Avi Bar‐Massada

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Avi Bar‐Massada is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Avi Bar‐Massada has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Avi Bar‐Massada's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (25 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (18 papers). Avi Bar‐Massada is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (25 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (21 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (18 papers). Avi Bar‐Massada collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Avi Bar‐Massada's co-authors include Volker C. Radeloff, Susan I. Stewart, Alexandra D. Syphard, Todd J. Hawbaker, Van Butsic, Miranda H. Mockrin, Patricia M. Alexandre, Sebastián Martinuzzi, David P. Helmers and H. Anu Kramer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Avi Bar‐Massada

59 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk

2018 730 citations Volker C. Radeloff, David P. Helmers et al. profile →
The global wildland–urban interface

2023 88 citations Franz Schug, Avi Bar‐Massada et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Avi Bar‐Massada Israel	26	1.9k	823	442	435	432	61	2.6k
David P. Helmers United States	19	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	230 0.5×	381 0.9×	363 0.8×	29	3.0k
Enric Batllori Spain	23	2.4k 1.3×	766 0.9×	287 0.6×	827 1.9×	455 1.1×	40	2.8k
Rachael H. Nolan Australia	28	2.5k 1.3×	881 1.1×	221 0.5×	760 1.7×	434 1.0×	81	3.2k
Florent Mouillot France	34	3.9k 2.1×	1.5k 1.9×	461 1.0×	849 2.0×	580 1.3×	93	4.7k
Scott L. Goodrick United States	25	2.3k 1.3×	538 0.7×	481 1.1×	338 0.8×	325 0.8×	68	2.8k
Hamish Clarke Australia	21	1.7k 0.9×	525 0.6×	205 0.5×	331 0.8×	302 0.7×	38	2.0k
Matthias M. Boer Australia	38	3.9k 2.1×	1.6k 2.0×	374 0.8×	1.2k 2.8×	730 1.7×	110	5.0k
W. L. McCaw Australia	32	2.8k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	533 1.2×	1.1k 2.5×	492 1.1×	99	3.2k
Geoffrey J. Cary Australia	33	3.6k 2.0×	1.9k 2.3×	409 0.9×	1.5k 3.5×	551 1.3×	93	4.4k
Jeremy S. Littell United States	25	3.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	217 0.5×	774 1.8×	496 1.1×	58	3.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bar‐Massada, Avi, et al.. (2024). Utilizing treated wastewater for pasture irrigation: Effects on productivity, plant community structure and soil properties. Grass and Forage Science. 79(2). 228–238.

Bar‐Massada, Avi, et al.. (2024). A European-scale analysis reveals the complex roles of anthropogenic and climatic factors in driving the initiation of large wildfires. The Science of The Total Environment. 917. 170443–170443. 12 indexed citations

Bar‐Massada, Avi, et al.. (2023). Constructing a Comprehensive National Wildfire Database from Incomplete Sources: Israel as a Case Study. Fire. 6(4). 131–131. 4 indexed citations

Schug, Franz, Avi Bar‐Massada, Amanda R. Carlson, et al.. (2023). The global wildland–urban interface. Nature. 621(7977). 94–99. 88 indexed citations breakdown →

Gavish, Yoni, et al.. (2023). When a pest-control species becomes a pest: A shift in the foraging habitat of cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) and the threat to grazed natural ecosystems. Biological Conservation. 282. 110067–110067. 4 indexed citations

Bar‐Massada, Avi, et al.. (2023). Wildlife mortality risk posed by high and low traffic roads. Conservation Biology. 38(2). e14159–e14159. 12 indexed citations

Tchernov, Dan, et al.. (2023). Assessment of storm impact on coral reef structural complexity. The Science of The Total Environment. 891. 164493–164493. 7 indexed citations

Bar‐Massada, Avi, et al.. (2023). A geographically flexible approach for mapping the Wildland-Urban Interface integrating fire activity data. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 4 indexed citations

Gavish, Yoni, Eric M. Wood, Sebastián Martinuzzi, Anna M. Pidgeon, & Avi Bar‐Massada. (2021). Effects of bird species-level environmental preference on landscape-level richness-heterogeneity relationships. Basic and Applied Ecology. 56. 379–391. 2 indexed citations

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Bar‐Massada, Avi, et al.. (2020). Utilizing Vegetation and Environmental New Micro Spacecraft (VENµS) Data to Estimate Live Fuel Moisture Content in Israel's Mediterranean Ecosystems. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 13. 3204–3212. 6 indexed citations

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Argañaraz, Juan Pablo, Volker C. Radeloff, Avi Bar‐Massada, et al.. (2017). Assessing wildfire exposure in the Wildland-Urban Interface area of the mountains of central Argentina. Journal of Environmental Management. 196. 499–510. 68 indexed citations

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Leshem, Yossi, et al.. (2016). Multidimensional differentiation in foraging resource use during breeding of two sympatric top predators. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35031–35031. 25 indexed citations

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Kishinevsky, Miriam, Tamar Keasar, & Avi Bar‐Massada. (2016). Parasitoid abundance on plants: effects of host abundance, plant species, and plant flowering state. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 11(2). 155–161. 14 indexed citations

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Bar‐Massada, Avi. (2015). Complex relationships between species niches and environmental heterogeneity affect species co-occurrence patterns in modelled and real communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1813). 20150927–20150927. 50 indexed citations

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Izhaki, Ido, et al.. (2014). The Role of Abiotic Environmental Conditions and Herbivory in Shaping Bacterial Community Composition in Floral Nectar. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e99107–e99107. 47 indexed citations

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Syphard, Alexandra D., Avi Bar‐Massada, Van Butsic, & Jon E. Keeley. (2013). Land Use Planning and Wildfire: Development Policies Influence Future Probability of Housing Loss. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e71708–e71708. 94 indexed citations

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Carmel, Yohay, et al.. (2013). Trends in Ecological Research during the Last Three Decades – A Systematic Review. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e59813–e59813. 61 indexed citations

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Bar‐Massada, Avi, Susan I. Stewart, Roger B. Hammer, Miranda H. Mockrin, & Volker C. Radeloff. (2013). Using structure locations as a basis for mapping the wildland urban interface. Journal of Environmental Management. 128. 540–547. 48 indexed citations

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Syphard, Alexandra D., Jon E. Keeley, Avi Bar‐Massada, Teresa J. Brennan, & Volker C. Radeloff. (2012). Housing Arrangement and Location Determine the Likelihood of Housing Loss Due to Wildfire. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e33954–e33954. 151 indexed citations

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Kent, Rafi, Avi Bar‐Massada, & Yohay Carmel. (2011). Multiscale Analyses of Mammal Species Composition – Environment Relationship in the Contiguous USA. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e25440–e25440. 15 indexed citations

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