OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Fire Ecology is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	149
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	116
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	73
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	54
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data	53
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	44
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	42
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	41
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	41
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	39
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	39
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	32
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	32
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	31
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	30
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	30
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	30
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	24
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	24
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	20
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts	19
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States	19
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage	18
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	18
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020	17

Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	16
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	16
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	16
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	16
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	16
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA	15
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	15
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds	14
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	14
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region	14
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival	13
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests	13
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum	13
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer	13
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	12
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	12
Wildfire risk perception survey: insights from local communities in Tuscany, Italy	12
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	12
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	11
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	11
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	11
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	11
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	11
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	11
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	11
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	11
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	10
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	10
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	10
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	9
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions	9
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	9
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	9
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	9
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	9
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	9
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	9
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama	9
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	9
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	9
Wind climate analysis for prescribed fire planning: case study of Tallahassee, Florida	8
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire	8
Disentangling the drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests of the Tibetan Plateau	8
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region	8
Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management	8
Long-term recovery of Mexican spotted owl nesting habitat after fire in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico	8
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	8
Causal impact of fire on a globally rare wetland plant: a 40-year Bayesian time series analysis	8
A machine learning model to predict wildfire burn severity for pre-fire risk assessments, Utah, USA	7

Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada	7
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA	7
Soil temperature and moisture near downed trees and log barriers 5 years after a wildfire	7
Characterising land cover—wildfire interactions in Catalonia and their implications for resilience	7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	7
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	7
Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?	7
Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires	7
Fire severity shows limited dependence on fuel structure under adverse fire weather conditions: a case study of two extreme wildfire events	7
Use of airborne LiDAR to predict fine dead fuel load in Mediterranean forest stands of Southern Europe	7
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network	6
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes	6
Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects	6
Cheatgrass alters flammability of native perennial grasses in laboratory combustion experiments	6
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa	6
Effects of fire season on flowering phenology in a pine savanna	6
Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers	6
3D imaging as a method of measuring serotiny	6
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study	6
Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration	6
The effectiveness of past wildfire at limiting reburning is short-lived in a Mediterranean humid climate	6
Principles of fire ecology	6
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy	6
Taking the next step in wildfire education: integrating multiple knowledge forms into co-produced high school fire science curricula	6
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity	6
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room	6
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California	6
Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather	5
Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain	5
Retraction Note: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	5
Forest landowner values and perspectives of prescribed fire in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States	5
Short-term vegetation responses to the first prescribed burn in an urban pine rockland preserve	5
Assessment of the surface forest fuel load in the Ukrainian Polissia	5
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research	5
Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA	5
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes	5
Fire-type heat increases the germination of Cistaceae seeds in contrast to summer heat	5
Midwest prairie management practices benefit the non-target prairie crayfish	5
Predicting snag fall in an old-growth forest after fire	5
The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana	5
Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy	5
Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States	5
Correction to: A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire	5
Dynamic correction of forest fire spread prediction using observation error covariance matrix estimation technique based on FLC-GRU	5
Reliability of fire danger forecasts for Czech agricultural and forestry landscapes	4
Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau	4
Impacts of a single fire event on large, old trees in a grass-invaded arid river system	4
Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades	4
A fast spectral recovery does not necessarily indicate post-fire forest recovery	4
Plant community response to fuel break construction and goat grazing in a southern California shrubland	4
Interpreting the shifts in forest structure, plant community composition, diversity, and functional identity by using remote sensing-derived wildfire severity	4
Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration	4
Prescribed fire promotes colonization by the Florida bog frog	4
Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America	4
Private landowner interest in prescribed fire in California: findings from workshops in the Sierra Nevada	4
Correction: Has the tortoise scale exacerbated fire severity in Mediterranean stone pine forests?	4
Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes	4
The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes	4
The scientific value of fire in wilderness	3
Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity	3
Spatial and temporal drivers of post-fire tree establishment and height growth in a managed forest landscape	3
Extreme wildfire supersedes long-term fuel treatment influences on fuel and vegetation in chaparral ecosystems of northern California, USA	3
Prescribed burning mitigates the severity of subsequent wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands	3
Correction: Frequent burning and limited stand‑replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy	3
Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem	3
Fire history and vegetation data reveal ecological benefits of recent mixed-severity fires in the Cumberland Mountains, West Virginia, USA	3
Lightning ignition efficiency in Canadian forests	3
Stand diversity increases pine resistance and resilience to compound disturbance	3
Plant-plant interactions influence post-fire recovery depending on fire history and nurse growth form	3
Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire	3
Ecological trade-offs associated with fuel breaks in sagebrush ecosystems	3
Direct and indirect effects of fire on germination of shortleaf pine seeds	3
Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval	3
A framework for natural resource management with geospatial machine learning: a case study of the 2021 Almora forest fires	3