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Overview

Jeffrey A. Hicke is affiliated with the University of Idaho in the United States and conducts research within the field of Environmental Science. Their scholarship emphasizes several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics such as Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Forest Ecology and Management, Forest Management and Policy, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Characterizing recent bark beetle-caused tree mortality in the western United States from aerial surveys, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests, 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
  • Future climate risks from stress, insects and fire across US forests, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • Automated attribution of forest disturbance types from remote sensing data: A synthesis, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Jeffrey A. Hicke frequently collaborates with other researchers including Arjan J. H. Meddens, William R. L. Anderegg, John T. Abatzoglou, Anna T. Trugman, and Grayson Badgley.

Publications by this scientist appear repeatedly in venues such as Forest Ecology and Management, Remote Sensing of Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), SSRN Electronic Journal, and Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

Best Publications

  • Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

    Kenneth F. Raffa;Brian H. Aukema;Barbara J. Bentz;Allan L. Carroll

  • Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

    Barbara J. Bentz;Jacques Régnière;Christopher J Fettig;E. Matthew Hansen

  • Global synthesis of leaf area index observations: implications for ecological and remote sensing studies

    Gregory P. Asner;Jonathan M. O. Scurlock;Jeffrey A. Hicke

  • Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

    William R.L. Anderegg;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rosie A. Fisher;Craig D. Allen

  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

    William R.L. Anderegg;Anna T. Trugman;Grayson Badgley;Christa M. Anderson

  • Land use/land cover change detection and prediction in the north-western coastal desert of Egypt using Markov-CA

    Marwa Waseem A. Halmy;Paul E. Gessler;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Boshra B. Salem

  • Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

    Jingfeng Xiao;Frederic Chevallier;Cecile Gomez;Luis Guanter

  • Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada

    Jeffrey A. Hicke;Craig D. Allen;Ankur R. Desai;Michael C. Dietze

  • Consequences of climate change for biotic disturbances in North American forests

    Aaron S. Weed;Matthew P. Ayres;Jeffrey A. Hicke

  • Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services.

    Rupert Seidl;Thomas A. Spies;David L. Peterson;Scott L. Stephens

  • Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: processes, data, models, and challenges

    Shuguang Liu;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rodrigo Vargas

  • Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

    Thomas E. Kolb;Christopher J. Fettig;Matthew P. Ayres;Barbara J. Bentz

  • Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA

    Jeremy S. Littell;Elaine E. Oneil;Donald McKenzie;Jeffrey A. Hicke

  • 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

  • Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on wildfire

    Jeffrey A. Hicke;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Morris C. Johnson;Jane L. Hayes;Haiganoush K. Preisler

  • Satellite estimates of productivity and light use efficiency in United States agriculture, 1982–98

    D. B. Lobell;J. A. Hicke;G. P. Asner;G. P. Asner;C. B. Field

  • 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

  • Changing temperatures influence suitability for modeled mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreaks in the western United States

    Jeffrey A. Hicke;Jesse A. Logan;James Powell;Dennis S. Ojima

  • Trends in North American net primary productivity derived from satellite observations, 1982-1998

    Jeffrey A. Hicke;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Gregory P. Asner;Gregory P. Asner;James T. Randerson;Compton Tucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Arjan J. H. Meddens
Arjan J. H. Meddens Washington State University
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Kenneth F. Raffa
Kenneth F. Raffa University of Wisconsin–Madison
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine
Barbara J. Bentz
Barbara J. Bentz US Forest Service
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Craig D. Allen
Craig D. Allen University of New Mexico
Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center
Dennis S. Ojima
Dennis S. Ojima Colorado State University

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