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Zachary A. Holden is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, contributing significantly to the understanding of ecological and atmospheric processes.

Their work spans several subfields of environmental science, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology

Their research topics reflect a deep engagement with various ecological and environmental phenomena. The main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Holden demonstrate a broad interest in both the ecological impacts of fire and its interplay with climate and health issues. Some of these publications are:

  • The delayed effect of wildfire season particulate matter on subsequent influenza season in a mountain west region of the USA (2020) in Environment International
  • A changing climate is snuffing out post-fire recovery in montane forests (2020) in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Greenspace exposure and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: January-July 2020 (2021) in Environmental Research
  • Soil moisture variation drives canopy water content dynamics across the western U.S. (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Using soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger: a review of recent developments and outstanding questions (2022) in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Holden frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Zachary Hoylman
  • Erin L. Landguth
  • Alan Swanson
  • Kyle C. Rodman
  • Jon Graham

Regarding publication venues, Holden has contributed multiple works to several journals and platforms, including:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Fire Ecology
  • American Journal of Potato Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

    W. Matt Jolly;Mark A. Cochrane;Patrick H. Freeborn;Zachary A. Holden

  • Remote sensing techniques to assess active fire characteristics and post-fire effects

    Leigh B. Lentile;Zachary A. Holden;Alistair M. S. Smith;Michael J. Falkowski

  • 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

  • Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity.

    Zachary A. Holden;Alan Swanson;Charles H. Luce;W. Matt Jolly

  • Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US, 1984 to 2006

    Gregory K. Dillon;Zachary A. Holden;Penelope Morgan;Michael A. Crimmins

  • Modeling species distribution and change using random forest [Chapter 8]

    Jeffrey S. Evans;Melanie A. Murphy;Zachary A. Holden;Samuel A. Cushman

  • 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

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

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

  • Declining annual streamflow distributions in the Pacific Northwest United States, 1948–2006

    C. H. Luce;Z. A. Holden

  • Challenges of assessing fire and burn severity using field measures, remote sensing and modelling

    Penelope Morgan;Robert E. Keane;Gregory K. Dillon;Theresa B. Jain

  • Previous Fires Moderate Burn Severity of Subsequent Wildland Fires in Two Large Western US Wilderness Areas

    Sean A. Parks;Sean A. Parks;Carol Miller;Cara R. Nelson;Zachary A. Holden

  • The Missing Mountain Water: Slower Westerlies Decrease Orographic Enhancement in the Pacific Northwest USA

    C. H. Luce;J. T. Abatzoglou;Z. A. Holden

  • A predictive model of burn severity based on 20-year satellite-inferred burn severity data in a large southwestern US wilderness area

    Zachary A. Holden;Penelope Morgan;Jeffrey S. Evans

  • Production of Landsat ETM+ reference imagery of burned areas within Southern African savannahs: comparison of methods and application to MODIS

    A. M. S. Smith;N. A. Drake;M. J. Wooster;A. T. Hudak

  • 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

  • Evaluation of novel thermally enhanced spectral indices for mapping fire perimeters and comparisons with fire atlas data

    Z. A. Holden;A. M. S. Smith;P. Morgan;M. G. Rollins

  • Empirical downscaling of daily minimum air temperature at very fine resolutions in complex terrain

    Zachary A. Holden;John T. Abatzoglou;Charles H. Luce;L. Scott Baggett

  • Sensitivity of snowpack storage to precipitation and temperature using spatial and temporal analog models

    Charles H. Luce;Viviana Lopez-Burgos;Zachary Holden

  • The delayed effect of wildfire season particulate matter on subsequent influenza season in a mountain west region of the USA.

    Erin L. Landguth;Zachary A. Holden;Jonathan Graham;Benjamin Stark

  • Fire season precipitation variability influences fire extent and severity in a large southwestern wilderness area, United States

    Zachary A. Holden;Penelope Morgan;Michael A. Crimmins;R. K. Steinhorst

Frequent Co-Authors

Penelope Morgan
Penelope Morgan University of Idaho
Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service
Marco P. Maneta
Marco P. Maneta University of Montana
Alistair M. S. Smith
Alistair M. S. Smith University of Idaho
Solomon Z. Dobrowski
Solomon Z. Dobrowski University of Montana
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
Erin L. Landguth
Erin L. Landguth University of Montana
Paul E. Gessler
Paul E. Gessler University of Idaho
Anna Sala
Anna Sala University of Montana

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