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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fitness consequences of catastrophic wildfire are mitigated by behavioral responses of an iconic bird208
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia151
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk111
Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other75
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data72
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems63
Megafire attributes and pre-fire structural legacies shape short-term avian responses in an Atlantic-Mediterranean ecotone62
Effects of repeat prescribed burning in dry coniferous forests in national parks of California53
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 201751
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree51
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA51
Mojave Desert microbial communities show high resistance and resilience over three years despite widespread plant mortality following the Dome Fire44
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework44
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction43
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades40
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection37
Effectiveness of firebreaks: a review31
Overstory retention in a managed mixed-conifer stand limits cheatgrass invasion after wildfire30
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)29
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire28
Comparing fire behavior and severity between a wildfire and a controlled burn in an Atlantic shrubland28
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub28
A post-fire reforestation assessment and prioritization tool for the Western United States27
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 woodland27
Factors influencing early post-wildfire vegetation and implications for invasive plant management in the interior of British Columbia, Canada27
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method26
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests25
Increasing wildfire frequency decreases carbon storage and leads to regeneration failure in Alaskan boreal forests24
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts24
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China23
The effectiveness of prescribed burning for protecting houses during wildfires in Australia23
Resource objective wildfires shifted forest structure and fuels toward pre-fire-exclusion conditions in a remote Arizona wilderness23
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage22
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests22
Potential drivers of fire severity in Golden Gate Highlands National Park: a case study of the November 2022 big fire event22
Rapid shift in plant species composition in burned pine forests with different post-fire management21
Forest cover buffers microclimate and increases fuel moisture in northern conifer forests: a terrestrial laser scanning approach21
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States21
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives21
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review20
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change20
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 202020
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin19
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal19
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests18
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region18
Repeated fire and extended drought influence forest resilience in Arizona Sky Islands18
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA18
Post-thinning fire effects on savanna understory vegetation and ecosystem structure17
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer17
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review17
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival17
Fire-caused injuries to conifers can result in a period of reduced tree growth and elevated drought vulnerability within the first two years after fire17
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum17
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA17
Phoenix of the Forest: assessing top kill and post-fire stem growth in aspen saplings using a pyro-ecophysiology approach16
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja16
Wildfire risk perception survey: insights from local communities in Tuscany, Italy16
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative16
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam15
Is this duff? Long-term prescribed burning effects on litter and duff in pine flatwoods of the southeastern US15
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.15
The stoichiometric legacy after fire: multi-element shifts and arthropod community filtering in a subtropical grassland15
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes15
Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action15
Impacts of multi-method learning on prescribed fire perceptions in Texas14
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction14
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA14
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters14
Wildfire decision support tools: barriers, facilitators, and future directions for effectiveness14
Driving factors and prediction models of forest fire occurrence in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters13
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 people13
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan13
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration13
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)13
Perennial grasses with different life histories maintain population stability under fire in North and Central American pine savannas13
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia13
Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits: a pyro-ecophysiological approach to live fuel moisture prediction in common shrubs12
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae12
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience12
Landscape can play a role in the moisture content of temperate fuels12
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions11
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices11
Fire frequency drives tradeoffs among conservation priorities in tallgrass prairie11
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas11
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama11
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling11
Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands11
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China11
Post-fire treatments in Mediterranean forests: a review for enhancing restoration strategies10
The state of the giant sequoias: losses, risks, and opportunities10
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis10
Wind climate analysis for prescribed fire planning: case study of Tallahassee, Florida10
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 States10
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire10
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity10
Understanding drivers and dynamics of potential heat release in wet sclerophyll forests10
Post-fire western larch reforestation success depends on interactions between site conditions and seed source10
Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability10
Soil temperature and moisture near downed trees and log barriers 5 years after a wildfire9
Use of airborne LiDAR to predict fine dead fuel load in Mediterranean forest stands of Southern Europe9
Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?9
Characterising land cover—wildfire interactions in Catalonia and their implications for resilience9
Causal impact of fire on a globally rare wetland plant: a 40-year Bayesian time series analysis9
Vegetation response varies by season of burning in pine woodlands across the southeastern US9
Fire gives avian populations a rapid and enduring boost in protected forests of California9
