OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Fire Ecology is 2. 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
Vegetation fires along the Czech rail network	116
Effect of growing season fire timing on oak regeneration	108
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	49
Characterizing post-fire delayed tree mortality with remote sensing: sizing up the elephant in the room	47
Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers’ perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects	35
The path to strategic fire management planning in the Aran, Pyrenees	31
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	31
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	31
Prescribed burning mitigates the severity of subsequent wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands	30
Persistent, viable seedbank buffers serotinous bishop pine over a broad fire return interval	29
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	29
Five social and ethical considerations for using wildfire visualizations as a communication tool	29
Ecosystem type and species’ traits help explain bird responses to spatial patterns of fire	27
Reliability of cross-regional applications of global fire danger models: a Peruvian case study	27
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	26
Plant-plant interactions influence post-fire recovery depending on fire history and nurse growth form	21
Direct and indirect effects of fire on germination of shortleaf pine seeds	20
Service-learning to improve training, knowledge transfer, and awareness in forest fire management	20
Cheatgrass alters flammability of native perennial grasses in laboratory combustion experiments	19
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity	18
Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA	17
New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation	17
Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California	16
Stand diversity increases pine resistance and resilience to compound disturbance	15
Fire regimes and management options in mixed grassland-fynbos vegetation, South Africa	15

Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	15
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	14
Effectiveness of pre-fire forest management on post-fire forest conditions in southeastern Arizona	13
Impacts of a short-interval severe fire on forest structure and regeneration in a temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus forest	13
Extreme wildfire supersedes long-term fuel treatment influences on fuel and vegetation in chaparral ecosystems of northern California, USA	13
Modeling fuel break effectiveness in southern Spain wildfires	12
Moisture and vegetation cover limit ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches in the southwestern US	11
A tree-ring record of historical fire activity in a piedmont longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) woodland in North Carolina, USA	11
Principles of fire ecology	11
Branching out: species-specific canopy architecture limits live crown fuel consumption in Intermountain West USA conifers	11
Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States	11
Review of Fire ecology and management: past, present, and future of US forested ecosystems by Cathryn H. Greenberg and Beverly Collins (editors) and 75 contributing authors	11
A framework for natural resource management with geospatial machine learning: a case study of the 2021 Almora forest fires	11
Correction: Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	10
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	10
Correction: Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds	10
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	10
Correction: Frequent burning and limited stand‑replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy	10
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	9
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	9
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	9
Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy	9
Modeling sub-boreal forest canopy bulk density in Minnesota, USA, using synthetic aperture radar and optical satellite sensor data	9
Fire frequency and severity mediate recruitment response of a threatened shrub following severe megafire	9
Vegetation’s influence on fire behavior goes beyond just being fuel	9
Cellular automata-based simulators for the design of prescribed fire plans: the case study of Liguria, Italy	9
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	8
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	8
Frequent burning and limited stand-replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy	8
Governing wildfire in a global change context: lessons from water management in the Netherlands	8
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	8
Modeled interactions of mountain pine beetle and wildland fire under future climate and management scenarios for three western US landscapes	8
Fire severity influences large wood and stream ecosystem responses in western Oregon watersheds	8
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	8
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	8
How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?	8
The REBURN model: simulating system-level forest succession and wildfire dynamics	8
Short-term drivers of post-fire forest regeneration in the Western Alps	8
Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research	7
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	7
Taking the next step in wildfire education: integrating multiple knowledge forms into co-produced high school fire science curricula	7
Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern influence simulated prescribed fire effects	7
Predicting snag fall in an old-growth forest after fire	7
Fire severity and prolonged drought do not interact to reduce plant regeneration capacity but alter community composition in a Mediterranean shrubland	7
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	6
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	6
Modeling fuel moisture dynamics under climate change in Spain’s forests	6
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	6
Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes	5
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	5

How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	5
Modeling spatial patterns of longleaf pine needle dispersal using long-term data	5
