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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
110
Citations
35302
World Ranking
179
National Ranking
74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Thomas T. Veblen is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant work in global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology. The scholar also engages with atmospheric science and the study of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics as subfields of their research.

Their research topics cover a range of ecological and environmental dynamics, including fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, forest insect ecology and management, and tree-ring climate responses.

The scientist has contributed frequently to several publication venues. These include:

  • Journal of Ecology
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecosphere
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among their recent papers are:

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Forest and woodland replacement patterns following drought-related mortality, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A changing climate is snuffing out post-fire recovery in montane forests, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include Robert A. Andrus, Kyle C. Rodman, Miranda D. Redmond, Jonathan A. Myers, and Andreas P. Wion. These coauthors have partnered in multiple publications, contributing to the progression of their shared research areas.

Thomas T. Veblen has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2008 and was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Widespread increase of tree mortality rates in the western United States

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson;John C. Byrne;Lori D. Daniels

  • The Interaction of Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky Mountain Forests

    Tania Schoennagel;Thomas T. Veblen;William H. Romme

  • Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change.

    Camille S. Stevens‐Rumann;Camille S. Stevens‐Rumann;Kerry B. Kemp;Philip E. Higuera;Brian J. Harvey

  • Plant succession : theory and prediction

    David C. Glenn-Lewin;Robert K. Peet;Thomas T. Veblen

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

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

  • Climatic and human influences on fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range.

    Thomas T. Veblen;Thomas Kitzberger;Joseph Donnegan

  • Disturbance regime and disturbance interactions in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest

    Thomas T. Veblen;Keith S. Hadley;Elizabeth M. Nel;Thomas Kitzberger

  • 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

  • The ecology and biogeography of Nothofagus forests

    Thomas T. Veblen;Robert S. Hill;Jennifer Read

  • Drought induces lagged tree mortality in a subalpine forest in the Rocky Mountains

    Christof Bigler;Daniel G. Gavin;Charles Gunning;Thomas T. Veblen

  • FIRE HISTORY IN NORTHERN PATAGONIA: THE ROLES OF HUMANS AND CLIMATIC VARIATION

    Thomas T. Veblen;Thomas Kitzberger;Ricardo Villalba;Joseph Donnegan

  • Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America.

    Thomas Kitzberger;Peter M. Brown;Emily K. Heyerdahl;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • The Response of Subalpine Forests to Spruce Beetle Outbreak in Colorado

    Thomas T. Veblen;Keith S. Hadley;Marion S. Reid;Alan J. Rebertus

  • Forest dynamics in south-central Chile

    Thomas T. Veblen;Z Claudio Donoso;Federico M. Schlegel;R Bernardo Escobar

  • LANDSCAPE INFLUENCES ON OCCURRENCE AND SPREAD OF WILDFIRES IN PATAGONIAN FORESTS AND SHRUBLANDS

    Mónica Mermoz;Thomas Kitzberger;Thomas T. Veblen

  • EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABILITY ON FACILITATION OF TREE ESTABLISHMENT IN NORTHERN PATAGONIA

    Thomas Kitzberger;Diego F. Steinaker;Thomas T. Veblen

  • MULTIPLE DISTURBANCE INTERACTIONS AND DROUGHT INFLUENCE FIRE SEVERITY IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN SUBALPINE FORESTS

    Christof Bigler;Dominik Kulakowski;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Catastrophic influences on the vegetation of the Valdivian Andes, Chile

    Thomas T. Veblen;David H. Ashton

  • Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas

    Thomas T. Veblen

  • Disturbance and forest dynamics along a transect from Andean rain forest to Patagonian shrubland

    Thomas T. Veblen;Thomas Kitzberger;Antonio Lara

  • The physical geography of South America

    Thomas T. Veblen;Kenneth R. Young;A. R. Orme

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Kitzberger
Thomas Kitzberger National University of Comahue
Andrés Holz
Andrés Holz Portland State University
Dominik Kulakowski
Dominik Kulakowski Clark University
Ricardo Villalba
Ricardo Villalba National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Glenn H. Stewart
Glenn H. Stewart Canterbury of New Zealand
William L. Baker
William L. Baker University of Wyoming
Lara M. Kueppers
Lara M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lori D. Daniels
Lori D. Daniels University of British Columbia
William H. Romme
William H. Romme Colorado State University
George L. W. Perry
George L. W. Perry University of Auckland

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