Publications

Andrus RA, Peach LR, Cinquini AR, Mills B, Yusi JT, Buhl C, Fischer M, Goodrich BA, Hulbert JM, Holz A, Meddens AJH, Moffett KB, Ramirez A, Adams HD (2023) Canary in the Forest? – Tree mortality and canopy dieback of western redcedar linked to drier and warmer summer conditions. Ecology, preprint doi:10.1101/2023.01.11.522134.

Stahl AT, Andrus R, Hicke JA, Hudak AT, Bright BC, Meddens AJH (2023) Automated attribution of forest disturbance types from remote sensing data: A synthesis. Remote Sensing of Environment 285, 113416. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2022.113416.

Andrus RA, Droske CA, Franz MC, Hudak AT, Lentile LB, Lewis SA, Morgan P, Robichaud PR, Meddens AJH (2022) Spatial and temporal drivers of post-fire tree establishment and height growth in a managed forest landscape. Fire Ecology 18, 29. doi:10.1186/s42408-022-00153-4.

Davis TS, Meddens AJH, Stevens‐Rumann CS, Jansen VS, Sibold JS, Battaglia MA (2022) Monitoring resistance and resilience using carbon trajectories: Analysis of forest management–disturbance interactions. Ecological Applications 32,. doi:10.1002/eap.2704.

Meddens AJH, Steen-Adams MM, Hudak AT, Mauro F, Byassee PM, Strunk J (2022) Specifying geospatial data product characteristics for forest and fuel management applications. Environmental Research Letters 17, 045025. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac5ee0.

Andrus RA, Martinez AJ, Jones GM, Meddens AJH (2021) Assessing the quality of fire refugia for wildlife habitat. Forest Ecology and Management 482, 118868. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118868.

Bright BC, Hudak AT, Egan JM, Jorgensen CL, Rex FE, Hicke JA, Meddens AJH (2020) Using Satellite Imagery to Evaluate Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality Reported in Aerial Surveys in a Mixed Conifer Forest in Northern Idaho, USA. Forests 11, 529. doi:10.3390/f11050529.

Bright BC, Hudak AT, Meddens AJH, Egan JM, Jorgensen CL (2020) Mapping Multiple Insect Outbreaks across Large Regions Annually Using Landsat Time Series Data. Remote Sensing 12, 1655. doi:10.3390/rs12101655.

Hicke JA, Xu B, Meddens AJH, Egan JM (2020) Characterizing recent bark beetle-caused tree mortality in the western United States from aerial surveys. Forest Ecology and Management 475, 118402. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118402.

Krawchuk MA, Meigs GW, Cartwright JM, Coop JD, Davis R, Holz A, Kolden C, Meddens AJ (2020) Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment18, 235–244. doi:10.1002/fee.2190.

Janousek WM, Hicke JA, Meddens AJH, Dreitz VJ (2019) The effects of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on avian communities in lodgepole pine forests across the greater Rocky Mountain region. Forest Ecology and Management 444, 374–381. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.047.

Kautz M, Anthoni P, Meddens AJH, Pugh TAM, Arneth A (2018) Simulating the recent impacts of multiple biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling across the United States. Global Change Biology 24, 2079–2092. doi:10.1111/gcb.13974.

Meddens AJH, Kolden CA, Lutz JA, Abatzoglou JT, Hudak AT (2018) Spatiotemporal patterns of unburned areas within fire perimeters in the northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014. Ecosphere 9,. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2029.

Meddens AJH, Kolden CA, Lutz JA, Smith AMS, Cansler CA, Abatzoglou JT, Meigs GW, Downing WM, Krawchuk MA (2018) Fire Refugia: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter for Global Change? BioScience. doi:10.1093/biosci/biy103.

Meddens AJH, Vierling LA, Eitel JUH, Jennewein JS, White JC, Wulder MA (2018) Developing 5 m resolution canopy height and digital terrain models from WorldView and ArcticDEM data. Remote Sensing of Environment 218, 174–188. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.09.010.

Baker EH, Painter TH, Schneider D, Meddens AJH, Hicke JA, Molotch NP (2017) Quantifying insect-related forest mortality with the remote sensing of snow. Remote Sensing of Environment 188, 26–36. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.001.

Berner LT, Law BE, Meddens AJH, Hicke JA (2017) Tree mortality from fires, bark beetles, and timber harvest during a hot and dry decade in the western United States (2003–2012). Environmental Research Letters 12, 065005. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa6f94.

Bright B, Hudak A, Meddens A, Hawbaker T, Briggs J, Kennedy R (2017) Prediction of Forest Canopy and Surface Fuels from Lidar and Satellite Time Series Data in a Bark Beetle-Affected Forest. Forests 8, 322. doi:10.3390/f8090322.

Kautz M, Meddens AJH, Hall RJ, Arneth A (2017) Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests – a synthesis of recent data, uncertainties and implications for forest monitoring and modelling: Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26, 533–552. doi:10.1111/geb.12558.

Hicke JA, Meddens AJH, Kolden CA (2016) Recent Tree Mortality in the Western United States from Bark Beetles and Forest Fires. Forest Science 62, 141–153. doi:10.5849/forsci.15-086.

Meddens AJH, Hicke JA, Jacobs BF (2016) Characterizing the Response of Piñon-Juniper Woodlands to Mechanical Restoration Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery. Rangeland Ecology & Management 69, 215–223. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2015.12.006.

