Megan E. Cattau

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 947 citations indexed

About

Megan E. Cattau is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan E. Cattau has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 947 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Megan E. Cattau's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (17 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (9 papers). Megan E. Cattau is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (17 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (9 papers). Megan E. Cattau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Megan E. Cattau's co-authors include Jennifer K. Balch, Adam L. Mahood, Ruth DeFries, John T. Abatzoglou, Maxwell B. Joseph, Park Williams, Miriam E. Marlier, Carol A. Wessman, Joseph McGlinchy and Michael J. Koontz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Megan E. Cattau

32 papers receiving 919 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.

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

2022 147 citations Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan E. Cattau United States	13	730	362	127	117	113	35	947
Jesús Martínez‐Fernández Spain	10	807 1.1×	268 0.7×	191 1.5×	98 0.8×	237 2.1×	14	948
Nathan Mietkiewicz United States	12	880 1.2×	316 0.9×	135 1.1×	141 1.2×	162 1.4×	14	1.0k
Raúl Romero Calcerrada Spain	12	690 0.9×	306 0.8×	139 1.1×	71 0.6×	243 2.2×	38	939
Ana M. G. Barros United States	18	969 1.3×	326 0.9×	205 1.6×	50 0.4×	245 2.2×	25	1.1k
Lingxiao Ying China	15	505 0.7×	191 0.5×	133 1.0×	99 0.8×	113 1.0×	34	780
Arijit Roy India	17	545 0.7×	268 0.7×	135 1.1×	149 1.3×	221 2.0×	74	952
Celso H. L. Silva Brazil	18	919 1.3×	433 1.2×	269 2.1×	95 0.8×	82 0.7×	57	1.2k
Sam S. Rabin United States	18	686 0.9×	225 0.6×	141 1.1×	195 1.7×	88 0.8×	35	1.1k
Birendra Bajracharya Nepal	14	578 0.8×	306 0.8×	78 0.6×	257 2.2×	228 2.0×	26	967
Justin Epting United States	7	846 1.2×	627 1.7×	125 1.0×	100 0.9×	92 0.8×	8	961

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan E. Cattau

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20 of 20 papers shown

McGlinchy, Joseph, et al.. (2025). A review of UAS-based estimation of forest traits and characteristics in landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology. 40(2). 1 indexed citations

Cattau, Megan E., et al.. (2025). Conservation easements target high quality lands but do not increase their quality. Biological Conservation. 308. 111234–111234.

Olsoy, Peter J., Donna Delparte, Matthew J. Germino, et al.. (2024). Demography with drones: detecting growth and survival of shrubs with unoccupied aerial systems. Restoration Ecology. 32(4). 3 indexed citations

Caughlin, T. Trevor, Jennyffer Cruz, David S. Pilliod, et al.. (2024). Propagating observation errors to enable scalable and rigorous enumeration of plant population abundance with aerial imagery. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(11). 2074–2086. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Tao, et al.. (2024). Quantifying rangeland fractional cover in the Northern Great Basin sagebrush steppe communities using high-resolution unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) imagery. Landscape Ecology. 39(11).

Mahood, Adam L., Maxwell B. Joseph, Michael J. Koontz, et al.. (2023). Ten simple rules for working with high resolution remote sensing data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3.

Rad, Arash Modaresi, John T. Abatzoglou, Erica Fleishman, et al.. (2023). Social vulnerability of the people exposed to wildfires in U.S. West Coast states. Science Advances. 9(38). eadh4615–eadh4615. 22 indexed citations

Olsoy, Peter J., Donna Delparte, Matthew J. Germino, et al.. (2023). High‐resolution thermal imagery reveals how interactions between crown structure and genetics shape plant temperature. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 10(1). 106–120. 2 indexed citations

Cattau, Megan E., et al.. (2023). Forecasting natural regeneration of sagebrush after wildfires using population models and spatial matching. Landscape Ecology. 38(5). 1291–1306. 4 indexed citations

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Sadegh, Mojtaba, et al.. (2023). Post-fire hydrologic analysis: a tale of two severities. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 69(1). 139–148. 7 indexed citations

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Balch, Jennifer K., Megan E. Cattau, R. Chelsea Nagy, et al.. (2023). Cyberinfrastructure deployments on public research clouds enable accessible Environmental Data Science education. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing. 367–373. 3 indexed citations

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Koontz, Michael J., Megan E. Cattau, Joseph McGlinchy, et al.. (2022). Democratizing macroecology: Integrating unoccupied aerial systems with the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere. 13(8). 3 indexed citations

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Balch, Jennifer K., John T. Abatzoglou, Maxwell B. Joseph, et al.. (2022). Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire. Nature. 602(7897). 442–448. 147 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sloan, Sean, Bruno Locatelli, Niels Andela, et al.. (2022). Declining severe fire activity on managed lands in Equatorial Asia. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 10 indexed citations

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Brandt, Jodi, et al.. (2021). Comparison of Different Analytical Strategies for Classifying Invasive Wetland Vegetation in Imagery from Unpiloted Aerial Systems (UAS). Remote Sensing. 13(23). 4733–4733. 7 indexed citations

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Sloan, Sean, Luca Tacconi, & Megan E. Cattau. (2021). Fire prevention in managed landscapes: Recent success and challenges in Indonesia. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 26(7). 16 indexed citations

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Vanderhoof, Melanie K., et al.. (2020). Tracking rates of postfire conifer regeneration vs. deciduous vegetation recovery across the western United States. Ecological Applications. 31(2). e02237–e02237. 21 indexed citations

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Joseph, Maxwell B., Matthew W. Rossi, Nathan Mietkiewicz, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima. Ecological Applications. 29(6). e01898–e01898. 53 indexed citations

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Reid, J. Leighton, Sarah Jane Wilson, Megan E. Cattau, et al.. (2017). How Long Do Restored Ecosystems Persist?. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 102(2). 258–265. 44 indexed citations

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Cattau, Megan E., et al.. (2016). Sources of anthropogenic fire ignitions on the peat-swamp landscape in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Global Environmental Change. 39. 205–219. 114 indexed citations

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