Matthew D. Hurteau

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Matthew D. Hurteau is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew D. Hurteau has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 39 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Matthew D. Hurteau's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (86 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (31 papers). Matthew D. Hurteau is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (86 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (31 papers). Matthew D. Hurteau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Matthew D. Hurteau's co-authors include Malcolm P. North, George W. Koch, A. L. Westerling, Bruce A. Hungate, Christine Wiedinmyer, Shuang Liang, Matthew L. Brooks, Daniel Krofcheck, Harold S. J. Zald and Peter Z. Fulé and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Matthew D. Hurteau

93 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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 →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew D. Hurteau United States	35	3.3k	1.3k	1.1k	451	285	99	3.6k
Kevin C. Ryan United States	26	2.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	591 1.3×	314 1.1×	54	3.3k
W. L. McCaw Australia	32	2.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	302 0.7×	492 1.7×	99	3.2k
Susan J. Prichard United States	24	1.9k 0.6×	919 0.7×	533 0.5×	361 0.8×	275 1.0×	60	2.1k
Andrea E. Thode United States	20	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	894 0.8×	252 0.6×	573 2.0×	41	3.1k
José A. Vega Spain	37	3.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	953 0.8×	227 0.5×	550 1.9×	142	4.3k
Éric Rigolot France	17	1.7k 0.5×	693 0.5×	757 0.7×	169 0.4×	280 1.0×	41	2.1k
Jan W. van Wagtendonk United States	29	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	298 0.7×	665 2.3×	66	3.8k
Yan Boulanger Canada	31	1.7k 0.5×	754 0.6×	766 0.7×	412 0.9×	201 0.7×	78	2.2k
Eric E. Knapp United States	20	2.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	942 0.8×	140 0.3×	184 0.6×	30	2.2k
Tania Schoennagel United States	23	4.5k 1.3×	2.2k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	651 1.4×	727 2.6×	36	5.0k

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Jones, Gavin M., et al.. (2025). Prescribed fire, managed burning, and previous wildfires reduce the severity of a southwestern US gigafire. Forest Ecology and Management. 580. 122540–122540. 3 indexed citations

Jung, Chang Gyo, et al.. (2025). Modeling the probability of bark beetle-caused tree mortality as a function of watershed-scale host species presence and basal area. Forest Ecology and Management. 580. 122549–122549.

Anderegg, William R. L., Christa M. Anderson, Grayson Badgley, et al.. (2025). Towards more effective nature-based climate solutions in global forests. Nature. 643(8074). 1214–1222. 4 indexed citations

Margolis, Ellis Q., et al.. (2024). Trees have similar growth responses to first-entry fires and reburns following long-term fire exclusion. Forest Ecology and Management. 571. 122226–122226. 4 indexed citations

Remy, Cécile C., Daniel Krofcheck, A. Keyser, & Matthew D. Hurteau. (2024). Restoring frequent fire to dry conifer forests delays the decline of subalpine forests in the southwest United States under projected climate. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(7). 1508–1519. 3 indexed citations

Hurteau, Matthew D., Randall Baker, Melanie K. Taylor, et al.. (2024). Changing climate and disturbance effects on southwestern US forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 575. 122388–122388. 2 indexed citations

North, Malcolm P., Sarah M. Bisbing, Paul F. Hessburg, et al.. (2024). Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 15 indexed citations

Zald, Harold S. J., et al.. (2023). Thinning and prescribed burning increase shade-tolerant conifer regeneration in a fire excluded mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 551. 121531–121531. 12 indexed citations

Steel, Zachary L., et al.. (2023). Proportion of forest area burned at high-severity increases with increasing forest cover and connectivity in western US watersheds. Landscape Ecology. 38(10). 2501–2518. 20 indexed citations

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Kerhoulas, Lucy P., et al.. (2022). Conifer water-use patterns across temporal and topographic gradients in the southern Sierra Nevada. Tree Physiology. 43(2). 210–220. 4 indexed citations

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Juang, Caroline S., Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, et al.. (2022). Rapid Growth of Large Forest Fires Drives the Exponential Response of Annual Forest‐Fire Area to Aridity in the Western United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(5). e2021GL097131–e2021GL097131. 91 indexed citations

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Westerling, A. L., Christine Wiedinmyer, Joshua J. Picotte, et al.. (2022). Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: an example implementation over California. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 85008–85008. 18 indexed citations

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Prichard, Susan J., Paul F. Hessburg, R. Keala Hagmann, et al.. (2021). Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions. Ecological Applications. 31(8). e02433–e02433. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zald, Harold S. J., et al.. (2021). Climate‐Driven Tree Mortality and Fuel Aridity Increase Wildfire's Potential Heat Flux. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 41 indexed citations

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North, Malcolm P., R.A. York, Brandon M. Collins, et al.. (2021). Pyrosilviculture Needed for Landscape Resilience of Dry Western United States Forests. Journal of Forestry. 119(5). 520–544. 112 indexed citations

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North, Malcolm P., et al.. (2020). Changing climate reallocates the carbon debt of frequent‐fire forests. Global Change Biology. 26(11). 6180–6189. 34 indexed citations

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Keyser, A., Daniel Krofcheck, Cécile C. Remy, Craig D. Allen, & Matthew D. Hurteau. (2020). Simulated Increases in Fire Activity Reinforce Shrub Conversion in a Southwestern US Forest. Ecosystems. 23(8). 1702–1713. 25 indexed citations

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Hurteau, Matthew D., Shuang Liang, A. L. Westerling, & Christine Wiedinmyer. (2019). Vegetation-fire feedback reduces projected area burned under climate change. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 2838–2838. 90 indexed citations

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Maestrini, Bernardo, et al.. (2017). Fire severity alters the distribution of pyrogenic carbon stocks across ecosystem pools in a Californian mixed‐conifer forest. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 122(9). 2338–2355. 27 indexed citations

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Buchholz, Thomas A., Matthew D. Hurteau, John Gunn, & David Saah. (2015). A global meta‐analysis of forest bioenergy greenhouse gas emission accounting studies. GCB Bioenergy. 8(2). 281–289. 73 indexed citations

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