Power and planning: a critical discourse analysis of tribal and non-tribal Oregon wildfire protection plans9
Long-term recovery of Mexican spotted owl nesting habitat after fire in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico9
Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada9
Disentangling the drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests of the Tibetan Plateau9
A machine learning model to predict wildfire burn severity for pre-fire risk assessments, Utah, USA8
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications8
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study8
Fire severity shows limited dependence on fuel structure under adverse fire weather conditions: a case study of two extreme wildfire events8
Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management8
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity8
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA8
Contemporary management has altered the fire regime of a large protected area: evaluating management outcomes and future directions7
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy7
Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire7
Principles of fire ecology7
From risk perception to readiness: understanding US wildfire preparedness drivers7
Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers7
Effects of fire season on flowering phenology in a pine savanna7
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network7
Testing the utility of terrestrial laser scanning for fuel hazard assessments in temperate forests and woodlands of south-eastern Australia7
Cheatgrass alters flammability of native perennial grasses in laboratory combustion experiments7
Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration7
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room6
Machine learning-based forest fire vulnerability assessment in subtropical chir pine forests of Pakistan6
A rapid and non-destructive method for quantifying boreal forest surface fuels6
Taking the next step in wildfire education: integrating multiple knowledge forms into co-produced high school fire science curricula6
Biodiversity benefits of prescribed fire and mechanical thinning in Yosemite Valley6
3D imaging as a method of measuring serotiny6
Effects of prescribed fires on plant diversity in a grassy páramo of southern Ecuador6
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
The effectiveness of past wildfire at limiting reburning is short-lived in a Mediterranean humid climate6
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes6
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California6
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire6
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research6
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes6
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa6
Fire-type heat increases the germination of Cistaceae seeds in contrast to summer heat5
Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather5
Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States5
When the wilderness burns: an analysis of current fire management and the case for prescribed fire in designated wilderness in the United States5
Forest landowner values and perspectives of prescribed fire in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States5
Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain5
Retraction Note: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications5
Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA5
Ponderosa pine hydraulic stress predicts more extreme wildfire behavior under future conditions in Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico5
An account of one hundred and sixty years of fire history in Delmarva’s Great Cypress Swamp (1782–1941)5
Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects5
Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy5
Size of modern megafire not unprecedented and a cumulative fire deficit persists5
Assessment of the surface forest fuel load in the Ukrainian Polissia5
Midwest prairie management practices benefit the non-target prairie crayfish5
Prescribed fire promotes colonization by the Florida bog frog5
Correction: Resource objective wildfires shifted forest structure and fuels toward pre‑fire‑exclusion conditions in a remote Arizona wilderness5
Assessing the potential fire tolerance of conifer saplings in cold and wet environments using a pyro-ecophysiology approach4
A fast spectral recovery does not necessarily indicate post-fire forest recovery4
Integrating remote sensing and GIS for advanced forest fire hazards vulnerability and risk assessment in Gironde, France4
Observations of fire regime and overstorey tree canopy decline in karri forests4
Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau4
Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem4
Interpreting the shifts in forest structure, plant community composition, diversity, and functional identity by using remote sensing-derived wildfire severity4
Environmental health hazards and wildland firefighting: a qualitative analysis4
Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades4
Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America4
Three-decade record of contiguous-U.S. national forest wildfires indicates increased density of ignitions near roads4
Reliability of fire danger forecasts for Czech agricultural and forestry landscapes4
Correction: Has the tortoise scale exacerbated fire severity in Mediterranean stone pine forests?4
Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes4
Dynamic correction of forest fire spread prediction using observation error covariance matrix estimation technique based on FLC-GRU4
The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes4
Private landowner interest in prescribed fire in California: findings from workshops in the Sierra Nevada4
The scientific value of fire in wilderness4
Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire4
Lightning ignition efficiency in Canadian forests3
A tale of two fire systems: indigenous fire stewardship in British Columbia and California3
Correction: Frequent burning and limited stand‑replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy3
Peatland fire ecology and management in Malaysia: hydrological controls, empirical insights and pathways to climate resilience3
Extreme wildfire supersedes long-term fuel treatment influences on fuel and vegetation in chaparral ecosystems of northern California, USA3
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
Plant-plant interactions influence post-fire recovery depending on fire history and nurse growth form3
How big is big enough? Exploring drivers of fire-induced giant sequoia mortality from the individual to the stand level3
Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval3
Ecological trade-offs associated with fuel breaks in sagebrush ecosystems3
Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration3
Epiphytic lichens as ladder fuels: an experimental study on flammability in Southern Chile3
Responsess of Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop growth and soil respiration dynamics to ash content in a burned area3
Beyond average: a new approach to calculating fire regime departures applied to Western United States forests3
The role of wildfire emissions on extreme fire weather during Australia’s Black Summer through smoke-weather feedbacks3
Multi-scale assessment of wildfire use on carbon stocks in the Sierra Nevada, CA3
A framework for natural resource management with geospatial machine learning: a case study of the 2021 Almora forest fires3
Fire history and vegetation data reveal ecological benefits of recent mixed-severity fires in the Cumberland Mountains, West Virginia, USA3
Stakeholder perceptions of post-fire management in Greece3
Spatial and temporal drivers of post-fire tree establishment and height growth in a managed forest landscape3
Direct and indirect effects of fire on germination of shortleaf pine seeds3
Prescribed burning mitigates the severity of subsequent wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands3
Short-term drivers of post-fire forest regeneration in the Western Alps3
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