OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fire Ecology is 6. 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
Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA	32
Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses	32
Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California	30
From flames to inflammation: how wildfires affect patterns of wildlife disease	23
A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire	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
Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires	13
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bats and fire: a global review	9
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
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
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
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
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
The scientific value of fire in wilderness	6
Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers’ perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects	6
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