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D-Index
60
Citations
21582
World Ranking
2249
National Ranking
805

Max A. Moritz publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Max A. Moritz sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 143 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Max A. Moritz D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Max A. Moritz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Max A. Moritz is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a strong focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Max A. Moritz has contributed to various scientific papers, including the following recent publications:

  • "Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers," 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • "Rapid Growth of Large Forest Fires Drives the Exponential Response of Annual Forest-Fire Area to Aridity in the Western United States," 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Climate, Fuel, and Land Use Shaped the Spatial Pattern of Wildfire in California's Sierra Nevada," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Evaluating the Ability of FARSITE to Simulate Wildfires Influenced by Extreme, Downslope Winds in Santa Barbara, California," 2020, Fire
  • "Assessing climate change impacts on live fuel moisture and wildfire risk using a hydrodynamic vegetation model," 2021, Biogeosciences

Their work has appeared frequently in notable scientific venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Fire
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Fire Ecology

Max A. Moritz collaborates regularly with several co-authors, such as:

  • Dar A. Roberts
  • Indra Boving
  • Joe V. Celebrezze
  • Leila M. V. Carvalho
  • Charles Jones

Best Publications

  • Fire in the Earth System

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984-2011

    Philip E. Dennison;Simon C. Brewer;James D. Arnold;Max A. Moritz

  • The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Learning to coexist with wildfire

    Max A. Moritz;Enric Batllori;Ross A. Bradstock;A. Malcolm Gill

  • Global pyrogeography: the current and future distribution of wildfire.

    Meg A. Krawchuk;Max A. Moritz;Marc-André Parisien;Marc-André Parisien;Jeff Van Dorn

  • Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

    Max A. Moritz;Marc-André Parisien;Enric Batllori;Meg A. Krawchuk

  • Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

    Tania Schoennagel;Jennifer K. Balch;Hannah Brenkert-Smith;Philip E. Dennison

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers

    Kendra K. McLauchlan;Philip E. Higuera;Jessica Miesel;Brendan M. Rogers

  • Constraints on global fire activity vary across a resource gradient.

    Meg A. Krawchuk;Max A. Moritz

  • Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century

    Shelley D. Crausbay;Aaron R. Ramirez;Shawn L. Carter;Molly S. Cross

  • Environmental controls on the distribution of wildfire at multiple spatial scales

    Marc-André Parisien;Marc-André Parisien;Max A. Moritz

  • Fine-grain modeling of species’ response to climate change: holdouts, stepping-stones, and microrefugia

    Lee Hannah;Lorraine Flint;Alexandra D. Syphard;Max A. Moritz

  • Classification of the wildland–urban interface: A comparison of pixel- and object-based classifications using high-resolution aerial photography

    Casey Cleve;Maggi Kelly;Faith R. Kearns;Max Moritz

  • Wildfires, complexity, and highly optimized tolerance

    Max A. Moritz;Marco E. Morais;Lora A. Summerell;J. M. Carlson

  • Foundations of translational ecology

    Carolyn A. F. Enquist;Stephen T. Jackson;Gregg M. Garfin;Frank W. Davis

  • Are Large, Infrequent Disturbances Qualitatively Different from Small, Frequent Disturbances?

    William H. Romme;Edwin H. Everham;Lee E. Frelich;Max A. Moritz

  • Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires.

    Philip Gibbons;Linda van Bommel;A. Malcolm Gill;Geoffrey J. Cary

  • Alternative community states maintained by fire in the Klamath Mountains, USA.

    Dennis C. Odion;Max A. Moritz;Dominick A. DellaSala

  • SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF CONTROLS ON SHRUBLAND FIRE REGIMES: AGE DEPENDENCY AND FIRE HAZARD

    Max A. Moritz

  • Patterns of Fire Severity and Forest Conditions in the Western Klamath Mountains, California

    Dennis C. Odion;Evan J. Frost;James R. Strittholt;Hong Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc-André Parisien
Marc-André Parisien Natural Resources Canada
Meg A. Krawchuk
Meg A. Krawchuk Oregon State University
Philip E. Dennison
Philip E. Dennison University of Utah
Scott L. Stephens
Scott L. Stephens University of California, Berkeley
Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey
Jennifer K. Balch
Jennifer K. Balch University of Colorado Boulder
Carla M. D'Antonio
Carla M. D'Antonio University of California, Santa Barbara
David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania
Alexandra D. Syphard
Alexandra D. Syphard Conservation Biology Institute
Andrew C. Scott
Andrew C. Scott Royal Holloway University of London

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