OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Forest Research is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction: Long-term effects on soil-water nitrogen and pH of clearcutting and simulated disc trenching of previously nitrogen-fertilised pine plots	45
Effect of biofuel waste, urea, deer browsing, and vegetation control on Pinus banksiana seedling growth on a dry upland site in central Canada	41
Understanding compositional stability in mixedwood forests of eastern North America	40
Assessment of natural regeneration of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) 15 years post-regeneration control	40
Effects of overstory tree density, site preparation, and ground vegetation on natural Scots pine seedling emergence and survival in northern boreal pine forests	38
Predicting distribution overlaps betweenDendroctonus adjunctusBlandford 1897 and sixPinusspecies in Mexico under global climate change	36
Cumulative effects of biomass harvesting and herbicide application on litter-dwelling arthropod communities in jack pine-dominated forests: 7th year postharvest assessment	34
Hydrological and nutrient regulation per occupation unit differ between structurally contrasting native and planted forests in the Northern Andes	33
Comparing landscape partitioning approaches to protect wildlife habitat in managed forests	30
Evaluating the use of Ca/Sr and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios to track Ca sources in sugar maple in Ontario	29
Log landings are methane emission hotspots in managed forests	28
Rodent-mediated seed limitation affects woody seedling establishment more than invasive shrubs and downed woody debris	26
Is the modern-day dieback of yellow-cedar unprecedented?	26
Early stages of decay in Eucalyptus grandis trees inoculated with brown-rot fungi	24
Positive response of tree productivity to warming is reversed by increased tree density at the Arctic tundra–taiga ecotone	23
Do Azospirillum brasiliense and Chlorella sp. microalgae benefit the production of Hymenaea courbaril L. seedlings?	20
Enhanced forest inventories in Canada: implementation, status, and research needs	16
Impact of single and combined soil amendments on the growth and foliar nutrients of white spruce (Picea glauca) on a poorly regenerated logged site	16
Long-term (17-year) dynamics of herbaceous plant communities after shelterwood regeneration harvests in southern Appalachian cove- and upland hardwood forests	15
Excluding deer browse increases stump sprouting success and height growth following regeneration harvests	14
A design-based assessment of an expanded set of auxiliary information for forest growth estimation	14
Correction: A data compilation and synthesis of the impacts of seismic surveys on surface soil properties in boreal Alberta, Canada	14
Six year efficacy of silvicultural treatments to control American beech regeneration in stands affected by beech bark disease in Ontario, Canada	13
Effects of different planting configurations and clones on biomass and carbon storage of a 12-year-old poplar ecosystem in southern China	13
Citizen beliefs concerning wood as a construction material under extreme weather events	13

Can’t see the flowers for the trees: factors driving floral abundance within early-successional forests in the central Appalachian Mountains	13
On the characterization of patterning in spruce budworm time-series data	13
Effects of cutting speed and feed per knife on energy requirements for processing black spruce logs with a chipper-canter	13
Age structure of saplings in canopy openings of mature longleaf pine woodlands	12
Variable synchrony in insect outbreak cycling across a forest landscape gradient: multi-scale evidence from trembling aspen in Alberta	12
Seed coatings containing capsaicin reduce seed removal in temperate woody species	12
Multiyear defoliations in southern New England increases oak mortality	12
Reinforcement learning in optimizing forest management	12
Synchronized movement between US lumber futures and southern pine sawtimber prices and COVID-19 impacts	11
Sugar maple seedling regeneration of a natural cohort across a latitudinal gradient in New Hampshire	11
Multiple responses of fine root resource uptake strategies to gravel content in a subtropical plantation	11
Defoliation level interacts with tree species and soil richness to determine volume increment reduction and recovery from simulated spruce budworm attack	10
Optimal allocation model of forest fire detection towers in protected areas based on fire occurrence risk: Where and how to act?	10
Effects of Ganoderma lucidum cultivation in forests on soil organic carbon pool and microbial community physiological profiles	10
Effect of 3-year amendment measures on coastal saline–alkali soil conditions during the growing season	10
How consistent are citizen science data sources, an exploratory study using free automated image recognition apps for woody plant identification	10
Regional variation in wood discoloration in paper birch trees	9
Natural recovery of skid trails: a review	9
Fuzzy logic applied in the prospecting of suitable areas for the establishment of commercial forest plantations	9
Mapping old-growth forests using airborne lidar data and satellite images: How do plot size and rarity affect accuracy?	9
Radial variation of wood anatomical and chemical properties in eight poplar clones	9
Effects of artificial nitrogen deposition on the forest floor and soil chemistry in chestnut-leaved oak (Quercus castaneifolia) plantation in northern Iran	9
