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Andrés Holz is affiliated with Portland State University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research concentrates on various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and, to a lesser extent, Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of ecological and environmental dynamics. These topics include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Andrés Holz has published extensively, with frequent contributions appearing in several scientific venues. Key publication venues where their work is commonly found include:

  • Ecosphere
  • Fire
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Global Change Biology

Notable recent publications highlight the diversity of their research focus across different aspects of ecosystem dynamics and fire ecology. These papers include:

  • "Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks," 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene," 2022, PNAS Nexus
  • "The North American tree-ring fire-scar network," 2022, Ecosphere

Collaboration has been a component of their research efforts, frequently working alongside several coauthors. Among the most frequent coauthors are:

  • Sebastian U. Busby
  • Thomas T. Veblen
  • Max Nielsen-Pincus
  • Jonathan D. Coop
  • Cody Evers

Best Publications

  • Unusual Southern Hemisphere tree growth patterns induced by changes in the Southern Annular Mode

    Ricardo Villalba;Antonio Lara;Mariano H. Masiokas;Rocío Urrutia

  • Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

    Andreas Sommerfeld;Cornelius Senf;Cornelius Senf;Brian Buma;Anthony W. D’Amato

  • Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

    Dana M. Bergstrom;Dana M. Bergstrom;Barbara C. Wienecke;John van den Hoff;Lesley Hughes

  • Influences of fire–vegetation feedbacks and post-fire recovery rates on forest landscape vulnerability to altered fire regimes

    Alan J. Tepley;Enrique Thomann;Thomas T. Veblen;George L. W. Perry

  • A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes

    David B. McWethy;P. E. Higuera;C. Whitlock;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Fire–vegetation feedbacks and alternative states: common mechanisms of temperate forest vulnerability to fire in southern South America and New Zealand

    Thomas Kitzberger;G.L.W. Perry;Juan Paritsis;Juan Janakiram Haridas Gowda

  • Positive fire feedbacks contribute to shifts from Nothofagus pumilio forests to fire‐prone shrublands in Patagonia

    Juan Paritsis;Thomas T. Veblen;Andrés Holz;Andrés Holz

  • The historical range of variability of fires in the Andean-Patagonian Nothofagus forest region.

    Thomas T. Veblen;Thomas Kitzberger;Estela Raffaele;Mónica Mermoz

  • Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks

    Meg A. Krawchuk;Garrett Meigs;Jennifer M. Cartwright;Jonathan D. Coop

  • Landscape drivers of recent fire activity (2001-2017) in south-central Chile.

    David B. McWethy;Aníbal Pauchard;Rafael A. García;Rafael A. García;Andrés Holz

  • Adapting to global environmental change in Patagonia: What role for disturbance ecology?

    Thomas T. Veblen;Andrés Holz;Juan Paritsis;Estela Raffaele

  • Multidecadal climate variability and climate interactions affect subalpine fire occurrence, western Colorado (USA).

    Tania Schoennagel;Thomas T. Veblen;Dominik Kulakowski;Andrés Holz

  • ENSO controls interannual fire activity in southeast Australia

    Michela Mariani;Michael-Shawn Fletcher;Andrés Holz;Petter Nyman

  • Ecological and Climatic Controls of Modern Wildfire Activity Patterns Across Southwestern South America

    Andrés Holz;Thomas Kitzberger;Juan Paritsis;Juan Paritsis;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Southern Annular Mode drives multicentury wildfire activity in southern South America

    Andrés Holz;Juan Paritsis;Ignacio A. Mundo;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Effects of high-severity fire drove the population collapse of the subalpine Tasmanian endemic conifer Athrotaxis cupressoides.

    Andrés Holz;Andrés Holz;Samuel W. Wood;Thomas T. Veblen;David M. J. S. Bowman

  • Variability in the Southern Annular Mode determines wildfire activity in Patagonia

    Andrés Holz;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Climate Change Amplifications of Climate‐Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere

    Michela Mariani;Andrés Holz;Thomas T. Veblen;Grant J. Williamson

  • Wildfire activity in rainforests in western Patagonia linked to the Southern Annular Mode

    Andres Holz;Thomas T. Veblen

  • The amplifying effects of humans on fire regimes in temperate rainforests in western Patagonia

    Andrés Holz;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Testing conceptual models of early plant succession across a disturbance gradient

    Cynthia C. Chang;Charles B. Halpern;Joseph A. Antos;Meghan L. Avolio

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas T. Veblen
Thomas T. Veblen University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas Kitzberger
Thomas Kitzberger National University of Comahue
David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania
Cathy Whitlock
Cathy Whitlock Montana State University
George L. W. Perry
George L. W. Perry University of Auckland
Grant J. Williamson
Grant J. Williamson University of Tasmania
Simon G. Haberle
Simon G. Haberle Australian National University
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Ricardo Villalba
Ricardo Villalba National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Juan J. Armesto
Juan J. Armesto Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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