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Most cited papers from Natural Hazards Research Australia

What are the most cited papers from Natural Hazards Research Australia?

The most cited paper from Natural Hazards Research Australia is "Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia" (Nerilie Jane Abram, Benjamin J. Henley, Alex Sen Gupta et al., 2021), with 880 citations. Next come "Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation" (632) and "A physics-based approach to modelling grassland fires" (598).

Showing 50 of 60 papers. Every paper with more than 135 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia Nerilie Jane Abram, Benjamin J. Henley, Alex Sen Gupta et al. · Communications Earth & Environment Open access 7 Jan 2021 880
2 Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation Emilio Chuvieco, Florent Mouillot, Guido R. van der Werf et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 5 Mar 2019 632
3 A physics-based approach to modelling grassland fires William Mell, Mary Ann Jenkins, Jim S. Gould et al. · International Journal of Wildland Fire 19 Feb 2007 598
4 A review of informal volunteerism in emergencies and disasters: Definition, opportunities and challenges J. E. Whittaker, Blythe J. McLennan, John W Handmer · International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Open access 17 Jul 2015 542
5 Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them Don A. Driscoll, David B. Lindenmayer, Andrew F. Bennett et al. · Biological Conservation 2 Jul 2010 506
6 Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland Karel Mokany, Julian Ash, Stephen H. Roxburgh · Journal of Ecology 7 May 2008 488
7 The Excess Heat Factor: A Metric for Heatwave Intensity and Its Use in Classifying Heatwave Severity John Nairn, Robert Fawcett · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Open access 23 Dec 2014 482
8 Causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019–20 season of mega‐fires Rachael H. Nolan, Matthias M. Boer, Luke C. Collins et al. · Global Change Biology Open access 9 Jan 2020 463
9 Patch Mosaic Burning for Biodiversity Conservation: a Critique of the Pyrodiversity Paradigm Catherine L. Parr, Alan N. Andersen · Conservation Biology 19 Jul 2006 463
10 Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment. Retrospective analysis and current trends Alexander I. Filkov, Tuan Ngo, Stuart Matthews et al. · Journal of Safety Science and Resilience Open access Jul 2020 447
11 Anatomy of a catastrophic wildfire: The Black Saturday Kilmore East fire in Victoria, Australia Miguel G. Cruz, Andrew L. Sullivan, James S. Gould et al. · Forest Ecology and Management 31 Aug 2012 447
12 Estimating fractional cover of photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation and bare soil in the Australian tropical savanna region upscaling the EO-1 Hyperion and MODIS sensors Juan Pablo Guerschman, Michael J. Hill, Luigi J. Renzullo et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment 28 Feb 2009 432
13 Fire frequency and biodiversity conservation in Australian tropical savannas: implications from the Kapalga fire experiment Alan N. Andersen, Garry David Cook, Laurie K. Corbett et al. · Austral Ecology 24 Mar 2005 393
14 Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture Todd Ellis, David M. J. S. Bowman, Piyush Jain et al. · Global Change Biology Open access 20 Nov 2021 349
15 The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire Luke C. Collins, Ross A. Bradstock, Hamish G. Clarke et al. · Environmental Research Letters Open access 3 Mar 2021 339
16 Mega-fires, tipping points and ecosystem services: Managing forests and woodlands in an uncertain future Mark A. Adams · Forest Ecology and Management 26 Jan 2013 319
17 Long-term impacts of prescribed burning on regional extent and incidence of wildfires—Evidence from 50 years of active fire management in SW Australian forests Matthias M. Boer, Rohan J. Sadler, Roy S. Wittkuhn et al. · Forest Ecology and Management 5 Nov 2009 314
18 Exploring 167 years of vulnerability: An examination of extreme heat events in Australia 1844–2010 Lucinda Coates, Katharine Haynes, James F. O’Brien et al. · Environmental Science & Policy Open access 11 Jun 2014 309
19 Limits to post‐fire vegetation recovery under climate change Rachael H. Nolan, Luke C. Collins, Andrea Leigh et al. · Plant Cell & Environment Open access 28 Aug 2021 302
20 Top-down assessment of disaster resilience: A conceptual framework using coping and adaptive capacities Melissa E. Parsons, Sonya M. Glavac, Peter Hastings et al. · International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Open access 28 Jul 2016 299
21 The worldwide “wildfire” problem A. Malcolm Gill, Scott Lewis Stephens, Geoffrey J. Cary · Ecological Applications 17 Sep 2012 274
22 Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value? Trent D. Penman, Fiona J. Christie, Alan N. Andersen et al. · International Journal of Wildland Fire Sep 2011 265
23 Satellite Remote Sensing Contributions to Wildland Fire Science and Management Emilio Chuvieco, Inmaculada Aguado, Javier Salas et al. · Current Forestry Reports Open access 30 Apr 2020 263
24 Dead fuel moisture research: 1991–2012 Stuart Matthews · International Journal of Wildland Fire Open access 10 Sep 2013 246