Global value chain participation, trade cost and benefits of timber industry	9
Invasive alien species in protected areas: the dynamics of Pinus taeda at Rio Canoas State Park – Brazil	9
Wood energy quality of Eucalyptus spp. clones established under different soil types in the Brazilian Cerrado	8
Melampsora larici-populina homologous effectors Mlp72983 and Mlp52166 display cell-type specific accumulation in Arabidopsis and Populus	8
A collaborative typology of boreal Indigenous landscapes	8
The rapid expansion of Populus tremuloides due to anthropogenic disturbances in eastern Canada	8
Radial growth responses of post oak (Quercus stellata) to climate variability and management in southeastern Oklahoma, USA	8
Prescribed fire shrub consumption in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest	8
Biomass models for three species with different growth forms and geographic distribution in the Brazilian Atlantic forest	8
Which factors influence consumers’ selection of wood as a building material for houses?	8
A comparison of fast-growing maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton.) plantations with native broadleaved vegetation for greenhouse gas balances	8
Modelling diameter at breast height distribution of jack pine and black spruce natural stands in eastern Canada	8
Sampling with probability proportional to prediction (3P sampling) using covariates derived from spherical images	8
Modeling the distribution of hemlock woolly adelgid under several climate change scenarios	8
Realized and potential efficiency for post-stratified estimation in a national forest inventory	7
Effects of numbers of observations and predictors for various model types on the performance of forest inventory with airborne laser scanning	7
Evaluation of mobile laser scanning acquisition scenarios for automated wood volume estimation in a temperate hardwood forest using quantitative structural models	7
Correction: Managing plantation density through initial spacing and commercial thinning: yield results from a 60-year-old red pine spacing trial experiment	7
Radial growth decline of white spruce (Picea glauca) during hot summers without drought: preliminary results from a study site south of a boreal forest border	7
The vulnerability of Canadian forest-dependent communities to climate change: an indicator-based approach	7
Preliminary assessments of shoot cold tolerance for American elm bred for enhanced tolerance to Dutch elm disease	7
Residual canopy cover provides buffering of near-surface temperatures, but benefits are limited under extreme conditions	7
Estimation of periodic annual increment of tree ring widths by airborne laser scanning	7
Efficient synthetic generation of ecological data with preset spatial association of individuals	7
Afforesting Icelandic land: A promising approach for climate-smart forestry?	7
Economics of strip harvesting in drained boreal peatland forests	7
Forest restoration mitigates drought vulnerability of coast Douglas-fir in a Mediterranean climate	7
How should we sustain future forests under extreme risk?	7

A decision support tool for forwarding operations with sequence-dependent loading	7
Effects of interspecific competition on early growth of genetically improved white spruce in mixedwood stands in northeastern Alberta	7
Tree and stand characteristics associated with the occurrence of false heartwood in individual Japanese white birch trees	7
Physical and mechanical properties affecting the suitability of black ash wood for W8banaki basketry	7
Assessing the influence of climate on the growth rate of boreal tree species in northeastern Canada through long-term permanent sample plot data sets	7
The dynamics of a changing Lutz spruce (Picea×lutzii) hybrid zone on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska	6
Pyrosilviculture: Combining prescribed fire with gap-based silviculture in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada	6
Subalpine fir microsatellite variation reveals the complex relationship between var. lasiocarpa and var. bifolia	6
Freeze–thaw events differently affect survival of seeds of two native and two invasive woody species	6
Comparing outbreak regimes of western spruce budworm at low- and high-elevation sites in Idaho using dendrochronology	6
Provenance matters: variability under saline stress in young plants of four populations of aProsopis(mesquite) species from dry forests of Argentina	6
Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America	6
Development of tree recruitment models for 10 species groups in the sugar maple-dominated mixed forests of eastern Canada	6
Documenting forest juvenilization in high-elevation old-growth forests in southern inland British Columbia, with implications for the winter ecology of Canada’s endangered Deep-Snow Caribou.	6
Optimized locations of landings in forest operations	6
A correction for serial nonindependence in mountain pine beetle aerial survey data to reduce overestimation of cumulative damage	6
Understanding the diversity of objectives among women forest owners in Finland	6
Seasonal bird communities in Shelterwood harvests and unmanaged mature forest	6
Collection: Changing wildfire regimes, their impacts, and the path forward	6
Peat surface compression reduces smouldering fire potential as a novel fuel treatment for boreal peatlands	6
Successional change, restoration success, and resilience in boreal mixedwood vegetation communities over three decades	6
