Max A. Moritz

19.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
125 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

About

Max A. Moritz is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Max A. Moritz has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 39 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Max A. Moritz's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (96 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (28 papers). Max A. Moritz is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (96 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (28 papers). Max A. Moritz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Max A. Moritz's co-authors include Meg A. Krawchuk, Marc‐André Parisien, Philip E. Dennison, Enric Batllori, Katharine Hayhoe, Simon Brewer, Dennis C. Odion, Jon E. Keeley, Alexandra D. Syphard and Tania Schoennagel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Max A. Moritz

122 papers receiving 10.9k 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.

Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984–2011

2014 1.0k citations Max A. Moritz et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

2011 894 citations David M. J. S. Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch et al. Journal of Biogeography profile →
Learning to coexist with wildfire

2014 795 citations Max A. Moritz, Enric Batllori et al. profile →
Global Pyrogeography: the Current and Future Distribution of Wildfire

2009 748 citations Meg A. Krawchuk, Max A. Moritz et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

2012 709 citations Max A. Moritz, Marc‐André Parisien et al. profile →
Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

2017 557 citations Jennifer K. Balch, Meg A. Krawchuk et al. profile →
Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century

2017 328 citations Aaron R. Ramirez, Max A. Moritz et al. profile →

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Max A. Moritz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Max A. Moritz

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The effectiveness of prescribed burning for protecting houses during wildfires in Australia 2025 ·Fire Ecology ·Philip Gibbons, (unknown), Max A. Moritz, Geoffrey J. Cary	0
2	Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California 2025 ·Science Advances ·Gavin D. Madakumbura, Max A. Moritz, Karen A. McKinnon, Park Williams, Stefan Rahimi, Benjamin Bass, Jesse Norris, Rong Fu, Alex Hall	0
3	Increasing vulnerability of an endemic Mediterranean-climate conifer to changing climate and fire regime 2025 ·Frontiers in Forests and Global Change ·Frank W. Davis, (unknown), Max A. Moritz, Isaac Park, Carla M. D’Antonio	1
4	Developing effective wildfire risk mitigation plans for the wildland urban interface 2023 ·International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·Alan T. Murray, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Max A. Moritz, Dar A. Roberts, Stuart Sweeney, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Charles Jones	11
5	Live fuel moisture and water potential exhibit differing relationships with leaf‐level flammability thresholds 2023 ·Functional Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Aaron R. Ramirez, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Max A. Moritz	9
6	Fire Characteristics and Hydrologic Connectivity Influence Short‐Term Responses of North Temperate Lakes to Wildfire 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Ian M. McCullough, Jennifer A. Brentrup, Tyler Wagner, Jean‐François Lapierre, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Max A. Moritz, Christopher T. Filstrup	6
7	Recent California tree mortality portends future increase in drought-driven forest die-off 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Gavin D. Madakumbura, Michael L. Goulden, Alex Hall, Rong Fu, Max A. Moritz, Charles D. Koven, Lara M. Kueppers, (unknown), James T. Randerson	23
8	The changing water cycle: The eco‐hydrologic impacts of forest density reduction in Mediterranean (seasonally dry) regions 2019 ·Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water ·C. Tague, Max A. Moritz, Erin J. Hanan	72
9	Do lakes feel the burn? Ecological consequences of increasing exposure of lakes to fire in the continental United States 2019 ·Global Change Biology ·Ian M. McCullough, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Jean‐François Lapierre, Noah R. Lottig, Max A. Moritz, Jemma Stachelek, Patricia A. Soranno	42
10	A statement of common ground regarding the role of wildfire in forested landscapes of the western United States 2018 ·Final Report ·Max A. Moritz, (unknown), Craig D. Allen, Paul F. Hessburg, Penelope Morgan, Dennis C. Odion, Thomas T. Veblen, Ian M. McCullough	1
11	Potential relocation of climatic environments suggests high rates of climate displacement within the North American protection network 2017 ·Global Change Biology ·Enric Batllori, Marc‐André Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Max A. Moritz, Carol Miller	55
12	Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997–2010) 2016 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Jennifer K. Balch, R. Chelsea Nagy, Sally Archibald, David M. J. S. Bowman, Max A. Moritz, Christopher I. Roos, Andrew C. Scott, Grant J. Williamson	18
13	Incorporating anthropogenic influences into fire probability models: Effects of development and climate change on fire activity in California 2014 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Michael Mann, Max A. Moritz, Enric Batllori, Eric K. Waller, Meg A. Krawchuk, Peter Berck	1
14	Is U.S. climatic diversity well represented within the existing federal protection network? 2014 ·Ecological Applications ·Enric Batllori, Carol Miller, Marc‐André Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Max A. Moritz	15
15	Large Scale Modeling of Floodplain Inundation; Calibration and Forecast Based on Lisflood-FP Model and Remotely Sensed Data 2013 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Michael Durand, Jeffrey Neal, Max A. Moritz	1
16	Fire and Climate Change in California: Changes in the Distribution and Frequency of Fire in Climates of the Future and Recent Past (1911-2099) 2012 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Meg A. Krawchuk, Max A. Moritz	8
17	Land Management Practices Associated with House Loss in Wildfires 2012 ·PLoS ONE ·Philip Gibbons, Linda van Bommel, A. Malcolm Gill, Geoffrey J. Cary, Don A. Driscoll, Ross A. Bradstock, Emma Knight, Max A. Moritz, Scott L. Stephens, David B. Lindenmayer	188
18	The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth breakdown → 2011 ·Journal of Biogeography ·David M. J. S. Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch, Paulo Artaxo, William J. Bond, Mark A. Cochrane, Carla M. D’Antonio, Ruth DeFries, Fay H. Johnston, Jon E. Keeley, Meg A. Krawchuk, Christian A. Kull, Michelle C. Mack, Max A. Moritz, Stephen J. Pyne, Christopher I. Roos, Andrew C. Scott, Navjot S. Sodhi, Thomas W. Swetnam	894
19	Pyrogeography: Understanding the ecological niche of fire 2010 ·Max A. Moritz, (unknown), (unknown)	8
20	Predicting the Effect of Climate Change on Wildfire Severity and Outcomes in California: Preliminary Analysis 2006 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Jeremy S. Fried, J. Keith Gilless, W. J. Riley, Tadashi Moody, Clara Simón de Blas, Katharine Hayhoe, Max A. Moritz, Scott L. Stephens, Margaret Torn	3

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