Van R. Kane

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Van R. Kane is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Van R. Kane has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Van R. Kane's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (38 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (21 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (19 papers). Van R. Kane is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (38 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (21 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (19 papers). Van R. Kane collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Austria. Van R. Kane's co-authors include James A. Lutz, Robert J. McGaughey, Derek J. Churchill, Nicholas A. Povak, Jonathan T. Kane, Jerry F. Franklin, Malcolm P. North, C. Alina Cansler, Sean M.A. Jeronimo and Douglas Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Van R. Kane

53 papers receiving 2.3k 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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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Van R. Kane United States	26	1.8k	1.2k	953	784	279	54	2.3k
Derek J. Churchill United States	20	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	405 0.5×	229 0.8×	38	2.3k
E. Louise Loudermilk United States	28	1.7k 0.9×	732 0.6×	845 0.9×	660 0.8×	166 0.6×	72	2.1k
Andrew J. Sánchez Meador United States	23	1.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	704 0.9×	301 1.1×	79	2.3k
Chad M. Hoffman United States	25	1.6k 0.9×	753 0.6×	561 0.6×	309 0.4×	163 0.6×	78	1.9k
Éric Rigolot France	17	1.7k 1.0×	693 0.6×	757 0.8×	250 0.3×	124 0.4×	41	2.1k
Russell A. Parsons United States	22	1.7k 0.9×	739 0.6×	516 0.5×	248 0.3×	118 0.4×	54	1.8k
Elena Marcos Spain	28	1.6k 0.9×	958 0.8×	729 0.8×	256 0.3×	155 0.6×	88	2.1k
Garrett W. Meigs United States	23	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	772 0.8×	206 0.3×	217 0.8×	37	1.9k
C. Alina Cansler United States	22	1.6k 0.9×	983 0.8×	653 0.7×	167 0.2×	76 0.3×	39	1.7k
Zhiqiang Yang United States	20	829 0.5×	766 0.6×	501 0.5×	584 0.7×	117 0.4×	44	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Van R. Kane

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Meigs, Garrett W., C. Alina Cansler, Derek J. Churchill, et al.. (2025). Big trees burning: Divergent wildfire effects on large trees in open‐ vs. closed‐canopy forests. Ecosphere. 16(9). 1 indexed citations

Cansler, C. Alina, et al.. (2024). When do contemporary wildfires restore forest structures in the Sierra Nevada?. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 7 indexed citations

Meigs, Garrett W., Derek J. Churchill, Jonathan T. Kane, et al.. (2024). Learning from wildfires: A scalable framework to evaluate treatment effects on burn severity. Ecosphere. 15(12). 5 indexed citations

Babcock, Chad, et al.. (2024). Improved aboveground biomass estimation and regional assessment with aerial lidar in California’s subalpine forests. Carbon Balance and Management. 19(1). 41–41. 4 indexed citations

Andersen, Hans‐Erik, et al.. (2024). Synthesizing field plot and airborne remote sensing data to enhance national forest inventory mapping in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 100192–100192.

Cansler, C. Alina, et al.. (2023). Consistently heterogeneous structures observed at multiple spatial scales across fire-intact reference sites. Forest Ecology and Management. 550. 121478–121478. 14 indexed citations

Kane, Van R., et al.. (2023). Where are the large trees? A census of Sierra Nevada large trees to determine their frequency and spatial distribution across three large landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management. 546. 121351–121351. 5 indexed citations

Kane, Van R., C. Alina Cansler, Jonathan T. Kane, et al.. (2023). Sierra Nevada reference conditions: A dataset of contemporary reference sites and corresponding remote sensing-derived forest structure metrics for yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests. Data in Brief. 51. 109807–109807. 4 indexed citations

Harvey, Brian J., et al.. (2023). Different approaches make comparing studies of burn severity challenging: a review of methods used to link remotely sensed data with the Composite Burn Index. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 32(4). 449–475. 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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Alvarado, Ernesto, et al.. (2021). Estimating Fuel Moisture in Grasslands Using UAV-Mounted Infrared and Visible Light Sensors. Sensors. 21(19). 6350–6350. 6 indexed citations

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Hudak, Andrew T., Patrick A. Fekety, Van R. Kane, et al.. (2020). A carbon monitoring system for mapping regional, annual aboveground biomass across the northwestern USA. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 95003–95003. 52 indexed citations

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Kramer, Russell D., Stephen C. Sillett, Van R. Kane, & Jerry F. Franklin. (2020). Disturbance and species composition drive canopy structure and distribution of large trees in Olympic rainforests, USA. Landscape Ecology. 35(5). 1107–1125. 3 indexed citations

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Furniss, Tucker J., Andrew J. Larson, Van R. Kane, & James A. Lutz. (2020). Wildfire and drought moderate the spatial elements of tree mortality. Ecosphere. 11(8). 38 indexed citations

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Churchill, Derek J., et al.. (2020). Evaluating Restoration Treatment Effectiveness through a Comparison of Residual Composition, Structure, and Spatial Pattern with Historical Reference Sites. Forest Science. 66(5). 578–588. 14 indexed citations

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Jeronimo, Sean M.A., James A. Lutz, Van R. Kane, Andrew J. Larson, & Jerry F. Franklin. (2020). Burn weather and three-dimensional fuel structure determine post-fire tree mortality. Landscape Ecology. 35(4). 859–878. 23 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Julianna M. A., Damon B. Lesmeister, J. David Wiens, et al.. (2019). Three-dimensional partitioning of resources by congeneric forest predators with recent sympatry. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6036–6036. 63 indexed citations

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Furniss, Tucker J., Van R. Kane, Andrew J. Larson, & James A. Lutz. (2019). Detecting tree mortality with Landsat-derived spectral indices: Improving ecological accuracy by examining uncertainty. Remote Sensing of Environment. 237. 111497–111497. 43 indexed citations

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Furniss, Tucker J., Andrew J. Larson, Van R. Kane, & James A. Lutz. (2018). Multi-scale assessment of post-fire tree mortality models. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 28(1). 46–61. 35 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Robert E., Janet L. Ohmann, Matthew A. Gregory, et al.. (2017). An empirical, integrated forest biomass monitoring system. Environmental Research Letters. 13(2). 25004–25004. 66 indexed citations

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