Douglas C. Morton

25.6k total citations · 14 hit papers
129 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

About

Douglas C. Morton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas C. Morton has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 61 papers in Ecology and 44 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Douglas C. Morton's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (55 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (48 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (38 papers). Douglas C. Morton is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (55 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (48 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (38 papers). Douglas C. Morton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Netherlands. Douglas C. Morton's co-authors include James T. Randerson, Guido R. van der Werf, Ruth DeFries, Louis Giglio, G. J. Collatz, P. S. Kasibhatla, M. Mu, T. T. van Leeuwen, Yang Chen and Brendan M. Rogers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Douglas C. Morton

122 papers receiving 16.5k 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.

Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009)

2010 2.1k citations Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson et al. profile →
Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016

2017 1.4k citations Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson et al. Earth system science data profile →
CO2 emissions from forest loss

2009 1000 citations Guido R. van der Werf, Douglas C. Morton et al. profile →
Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon

2006 763 citations Douglas C. Morton et al. profile →
A human-driven decline in global burned area

2017 760 citations Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton et al. Science profile →
Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires

2012 641 citations James T. Randerson, Guido R. van der Werf et al. profile →
Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions

2014 592 citations Paulo Brando, Douglas C. Morton et al. profile →
Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products

2010 476 citations Louis Giglio, James T. Randerson et al. profile →
Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s

2012 474 citations Márcia N. Macedo, Ruth DeFries et al. profile →
Brazil's Soy Moratorium

2015 472 citations Holly K. Gibbs, Lisa Rausch et al. Science profile →
Amazon forests maintain consistent canopy structure and greenness during the dry season

2014 339 citations Douglas C. Morton, Bruce D. Cook et al. profile →
The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction

2019 277 citations Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton et al. Earth system science data profile →
Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia

2017 243 citations Holly K. Gibbs, Praveen Noojipady et al. profile →
Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests

2022 121 citations Yue Li, Paulo Brando et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Dense Time Series of Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 and Ensemble Machine Learning to Map Coffee Production Stages 2025 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), C. Santos, Édson Luís Bolfe, Edson Eyji Sano, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Danielle Elis Garcia Furuya, L. A. S. Romani, Douglas C. Morton	1
2	Model-assisted estimation of domain totals, areas, and densities in two-stage sample survey designs 2024 ·Canadian Journal of Forest Research ·Hans‐Erik Andersen, Göran Ståhl, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton, Andrew O. Finley	1
3	Systematically tracking the hourly progression of large wildfires using GOES satellite observations 2024 ·Earth system science data ·Tianjia Liu, James T. Randerson, Yang Chen, Douglas C. Morton, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Padhraic Smyth, Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou, (unknown), (unknown)	4
4	Tracking Changes in Vegetation Structure Following Fire in the Cerrado Biome Using ICESat‐2 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Douglas C. Morton, Niels Andela	7
5	Future increases in Amazonia water stress from CO2 physiology and deforestation 2023 ·Nature Water ·Yue Li, Jessica C. A. Baker, Paulo Brando, Forrest M. Hoffman, David M. Lawrence, Douglas C. Morton, Abigail L. S. Swann, (unknown), James T. Randerson	9
6	California wildfire spread derived using VIIRS satellite observations and an object-based tracking system 2022 ·Scientific Data ·Yang Chen, Stijn Hantson, Niels Andela, Shane Coffield, (unknown), Douglas C. Morton, Lesley Ott, Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou, Padhraic Smyth, Michael L. Goulden, James T. Randerson	40
7	Large‐scale, image‐based tree species mapping in a tropical forest using artificial perceptual learning 2021 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), María Uriarte, (unknown), Douglas C. Morton, Tian Zheng	9
8	Classifying Forest Type in the National Forest Inventory Context with Airborne Hyperspectral and Lidar Data 2021 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Hans‐Erik Andersen, L. Monika Moskal, Chad Babcock, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton	28
9	Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Marcos Longo, Sassan Saatchi, Michael Keller, K. W. Bowman, (unknown), P. R. Moorcroft, Douglas C. Morton, Damien Bonal, Paulo Brando, Benoît Burban, Géraldine Derroire, M. N. dos-Santos, Victoria Meyer, S. R. Saleska, Susan Trumbore, Grégoire Vincent	65
10	Unmasking secondary vegetation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Sâmia Nunes, (unknown), João Victor Siqueira, Douglas C. Morton, Carlos Souza	69
11	Forecasting Global Fire Emissions on Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales 2020 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Yang Chen, James T. Randerson, Shane Coffield, Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou, Padhraic Smyth, (unknown), Douglas C. Morton, Niels Andela, Guido R. van der Werf, Louis Giglio, Lesley Ott	16
12	The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia 2020 ·Science Advances ·Paulo Brando, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, (unknown), (unknown), Douglas C. Morton, (unknown), E. C. M. Fernandes, Márcia N. Macedo, Ubirajara Oliveira, Michael T. Coe	151
13	Forest Woody Structures Decrease the Radiative Transfer Modelled Far-red Solar-induced Fluorescence Radiance More Than Its Canopy Escape Ratio 2020 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Zbyněk Malenovský, Růžena Janoutová, Lucie Homolová, Jan Novotný, Tiangang Yin, (unknown), Nicolas Lauret, Jordan Guilleux, (unknown), Douglas C. Morton, Bruce D. Cook, Jean‐Philippe Gastellu‐Etchegorry	1
14	Soy expansion in Brazil's Cerrado 2019 ·Conservation Letters ·Lisa Rausch, Holly K. Gibbs, Ian Schelly, Amintas Brandão, Douglas C. Morton, Arnaldo Carneiro Filho, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Nathalie F. Walker, Praveen Noojipady, Paulo Barreto, (unknown)	93
15	A Global Fire Atlas of size, duration, and spread from satellite burned area data 2018 ·EGUGA ·Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton, Yang Chen, Louis Giglio, James T. Randerson	0
16	Science Data Visualization in AR/VR for Planetary and Earth Science 2018 ·(unknown), W. B. Garry, (unknown), Troy Ames, Douglas C. Morton, David Lagomasino, Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Nargess Memarsadeghi	1
17	A human-driven decline in global burned area breakdown → 2017 ·Science ·Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton, Louis Giglio, Yang Chen, Guido R. van der Werf, P. S. Kasibhatla, Ruth DeFries, G. J. Collatz, Stijn Hantson, Silvia Kloster, Dominique Bachelet, Matthew Forrest, Gitta Lasslop, Fang Li, Stéphane Mangeon, Joe R. Melton, Chao Yue, James T. Randerson	760
18	Synergy between land use and climate change increases future fire risk in Amazon forests 2017 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Yannick Le Page, Douglas C. Morton, Corinne Hartin, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, José M. C. Pereira, G. C. Hurtt, Ghassem Asrar	85
19	Large-area hybrid estimation of aboveground biomass in interior Alaska using airborne laser scanning data 2017 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Liviu Theodor Ene, Terje Gobakken, Hans‐Erik Andersen, Erik Næsset, Bruce D. Cook, Douglas C. Morton, Chad Babcock, Ross Nelson	30
20	Conservation challenge at the agricultural frontier: deforestation, fire, and land use dynamics in Mato Grosso 2007 ·Ambiente e Agua - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science ·Douglas C. Morton	10

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