Brian Buma

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Brian Buma is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Buma has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 25 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Brian Buma's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (33 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers). Brian Buma is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (33 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers). Brian Buma collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Poland. Brian Buma's co-authors include Carol A. Wessman, John Krapek, Ben Livneh, Sarah M. Bisbing, Courtney A. Schultz, Joseph B. Fontaine, Jill F. Johnstone, Carissa D. Brown, Melissa S. Lucash and A. C. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Brian Buma

71 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Rethinking resilience to wildfire 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200
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. Rethinking resilience to wildfire
    2019 219 citations David B. McWethy, Tania Schoennagel et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brian Buma United States 25 1.4k 696 648 386 195 76 1.9k
Mauro E. González Chile 23 1.4k 1.0× 671 1.0× 618 1.0× 429 1.1× 202 1.0× 68 2.0k
Margot W. Kaye United States 22 979 0.7× 729 1.0× 519 0.8× 406 1.1× 101 0.5× 56 1.6k
Dominic Cyr Canada 20 1.3k 0.9× 668 1.0× 454 0.7× 352 0.9× 145 0.7× 40 1.6k
Andrés Holz United States 25 1.6k 1.1× 772 1.1× 767 1.2× 554 1.4× 220 1.1× 61 2.0k
Yan Boulanger Canada 31 1.7k 1.3× 766 1.1× 754 1.2× 412 1.1× 201 1.0× 78 2.2k
Dominique Arseneault Canada 25 1.6k 1.2× 794 1.1× 721 1.1× 940 2.4× 199 1.0× 81 2.3k
Éric Rigolot France 17 1.7k 1.3× 757 1.1× 693 1.1× 169 0.4× 280 1.4× 41 2.1k
Elena Marcos Spain 28 1.6k 1.1× 729 1.0× 958 1.5× 190 0.5× 173 0.9× 88 2.1k
Emily J. Fusco United States 15 1.3k 0.9× 528 0.8× 843 1.3× 168 0.4× 261 1.3× 27 1.7k
Mike A. Battaglia United States 31 2.2k 1.6× 1.5k 2.1× 1.1k 1.7× 438 1.1× 108 0.6× 74 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Buma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Buma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Buma

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Buma. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Buma 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 Brian Buma. Brian Buma 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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Ury, Emily A., Zhen Zhang, & Brian Buma. (2025). Addressing methane emission feedbacks from global wetlands. Nature Sustainability. 8(10). 1115–1118. 1 indexed citations
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Pawlik, Łukasz, Anna Gałązka, Piotr Gruba, et al.. (2024). High-resolution soil sampling reveals the pattern of biological weathering and soil formation under trees. The Science of The Total Environment. 941. 173725–173725. 1 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Chad M., et al.. (2024). Fuel constraints, not fire weather conditions, limit fire behavior in reburned boreal forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 358. 110216–110216. 1 indexed citations
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Ury, Emily A., Eve‐Lyn S. Hinckley, Daniele Visioni, & Brian Buma. (2024). Managing the Global Wetland Methane‐Climate Feedback: A Review of Potential Options. Global Change Biology. 30(11). e17585–e17585. 4 indexed citations
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Buma, Brian, et al.. (2024). Understory plant biodiversity is inversely related to carbon storage in a high carbon ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution. 14(10). e70095–e70095.
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Pawlik, Łukasz, Piotr Gruba, Anna Gałązka, et al.. (2023). Weathering and soil production under trees growing on sandstones – The role of tree roots in soil formation. The Science of The Total Environment. 902. 166002–166002. 6 indexed citations
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Kashian, Daniel M., Xiongwen Chen, David J. Flaspohler, et al.. (2023). Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 21(1). 14–23. 23 indexed citations
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Squeo, Francisco A., Brian Buma, Danny E. Carvajal, et al.. (2021). Gradientes Climáticos y su alta influencia en los ecosistemas terrestres de la Reserva de la Biosfera Cabo de Hornos, Chile. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia. 3 indexed citations
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Booth, Adam M., et al.. (2020). Large wood inhibits debris flow runout in forested southeast Alaska. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 45(7). 1555–1568. 24 indexed citations
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McWethy, David B., Tania Schoennagel, Philip E. Higuera, et al.. (2019). Rethinking resilience to wildfire. Nature Sustainability. 2(9). 797–804. 219 indexed citations breakdown →
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Buma, Brian, Brian J. Harvey, Daniel G. Gavin, et al.. (2018). The value of linking paleoecological and neoecological perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience. Landscape Ecology. 34(1). 17–33. 27 indexed citations
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Buma, Brian, Sarah M. Bisbing, John Krapek, & Glenn Wright. (2017). A foundation of ecology rediscovered: 100 years of succession on the William S. Cooper plots in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Ecology. 98(6). 1513–1523. 48 indexed citations
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Bidlack, Allison, Brian Buma, & David Butman. (2017). Quantifying Coastal Rain Forest Carbon Transport. Eos. 1 indexed citations
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Buma, Brian, John Krapek, & Rick T. Edwards. (2016). Watershed-scale forest biomass distribution in a perhumid temperate rainforest as driven by topographic, soil, and disturbance variables. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 46(6). 844–854. 12 indexed citations
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Fellman, Jason B., Brian Buma, Eran Hood, Richard T. Edwards, & David V. D’Amore. (2016). Linking LiDAR with streamwater biogeochemistry in coastal temperate rainforest watersheds. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 74(6). 801–811. 3 indexed citations
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Buma, Brian. (2011). Evaluating the utility and seasonality of NDVI values for assessing post-disturbance recovery in a subalpine forest. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 184(6). 3849–3860. 42 indexed citations

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