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Solomon Z. Dobrowski

Solomon Z. Dobrowski

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
15071
World Ranking
3559
National Ranking
1246

Overview

Solomon Z. Dobrowski is a researcher affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Global and Planetary Change. The scholar has contributed extensively to research, covering various subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Atmospheric Science.

Dobrowski's work addresses several key topics including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes," 2020, BioScience
  • "Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions," 2021, Ecological Applications
  • "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
  • "Challenges to the Reforestation Pipeline in the United States," 2021, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • "Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment

Dobrowski frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Sean A. Parks, Kimberley T. Davis, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Matthew D. Hurteau, and Philip E. Higuera. These collaborations often result in multiple publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

The researcher has contributed to journals and venues such as Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, BioScience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Communications Earth & Environment, and Scientific Reports. These venues represent the outlets where Dobrowski's work is frequently published.

Best Publications

  • TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2015.

    John T. Abatzoglou;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Sean A. Parks;Katherine C. Hegewisch

  • A climatic basis for microrefugia: the influence of terrain on climate

    Solomon Z. Dobrowski

  • Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species’ Optimum Elevations

    Shawn M. Crimmins;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Jonathan A. Greenberg;John T. Abatzoglou

  • Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes

    Jonathan D. Coop;Sean A. Parks;Camille S. Stevens-Rumann;Shelley D. Crausbay

  • Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

    Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend;Philip Taylor;Silvia Alvarez-Clare

  • Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation

    Toni Lyn Morelli;Toni Lyn Morelli;Christopher Daly;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Deanna M. Dulen

  • Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration.

    Kimberley T Davis;Solomon Z Dobrowski;Philip E Higuera;Zachary A Holden

  • Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

    Daniel G. Gavin;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Paul F. Gugger;Katy D. Heath

  • Microclimatic buffering in forests of the future: the role of local water balance

    Kimberley T. Davis;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Zachary A. Holden;Philip E. Higuera

  • Steady-state chlorophyll a fluorescence detection from canopy derivative reflectance and double-peak red-edge effects

    Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;J. C. Pushnik;S. Z. Dobrowski;S. L. Ustin

  • The climate velocity of the contiguous United States during the 20th century.

    Solomon Z. Dobrowski;John Abatzoglou;Alan K. Swanson;Jonathan A. Greenberg

  • Simple reflectance indices track heat and water stress-induced changes in steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence at the canopy scale

    S. Z. Dobrowski;J. C. Pushnik;Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada;S. L. Ustin

  • Spectral and Structural Measures of Northwest Forest Vegetation at Leaf to Landscape Scales

    Dar A. Roberts;Susan L. Ustin;Segun Ogunjemiyo;Jonathan Greenberg

  • The theory behind, and the challenges of, conserving nature's stage in a time of rapid change

    Joshua J. Lawler;David D. Ackerly;Christine M. Albano;Mark G. Anderson

  • Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions.

    Susan J. Prichard;Paul F. Hessburg;Paul F. Hessburg;R. Keala Hagmann;Nicholas A. Povak

  • High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests.

    Sean A Parks;Lisa M Holsinger;Matthew H Panunto;W Matt Jolly

  • How much influence does landscape-scale physiography have on air temperature in a mountain environment

    Solomon Z. Dobrowski;John T. Abatzoglou;Jonathan A. Greenberg;S.G. Schladow

  • Modeling plant ranges over 75 years of climate change in California, USA: temporal transferability and species traits

    Solomon Z. Dobrowski;James H. Thorne;Johnathan A. Greenberg;Hugh D. Safford

  • Artificial amplification of warming trends across the mountains of the western United States

    Jared Wesley Oyler;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Ashley P. Ballantyne;Anna E. Klene

  • Spatial variability in wildfire probability across the western United States

    Marc-André Parisien;Marc-André Parisien;Susan Snetsinger;Jonathan A. Greenberg;Cara R. Nelson

  • Forest structure and species traits mediate projected recruitment declines in western US tree species

    Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Alan K. Swanson;John T. Abatzoglou;Zachary A. Holden

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean A. Parks
Sean A. Parks US Forest Service
Hugh D. Safford
Hugh D. Safford University of California, Davis
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
Zachary A. Holden
Zachary A. Holden United States Department of Agriculture
Philip E. Higuera
Philip E. Higuera University of Montana
Marc-André Parisien
Marc-André Parisien Natural Resources Canada
Daniel G. Gavin
Daniel G. Gavin University of Oregon
Marco P. Maneta
Marco P. Maneta University of Montana
Anna Sala
Anna Sala University of Montana

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