Thomas A. Fairman

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 808 citations indexed

About

Thomas A. Fairman is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Fairman has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 808 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 4 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Fairman's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (3 papers). Thomas A. Fairman is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (3 papers). Thomas A. Fairman collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and Spain. Thomas A. Fairman's co-authors include Craig R. Nitschke, Lauren T. Bennett, Luke Collins, Ross A. Bradstock, Mark K. J. Ooi, Víctor Resco de Dios, Andrea Leigh, Timothy J. Curran, Rachael H. Nolan and Simon Murphy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Environmental Management, Plant Cell & Environment and Geoderma.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Fairman

17 papers receiving 784 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.

Limits to post‐fire vegetation recovery under climate change

2021 172 citations Rachael H. Nolan, Luke Collins et al. Plant Cell & Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Fairman Australia	12	705	410	302	74	68	18	808
Yan Boucher Canada	18	679 1.0×	457 1.1×	276 0.9×	147 2.0×	98 1.4×	37	905
Teresa B. Chapman United States	13	582 0.8×	264 0.6×	440 1.5×	58 0.8×	33 0.5×	21	780
Raffaella Marzano Italy	16	570 0.8×	334 0.8×	264 0.9×	47 0.6×	29 0.4×	38	792
Marc Gracia Spain	18	631 0.9×	509 1.2×	231 0.8×	147 2.0×	49 0.7×	25	869
Becky L. Estes United States	12	776 1.1×	358 0.9×	426 1.4×	79 1.1×	29 0.4×	18	847
Dante Arturo Rodrı́guez-Trejo Mexico	13	589 0.8×	391 1.0×	264 0.9×	84 1.1×	37 0.5×	102	846
Richy J. Harrod United States	13	706 1.0×	520 1.3×	468 1.5×	42 0.6×	36 0.5×	28	860
Paula J. Fornwalt United States	22	1.1k 1.6×	736 1.8×	618 2.0×	111 1.5×	32 0.5×	47	1.2k
Robert J. Pabst United States	14	478 0.7×	409 1.0×	322 1.1×	60 0.8×	51 0.8×	26	782
Philip Zylstra Australia	12	733 1.0×	259 0.6×	439 1.5×	48 0.6×	44 0.6×	26	811

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18 of 18 papers shown

Penman, Trent D., et al.. (2025). Short-interval fires homogenise the structure of diverse temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 584. 122580–122580. 1 indexed citations

Hinko‐Najera, Nina, et al.. (2024). Mapping Windthrow Severity as Change in Canopy Cover in a Temperate Eucalypt Forest. Remote Sensing. 16(24). 4710–4710.

Fairman, Thomas A., C. Symon, Jane G. Cawson, & Trent D. Penman. (2024). Throwing fuel on the fire? Contrasting fine and coarse fuel responses to windthrow in temperate eucalypt forests in south-eastern Australia. Forest Ecology and Management. 572. 122266–122266. 3 indexed citations

Bennett, Lauren T., Thomas A. Fairman, Rebecca M. Ford, et al.. (2024). Active management: a definition and considerations for implementation in forests of temperate Australia. Australian Forestry. 87(3). 125–147. 7 indexed citations

Kasel, Sabine, Thomas A. Fairman, & Craig R. Nitschke. (2024). Short-Interval, High-Severity Wildfire Depletes Diversity of Both Extant Vegetation and Soil Seed Banks in Fire-Tolerant Eucalypt Forests. Fire. 7(4). 148–148. 6 indexed citations

Geary, William L., Matthew J. Bruce, Luke Collins, et al.. (2021). Responding to the biodiversity impacts of a megafire: A case study from south‐eastern Australia’s Black Summer. Diversity and Distributions. 28(3). 463–478. 50 indexed citations

Fairman, Thomas A., Craig R. Nitschke, & Lauren T. Bennett. (2021). Carbon stocks and stability are diminished by short-interval wildfires in fire-tolerant eucalypt forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 505. 119919–119919. 22 indexed citations

Nolan, Rachael H., Luke Collins, Andrea Leigh, et al.. (2021). Limits to post‐fire vegetation recovery under climate change. Plant Cell & Environment. 44(11). 3471–3489. 172 indexed citations breakdown →

Elith, Jane, Melissa Fedrigo, Sabine Kasel, et al.. (2021). Climate extreme variables generated using monthly time‐series data improve predicted distributions of plant species. Ecography. 44(4). 626–639. 22 indexed citations

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Cripps, Jemma K., et al.. (2020). Surveys for leadbeater’s possum gymnobelideus leadbeateri at wallaby creek, kinglake national park, Victoria. Own your potential (DEAKIN). 1 indexed citations

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Bennett, Lauren T., Nina Hinko‐Najera, Cristina Aponte, et al.. (2020). Refining benchmarks for soil organic carbon in Australia’s temperate forests. Geoderma. 368. 114246–114246. 14 indexed citations

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Bennett, Lauren T., Sabine Kasel, Craig R. Nitschke, et al.. (2020). Fire, drought and productivity as drivers of dead wood biomass in eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia. Forest Ecology and Management. 482. 118859–118859. 19 indexed citations

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Fairman, Thomas A., Lauren T. Bennett, & Craig R. Nitschke. (2018). Short-interval wildfires increase likelihood of resprouting failure in fire-tolerant trees. Journal of Environmental Management. 231. 59–65. 89 indexed citations

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Fairman, Thomas A., et al.. (2017). Frequent wildfires erode tree persistence and alter stand structure and initial composition of a fire‐tolerant sub‐alpine forest. Journal of Vegetation Science. 28(6). 1151–1165. 86 indexed citations

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Fairman, Thomas A., Craig R. Nitschke, & Lauren T. Bennett. (2015). Too much, too soon? A review of the effects of increasing wildfire frequency on tree mortality and regeneration in temperate eucalypt forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(8). 831–848. 192 indexed citations

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Bi, Huiquan, Simon Murphy, Liubov Volkova, et al.. (2015). Additive biomass equations based on complete weighing of sample trees for open eucalypt forest species in south-eastern Australia. Forest Ecology and Management. 349. 106–121. 45 indexed citations

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Volkova, Liubov, C. P. Meyer, Simon Murphy, et al.. (2014). Fuel reduction burning mitigates wildfire effects on forest carbon and greenhouse gas emission. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 23(6). 771–780. 51 indexed citations

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Arnold, Scott M., et al.. (2010). An indicative estimate of carbon stocks on Victoria's publicly managed land using the FullCAM carbon accounting model. Australian Forestry. 73(4). 209–219. 28 indexed citations

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