OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fire Ecology is 9. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk	176
Fitness consequences of catastrophic wildfire are mitigated by behavioral responses of an iconic bird	96
Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other	72
Biotic and physical drivers of fire in northwestern Patagonia	64
A novel post-fire method to estimate individual tree crown scorch height and volume using simple RPAS-derived data	54
Short-term recovery of post-fire vegetation is primarily limited by drought in Mediterranean forest ecosystems	51
A decade of genetic makeup in the aerial seed bank of a fire-evader tree	51
Historical fire regimes from red pines (Pinus resinosa Ait.) across the Tension Zone in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan USA	51
Correction to persistence of fire-killed conifer snags in California, USA	45
Ultra-lightweight convolution-transformer network for early fire smoke detection	43
Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017	42
Inventory analysis of fire effects wrought by wind-driven megafires in relation to weather and pre-fire forest structure in the western Cascades	41
Assessing four decades of fire behavior dynamics in the Cerrado biome (1985 to 2022)	37
Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire	34
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	34
How bureaucracies interact with Indigenous Fire Stewardship (IFS): a conceptual framework	32
The serotinous cones of Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmaea exhibit a higher phosphorus content compared to their open counterparts	24
Effects of repeated fire on Florida oak-saw palmetto scrub	24
Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests	22
Construction and assessment of a fire risk index system for typical grasslands in Xinjiang, China	21
Resource objective wildfires shifted forest structure and fuels toward pre-fire-exclusion conditions in a remote Arizona wilderness	20
Estimating masticated and cone fuel loads using the Photoload method	20
Increasing wildfire frequency decreases carbon storage and leads to regeneration failure in Alaskan boreal forests	20
The effectiveness of prescribed burning for protecting houses during wildfires in Australia	20
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

Comparing fire behavior and severity between a wildfire and a controlled burn in an Atlantic shrubland	19
Flammability features of native and non-native woody species from the southernmost ecosystems: a review	18
Cone and fruit impacts on understory flammability depend on traits and forest floor coverage	18
Quail on fire: changing fire regimes may benefit mountain quail in fire-adapted forests	17
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	17
Fuel build-up promotes an increase in fire severity of reburned areas in fire-prone ecosystems of the western Mediterranean Basin	17
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	17
Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020	16
Fire regimes of the Southern Appalachians may radically shift under climate change	16
Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States	16
Preferred atmospheric circulations associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, USA	15
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region	15
Potential drivers of fire severity in Golden Gate Highlands National Park: a case study of the November 2022 big fire event	15
Microenvironment characteristics and early regeneration after the 2018 Spring Creek Wildfire and post-fire logging in Colorado, USA	15
Wildfire risk perception survey: insights from local communities in Tuscany, Italy	14
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests	14
Environmental health of wildland firefighters: a scoping review	14
Repeated fire and extended drought influence forest resilience in Arizona Sky Islands	14
Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds	14
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival	13
Retraction Note: Shapley-based interpretation of deep learning models for wildfire spread rate prediction	13
Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative	13
Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.	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
Fire history in the serpentine‑soil Spanish firs of Sierra Bermeja	13
Correction: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	12
Vegetation–fuel–fire feedbacks in patches of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) regeneration	12
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	12
Time since fire shapes plant immaturity risk across fire severity classes	12
Fire regimes over a 1070-m elevational gradient, San Francisco Peaks/Dook’o’oosłííd, Arizona, USA	12
Impacts of multi-method learning on prescribed fire perceptions in Texas	12
Burn severity and proximity to undisturbed forest drive post-fire recovery in the tropical montane forests of northern Vietnam	12
Contradictions and continuities: a historical context to Euro-American settlement era fires of the Lake States, USA	12
Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict vegetation fire detections in Pakistan	11
Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits: a pyro-ecophysiological approach to live fuel moisture prediction in common shrubs	11
Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia	11
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Federated recognition mechanism based on enhanced temporal-spatial learning using mobile edge sensors for firefighters	11
The effect of postfire regeneration pattern on soil respiration in the boreal forest of China	11
Timing of fire during summer determines seed germination in Mediterranean Cistaceae	11
Soil redistribution and seed availability after fire events in mixed Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia (Argentina)	11
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	11
Retraction Note: FireXnet: an explainable AI-based tailored deep learning model for wildfire detection on resource-constrained devices	10
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	10
Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama	10
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	10
Roles of fire in the plant communities of the eastern Edwards Plateau of Texas	10
Wildfire assessment using machine learning algorithms in different regions	10
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Wildfire risk exploration: leveraging SHAP and TabNet for precise factor analysis	9
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	9

Use of airborne LiDAR to predict fine dead fuel load in Mediterranean forest stands of Southern Europe	9
Seed maturation and mortality patterns support non-serotinous conifer regeneration mechanism following high-severity fire	9
Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region	9
Fire gives avian populations a rapid and enduring boost in protected forests of California	9
Global impacts of fire regimes on wildland bird diversity	9
Major changes in climate, vegetation, and ecological resilience in recent decades suggest climate smart management strategies for western US dryland shrublands and woodlands	9
Understanding drivers and dynamics of potential heat release in wet sclerophyll forests	9
Wind climate analysis for prescribed fire planning: case study of Tallahassee, Florida	9