Michael L Goulden

Biographic Data

ID6230204
NAMEMichael L Goulden
GIVEN NAMESMichael L
FAMILY NAMEGoulden
SIGNATUREGOULDEN M L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Irvine
ORCID0000-0002-9379-3948
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Funding forests’ climate potential without carbon offsets

    Open AccessL F Blanchard, Barbara Haya et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

  • Rising forest exposure and fire severity from climate warming amplify tree cover losses from wildfire in California

    Open AccessJonathan Wang, Michael L Goulden et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Warmer temperatures and severe drought are driving increases in wildfire activity in the western United States, threatening forest ecosystems. However, identifying the influence of fire severity on tree cover loss (TCL) is challenging using commonly used categorical metrics. In this study, we quantify regional trends in wildfire-driven TCL as the product of annual burned area, average forest exposure (pre-fire tree cover), and average fire severi…

  • Satellite-based solar-induced fluorescence tracks seasonal and elevational patterns of photosynthesis in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains

    Open AccessLewis Kunik, D R Bowling et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Robust carbon monitoring systems are needed for land managers to assess and mitigate the changing effects of ecosystem stress on western United States forests, where most aboveground carbon is stored in mountainous areas. Atmospheric carbon uptake via gross primary productivity (GPP) is an important indicator of ecosystem function and is particularly relevant to carbon monitoring systems. However, limited ground-based observations in remote areas…

  • Do recent NDVI trends demonstrate boreal forest decline in Alaska

    Open AccessNicole M Fiore, Michael L Goulden et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Remote sensing analyses of boreal forest regions have found widespread decreasing or increasing trends in normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). Initially, these trends were attributed to climate change induced shifts in primary productivity. It is emerging, however, that fire disturbance and subsequent succession also strongly impact the optical properties of boreal forests. Here we use NDVI time series data from Landsat (1999–2018) pair…

  • Recent California tree mortality portends future increase in drought-driven forest die-off

    Open AccessGavin D Madakumbura, Michael L Goulden et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Vegetation tolerance to drought depends on an array of site-specific environmental and plant physiological factors. This tolerance is poorly understood for many forest types despite its importance for predicting and managing vegetation stress. We analyzed the relationships between precipitation variability and forest die-off in California’s Sierra Nevada and introduce a new measure of drought tolerance that emphasizes plant access to subsurface m…

  • Optimum air temperature for tropical forest photosynthesis

    Open AccessZhenghong Tan, Zheng-Hong Tan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    C-project of Talent, Hainan University; National Natural Science Foundation of China [31660142]; NASA LBA-DMIP project [NNX09AL52G]; NASA LBA investigation [CD-32]; National Science Foundation's Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)

  • Identification of two distinct fire regimes in Southern California

    Open AccessYufang Jin, Michael L Goulden et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    The area burned by Southern California wildfires has increased in recent decades, with implications for human health, infrastructure, and ecosystem management. Meteorology and fuel structure are universally recognized controllers of wildfire, but their relative importance, and hence the efficacy of abatement and suppression efforts, remains controversial. Southern California's wildfires can be partitioned by meteorology: fires typically occur eit…

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Open AccessMartin Jung, Markus Reichstein et al.ARTICLENature2010