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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Large California wildfires: 2020 fires in historical context	94
Forest fire and smoke detection using deep learning-based learning without forgetting	74
Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses	32
Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA	32
Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California	30
A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire	23
From flames to inflammation: how wildfires affect patterns of wildlife disease	23
Frequent burning in chir pine forests, Uttarakhand, India	22
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	22
A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness	22
Forest fire and law: an analysis of Turkish forest fire legislation based on Food and Agriculture Organization criteria	21
Vegetation’s influence on fire behavior goes beyond just being fuel	20
Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires	19
Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem	19
Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management	18
Real-time fire detection algorithms running on small embedded devices based on MobileNetV3 and YOLOv4	16
Large-scale wildfire reduces population growth in a peripheral population of sage-grouse	15
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	14
A framework for quantifying forest wildfire hazard and fuel treatment effectiveness from stands to landscapes	13
Spatial scale in prescribed fire regimes: an understudied aspect in conservation with examples from the southeastern United States	13
Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires	13
Exploring the use of spectral indices to assess alterations in soil properties in pine stands affected by crown fire in Spain	12
Examining socioeconomic factors associated with wildfire occurrence and burned area in Galicia (Spain) using spatial and temporal data	12
Decoupling between soil moisture and biomass drives seasonal variations in live fuel moisture across co-occurring plant functional types	12
Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas	12

Assessment of forest fire severity and land surface temperature using Google Earth Engine: a case study of Gujarat State, India	12
Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America	12
Landscape-scale fuel treatment effectiveness: lessons learned from wildland fire case studies in forests of the western United States and Great Lakes region	11
Forest fires and climate attributes interact in central Himalayas: an overview and assessment	11
Assessing changes in global fire regimes	10
Moisture and vegetation cover limit ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches in the southwestern US	10
Prescribed fire alters structure and composition of a mid-Atlantic oak forest up to eight years after burning	10
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	10
Short-term drivers of post-fire forest regeneration in the Western Alps	9
The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes	9
Fire history and dendroecology of Catoctin Mountain, Maryland, USA, with newspaper corroboration	9
Bats and fire: a global review	9
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	8
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA	8
Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity	8
Impacts of increasing fine fuel loads on acorn germination and early growth of oak seedlings	8
A spatially explicit analytical framework to assess wildfire risks on brown bear habitat and corridors in conservation areas	8
RETRACTED ARTICLE: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	8
Short-term benefits of prescribed fire to bird communities of dry forests	8
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	8
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	8
Spatial and temporal drivers of post-fire tree establishment and height growth in a managed forest landscape	8
A reconstruction of the recent fire regimes of Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi, using remote sensing	8
How forest management changed the course of the Washburn fire and the fate of Yosemite’s giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum)	7
What is the color when black is burned? Quantifying (re)burn severity using field and satellite remote sensing indices	7
Governing wildfire in a global change context: lessons from water management in the Netherlands	7
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network	7
Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau	7
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	7
How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?	7
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	7
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa	7
Determinants of fire intensity in working landscapes of an African savanna	7
Multivariate roles of litter traits on moisture and flammability of temperate northeastern North American tree species	6
Fuels change quickly after California drought and bark beetle outbreaks with implications for potential fire behavior and emissions	6
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	6
North-facing aspects, shade objects, and microtopographic depressions promote the survival and growth of tree seedlings planted after wildfire	6
The scientific value of fire in wilderness	6
Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers’ perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects	6
Fuel load, stand structure, and understory species composition following prescribed fire in an old-growth coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forest	5
Are fire temperatures and residence times good predictors of survival and regrowth for resprouters in Florida, USA, scrub?	5
Contribution of remote sensing to wildfire trend and dynamic analysis in two of Ghana’s ecological zones: Guinea-savanna and Forest-savanna mosaic	5
High-resolution wildfire simulations reveal complexity of climate change impacts on projected burn probability for Southern California	5
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	5
Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia	5
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy	5
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	5
Plant community response to fuel break construction and goat grazing in a southern California shrubland	5
The legacy of fire: long-term changes to the forest understory from periodic burns in a New England oak-hickory forest	5
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	5

Fire, land cover, and temperature drivers of bat activity in winter	5
Changing fire regimes in East and Southern Africa’s savanna-protected areas: opportunities and challenges for indigenous-led savanna burning emissions abatement schemes	4
The REBURN model: simulating system-level forest succession and wildfire dynamics	4
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	4
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	4
Opportunities for winter prescribed burning in mixed conifer plantations of the Sierra Nevada	4
Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada	4
Understory community shifts in response to repeated fire and fire surrogate treatments in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA	4
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	4
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds	4
Assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire manager tactical decision-making: a choice experiment	4
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	4
System-level feedbacks of active fire regimes in large landscapes	4
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes	4
New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation	3
Fuel treatments in shrublands experiencing pinyon and juniper expansion result in trade-offs between desired vegetation and increased fire behavior	3
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	3
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research	3
The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana	3
Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval	3
Prescribed burning mitigates the severity of subsequent wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands	3
Camera traps link population-level activity patterns with wildfire smoke events for mammals in Eastern Washington State	3
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	3
Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds	3
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes	3
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room	3
Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA	3
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	3
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	3
Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather	3
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study	3
Introduction to the article by Harold Biswell: Prescribed Burning in Georgia and California Compared	2
How an unprecedented wildfire shaped tree hollow occurrence and abundance—implications for arboreal fauna	2
Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes	2
Fire frequency effects on plant community characteristics in the Great Basin and Mojave deserts of North America	2
Blanket bog vegetation response to wildfire and drainage suggests resilience to low severity, infrequent burning	2
Modeling fuel break effectiveness in southern Spain wildfires	2
Correction to: A reconstruction of the recent fire regimes of Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi, using remote sensing	2
Evaluating fireline effectiveness across large wildfire events in north-central Washington State	2
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	2
Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States	2
Short-term vegetation responses to the first prescribed burn in an urban pine rockland preserve	2
Wildfires alter stream ecosystem functioning through effects on leaf litter	2
Modeling fuel moisture dynamics under climate change in Spain’s forests	2
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California	2
Fire history and vegetation data reveal ecological benefits of recent mixed-severity fires in the Cumberland Mountains, West Virginia, USA	2
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region	2
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	2
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	2
Operational fuel model map for Atlantic landscapes using ALS and Sentinel-2 images	2
Frequent burning and limited stand-replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy	2
Principles of fire ecology	2
Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada	2