Devan Allen McGranahan

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Devan Allen McGranahan is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Devan Allen McGranahan has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Ecology, 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 32 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Devan Allen McGranahan's work include Rangeland and Wildlife Management (39 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (38 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (31 papers). Devan Allen McGranahan is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland and Wildlife Management (39 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (38 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (31 papers). Devan Allen McGranahan collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Malawi. Devan Allen McGranahan's co-authors include David M. Engle, Diane M. Debinski, James R. Miller, Aaron Lee M. Daigh, Jessica Veenstra, Torre J. Hovick, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Rakesh Awale, Amitava Chatterjee and Resham Thapa and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Devan Allen McGranahan

71 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Connecting Soil Organic Carbon and Root Biomass with Land... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400
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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. Connecting Soil Organic Carbon and Root Biomass with Land-Use and Vegetation in Temperate Grassland
    2014 419 citations Devan Allen McGranahan, David M. Engle et al. profile →

Peers

Devan Allen McGranahan
James Gibbons United Kingdom
Saroj Kanta Barik India
Le Li China
Haiyan Wei China
Eduardo Delgado Assad Brazil
Masahiro Ryo Germany
Carlos Antônio Álvares Soares Ribeiro Brazil
Emilio Guirado Spain
Edward J. Rykiel United States
James Gibbons United Kingdom
Devan Allen McGranahan
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2025). Perceptions of Prescribed Fire Among Ranchers near Northern US National Grasslands. Fire. 8(3). 102–102.
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McGranahan, Devan Allen & Carissa L. Wonkka. (2025). Quantifying wildfire risk to the built environment in rural rangelands of the US Interior West. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1924). 20230457–20230457. 1 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen & Carissa L. Wonkka. (2024). Pyrogeography of the Western Great Plains: A 40-Year History of Fire in Semi-Arid Rangelands. Fire. 7(1). 32–32. 3 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal patterns of rangeland forage nutritive value and grazer selection with patch-burning in the US northern Great Plains. Journal of Environmental Management. 357. 120731–120731. 5 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2024). Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 33(7). 4 indexed citations
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Donovan, Victoria M., Carissa L. Wonkka, Caleb P. Roberts, et al.. (2023). The influence of wildfire on invasive plant abundance and spatial structure in eastern ponderosa pine savanna. Plant Ecology. 224(11). 987–999.
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2023). Grasshopper abundance and offtake increase after prescribed fire in semi-arid grassland. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 32(12). 1828–1833. 2 indexed citations
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Kirkman, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Future-proofing extensive livestock production in subtropical grasslands and savannas. Animal Frontiers. 13(5). 23–32. 4 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen. (2022). The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next. African Journal of Range and Forage Science. 40(2). 240–241. 7 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2022). Weather and Fuel as Modulators of Grassland Fire Behavior in the Northern Great Plains. Environmental Management. 71(5). 940–949. 4 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2022). Mineral nitrogen and microbial responses to soil heating in burned grassland. Geoderma. 424. 116023–116023. 5 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen & Carissa L. Wonkka. (2022). Fuel Properties of Effective Greenstrips in Simulated Cheatgrass Fires. Environmental Management. 70(2). 319–328. 2 indexed citations
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Hovick, Torre J., et al.. (2022). Cattle grazing results in greater floral resources and pollinators than sheep grazing in low‐diversity grasslands. Ecology and Evolution. 12(1). e8396–e8396. 23 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2022). Barriers to Prescribed Fire in the US Great Plains, Part I: Systematic Review of Socio-Ecological Research. Land. 11(9). 1521–1521. 9 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen & Kevin Kirkman. (2019). Local Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing Ahead of Exploratory Drilling in Eastern South Africa. Environmental Management. 63(3). 338–351. 9 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2017). Reflections on a boom: Perceptions of energy development impacts in the Bakken oil patch inform environmental science & policy priorities. The Science of The Total Environment. 599-600. 1993–2018. 15 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2014). Land‐use history and an invasive grass affect tallgrass prairie sedge community composition. Applied Vegetation Science. 18(2). 209–219. 3 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2014). Patch Burning Improves Forage Quality and Creates Grass-Bank in Old-Field Pasture: Results of a Demonstration Trial. Southeastern Naturalist. 13(2). 200–207. 23 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2012). An Invasive Cool-Season Grass Complicates Prescribed Fire Management in a Native Warm-Season Grassland. Natural Areas Journal. 32(2). 208–208. 40 indexed citations
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McGranahan, Devan Allen, et al.. (2012). Spatial heterogeneity across five rangelands managed with pyric‐herbivory. Journal of Applied Ecology. 49(4). 903–910. 74 indexed citations

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