OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fire Ecology is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Fitness consequences of catastrophic wildfire are mitigated by behavioral responses of an iconic bird	226
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	177
Megafire attributes and pre-fire structural legacies shape short-term avian responses in an Atlantic-Mediterranean ecotone	122
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	86
Model-based assessment of prescribed burning frequency to mitigate wildfire risks in tallgrass prairie	81
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	67
Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other	59
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	57
Restoring fire sovereignty on California Indian allotment lands	57
Effects of repeat prescribed burning in dry coniferous forests in national parks of California	54
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	48
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	45
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	44
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	44
Effectiveness of firebreaks: a review	43
Overstory retention in a managed mixed-conifer stand limits cheatgrass invasion after wildfire	37
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	36
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	30
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	30
“The macchia is a garden”: wildfires, pastoralism, and landscape ideologies in the Aurunci Mountains, Italy	29
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	28
Comparing fire behavior and severity between a wildfire and a controlled burn in an Atlantic shrubland	28
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	28
Mojave Desert microbial communities show high resistance and resilience over three years despite widespread plant mortality following the Dome Fire	28
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts	27

The effectiveness of prescribed burning for protecting houses during wildfires in Australia	27
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	27
Factors influencing early post-wildfire vegetation and implications for invasive plant management in the interior of British Columbia, Canada	27
Resource objective wildfires shifted forest structure and fuels toward pre-fire-exclusion conditions in a remote Arizona wilderness	27
War, climate change, and land use shape wildfire dynamics in Ukraine, 2001–2024	26
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	26
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	26
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	26
Increasing wildfire frequency decreases carbon storage and leads to regeneration failure in Alaskan boreal forests	24
A post-fire reforestation assessment and prioritization tool for the Western United States	24
Long-term forest understory recovery and tradeoffs in response to prescribed fire return interval	24
Potential drivers of fire severity in Golden Gate Highlands National Park: a case study of the November 2022 big fire event	23
Forest cover buffers microclimate and increases fuel moisture in northern conifer forests: a terrestrial laser scanning approach	23
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage	23
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	23
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	22
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States	22
Machine learning enables reconstruction of past fire regimes from charcoal-derived fire intensity and fuel composition	22
Rapid shift in plant species composition in burned pine forests with different post-fire management	20
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	20
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020	20
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	19
Fire-caused injuries to conifers can result in a period of reduced tree growth and elevated drought vulnerability within the first two years after fire	19
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	19
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	19
Repeated fire and extended drought influence forest resilience in Arizona Sky Islands	18
Correction: Phoenix of the Forest: assessing top kill and post‑fire stem growth in aspen saplings using a pyro‑ecophysiology approach	18
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	18
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA	18
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	17
Post-thinning fire effects on savanna understory vegetation and ecosystem structure	17
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region	17
Wildfire risk perception survey: insights from local communities in Tuscany, Italy	17
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer	17
Phoenix of the Forest: assessing top kill and post-fire stem growth in aspen saplings using a pyro-ecophysiology approach	17
Measuring fuel connectivity in coastal mallee shrublands using terrestrial mobile LiDAR	17
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests	17
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival	16
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	16
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum	16
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	16
Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action	16
The stoichiometric legacy after fire: multi-element shifts and arthropod community filtering in a subtropical grassland	15
Is this duff? Long-term prescribed burning effects on litter and duff in pine flatwoods of the southeastern US	15
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	15
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	14
Perennial grasses with different life histories maintain population stability under fire in North and Central American pine savannas	14
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	14
Impacts of multi-method learning on prescribed fire perceptions in Texas	14
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	14

Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	14
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	14
Wildfire decision support tools: barriers, facilitators, and future directions for effectiveness	13
Fire shifts the structure and dynamics of woody plant communities in a Mediterranean coastal dune ecosystem	13
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	12
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	12
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	12
Driving factors and prediction models of forest fire occurrence in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China	12
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	12
Recovery trajectories of surface fuels and forest trees following prescribed fire in low elevation conifer forests of California and southern Oregon	12
Landscape can play a role in the moisture content of temperate fuels	12
Pre-disturbance dominance, not fire alone, determines the success of an invasive alien plant species	12
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	12
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	12
Fire frequency drives tradeoffs among conservation priorities in tallgrass prairie	11
Whispers of wildfire: using eDNA metabarcoding to decipher effects of megafires on watershed biodiversity	11
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	11
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	11
Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits: a pyro-ecophysiological approach to live fuel moisture prediction in common shrubs	11
Fire-associated declines in laboratory-measured cercarial emergence from trematode-infected freshwater snails	10
Evaluating trade-offs of hazardous fuel reduction in Navajo Nation woodlands	10
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	10
Post-fire western larch reforestation success depends on interactions between site conditions and seed source	10
Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands	10
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	10
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire	10
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	10
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions	10
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama	10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	10