burn windows for fire and fuels management: an example from the Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA	14
A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire	13
A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness	13
Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires	12
Radiant heating rapidly increases litter flammability through impacts on fuel moisture	12
Large-scale wildfire reduces population growth in a peripheral population of sage-grouse	12
Frequent burning in chir pine forests, Uttarakhand, India	11
Vegetation’s influence on fire behavior goes beyond just being fuel	11
Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires	11
Exploring the use of spectral indices to assess alterations in soil properties in pine stands affected by crown fire in Spain	10
Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management	10
Decoupling between soil moisture and biomass drives seasonal variations in live fuel moisture across co-occurring plant functional types	10
The distribution of woody species in relation to climate and fire in Yosemite National Park, California, USA	9

Moisture and vegetation cover limit ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches in the southwestern US	9
The effect of scale in quantifying fire impacts on species habitats	9
Prescribed fire alters structure and composition of a mid-Atlantic oak forest up to eight years after burning	8
A reconstruction of the recent fire regimes of Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi, using remote sensing	8
Fire history and dendroecology of Catoctin Mountain, Maryland, USA, with newspaper corroboration	8
Real-time fire detection algorithms running on small embedded devices based on MobileNetV3 and YOLOv4	8
Landscape-scale fuel treatment effectiveness: lessons learned from wildland fire case studies in forests of the western United States and Great Lakes region	8
Revealing historical fire regimes of the Cumberland Plateau, USA, through remnant fire-scarred shortleaf pines (Pinus echinata Mill.)	8
Spatial scale in prescribed fire regimes: an understudied aspect in conservation with examples from the southeastern United States	8
Effects of frequent fire and mowing on resprouting shrubs of Florida scrub, USA	8
A framework for quantifying forest wildfire hazard and fuel treatment effectiveness from stands to landscapes	7
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	7
Bats and fire: a global review	7
Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem	7
Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America	7
Determinants of fire intensity in working landscapes of an African savanna	7
Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity	7
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	7
Examining socioeconomic factors associated with wildfire occurrence and burned area in Galicia (Spain) using spatial and temporal data	7
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	6
A spatially explicit analytical framework to assess wildfire risks on brown bear habitat and corridors in conservation areas	6
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	6
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	6
Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas	6
How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?	6
Short-term benefits of prescribed fire to bird communities of dry forests	6
Impacts of increasing fine fuel loads on acorn germination and early growth of oak seedlings	6
Governing wildfire in a global change context: lessons from water management in the Netherlands	6
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	5
Fuel load, stand structure, and understory species composition following prescribed fire in an old-growth coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forest	5
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA	5
High-resolution wildfire simulations reveal complexity of climate change impacts on projected burn probability for Southern California	5
Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau	5
Are fire temperatures and residence times good predictors of survival and regrowth for resprouters in Florida, USA, scrub?	5
Integrating art and science to communicate the social and ecological complexities of wildfire and climate change in Arizona, USA	5
Fire, land cover, and temperature drivers of bat activity in winter	5
Fuels change quickly after California drought and bark beetle outbreaks with implications for potential fire behavior and emissions	5
Forest fires and climate attributes interact in central Himalayas: an overview and assessment	5
Short-term drivers of post-fire forest regeneration in the Western Alps	4
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network	4
Assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire manager tactical decision-making: a choice experiment	4
The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes	4
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	4
The effects of oak (Quercus) restoration on forest trajectory and small mammal use in the southern Cumberland Plateau, USA	4
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	4
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds	4
Fire and distance from unburned forest influence bird assemblages in Southern Andean Yungas of Northwest Argentina: a case study	4
The legacy of fire: long-term changes to the forest understory from periodic burns in a New England oak-hickory forest	4
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa	4
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy	4

An added boost in pyrogenic carbon when wildfire burns forest with high pre-fire mortality	4
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	4
Plant community response to fuel break construction and goat grazing in a southern California shrubland	4
What is the color when black is burned? Quantifying (re)burn severity using field and satellite remote sensing indices	4
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	3
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	3
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes	3
How forest management changed the course of the Washburn fire and the fate of Yosemite’s giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum)	3
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes	3
Do early trends in oak barrens fire treatment predict later outcomes? Insights from three decades of vegetation monitoring	3
Spatial and temporal drivers of post-fire tree establishment and height growth in a managed forest landscape	3
Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA	3
Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia	3
Understory community shifts in response to repeated fire and fire surrogate treatments in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA	3
System-level feedbacks of active fire regimes in large landscapes	2
North-facing aspects, shade objects, and microtopographic depressions promote the survival and growth of tree seedlings planted after wildfire	2
Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval	2
The scientific value of fire in wilderness	2
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	2
Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers’ perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects	2
Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	2
Contribution of remote sensing to wildfire trend and dynamic analysis in two of Ghana’s ecological zones: Guinea-savanna and Forest-savanna mosaic	2
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study	2