Eric E. Knapp

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Eric E. Knapp is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric E. Knapp has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Ecology and 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Eric E. Knapp's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (27 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (16 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Eric E. Knapp is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (27 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (16 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Eric E. Knapp collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Netherlands. Eric E. Knapp's co-authors include J. Morgan Varner, Kevin C. Ryan, Carl N. Skinner, Becky L. Estes, Brandon M. Collins, Malcolm P. North, Jeffrey M. Kane, Scott L. Stephens, Jon E. Keeley and Christopher J. Fettig and has published in prestigious journals such as BioScience, Ecological Applications and Forest Ecology and Management.

In The Last Decade

Eric E. Knapp

30 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges

2013 520 citations Eric E. Knapp, J. Morgan Varner et al. profile →
Drought, Tree Mortality, and Wildfire in Forests Adapted to Frequent Fire

2017 259 citations Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric E. Knapp United States	20	2.0k	1.2k	942	184	181	30	2.2k
Éric Rigolot France	17	1.7k 0.9×	693 0.6×	757 0.8×	280 1.5×	183 1.0×	41	2.1k
Carolyn Hull Sieg United States	28	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	160 0.9×	79 0.4×	98	2.2k
James D. McIver United States	21	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	821 0.9×	175 1.0×	79 0.4×	56	2.2k
Eric E. Knapp United States	27	2.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	344 1.9×	190 1.0×	50	3.0k
G. Matt Davies United States	22	1.2k 0.6×	879 0.8×	470 0.5×	154 0.8×	134 0.7×	51	1.6k
Leda N. Kobziar United States	23	1.3k 0.7×	700 0.6×	436 0.5×	131 0.7×	184 1.0×	57	1.6k
Elizabeth D. Reinhardt United States	17	1.5k 0.7×	689 0.6×	661 0.7×	137 0.7×	157 0.9×	35	1.6k
David W. Huffman United States	25	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	173 0.9×	48 0.3×	66	2.0k
Filipe X. Catry Portugal	22	1.3k 0.6×	588 0.5×	613 0.7×	266 1.4×	133 0.7×	40	1.6k
Dennis C. Odion United States	18	1.7k 0.9×	902 0.8×	742 0.8×	275 1.5×	196 1.1×	34	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric E. Knapp

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Taylor, Alan H., Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Eric E. Knapp, Alexander Klippel, & José J. Sánchez. (2025). Being there: effectiveness of a 360-degree virtual tour for increasing understanding of forest treatments for fire hazard reduction in California, USA. Fire Ecology. 21(1). 2 indexed citations

Wallgrün, Jan Oliver, Eric E. Knapp, Alan H. Taylor, et al.. (2021). Place-Based Learning Through a Proxy - Variations in the Perceived Benefits of a Virtual Tour. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 1–8. 5 indexed citations

Varner, J. Morgan, et al.. (2020). Long-term changes in masticated woody fuelbeds in northern California and southern Oregon, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 29(9). 807–819. 9 indexed citations

Coppoletta, Michelle, et al.. (2018). Spatial dynamics of tree group and gap structure in an old-growth ponderosa pine-California black oak forest burned by repeated wildfires. Forest Ecology and Management. 434. 289–302. 21 indexed citations

Kreye, Jesse K., et al.. (2016). The impact of aging on laboratory fire behaviour in masticated shrub fuelbeds of California and Oregon, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(9). 1002–1008. 8 indexed citations

Knapp, Eric E. & Martin W. Ritchie. (2016). Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high‐severity wildfire. Ecosphere. 7(11). 21 indexed citations

Varner, J. Morgan, et al.. (2015). Finding balance between fire hazard reduction and erosion control in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California–Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management. 360. 40–51. 16 indexed citations

Lydersen, Jamie M., Brandon M. Collins, Eric E. Knapp, Gary B. Roller, & Scott L. Stephens. (2015). Relating fuel loads to overstorey structure and composition in a fire-excluded Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24(4). 484–494. 49 indexed citations

Knapp, Eric E.. (2014). Long-term dead wood changes in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest: Habitat and fire hazard implications. Forest Ecology and Management. 339. 87–95. 19 indexed citations

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Varner, J. Morgan, et al.. (2013). Long‐term effects of fire severity on oak–conifer dynamics in the southern Cascades. Ecological Applications. 24(1). 94–107. 53 indexed citations

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Lydersen, Jamie M., Malcolm P. North, Eric E. Knapp, & Brandon M. Collins. (2013). Quantifying spatial patterns of tree groups and gaps in mixed-conifer forests: Reference conditions and long-term changes following fire suppression and logging. Forest Ecology and Management. 304. 370–382. 113 indexed citations

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Kreye, Jesse K., J. Morgan Varner, & Eric E. Knapp. (2012). Moisture desorption in mechanically masticated fuels: effects of particle fracturing and fuelbed compaction. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 21(7). 894–904. 29 indexed citations

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Estes, Becky L., et al.. (2012). Seasonal variation in surface fuel moisture between unthinned and thinned mixed conifer forest, northern California, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 21(4). 428–435. 44 indexed citations

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Knapp, Eric E., et al.. (2012). Chapter 12: The variable-density thinning study at Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest. 237. 127–139. 10 indexed citations

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Knapp, Eric E., C. Phillip Weatherspoon, & Carl N. Skinner. (2012). Shrub Seed Banks in Mixed Conifer Forests of Northern California and the Role of Fire in Regulating Abundance. Fire Ecology. 8(1). 32–48. 38 indexed citations

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Mantgem, Phillip J. van, Nathan L. Stephenson, Eric E. Knapp, John J. Battles, & Jon E. Keeley. (2011). Long-term effects of prescribed fire on mixed conifer forest structure in the Sierra Nevada, California. Forest Ecology and Management. 261(6). 989–994. 83 indexed citations

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Schwilk, Dylan W., Jon E. Keeley, Eric E. Knapp, et al.. (2009). The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels. Ecological Applications. 19(2). 285–304. 229 indexed citations

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Hamman, Sarah T., Ingrid C. Burke, & Eric E. Knapp. (2008). Soil nutrients and microbial activity after early and late season prescribed burns in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 256(3). 367–374. 74 indexed citations

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Kane, Jeffrey M., Eric E. Knapp, & J. Morgan Varner. (2006). Variability in Loading of Mechanically Masticated Fuel Beds in Northern California and Southwestern Oregon. 41. 8 indexed citations

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Knapp, Eric E. & Larry R. Teuber. (1990). Environmental Factors and Plant Phenotype Affect Alfalfa Floret. Crop Science. 30(2). 270–275. 3 indexed citations

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