Michael J. Koontz

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 702 citations indexed

About

Michael J. Koontz is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Koontz has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 702 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Koontz's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (7 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (5 papers). Michael J. Koontz is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (7 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (5 papers). Michael J. Koontz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and South Africa. Michael J. Koontz's co-authors include Zachary L. Steel, Hugh D. Safford, Brett A. Melbourne, Ruth A. Hufbauer, Adam L. Mahood, Jennifer K. Balch, Joseph McGlinchy, Megan E. Cattau, Creighton M. Litton and Christopher M. Richards and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Koontz

16 papers receiving 682 citations

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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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18 of 18 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Limited directional change in mountaintop plant communities over 19 years in western North America 2025 ·Ecosphere ·(unknown), Meagan F. Oldfather, (unknown), (unknown), Michael J. Koontz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Seema N. Sheth	1
2	Rising from the ashes: treatments stabilize carbon storage in California’s frequent-fire forests 2025 ·Frontiers in Forests and Global Change ·(unknown), (unknown), J.M. Shannon, Sophie L. Gilbert, Michael J. Koontz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
3	Ten simple rules for working with high resolution remote sensing data 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Adam L. Mahood, Maxwell B. Joseph, (unknown), Michael J. Koontz, (unknown), Kylen Solvik, (unknown), Joseph McGlinchy, (unknown), Lise A. St. Denis, (unknown), Anna Braswell, Matthew W. Rossi, (unknown), Leah Wasser, Megan E. Cattau, Virginia Iglesias, Fangfang Yao, Stefan Leyk, Jennifer K. Balch	0
4	Democratizing macroecology: Integrating unoccupied aerial systems with the National Ecological Observatory Network 2022 ·Ecosphere ·Michael J. Koontz, (unknown), (unknown), Megan E. Cattau, (unknown), Joseph McGlinchy, Tristan Goulden, Brett A. Melbourne, Jennifer K. Balch	3
5	Fuel connectivity, burn severity, and seed bank survivorship drive ecosystem transformation in a semiarid shrubland 2022 ·Ecology ·Adam L. Mahood, Michael J. Koontz, Jennifer K. Balch	8
6	Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire breakdown → 2022 ·Nature ·Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou, Maxwell B. Joseph, Michael J. Koontz, Adam L. Mahood, Joseph McGlinchy, Megan E. Cattau, Park Williams	147
7	Optimizing aerial imagery collection and processing parameters for drone‐based individual tree mapping in structurally complex conifer forests 2022 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Derek J. N. Young, Michael J. Koontz, (unknown)	25
8	Cross-scale interaction of host tree size and climatic water deficit governs bark beetle-induced tree mortality 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Michael J. Koontz, Andrew M. Latimer, Leif A. Mortenson, Christopher J. Fettig, Malcolm P. North	70
9	Range dynamics mediated by compensatory life stage responses to experimental climate manipulations 2021 ·Ecology Letters ·Meagan F. Oldfather, Michael J. Koontz, Daniel F. Doak, David D. Ackerly	10
10	Drone-derived data supporting "Cross-scale interaction of host tree size and climatic water deficit governs bark beetle-induced tree mortality" 2020 ·OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) ·Leif A. Mortenson, Christopher J. Fettig, Michael J. Koontz, Andrew M. Latimer, Malcolm P. North	1
11	local-structure-wpb-severity 2019 ·OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) ·Andrew M. Latimer, Leif A. Mortenson, Malcolm P. North, Michael J. Koontz, Christopher J. Fettig	1
12	Giving Ecological Meaning to Satellite-Derived Fire Severity Metrics across North American Forests 2019 ·Remote Sensing ·Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Michael J. Koontz, Luke Collins, Ellen Whitman, Marc‐André Parisien, Rachel A. Loehman, Jennifer L. Barnes, (unknown), Jonathan Boucher, Yan Boucher, Anthony C. Caprio, (unknown), Ronald J. Hall, Jane Park, (unknown), Charlotte Smetanka, Rebecca J. Smith, (unknown)	93
13	Community turnover by composition and climatic affinity across scales in an alpine system 2019 ·American Journal of Botany ·(unknown), Meagan F. Oldfather, Michael J. Koontz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Seema N. Sheth	9
14	Parsing propagule pressure: Number, not size, of introductions drives colonization success in a novel environment 2018 ·Ecology and Evolution ·Michael J. Koontz, Meagan F. Oldfather, Brett A. Melbourne, Ruth A. Hufbauer	17
15	The changing landscape of wildfire: burn pattern trends and implications for California’s yellow pine and mixed conifer forests 2018 ·Landscape Ecology ·Zachary L. Steel, Michael J. Koontz, Hugh D. Safford	78
16	Effects of topoclimatic complexity on the composition of woody plant communities 2015 ·AoB Plants ·Meagan F. Oldfather, (unknown), (unknown), Michael J. Koontz, (unknown), (unknown), Alan L. Flint, (unknown), David D. Ackerly	24
17	Three types of rescue can avert extinction in a changing environment 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ruth A. Hufbauer, Marianna Szűcs, (unknown), (unknown), Michael J. Koontz, Christopher M. Richards, Ty Tuff, Brett A. Melbourne	145
18	Vegetation Recovery 16 Years after Feral Pig Removal from a Wet Hawaiian Forest 2012 ·Biotropica ·Rebecca J. Cole, Creighton M. Litton, Michael J. Koontz, Rhonda K. Loh	70

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