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Overview

Arjan J. H. Meddens is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Meddens has published numerous papers in several frequent venues, including:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Fire Ecology
  • Ecological Applications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Meddens encompass the following:

  • "Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks," 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic," 2020, Science
  • "Detecting subtle change from dense Landsat time series: Case studies of mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle disturbance," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America," 2022, Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • "Automated attribution of forest disturbance types from remote sensing data: A synthesis," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent collaborators in Meddens's research include:

  • Robert A. Andrus
  • Andrew T. Hudak
  • Jeffrey A. Hicke
  • Joel M. Egan
  • Amanda T. Stahl

Best Publications

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of observed bark beetle-caused tree mortality in British Columbia and the western United States.

    Arjan J. H. Meddens;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Charles A. Ferguson

  • Cascading impacts of bark beetle‐caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes

    Steven L. Edburg;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Paul D. Brooks;Elise G. Pendall

  • Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

    Nate G. McDowell;Nicholas C. Coops;Pieter S. A. Beck;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

  • Evaluating methods to detect bark beetle-caused tree mortality using single-date and multi-date Landsat imagery

    Arjan J. H. Meddens;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Lee A. Vierling;Andrew T. Hudak

  • Observations and assessment of forest carbon dynamics following disturbance in North America

    Scott J. Goetz;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Beverly E. Law;J. Hicke

  • Recent Tree Mortality in the Western United States from Bark Beetles and Forest Fires

    Jeffrey A. Hicke;Arjan J. H. Meddens;Crystal A. Kolden

  • Tree defence and bark beetles in a drying world: carbon partitioning, functioning and modelling

    Jianbei Huang;Markus Kautz;Amy M. Trowbridge;Amy M. Trowbridge;Almuth Hammerbacher;Almuth Hammerbacher

  • Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests – a synthesis of recent data, uncertainties and implications for forest monitoring and modelling

    Markus Kautz;Arjan J. H. Meddens;Ronald J. Hall;Almut Arneth

  • Fire Refugia: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter for Global Change?

    Arjan J H Meddens;Crystal A Kolden;James A Lutz;Alistair M S Smith

  • Evaluating the potential of multispectral imagery to map multiple stages of tree mortality

    Arjan J.H. Meddens;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Lee A. Vierling

  • Observations and modeling of aboveground tree carbon stocks and fluxes following a bark beetle outbreak in the western United States

    Eric M. Pfeifer;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Arjan J. H. Meddens

  • Recent tree die-off has little effect on streamflow in contrast to expected increases from historical studies

    Joel A. Biederman;Andrew J. Somor;Adrian A. Harpold;Ethan D. Gutmann

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of Landsat-based detection of tree mortality caused by a mountain pine beetle outbreak in Colorado, USA

    Arjan J.H. Meddens;Jeffrey A. Hicke

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

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

  • Detecting unburned areas within wildfire perimeters using Landsat and ancillary data across the northwestern United States

    Arjan J.H. Meddens;Crystal A. Kolden;James A. Lutz

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

    Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Gil Bohrer;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Scott LaPoint;Scott LaPoint

  • Tree mortality from fires, bark beetles, and timber harvest during a hot and dry decade in the western United States (2003–2012)

    Logan T Berner;Logan T Berner;Beverly E Law;Arjan J H Meddens;Jeffrey A Hicke

  • Carbon stocks of trees killed by bark beetles and wildfire in the western United States

    Jeffrey A Hicke;Arjan J H Meddens;Craig D Allen;Crystal A Kolden

  • Patterns and causes of observed piñon pine mortality in the southwestern United States

    Arjan J. H. Meddens;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Alison K. Macalady;Polly C. Buotte

  • Integrating snow science and wildlife ecology in Arctic-boreal North America

    Natalie T. Boelman;Glen E. Liston;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Arjan J. H. Meddens

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Hicke
Jeffrey A. Hicke University of Idaho
Lee A. Vierling
Lee A. Vierling University of Idaho
Jan U.H. Eitel
Jan U.H. Eitel University of Idaho
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
Kevin L. Griffin
Kevin L. Griffin Columbia University
Crystal A. Kolden
Crystal A. Kolden University of California, Merced
Mark Hebblewhite
Mark Hebblewhite University of Montana
James A. Lutz
James A. Lutz Utah State University
Carlos A. Silva
Carlos A. Silva University of Florida
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced

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