Arjan J. H. Meddens,^* Andrew T. Hudak,^** Jeffrey S. Evans,^*** William A. Gould,^**** Grizelle González<sup>*****


*</sup>Arjan Meddens is currently a PhD student at the University of Idaho, and his PhD project involves quantifying tree mortality from a mountain pine beetle infestation in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho using LiDAR remote sensing. His address: Department of Geography, University of Idaho, PO Box, 443021, McClure Hall 203, Moscow, ID 83844-3021, USA. E-mail: arjan.meddens@vandals.uidaho.edu
^**Andrew T. Hudak is a research forester specializing in landscape-level applications of remote sensing for improved ecosystem management at the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. His address: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 1221 South Main Street, Moscow, ID 83843, USA. E-mail: ahudak@fs.fed.us
^***Jeffrey S. Evans is a landscape ecologist with the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. His current research includes forest structural modeling using LiDAR, spatial uncertainty, and landscape genetics. His address: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 1221 South Main Street, Moscow, ID 83843, USA. E-mail: jevans02@fs.fed.us
^****William Gould is a landscape ecologist investigating biodiversity, conservation, land cover, and land-use patterns and processes in tropical, temperate, and arctic biomes. He leads the Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands Gap Analysis Programs and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory. His address: USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Río Piedras, 00926-1115, Puerto Rico. E-mail: wgould@fs.fed.us
^*****Grizelle González is a research ecologist at USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry and adjunct faculty to the Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Her interests are soil ecology and biology and terrestrial biogeochemistry. Her address: USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Río Piedras, 00926-1115, Puerto Rico. E-mail: ggonzalez@fs.fed.us