Ellen Whitman

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ellen Whitman is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen Whitman has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ellen Whitman's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (43 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (16 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Ellen Whitman is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (43 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (16 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Ellen Whitman collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Ellen Whitman's co-authors include Marc‐André Parisien, Dan K. Thompson, Mike Flannigan, Meg A. Krawchuk, Jonathan D. Coop, Carol Miller, Geneva W. Chong, Sandra L. Haire, Jamie Woolet and Thea Whitman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Ellen Whitman

41 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada

2024 89 citations Piyush Jain, Quinn E. Barber et al. Nature Communications profile →
Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s

2023 75 citations Marc‐André Parisien, Quinn E. Barber et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ellen Whitman Canada	21	1.4k	765	352	302	208	43	1.6k
Rachel A. Loehman United States	21	1.1k 0.8×	620 0.8×	275 0.8×	206 0.7×	168 0.8×	55	1.3k
Olga Viedma Spain	18	1.4k 1.0×	653 0.9×	366 1.0×	109 0.4×	338 1.6×	31	1.7k
Brian Buma United States	25	1.4k 1.0×	648 0.8×	696 2.0×	386 1.3×	195 0.9×	76	1.9k
Cameron Yates Australia	18	1.1k 0.8×	708 0.9×	421 1.2×	213 0.7×	167 0.8×	35	1.4k
Jens T. Stevens United States	19	1.6k 1.1×	849 1.1×	854 2.4×	257 0.9×	169 0.8×	33	1.8k
Éric Rigolot France	17	1.7k 1.2×	693 0.9×	757 2.2×	169 0.6×	280 1.3×	41	2.1k
Pedro G. Vaz Portugal	14	1.2k 0.8×	542 0.7×	331 0.9×	75 0.2×	294 1.4×	24	1.4k
Camille S. Stevens‐Rumann United States	17	1.6k 1.1×	838 1.1×	673 1.9×	196 0.6×	186 0.9×	46	1.7k
Ze’ev Gedalof Canada	18	1.3k 0.9×	525 0.7×	475 1.3×	748 2.5×	190 0.9×	36	1.8k
Allan Spessa United Kingdom	17	1.3k 0.9×	392 0.5×	257 0.7×	756 2.5×	146 0.7×	34	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ellen Whitman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ellen Whitman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ellen Whitman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ellen Whitman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ellen Whitman 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 Ellen Whitman. Ellen Whitman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Brown, Kendrick J., Juha M. Metsaranta, David Paré, et al.. (2026). Examining post-fire environmental change and succession in Canada. Environmental Reviews.

Parks, Sean A., Christopher H. Guiterman, Ellis Q. Margolis, et al.. (2025). A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1493–1493. 12 indexed citations

Whitman, Ellen, et al.. (2025). Climate, topography, or fuels? Top‐down versus bottom‐up controls on fire refugia across British Columbia, Canada. Ecosphere. 16(9).

Collins, Luke, Keith D. Morrison, Luc Guindon, et al.. (2025). Extremely large fires shape fire severity patterns across the diverse forests of British Columbia, Canada. Ecosphere. 16(8). 1 indexed citations

Whitman, Ellen, Quinn E. Barber, Piyush Jain, et al.. (2024). A modest increase in fire weather overcomes resistance to fire spread in recently burned boreal forests. Global Change Biology. 30(6). e17363–e17363. 9 indexed citations

Barber, Quinn E., Piyush Jain, Ellen Whitman, et al.. (2024). The Canadian Fire Spread Dataset. Scientific Data. 11(1). 764–764. 11 indexed citations

Whitman, Ellen, et al.. (2023). Peatlands promote fire refugia in boreal forests of northern Alberta, Canada. Ecosphere. 14(5). 16 indexed citations

Whitman, Thea, et al.. (2022). Resilience in soil bacterial communities of the boreal forest from one to five years after wildfire across a severity gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 172. 108755–108755. 16 indexed citations

Woolet, Jamie, Ellen Whitman, Marc‐André Parisien, et al.. (2022). Effects of short-interval reburns in the boreal forest on soil bacterial communities compared to long-interval reburns. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 98(8). 3 indexed citations

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Stevens‐Rumann, Camille S., Susan J. Prichard, Ellen Whitman, Marc‐André Parisien, & Arjan J. H. Meddens. (2022). Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 52(10). 1281–1302. 45 indexed citations

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Skakun, Rob, et al.. (2022). Extending the National Burned Area Composite Time Series of Wildfires in Canada. Remote Sensing. 14(13). 3050–3050. 26 indexed citations

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Skakun, Rob, Ellen Whitman, John M. Little, & Marc‐André Parisien. (2021). Area burned adjustments to historical wildland fires in Canada. Environmental Research Letters. 16(6). 64014–64014. 26 indexed citations

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Walker, Xanthe J., Brendan M. Rogers, Sander Veraverbeke, et al.. (2020). Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions. Nature Climate Change. 10(12). 1130–1136. 119 indexed citations

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Whitman, Ellen, Marc‐André Parisien, Lisa M. Holsinger, Jane Park, & Sean A. Parks. (2020). A method for creating a burn severity atlas: an example from Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 29(11). 995–1008. 26 indexed citations

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Downing, William M., Meg A. Krawchuk, Jonathan D. Coop, et al.. (2019). How do plant communities differ between fire refugia and fire‐generated early‐seral vegetation?. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31(1). 26–39. 20 indexed citations

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Parks, Sean A., Lisa M. Holsinger, Michael J. Koontz, et al.. (2019). Giving Ecological Meaning to Satellite-Derived Fire Severity Metrics across North American Forests. Remote Sensing. 11(14). 1735–1735. 93 indexed citations

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Whitman, Ellen, Marc‐André Parisien, Dan K. Thompson, & Mike Flannigan. (2019). Short-interval wildfire and drought overwhelm boreal forest resilience. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18796–18796. 169 indexed citations

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Downing, William M., Meg A. Krawchuk, Garrett W. Meigs, et al.. (2019). Influence of fire refugia spatial pattern on post-fire forest recovery in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. Landscape Ecology. 34(4). 771–792. 47 indexed citations

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Whitman, Ellen, Marc‐André Parisien, Dan K. Thompson, & Mike Flannigan. (2018). Topoedaphic and Forest Controls on Post-Fire Vegetation Assemblies Are Modified by Fire History and Burn Severity in the Northwestern Canadian Boreal Forest. Forests. 9(3). 151–151. 51 indexed citations

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Whitman, Ellen, Enric Batllori, Marc‐André Parisien, et al.. (2015). The climate space of fire regimes in north‐western North America. Journal of Biogeography. 42(9). 1736–1749. 60 indexed citations

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