OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Forestry is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Close-to-nature management of tropical timber plantations is economically viable and provides biodiversity benefits	69
Forest practitioners’ requirements for remote sensing-based canopy height, wood-volume, tree species, and disturbance products	68
Diameter and height modeling for accurate prediction of tree size in a Douglas-fir rainforest	62
Correction to: From sink to source: changing climate and disturbance regimes could tip the 21st century carbon balance of an unmanaged mountain forest landscape	31
Fine roots of Scots pine and European beech respond differently to changes in nutrient availability in a mixed forest: results from a 4-year experiment	25
Projected winter warming unlikely to affect germination success of balsam fir regeneration in Atlantic Canada	25
Drought, wildfire and forest transformation: characterizing trailing edge forests in the eastern Cascade Range, Washington, USA	19
The response of different-aged saplings to light gradients reveals new insights into the light requirements of an endangered woody plant species, Phoebe chekiangensis	18
Growth and structural changes in Swiss uneven-aged forests over 100 years, and comparisons between 15 uneven-aged forest types of Europe, North America and Australia	17
Growth and yield model comparisons for mid-rotation loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations in the southeastern US	16
Canopy and surface fuel estimations using RPAS and ground-based point clouds	13
Ageing forests and carbon storage: a case study in boreal balsam fir stands	13
Detailed validation of large-scale Sentinel-2-based forest disturbance maps across Germany	12
Within-stand temporal and spatial dynamics of tree neighbourhood density and species composition: even-agedvssingle-tree selection forests	12
The changing culture of silviculture	12
Sapwood area~DBH allometries for 14 common tree species in a successional tropical forest in Thailand	11
Development of activity recognition models for mechanical fuel treatments using consumer-grade GNSS-RF devices and lidar	11
Effect of scan angle on ALS metrics and area-based predictions of forest attributes for balsam fir dominated stands	11
Assessing heat stress tolerance in Castanea sativa	10
Adapting 3-PG foliar variables to deciduous trees in response to water restriction: poplar short rotation plantations under Mediterranean conditions	9
Optimal rotation period ofPopulusplantations considering multiple carbon pools and carbon cap policies in Jiangsu, East China	9
A remote sensing-guided forest inventory concept using multispectral 3D and height information from ZiYuan-3 satellite data	9
Biomass estimates derived from sector subsampling of 360° spherical images	9
Detection of snow disturbances in boreal forests using unitemporal airborne lidar data and aerial images	8
Reducing disease risks to British forests: an exploration of costs and benefits of nursery best practices	8

Differential associations between nucleotide polymorphisms and physiological traits in Norway spruce (Picea abiesKarst.) plants under contrasting water regimes	8
First report of canker caused by Chrysoporthe austroafricana on the plantation-grown eucalypt Corymbia henryi in South Africa	8
Effects of low phosphorus availability on root cambial activity, biomass production and root morphological pattern in two clones of Chinese fir	8
Trees and forests’ contribution to well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: how did people adapt to change?	8
The effects of arginine phosphate (ArGrow® Granulat) on growth of Scots pine and Norway spruce seedlings planted in varying soil layer structures simulating site preparation	7
Managing harvesting residues: a systematic review of management treatments around the world	7
Management of mushroom resources in Spanish forests: a review	7
Estimating the timber value of a forest property using geographically balanced samples and unoccupied aerial vehicle data	7
Navigating nature’s benefits to people: an examination of asymmetrical stakeholder preferences for local forest ecosystem services in South Korea	7
Commentary to the paper by Roell, Nord-Larsen et al. ‘Mapping tree species ecograms based on soil pH and soil water availability across Denmark’	7
A new approach to small area estimation: improving forest management unit estimates with advanced preprocessing in a multivariate Fay–Herriot model	7
Mapping tree species ecograms based on soil pH and soil water availability across Denmark	7
Impact of coarse woody debris on habitat use of two sympatric rodent species in the temperate Białowieża Forest	7
Deep learning for forest inventory and planning: a critical review on the remote sensing approaches so far and prospects for further applications	7
A bootstrap-based approach to combine individual-based forest growth models and remotely sensed data	6
Evaluating the potential for continuous update of enhanced forest inventory attributes using optical satellite data	6
How much wood can we expect from European forests in the near future?	6
Nonresponse bias in change estimation: a national forest inventory example	6
Sustainability and drivers of Populus tremuloides regeneration and recruitment near the southwestern edge of its range	6
Ecological factors related to seed germination and early seedling establishment inUlmus minorMill., an endangered riparian tree species	6
Vision-based planting position selection system for an unmanned reforestation machine	6
Experimental assessment of warming effects on the architecture and growth of the subalpine species Nothofagus pumilio	5
Evaluating semi- and nonparametric regression algorithms in quantifying stem taper and volume with alternative test data selection strategies	5
Effects of bark beetle disturbance and fuel types on fire radiative power and burn severity in the Bohemian-Saxon Switzerland	5
Climate change has limited effect on the growth of Afzelia africana Sm. and Anogeissus leiocarpus (DC.) Guill. and Perr. in riparian forests in the savannas of Ghana	5
The impact of natural constraints in linear regression of log transformed response variables	5
Research progress in the climate change vulnerability of urban forests	5
Genome-wide SNP-based relationships improve genetic parameter estimates and genomic prediction of growth traits in a large operational breeding trials of Pinus taeda L.	5
Analysis of the spatio-temporal dynamics of Buxus hyrcana Pojark defoliation using spaceborne satellite data	5
Mapping mortality rates in boreal mixedwood forest using airborne laser scanning and permanent plot data	5
Determinants of the relative abundance of rodents in landscapes dominated by Eucalyptus plantations	4
Long-term effects of group selection, single-tree selection, and clearcutting on individual-tree and stand volume growth in northern hardwoods of the Great Lakes region	4
I want to climb to the tops of trees! Factors facilitating the development of ivy vines in central European forests	4
Height increment patterns in Pinus pinaster seedlings emerging in naturally regenerated gaps	4
Individual-tree distance-dependent growth models for uneven-sized Norway spruce	4
Effects of Norway spruce shelter density and soil scarification method on mortality and height growth of underplanted European beech, European silver fir and Douglas fir	4
Effect of additive, dominant and epistatic variances on breeding and deployment strategy in Norway spruce	4
Modelling above-ground biomass ofPinus radiatatrees with explicit multivariate uncertainty	4
Pruning revisited – effect of pruning season on wood discoloration and occlusion in four temperate broadleaved tree species	4
Modelling growing stock volume of forest stands with various ALS area-based approaches	4
Modeling the initial development dynamics for two native Brazilian forest tree species	4
Effect of density on Mediterranean pine seedlings using the Nelder wheel design: analysis of biomass production	4
Tree belowground biomass in Congo Basin forests: allometric equations and scaling with aboveground biomass	4