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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fitness consequences of catastrophic wildfire are mitigated by behavioral responses of an iconic bird	204
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	141
Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other	105
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	79
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	71
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	71
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	61
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	59
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	50
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	50
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	50
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	47
Effectiveness of firebreaks: a review	44
Overstory retention in a managed mixed-conifer stand limits cheatgrass invasion after wildfire	43
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	41
Mojave Desert microbial communities show high resistance and resilience over three years despite widespread plant mortality following the Dome Fire	40
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	30
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	30
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	29
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	27
Comparing fire behavior and severity between a wildfire and a controlled burn in an Atlantic shrubland	27
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	27
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	27
Resource objective wildfires shifted forest structure and fuels toward pre-fire-exclusion conditions in a remote Arizona wilderness	26
The effectiveness of prescribed burning for protecting houses during wildfires in Australia	26

Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	25
Increasing wildfire frequency decreases carbon storage and leads to regeneration failure in Alaskan boreal forests	25
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts	24
A post-fire reforestation assessment and prioritization tool for the Western United States	23
Factors influencing early post-wildfire vegetation and implications for invasive plant management in the interior of British Columbia, Canada	23
Potential drivers of fire severity in Golden Gate Highlands National Park: a case study of the November 2022 big fire event	23
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	22
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage	22
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States	22
Rapid shift in plant species composition in burned pine forests with different post-fire management	21
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	21
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020	21
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	21
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	20
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	20
Forest cover buffers microclimate and increases fuel moisture in northern conifer forests: a terrestrial laser scanning approach	20
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	20
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region	19
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests	18
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA	18
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	18
Repeated fire and extended drought influence forest resilience in Arizona Sky Islands	17
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival	17
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	17
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum	17
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	17
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer	17
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	16
Post-thinning fire effects on savanna understory vegetation and ecosystem structure	16
Wildfire risk perception survey: insights from local communities in Tuscany, Italy	16
The stoichiometric legacy after fire: multi-element shifts and arthropod community filtering in a subtropical grassland	16
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	16
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	15
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	15
Is this duff? Long-term prescribed burning effects on litter and duff in pine flatwoods of the southeastern US	15
Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action	15
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	15
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	15
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	14
Wildfire decision support tools: barriers, facilitators, and future directions for effectiveness	14
Impacts of multi-method learning on prescribed fire perceptions in Texas	14
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	13
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	13
Landscape can play a role in the moisture content of temperate fuels	13
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	13
Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits: a pyro-ecophysiological approach to live fuel moisture prediction in common shrubs	13
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	13
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	13
Driving factors and prediction models of forest fire occurrence in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China	13

Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	13
Fire frequency drives tradeoffs among conservation priorities in tallgrass prairie	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
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	12
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	12
Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands	11
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	11
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	11
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions	11
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama	11
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	11
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	10
Understanding drivers and dynamics of potential heat release in wet sclerophyll forests	10
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire	10
Wind climate analysis for prescribed fire planning: case study of Tallahassee, Florida	10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	10
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	10
Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability	10
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region	10
Post-fire treatments in Mediterranean forests: a review for enhancing restoration strategies	10