OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fire Ecology is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Large California wildfires: 2020 fires in historical context	77
Changes to the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program mapping production procedures and data products	60
Forest fire and smoke detection using deep learning-based learning without forgetting	47
Restoration applications of resource objective wildfires in western US forests: a status of knowledge review	36
Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA	29
Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses	25
Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California	24
A large database supports the use of simple models of post-fire tree mortality for thick-barked conifers, with less support for other species	23
From flames to inflammation: how wildfires affect patterns of wildlife disease	19
Forest fire and law: an analysis of Turkish forest fire legislation based on Food and Agriculture Organization criteria	17
A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness	17
A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire	17
Retrospective analysis of burn windows for fire and fuels management: an example from the Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA	15
Litter to glitter: promoting herbaceous groundcover and diversity in mid-southern USA oak forests using canopy disturbance and fire	15
Vegetation’s influence on fire behavior goes beyond just being fuel	14
Large-scale wildfire reduces population growth in a peripheral population of sage-grouse	13
Frequent burning in chir pine forests, Uttarakhand, India	13
Northern spotted owl nesting forests as fire refugia: a 30-year synthesis of large wildfires	12
Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires	12
Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management	11
Decoupling between soil moisture and biomass drives seasonal variations in live fuel moisture across co-occurring plant functional types	10
Resilience of Mediterranean communities to fire depends on burn severity and type of ecosystem	10
A framework for quantifying forest wildfire hazard and fuel treatment effectiveness from stands to landscapes	10
Exploring the use of spectral indices to assess alterations in soil properties in pine stands affected by crown fire in Spain	10
Moisture and vegetation cover limit ponderosa pine regeneration in high-severity burn patches in the southwestern US	9

Spatial scale in prescribed fire regimes: an understudied aspect in conservation with examples from the southeastern United States	9
The distribution of woody species in relation to climate and fire in Yosemite National Park, California, USA	9
Prescribed fire alters structure and composition of a mid-Atlantic oak forest up to eight years after burning	9
Forest fire pattern and vulnerability mapping using deep learning in Nepal	9
Landscape-scale fuel treatment effectiveness: lessons learned from wildland fire case studies in forests of the western United States and Great Lakes region	9
Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America	9
Real-time fire detection algorithms running on small embedded devices based on MobileNetV3 and YOLOv4	9
Revealing historical fire regimes of the Cumberland Plateau, USA, through remnant fire-scarred shortleaf pines (Pinus echinata Mill.)	8
A reconstruction of the recent fire regimes of Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi, using remote sensing	8
Fire history and dendroecology of Catoctin Mountain, Maryland, USA, with newspaper corroboration	8
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling	7
Bats and fire: a global review	7
Determinants of fire intensity in working landscapes of an African savanna	7
Short-term benefits of prescribed fire to bird communities of dry forests	7
Fire interval and post-fire climate effects on serotinous forest resilience	7
Examining socioeconomic factors associated with wildfire occurrence and burned area in Galicia (Spain) using spatial and temporal data	7
Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity	7
The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes	7
Fire severity and tree size affect post-fire survival of Afrotemperate forest trees	7
Impacts of increasing fine fuel loads on acorn germination and early growth of oak seedlings	6
A spatially explicit analytical framework to assess wildfire risks on brown bear habitat and corridors in conservation areas	6
Territories in Transition: how social contexts influence wildland fire adaptive capacity in rural Northwestern European Mediterranean areas	6
Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire	6
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives	6
Short-term drivers of post-fire forest regeneration in the Western Alps	6
Governing wildfire in a global change context: lessons from water management in the Netherlands	6
Fuels change quickly after California drought and bark beetle outbreaks with implications for potential fire behavior and emissions	6
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	6
How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?	6
Integrating art and science to communicate the social and ecological complexities of wildfire and climate change in Arizona, USA	6