Genotype and environment interaction on the wood quality of Eucalyptus spp. for energy purposes	6
Long-term effects of herbivory on tree growth are not consistent with browsing preferences	6
Designing circular fixed-area plots in large-scale forest inventories: effect of horizontal distance measurement uncertainty and tree position pattern	6
Mexican mixed-species forest shows resilience to high-intensity fire	6
CO₂ flux from Acer saccharum logs: sources of variation and the influence of silvicultural treatments	6
Complex network analysis of global forest products trade pattern	6
Spruce budworm defoliation patterns during outbreak rise are influenced by tree species, insecticide spraying, and spatial autocorrelation	6
Fungal community dynamics in coarse woody debris across decay stage, tree species, and stand development stage in northern boreal forests	6
Additional biomass estimation alternatives: nonlinear two- and three-stage least squares and full information maximum likelihood for slash pine	6
Response of moose to forest harvest and management: a literature review	6
Biomass accumulation in trees and downed wood in northern hardwood forests: Repeated measures of a successional chronosequence in New Hampshire, USA	6
New perspectives on radial profiles of specific gravity in North American conifers	6
Modeling knot geometry from scanned images of Korean pine plantations	6
Modeling stand fire probabilities with unobserved heterogeneity. Estimating stand age and climate change effects in Chilean radiata pine plantations	5
Assessing the influence of simulated ice storm-induced crown damage on nonstructural carbohydrates, wound closure, and radial growth of maple trees	5
Assessing and mitigating systematic errors in forest attribute maps utilizing harvester and airborne laser scanning data	5
Influence of aerially seeded Pinus massoniana plantations on soil quality in severely eroded and degraded land of subtropical China	5
Inconsistent effects of nitrogen canopy enrichment and soil warming on black spruce epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities, taxa, and functions	5
Spread of Heterobasidion genotypes in Norway spruce stands on drained peat soil in Latvia	5
Deriving a tree growth model from any existing stand growth model	5
Long-term stability of northern hardwoods across a topographic gradient and variations in harvest methods	5
Models to predict whole-disk specific gravity and moisture content in planted longleaf pine from cutover and old field sites	5
Arbuscular mycorrhizae alleviate water deficit in Dipteryx alata Vogel: seedling quality and resilience	5
Aggregated retention protects trees against wind, but not against disease: a long-term study in mixed forests	5
Co-movement of prices between biofuel co-products in Canada: ethanol, electricity, and pellets	5
Monitoring seedling stands using national forest inventory and multispectral airborne laser scanning data	5
A bibliometric review of stakeholders' participation in sustainable forest management	5
Overlooked sources of methane emissions from trees: branches and wounds	5
A new approach for spatializing the Canadian National Forest Inventory (SCANFI) using Landsat dense time series	5
Exploring recruitment dynamics of sugar maple and yellow birch saplings into merchantable stems following harvesting in the Acadian Forest Region of New Brunswick, Canada	5
Can uneven-aged management improve the economic performance of longleaf pine?	5
Monitoring genetic diversity acrossPinus tabuliformisseed orchard generations using SSR markers	5
Can climate variability and landscape position predict white pine blister rust incidence, mortality due to the disease, and regeneration in whitebark pine?	5
Modelling specific gravity and diameter inside bark of western hemlock and Sitka spruce growing in southeast Alaska	5
A new generation of sensors and monitoring tools to support climate-smart forestry practices	5
Building a high-resolution site index map using boosted regression trees: the Norwegian case	5
Economic impacts of climate change on forests: a PICUS–LANDIS–CGE modeling approach	5
Ligustrum luciduminvasion decreases abundance and relative contribution of soil fauna to litter decomposition but increases decomposition rate in a subtropical montane forest of northwestern Ar	5
Intensive management increases flexibility in managing wood supply	5
Impact of the Lunar Nodal Cycle on Subalpine Tree Growth in the North American Cordillera	5
Mitigating post-fire regeneration failure in boreal landscapes with reforestation and variable retention harvesting: At what cost?	5
Can exotic tree plantations preserve the bird community of an endangered native forest in the Argentine Pampas?	5
Populus deltoides is suitable for moist and short-term flooded soil conditions on the basis of its relative growth rate and stoichiometry	5
Responses of needle terpene concentrations and characteristics of resin canals to different warming treatments in Scots pine and Norway spruce seedlings grown in a field experiment	5
A quantitative approach to defining soil nutrient regimes within ecosystem classifications for Northwestern Ontario	5
Potential for individual tree monitoring in ponderosa pine dominated forests using unmanned aerial system structure from motion point clouds	5
Thinning to meet sawlog objectives at shorter rotation in lodgepole pine stands	5
Efficacy of prescribed fire as a fuel reduction treatment in the Colorado Front Range	5