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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	130
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	113
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	64
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	50
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data	40
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	39
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	36
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	36
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	35
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	35
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	33
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	30
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	27
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	26
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	25
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	25
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	23
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	23
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	22
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
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
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	17
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020	16
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	16

Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	16
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	16
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	15
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	14
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests	14
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	14
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	13
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA	13
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds	12
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region	12
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival	12
Frequent burning in chir pine forests, Uttarakhand, India	12
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	11
Simulating long-term wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum	11
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	11
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	11
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	11
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	11
Bat roosting strategies and torpor expression in a wildfire-affected landscape during summer	11
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	10
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	10
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	10
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	10
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	10
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	10
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	9
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	9
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	9
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	9
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	9
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	9
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	9
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama	8
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire	8
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	8
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions	8
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	8
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	8
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	8
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	8
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	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
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region	8
Use of airborne LiDAR to predict fine dead fuel load in Mediterranean forest stands of Southern Europe	7
Long-term recovery of Mexican spotted owl nesting habitat after fire in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico	7
A machine learning model to predict wildfire burn severity for pre-fire risk assessments, Utah, USA	7
Measuring the ecological outcomes of fire: metrics to guide fire management	7
Wind climate analysis for prescribed fire planning: case study of Tallahassee, Florida	7
Disentangling the drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests of the Tibetan Plateau	6
Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires	6

Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study	6
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	6
Soil temperature and moisture near downed trees and log barriers 5 years after a wildfire	6
Characterising land cover—wildfire interactions in Catalonia and their implications for resilience	6
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity	6
Causal impact of fire on a globally rare wetland plant: a 40-year Bayesian time series analysis	6
Shaded fuel breaks create wildfire-resilient forest stands: lessons from a long-term study in the Sierra Nevada	6
Vegetation, fuels, and fire-behavior responses to linear fuel-break treatments in and around burned sagebrush steppe: are we breaking the grass-fire cycle?	6
Cheatgrass alters flammability of native perennial grasses in laboratory combustion experiments	6
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research	5
Fire severity shows limited dependence on fuel structure under adverse fire weather conditions: a case study of two extreme wildfire events	5
Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers	5
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	5
Taking the next step in wildfire education: integrating multiple knowledge forms into co-produced high school fire science curricula	5
Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy	5
Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain	5
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy	5
Principles of fire ecology	5
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California	5
Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration	5
Effects of fire season on flowering phenology in a pine savanna	5
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes	5
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa	5
The effectiveness of past wildfire at limiting reburning is short-lived in a Mediterranean humid climate	5
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA	5
Predicting snag fall in an old-growth forest after fire	5
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network	5
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room	5
3D imaging as a method of measuring serotiny	5
Fire-type heat increases the germination of Cistaceae seeds in contrast to summer heat	4
Short-term vegetation responses to the first prescribed burn in an urban pine rockland preserve	4
Plant community response to fuel break construction and goat grazing in a southern California shrubland	4
The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes	4
Correction to: A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire	4
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes	4
Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA	4
Assessment of the surface forest fuel load in the Ukrainian Polissia	4
Midwest prairie management practices benefit the non-target prairie crayfish	4
Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades	4
Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America	4
Retraction Note: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	4
Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather	4
Forest landowner values and perspectives of prescribed fire in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States	4
Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States	4
Dynamic correction of forest fire spread prediction using observation error covariance matrix estimation technique based on FLC-GRU	4
Prescribed fire promotes colonization by the Florida bog frog	4
A fast spectral recovery does not necessarily indicate post-fire forest recovery	4
The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana	4
Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects	4
Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration	3
The scientific value of fire in wilderness	3
Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau	3
Spatial and temporal drivers of post-fire tree establishment and height growth in a managed forest landscape	3
Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem	3
Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire	3
Impacts of a single fire event on large, old trees in a grass-invaded arid river system	3
Fire, land cover, and temperature drivers of bat activity in winter	3
Interpreting the shifts in forest structure, plant community composition, diversity, and functional identity by using remote sensing-derived wildfire severity	3
Fire history and vegetation data reveal ecological benefits of recent mixed-severity fires in the Cumberland Mountains, West Virginia, USA	3
Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes	3
Private landowner interest in prescribed fire in California: findings from workshops in the Sierra Nevada	3
Reliability of fire danger forecasts for Czech agricultural and forestry landscapes	3
Ecological trade-offs associated with fuel breaks in sagebrush ecosystems	3
Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity	3