25 Strengthening and Repair of Reinforced Concrete Columns by Jacketing: State-of-the-Art Review Saim Raza, Muhammad Khubaib Ilyas Khan, Scott Joseph Menegon et al. · Sustainability Open access 9 Jun 2019 240
26 Assessing crown fire potential in coniferous forests of western North America: a critique of current approaches and recent simulation studies Miguel G. Cruz, Martin E. Alexander · International Journal of Wildland Fire 24 Jun 2010 240
27 Improving estimates of savanna burning emissions for greenhouse accounting in northern Australia: limitations, challenges, applications Jeremy Russell‐Smith, Brett P. Murphy, C.P. Mick Meyer et al. · International Journal of Wildland Fire 17 Feb 2009 222
28 Predicting fire behaviour in dry eucalypt forest in southern Australia N. Phillip Cheney, James S. Gould, W. L. McCaw et al. · Forest Ecology and Management 7 Jul 2012 220
29 Australian bushfire fatalities 1900–2008: exploring trends in relation to the ‘Prepare, stay and defend or leave early’ policy Katharine Haynes, John W Handmer, John McAneney et al. · Environmental Science & Policy 25 Mar 2010 209
30 Comparison of the Sensitivity of Landscape-fire-succession Models to Variation in Terrain, Fuel Pattern, Climate and Weather Geoffrey J. Cary, Robert E. Keane, Robert H. Gardner et al. · Landscape Ecology 2006 207
31 Aboriginal Resource Utilization and Fire Management Practice in Western Arnhem Land, Monsoonal Northern Australia: Notes for Prehistory, Lessons for the Future Jeremy Russell‐Smith, Diane Lucas, Minnie Gapindi et al. · Human Ecology Jun 1997 207
32 Quantifying fine fuel dynamics and structure in dry eucalypt forest (Eucalyptus marginata) in Western Australia for fire management James S. Gould, W. L. McCaw, N. Phillip Cheney · Forest Ecology and Management 22 May 2011 204
33 Uncertainty associated with model predictions of surface and crown fire rates of spread Miguel G. Cruz, Martin E. Alexander · Environmental Modelling & Software 5 Jun 2013 198
34 Environmental circumstances surrounding bushfire fatalities in Australia 1901–2011 Raphaële Blanchi, Justin Leonard, Katharine Haynes et al. · Environmental Science & Policy Open access 11 Nov 2013 193
35 The interaction of wind and fire Tom Beer · Boundary-Layer Meteorology Feb 1991 187
36 A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing Marta Yebra, Xingwen Quan, David Riaño et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 11 May 2018 186
37 Flame temperature and residence time of fires in dry eucalypt forest B. Mike Wotton, James S. Gould, W. L. McCaw et al. · International Journal of Wildland Fire 13 Dec 2011 182
38 What do you mean, ‘megafire’? Grant D. Linley et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography Open access 3 May 2022 171
39 An overview of mountain meteorological effects relevant to fire behaviour and bushfire risk Jason John Sharples · International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 Oct 2009 170
40 Forest fire fuel through the lens of remote sensing: Review of approaches, challenges and future directions in the remote sensing of biotic determinants of fire behaviour Matthew G. Gale, Geoffrey J. Cary, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 21 Jan 2021 169
41 Large fires, fire effects and the fire-regime concept A. Malcolm Gill, Grant Allan · International Journal of Wildland Fire 11 Dec 2008 169
42 Association between fire smoke fine particulate matter and asthma-related outcomes: Systematic review and meta-analysis Nicolás Borchers Arriagada, Joshua A. Horsley, Andrew John Palmer et al. · Environmental Research ReviewOpen access 26 Sep 2019 167
43 Are meteotsunamis an underrated hazard? Charitha Bandula Pattiaratchi, Sarath Wijeratne · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Open access 21 Sep 2015 167
44 PTR-MS analysis of reference and plant-emitted volatile organic compounds Simin D. Maleknia, Tina L. Bell, Mark A. Adams · International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 19 Dec 2006 164
45 Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017 Sarah L. Harris, Chris Lucas · PLoS ONE Open access 19 Sep 2019 163
46 Expanding protection motivation theory: investigating an application to animal owners and emergency responders in bushfire emergencies Rachel Westcott, Kevin R. Ronan, Hilary Bambrick et al. · BMC Psychology Open access 26 Apr 2017 163
47 A Review of Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management Billy Tusker Haworth, Eleanor M. Bruce · Geography Compass Open access May 2015 162
48 Disaster risk reduction education in Indonesia: challenges and recommendations for scaling up Avianto Amri, Deanne K. Bird, Kevin R. Ronan et al. · Natural hazards and earth system sciences Open access 24 Apr 2017 161
49 Forest fire threatens global carbon sinks and population centres under rising atmospheric water demand Hamish G. Clarke, Rachael H. Nolan, Víctor Resco de Dios et al. · Nature Communications Open access 22 Nov 2022 158
50 Mechanisms of Fire Seasonality Effects on Plant Populations Russell G. Miller, Ryan Tangney, Neal J. Enright et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution ReviewOpen access 6 Aug 2019 158

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