Jonathan Wang

Biographic Data

ID6820227
NAMEJonathan Wang
GIVEN NAMESJonathan
FAMILY NAMEWang
SIGNATUREWANG J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Utah
ORCID0000-0003-2839-0699
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Meta-analysis of North American Arctic and boreal aboveground biomass datasets

    Open AccessWanwan Liang, Kirsten Bauck et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    The North American arctic and boreal regions (ABRs) are rapidly warming and experiencing intensifying disturbances. Accurately quantifying aboveground biomass (AGB) is critical for understanding the impacts of these changes on the carbon cycle and for designing climate change mitigation strategies. Several AGB maps have been developed for the North American ABRs, including recent contributions from National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s …

  • 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…

  • Greening rate in North Korea doubles South Korea

    Open AccessSai Qu, Youngryel Ryu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    South and North Korea have experienced contrasting economic developments since the 1950s while sharing similar climates. Previous studies revealed an overall long-term greening trend across the Korean Peninsula based on greenness data from coarse-resolution satellite images. However, there has been no comprehensive comparison of the greenness patterns and the driving mechanisms between two countries due to the limitations of coarse-resolution sat…

  • Oil and natural gas wells across the Nasa ABoVE domain

    Open AccessLouise Klotz, Oliver Sonnentag et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Arctic-boreal regions are experiencing major anthropogenic disturbances in addition to intensifying natural disturbance regimes as a consequence of climate change. Oil and natural gas (OG) activities are extensive in the Arctic-boreal region of western North America, a large portion of which is underlain by permafrost. The total number and distribution of OG wells and their potential fate remain unclear. Consequently, the collective impacts of OG…

  • Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra

    Open AccessAdrianna Foster, Jonathan Wang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes, insect outbreaks and pathogens, extreme weather events, and human activity. Climate warming in the ABZ is occurring at over twice the rate of the global average, and as a result the extent, frequency, and severity of these disturbances are increasing rapidly. Disturbances in the AB…

  • Soil respiration strongly offsets carbon uptake in Alaska and Northwest Canada

    Open AccessJennifer D Watts, Susan M Natali et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Soil respiration (i.e. from soils and roots) provides one of the largest global fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere and is likely to increase with warming, yet the magnitude of soil respiration from rapidly thawing Arctic-boreal regions is not well understood. To address this knowledge gap, we first compiled a new CO 2 flux database for permafrost-affected tundra and boreal ecosystems in Alaska and Northwest Canada. We then used th…

  • Urban Heat Islets

    Daniel Tumminelli O''Brien, Brian Gridley et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020Cited by: 2References: 22

    Objectives. To examine the relationships among environmental characteristics, temperature, and health outcomes during heat advisories at the geographic scale of street segments. Methods. We combined multiple data sets from Boston, Massachusetts, including remotely sensed measures of temperature and associated environmental characteristics (e.g., canopy cover), 911 dispatches for medical emergencies, daily weather conditions, and demographic and p…

  • The role of land cover change in Arctic-Boreal greening and browning trends

    Open AccessJonathan Wang, M A FriedlARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Many studies have used time series of satellite-derived vegetation indices to identify so-called greening and browning trends across the northern high-latitudes and to suggest that the productivity of Arctic-Boreal ecosystems is changing in response to climate forcing at local and continental scales. However, disturbances that alter land cover are prevalent in Arctic-Boreal ecosystems, and changes in Arctic-Boreal land cover, which complicate int…

  • Interactions between urban vegetation and surface urban heat islands

    Open AccessE K Melaas, Jonathan Wang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Many studies have used thermal data from remote sensing to characterize how land use and surface properties modify the climate of cities. However, relatively few studies have examined the impact of elevated temperature on ecophysiological processes in urban areas. In this paper, we use time series of Landsat data to characterize and quantify how geographic variation in Boston’s surface urban heat island (SUHI) affects the growing season of vegeta…