Crystal A. Kolden

11.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
115 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Crystal A. Kolden is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Crystal A. Kolden has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 47 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Crystal A. Kolden's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (101 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (38 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (25 papers). Crystal A. Kolden is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (101 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (38 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (25 papers). Crystal A. Kolden collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Crystal A. Kolden's co-authors include John T. Abatzoglou, Alistair M. S. Smith, David M. J. S. Bowman, Park Williams, James A. Lutz, Arjan J. H. Meddens, Guido R. van der Werf, Fay H. Johnston, Mike Flannigan and Grant J. Williamson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Crystal A. Kolden

107 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

2020 636 citations David M. J. S. Bowman, Crystal A. Kolden et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

2022 621 citations John T. Abatzoglou, Guido R. van der Werf et al. profile →
Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events

2017 459 citations David M. J. S. Bowman, Grant J. Williamson et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

2020 422 citations Michael Goss, Daniel L. Swain et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Relationships between climate and macroscale area burned in the western United States

2013 327 citations John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden International Journal of Wildland Fire profile →
Climate change presents increased potential for very large fires in the contiguous United States

2015 327 citations Renaud Barbero, John T. Abatzoglou et al. International Journal of Wildland Fire profile →
Global patterns of interannual climate–fire relationships

2018 245 citations John T. Abatzoglou, Park Williams et al. profile →
Rethinking resilience to wildfire

2019 219 citations David B. McWethy, Tania Schoennagel et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions

2021 209 citations Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg et al. Ecological Applications profile →
Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

2021 192 citations John T. Abatzoglou, Park Williams et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →
Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics

2024 51 citations Crystal A. Kolden, Guido R. van der Werf et al. Science profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Disaster recovery gentrification in post-wildfire landscapes: The case of Paradise, CA 2025 ·International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ·(unknown), Crystal A. Kolden, Anastasia Loukaitou‐Sideris	5
2	Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires 2025 ·Science ·Calum X. Cunningham, John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, Grant J. Williamson, Markus Steuer, David M. J. S. Bowman	0
3	Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States 2023 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Daniel L. Swain, John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, Kristen L. Shive, (unknown), Deepti Singh, Edward Smith	27
4	Bark Beetle Effects on Fire Regimes Depend on Underlying Fuel Modifications in Semiarid Systems 2023 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Jianning Ren, Erin J. Hanan, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Crystal A. Kolden, John T. Abatzoglou, C. Tague, R. R. Bart, Maureen C. Kennedy, Mingliang Liu, J. C. Adam	0
5	Projecting Future Fire Regimes in a Semiarid Watershed of the Inland Northwestern United States: Interactions Among Climate Change, Vegetation Productivity, and Fuel Dynamics 2022 ·Earth s Future ·Jianning Ren, Erin J. Hanan, John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, C. Tague, Maureen C. Kennedy, Mingliang Liu, J. C. Adam	11
6	Bushfires in Tasmania, Australia: An Introduction 2022 ·Fire ·David M. J. S. Bowman, Crystal A. Kolden, Grant J. Williamson	10
7	Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions breakdown → 2021 ·Ecological Applications ·Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg, R. Keala Hagmann, Nicholas A. Povak, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Matthew D. Hurteau, Van R. Kane, Robert E. Keane, Leda N. Kobziar, Crystal A. Kolden, Malcolm P. North, Sean A. Parks, Hugh D. Safford, Jens T. Stevens, Larissa L. Yocom, Derek J. Churchill, Robert W. Gray, David W. Huffman, Frank K. Lake, (unknown)	209
8	Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California breakdown → 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Michael Goss, Daniel L. Swain, John T. Abatzoglou, Ali Sarhadi, Crystal A. Kolden, Park Williams, Noah S. Diffenbaugh	422
9	Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene breakdown → 2020 ·Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·David M. J. S. Bowman, Crystal A. Kolden, John T. Abatzoglou, Fay H. Johnston, Guido R. van der Werf, Mike Flannigan	636
10	Rethinking resilience to wildfire breakdown → 2019 ·Nature Sustainability ·David B. McWethy, Tania Schoennagel, Philip E. Higuera, Meg A. Krawchuk, Brian J. Harvey, Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf, Courtney A. Schultz, Carol Miller, Alexander L. Metcalf, Brian Buma, Arika Virapongse, Judith C. Kulig, Richard C. Stedman, Zak Ratajczak, Cara R. Nelson, Crystal A. Kolden	219
11	Is forest management a safeguard against a climate change-altered wildfire regime in the City of Seattle's largest source watershed? 2019 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Erin J. Hanan, J. C. Adam, Jianning Ren, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Crystal A. Kolden, John T. Abatzoglou	1
12	Human–environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires 2018 ·AMBIO ·David M. J. S. Bowman, Andrés Moreira‐Muñoz, Crystal A. Kolden, Roberto O. Chávez, Ariel A. Muñoz, (unknown), Álvaro González‐Reyes, (unknown), Francisco de la Barrera, Grant J. Williamson, Nicolás Borchers Arriagada, Luis A. Cifuentes, John T. Abatzoglou, Fay H. Johnston	156
13	Accounting for disturbance history in models: using remote sensing to constrain carbon and nitrogen pool spin‐up 2018 ·Ecological Applications ·Erin J. Hanan, C. Tague, J. Choate, Mingliang Liu, Crystal A. Kolden, J. C. Adam	12
14	Human-related ignitions concurrent with high winds promote large wildfires across the USA 2018 ·International Journal of Wildland Fire ·John T. Abatzoglou, Jennifer K. Balch, Bethany A. Bradley, Crystal A. Kolden	67
15	Hazards in Motion: Development of Mobile Geofences for Use in Logging Safety 2017 ·Sensors ·(unknown), Robert Keefe, Eva K. Strand, Crystal A. Kolden, (unknown)	31
16	Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events breakdown → 2017 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·David M. J. S. Bowman, Grant J. Williamson, John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, Mark A. Cochrane, Alistair M. S. Smith	459
17	Climatic influences on interannual variability in regional burn severity across western US forests 2017 ·International Journal of Wildland Fire ·John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal A. Kolden, Park Williams, James A. Lutz, Alistair M. S. Smith	82
18	Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Unburned Areas within Fire Perimeters in the Northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014 2016 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Arjan J. H. Meddens, Crystal A. Kolden, Juliana Lutz, John T. Abatzoglou, (unknown)	1
19	Limitations and utilisation of Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity products for assessing wildfire severity in the USA 2015 ·International Journal of Wildland Fire ·Crystal A. Kolden, Alistair M. S. Smith, John T. Abatzoglou	134
20	Climate change presents increased potential for very large fires in the contiguous United States breakdown → 2015 ·International Journal of Wildland Fire ·Renaud Barbero, John T. Abatzoglou, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Crystal A. Kolden, B. J. Stocks	327

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