Meddens AJH, Kolden CA, Lutz JA (2016) Detecting unburned areas within wildfire perimeters using Landsat and ancillary data across the northwestern United States. Remote Sensing of Environment 186, 275–285. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.08.023.

Biederman JA, Somor AJ, Harpold AA, Gutmann ED, Breshears DD, Troch PA, Gochis DJ, Scott RL, Meddens AJH, Brooks PD (2015) Recent tree die‐off has little effect on streamflow in contrast to expected increases from historical studies. Water Resources Research 51, 9775–9789. doi:10.1002/2015WR017401.

Chen F, Zhang G, Barlage M, Zhang Y, Hicke JA, Meddens A, Zhou G, Massman WJ, Frank J (2015) An Observational and Modeling Study of Impacts of Bark Beetle–Caused Tree Mortality on Surface Energy and Hydrological Cycles. Journal of Hydrometeorology 16, 744–761. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-14-0059.1.

Klos PZ, Abatzoglou JT, Bean A, Blades J, Clark MA, Dodd M, Hall TE, Haruch A, Higuera PE, Holbrook JD, Jansen VS, Kemp K, Lankford A, Link TE, Magney T, Meddens AJH, Mitchell L, Moore B, Morgan P, Newingham BA, Niemeyer RJ, Soderquist B, Suazo AA, Vierling KT, Walden V, Walsh C (2015) Indicators of Climate Change in Idaho: An Assessment Framework for Coupling Biophysical Change and Social Perceptiona. Weather, Climate, and Society 7, 238–254. doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00070.1.

McDowell NG, Coops NC, Beck PSA, Chambers JQ, Gangodagamage C, Hicke JA, Huang C, Kennedy R, Krofcheck DJ, Litvak M, Meddens AJH, Muss J, Negrón-Juarez R, Peng C, Schwantes AM, Swenson JJ, Vernon LJ, Williams AP, Xu C, Zhao M, Running SW, Allen CD (2015) Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances. Trends in Plant Science 20, 114–123. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2014.10.008.

Meddens AJH, Hicke JA, Macalady AK, Buotte PC, Cowles TR, Allen CD (2015) Patterns and causes of observed piñon pine mortality in the southwestern United States. New Phytologist 206, 91–97. doi:10.1111/nph.13193.

Bright BC, Hudak AT, Kennedy RE, Meddens AJH (2014) Landsat Time Series and Lidar as Predictors of Live and Dead Basal Area Across Five Bark Beetle-Affected Forests. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 7,.

Meddens AJH, Hicke JA (2014) Spatial and temporal patterns of Landsat-based detection of tree mortality caused by a mountain pine beetle outbreak in Colorado, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 322, 78–88. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.037.

Bright BC, Hicke JA, Meddens AJH (2013) Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on biogeochemical and biogeophysical MODIS products: TREE MORTALITY EFFECTS ON LAND SURFACE. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 118, 974–982. doi:10.1002/jgrg.20078.

Berg AR, Heald CL, Huff Hartz KE, Hallar AG, Meddens AJH, Hicke JA, Lamarque J-F, Tilmes S (2013) The impact of bark beetle infestations on monoterpene emissions and secondary organic aerosol formation in western North America. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 13, 3149–3161. doi:10.5194/acp-13-3149-2013.

Hicke JA, Meddens AJH, Allen CD, Kolden CA (2013) Carbon stocks of trees killed by bark beetles and wildfire in the western United States. Environmental Research Letters 8, 035032. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035032.

Meddens AJH, Hicke JA, Vierling LA, Hudak AT (2013) Evaluating methods to detect bark beetle-caused tree mortality using single-date and multi-date Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 132, 49–58. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2013.01.002.

Edburg SL, Hicke JA, Brooks PD, Pendall EG, Ewers BE, Norton U, Gochis D, Gutmann ED, Meddens AJ (2012) Cascading impacts of bark beetle‐caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10, 416–424. doi:10.1890/110173.

Goetz SJ, Bond-Lamberty B, Law BE, Hicke JA, Huang C, Houghton RA, McNulty S, O’Halloran T, Harmon M, Meddens AJH, Pfeifer EM, Mildrexler D, Kasischke ES (2012) Observations and assessment of forest carbon dynamics following disturbance in North America: Forest carbon after disturbance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 117, n/a-n/a. doi:10.1029/2011JG001733.

Meddens AJH, Hicke JA, Ferguson CA (2012) Spatiotemporal patterns of observed bark beetle-caused tree mortality in British Columbia and the western United States. Ecological Applications 22, 1876–1891. doi:10.1890/11-1785.1.

Meddens AJH, Hicke JA, Vierling LA (2011) Evaluating the potential of multispectral imagery to map multiple stages of tree mortality. Remote Sensing of Environment 115, 1632–1642. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.018.

Pfeifer EM, Hicke JA, Meddens AJH (2011) Observations and modeling of aboveground tree carbon stocks and fluxes following a bark beetle outbreak in the western United States: Carbon cycling following bark beetle outbreak. Global Change Biology 17, 339–350. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02226.x.

Meddens AJH, Hudak AT, Evans JS, Gould WA, González G (2008) Characterizing Forest Fragments in Boreal, Temperate, and Tropical Ecosystems. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 37, 569–576. doi:10.1579/0044-7447-37.7.569.