Blanket bog vegetation response to wildfire and drainage suggests resilience to low severity, infrequent burning	5
North-facing aspects, shade objects, and microtopographic depressions promote the survival and growth of tree seedlings planted after wildfire	5
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	5
Forest fire and law: an analysis of Turkish forest fire legislation based on Food and Agriculture Organization criteria	5
An analysis of the recent fire regimes in the Angolan catchment of the Okavango Delta, Central Africa	5
Wildfires alter stream ecosystem functioning through effects on leaf litter	5
Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada	5
The impact of UAS aerial ignition on prescribed fire: a case study in multiple ecoregions of Texas and Louisiana	5
3D imaging as a method of measuring serotiny	5
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	4
Contribution of remote sensing to wildfire trend and dynamic analysis in two of Ghana’s ecological zones: Guinea-savanna and Forest-savanna mosaic	4
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	4
System-level feedbacks of active fire regimes in large landscapes	4
Fire-type heat increases the germination of Cistaceae seeds in contrast to summer heat	4
Effects of recent wildfires on giant sequoia groves were anomalous at millennial timescales: a response to Hanson et al.	4
Landscape-scale fuel treatment effectiveness: lessons learned from wildland fire case studies in forests of the western United States and Great Lakes region	4
Fire frequency effects on plant community characteristics in the Great Basin and Mojave deserts of North America	4
Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses	4
Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California	4
Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather	4
Forest fires and climate attributes interact in central Himalayas: an overview and assessment	4
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	4
Climate and humans interact to shape the fire regime of a chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) forest in eastern Bhutan	4
Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA	4
The effectiveness of past wildfire at limiting reburning is short-lived in a Mediterranean humid climate	4
Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas	4
Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain	4
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	4
What is the color when black is burned? Quantifying (re)burn severity using field and satellite remote sensing indices	4
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	4
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	4
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	4
Camera traps link population-level activity patterns with wildfire smoke events for mammals in Eastern Washington State	3
A spatially explicit analytical framework to assess wildfire risks on brown bear habitat and corridors in conservation areas	3
Evaluating crown scorch predictions from a computational fluid dynamics wildland fire simulator	3
Examining socioeconomic factors associated with wildfire occurrence and burned area in Galicia (Spain) using spatial and temporal data	3
Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States	3
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	3
Being there: effectiveness of a 360-degree virtual tour for increasing understanding of forest treatments for fire hazard reduction in California, USA	3
The legacy of fire: long-term changes to the forest understory from periodic burns in a New England oak-hickory forest	3
Forest landowner values and perspectives of prescribed fire in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States	3
Response of vulnerable karst forest ecosystems under different fire severities in the Northern Dinaric Karst mountains (Slovenia)	3
Retraction Note: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	3
Correction: Microarthropod responses to fire: vegetation cover modulates impacts on Collembola and Acari assemblages in Mediterranean area	3
Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management	3
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	3
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	3
Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia	3
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	3
Retraction Note: Analyzing the impacts of node density and speed on routing protocol performance in firefighting applications	3
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	3
When do contemporary wildfires restore forest structures in the Sierra Nevada?	3
Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas	2
Plant community response to fuel break construction and goat grazing in a southern California shrubland	2
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States	2
Dynamic correction of forest fire spread prediction using observation error covariance matrix estimation technique based on FLC-GRU	2
Midwest prairie management practices benefit the non-target prairie crayfish	2
Large California wildfires: 2020 fires in historical context	2
Operational fuel model map for Atlantic landscapes using ALS and Sentinel-2 images	2
Bats and fire: a global review	2
Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes	2
Are fire temperatures and residence times good predictors of survival and regrowth for resprouters in Florida, USA, scrub?	2
Nitrogen allocation in PM2.5 smoke-exposed plants: implications for ecosystem nitrogen cycling and stress response	2
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage	2
Fuels change quickly after California drought and bark beetle outbreaks with implications for potential fire behavior and emissions	2
Human influence on late Holocene fire history in a mixed-conifer forest, Sierra National Forest, California	2
Assessing changes in global fire regimes	2
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	2
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	2
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	2
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	2
Fire effects on plant communities in Ozark woodlands and glades	2
Assessment of the surface forest fuel load in the Ukrainian Polissia	2
Tradeoffs in growth and fuel reduction when using prescribed fire in young mixed conifer stands	2
A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire	2
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	2