Arjan Meddens Research Assistant Professor

academic article

• Detecting subtle change from dense Landsat time series: Case studies of mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle disturbance.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  263. 2021
• Ecological Insights from Three Decades of Animal Movement Tracking Across a Changing Arctic.  Science (New York, N.Y).  370:712-715. 2020
• Behavioral Modifications by a Large-northern Herbivore to Mitigate Warming Conditions.  Movement Ecology.  8. 2020
• Remote Sensing Tracks Daily Radial Wood Growth of Evergreen Needleleaf Trees.  Global Change Biology.  26:4068-4078. 2020
• Characterizing recent bark beetle-caused tree mortality in the western United States from aerial surveys.  Forest Ecology and Management.  475:118402. 2020
• Remote sensing tracks daily radial wood growth of evergreen needleleaf trees..  Global Change Biology.  26:4068-4078. 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. 2020
• Use of MODIS NDVI Products to Map Tree Mortality Levels in Forests Affected by Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks.  Forests.  10:811. 2019
• The Potential Importance of Unburned Islands as Refugia for the Persistence of Wildlife Species in Fire-Prone Ecosystems.  Ecology and Evolution.  2019
• Terrestrial lidar scanning reveals fine-scale linkages between microstructure and photosynthetic functioning of small-stature spruce trees at the forest-tundra ecotone.  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.  269:157-168. 2019
• The value of linking paleoecological and neoecological perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience.  Landscape Ecology.  34:17-33. 2019
• Characterizing persistent unburned islands within the Inland Northwest USA.  Fire Ecology.  15:UNSP 20. 2019
• Integrating snow science and wildlife ecology in Arctic-boreal North America.  Environmental Research Letters.  14:10401. 2019
• Proximal remote sensing of tree physiology at northern treeline: Do late-season changes in the photochemical reflectance index (PRI) respond to climate or photoperiod?.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  221:340-350. 2019
• The importance of small fire refugia in the central Sierra Nevada, California, USA.  Forest Ecology and Management.  432:1041-1052. 2019
• Developing 5 m resolution canopy height and digital terrain models from WorldView and ArcticDEM data.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  218:174-188. 2018
• Fire Refugia: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter for Global Change?.  BioScience.  68:944-954. 2018
• Simulating the recent impacts of multiple biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling across the United States.  Global Change Biology.  24:2079-2092. 2018
• Spatiotemporal patterns of unburned areas within fire perimeters in the northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014.  Ecosphere.  9:e02029. 2018
• Prediction of Forest Canopy and Surface Fuels from Lidar and Satellite Time Series Data in a Bark Beetle-Affected Forest.  Forests.  8. 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.  12.0. 2017
• Quantifying insect-related forest mortality with the remote sensing of snow.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  188:26-36. 2017
• Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests - a synthesis of recent data, uncertainties and implications for forest monitoring and modelling.  Global Ecology and Biogeography.  26:533-552. 2017
• Characterizing the Response of Pinon-Juniper Woodlands to Mechanical Restoration Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery.  Rangeland Ecology and Management.  69:215-223. 2016
• Recent Tree Mortality in the Western United States from Bark Beetles and Forest Fires.  Forest Science.  62:141-153. 2016
• Detecting unburned areas within wildfire perimeters using Landsat and ancillary data across the northwestern United States.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  186:275-285. 2016
• Recent tree die-off has little effect on streamflow in contrast to expected increases from historical studies.  Water Resources Research.  51:9775-9789. 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. 2015
• Patterns and causes of observed pinon pine mortality in the southwestern United States.  New Phytologist.  206:91-97. 2015
• Indicators of climate change in Idaho: An assessment framework for coupling biophysical change and social perception.  Weather Climate and Society.  2015
• Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances.  Trends in plant science.  20:114-123. 2015
• 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.  7:3440-3452. 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. 2014
• 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. 2013
• Carbon stocks of trees killed by bark beetles and wildfire in the western United States.  Environmental Research Letters.  8. 2013
• Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on biogeochemical and biogeophysical MODIS products.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.  118:974-982. 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. 2013
• A Gridded Forest Bark Beetle Distrubance Data Set for Western US and British Columbia Derived from Aerial Survey Databases.  Ecological Applications.  22:1876-1891. 2012
• Observations and assessment of forest carbon dynamics following disturbance in North America.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.  117. 2012
• Spatiotemporal patterns of observed bark beetle-caused tree mortality in British Columbia and the western United States.  Ecological Applications.  22:1876-1891. 2012
• Cascading impacts of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.  10:416-424. 2012
• Evaluating the potential of multispectral imagery to map multiple stages of tree mortality.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  115:1632-1642. 2011
• Observations and modeling of aboveground tree carbon stocks and fluxes following a bark beetle outbreak in the western United States.  Global Change Biology.  17:339-350. 2011
• Characterizing Forest Fragments in Boreal, Temperate, and Tropical Ecosystems.  Ambio.  37:569-576. 2008