B. D. Amiro

12.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
107 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

B. D. Amiro is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, B. D. Amiro has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in B. D. Amiro's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (34 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers). B. D. Amiro is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (34 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers). B. D. Amiro collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. B. D. Amiro's co-authors include Mike Flannigan, B. J. Stocks, K. A. Logan, W. Skinner, B. Mike Wotton, Alan Barr, David L. Martell, Kelvin Hirsch, Joseph A. Mason and J. H. McCaughey and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

B. D. Amiro

105 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

Large forest fires in Canada, 1959–1997 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2005 250 500 750
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.

  1. Large forest fires in Canada, 1959–1997
    2002 807 citations B. J. Stocks, B. Mike Wotton et al. profile →
  2. Future Area Burned in Canada
    2005 724 citations Mike Flannigan, K. A. Logan et al. Climatic Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
B. D. Amiro Canada 41 5.5k 2.1k 1.9k 903 747 107 6.7k
W. Matt Jolly United States 31 6.4k 1.2× 3.2k 1.5× 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 1.5× 845 1.1× 72 7.6k
Kirsten Thonicke Germany 40 7.5k 1.4× 2.4k 1.1× 2.8k 1.4× 2.0k 2.2× 643 0.9× 110 9.6k
Florent Mouillot France 34 3.9k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 957 0.5× 849 0.9× 439 0.6× 93 4.7k
Matthias Forkel Germany 32 3.5k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 539 0.6× 824 1.1× 72 5.0k
Gitta Lasslop Germany 27 4.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 528 0.6× 288 0.4× 48 4.6k
Sergey Venevsky China 18 3.2k 0.6× 1.5k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 907 1.0× 343 0.5× 35 5.1k
A. D. McGuire United States 42 3.8k 0.7× 2.4k 1.1× 4.7k 2.4× 631 0.7× 380 0.5× 82 7.8k
Zachary A. Holden United States 32 5.3k 1.0× 2.6k 1.2× 1.3k 0.7× 1.4k 1.6× 740 1.0× 71 6.5k
Hugo G. Hidalgo Costa Rica 33 6.9k 1.3× 1.8k 0.9× 3.1k 1.6× 1.1k 1.2× 497 0.7× 96 8.7k
Brendan M. Rogers United States 33 5.2k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 3.1k 1.6× 683 0.8× 406 0.5× 106 6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by B. D. Amiro

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Fields of papers citing papers by B. D. Amiro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by B. D. Amiro. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by B. D. Amiro. The network helps show where B. D. Amiro may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. D. Amiro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of B. D. Amiro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of B. D. Amiro based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with B. D. Amiro. B. D. Amiro is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Qu, Bo, Alexandre Roy, Joe R. Melton, et al.. (2023). A boreal forest model benchmarking dataset for North America: a case study with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC). Environmental Research Letters. 18(8). 85002–85002. 3 indexed citations
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Tenuta, Mario, et al.. (2019). Agricultural management practices and environmental drivers of nitrous oxide emissions over a decade for an annual and an annual-perennial crop rotation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 276-277. 107636–107636. 41 indexed citations
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Glenn, Aaron J., et al.. (2013). Net CO2 and N2O exchange during perennial forage establishment in an annual crop rotation in the Red River Valley, Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 16 indexed citations
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Tenuta, Mario, et al.. (2013). Seasonal dynamics of methane emissions from a subarctic fen in the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Biogeosciences. 10(7). 4465–4479. 25 indexed citations
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Glenn, Aaron J., et al.. (2010). Carbon dioxide exchange in a northern Prairie cropping system over three years. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 150(7-8). 908–918. 40 indexed citations
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Amiro, B. D.. (2010). Estimating annual carbon dioxide eddy fluxes using open-path analysers for cold forest sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 150(10). 1366–1372. 39 indexed citations
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Amiro, B. D.. (2009). Measuring boreal forest evapotranspiration using the energy balance residual. Journal of Hydrology. 366(1-4). 112–118. 36 indexed citations
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Birdsey, Richard A., Jennifer C. Jenkins, Mark Johnston, et al.. (2007). North American forests. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 15(3). 236–9. 19 indexed citations
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Amiro, B. D.. (2006). A perspective on carbon dioxide flux measurements using an open-path infrared gas analyzer in cold environments. 10 indexed citations
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Flannigan, Mike, K. A. Logan, B. D. Amiro, W. Skinner, & B. J. Stocks. (2005). Future Area Burned in Canada. Climatic Change. 72(1-2). 1–16. 724 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Timothy J., Sue A. Ferguson, & B. D. Amiro. (2005). Preface. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 133(1-4). 4–4. 1 indexed citations
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Barr, Alan, T. Andrew Black, Harry McCaughey, et al.. (2004). The Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites: A Synthesis of Results, 1994-2003. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations
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Flannigan, Mike, K. A. Logan, B. J. Stocks, et al.. (2002). Projections of future fire activity and area burned in Canada.. 3 indexed citations
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Amiro, B. D., Mike Flannigan, B. J. Stocks, & B. Mike Wotton. (2002). Perspectives on carbon emissions from Canadian forest fires. The Forestry Chronicle. 78(3). 388–390. 13 indexed citations
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Amiro, B. D.. (1997). Potential Effects of Climatic Change on Radiological Doses from Disposal of Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste. Health Physics. 72(5). 693–700. 1 indexed citations
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Amiro, B. D., et al.. (1996). Burning radionuclide question: What happens to iodine, cesium and chlorine in biomass fires?. The Science of The Total Environment. 187(2). 93–103. 72 indexed citations
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Amiro, B. D., et al.. (1994). Household Humidifiers As a Radiological Dose Pathway. Health Physics. 67(3). 276–279. 1 indexed citations
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Sheppard, S. C., B. D. Amiro, Marsha I. Sheppard, et al.. (1994). Carbon-14 in the biosphere: Modelling and supporting research for the Canadian nuclear fuel waste management program. Waste Management. 14(5). 445–456. 14 indexed citations
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Sheppard, Marsha I., S. C. Sheppard, & B. D. Amiro. (1991). Mobility and Plant Uptake of Inorganic 14C and 14C-labelled Pcb in Soils of High and Low Retention. Health Physics. 61(4). 481–492. 30 indexed citations
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Sheppard, Marsha I., et al.. (1990). Soil-to-plant transfer of carbon-14 for environmental assessment of radioactive waste repositories. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 6(1). 179–179. 2 indexed citations

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