Scott Goetz

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ID6313853
NOMEScott Goetz
PRENOMESScott
SOBRENOMEGoetz
ASSINATURAGOETZ S
AFILIAÇÕESNorthern Arizona University
ORCID0000-0002-6326-4308
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS48
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES13
TOTAL COMO AUTOR48
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2005
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Permafrost vulnerability to climate change

    Open AccessJing Tao, Anna Liljedahl et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Permafrost regions are undergoing profound changes under a warming climate, with significant implications for Earth system feedback, ecosystems, and infrastructure. This editorial synthesizes findings from 35 interdisciplinary studies featured in this focus issue, which collectively advance our understanding of permafrost degradation dynamics and their cascading impacts. The contributions span a wide range of spatial scales from site-level proces…

  • Time-series maps reveal widespread change in plant functional type cover across Arctic and boreal Alaska and Yukon

    Open AccessMatthew J Macander, Peter R Nelson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Widespread changes in the distribution and abundance of plant functional types (PFTs) are occurring in Arctic and boreal ecosystems due to the intensification of disturbances, such as fire, and climate-driven vegetation dynamics, such as tundra shrub expansion. To understand how these changes affect boreal and tundra ecosystems, we need to first quantify change for multiple PFTs across recent years. While landscape patches are generally composed …

  • 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…

  • Gedi launches a new era of biomass inference from space

    Open AccessRalph Dubayah, John Armston et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Accurate estimation of aboveground forest biomass stocks is required to assess the impacts of land use changes such as deforestation and subsequent regrowth on concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 . The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a lidar mission launched by NASA to the International Space Station in 2018. GEDI was specifically designed to retrieve vegetation structure within a novel, theoretical sampling design that explicitl…

  • Plant functional type aboveground biomass change within Alaska and northwest Canada mapped using a 35-year satellite time series from 1985 to 2020

    Open AccessKathleen M Orndahl, Matthew J Macander et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Changes in vegetation distribution are underway in Arctic and boreal regions due to climate warming and associated fire disturbance. These changes have wide ranging downstream impacts—affecting wildlife habitat, nutrient cycling, climate feedbacks and fire regimes. It is thus critical to understand where these changes are occurring and what types of vegetation are affected, and to quantify the magnitude of the changes. In this study, we mapped li…

  • Revisiting the status of forest carbon stock changes in the context of the measurement and monitoring needs, capabilities and potential for addressing reduced emissions from deforestation and forest d…

    Open AccessScott Goetz, Ralph Dubayah et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

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  • Bottom-up drivers of future fire regimes in western boreal North America

    Open AccessAdrianna Foster, J K Shuman et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Forest characteristics, structure, and dynamics within the North American boreal region are heavily influenced by wildfire intensity, severity, and frequency. Increasing temperatures are likely to result in drier conditions and longer fire seasons, potentially leading to more intense and frequent fires. However, an increase in deciduous forest cover is also predicted across the region, potentially decreasing flammability. In this study, we use an…

  • Mapping tree diversity in the tropical forest region of Chocó-Colombia

    Open AccessJ Camilo Fagua, Patrick Jantz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Understanding spatial patterns of diversity in tropical forests is indispensable for their sustainable use and conservation. Recent studies have reported relationships between forest structure and α -diversity. While tree α -diversity is difficult to map via remote sensing, large-scale forest structure models are becoming more common, which would facilitate mapping the relationship between tree α -diversity and forest structure, contributing to o…

  • 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…

  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

    Open AccessWilliam R L Anderegg, Anna T Trugman et al.ARTICLEScience2020

    Risks to mitigation potential of forests Much recent attention has focused on the potential of trees and forests to mitigate ongoing climate change by acting as sinks for carbon. Anderegg et al. review the growing evidence that forests' climate mitigation potential is increasingly at risk from a range of adversities that limit forest growth and health. These include physical factors such as drought and fire and biotic factors, including the depre…

  • Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems

    Open AccessBrooke A Williams, Oscar Venter et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    Human pressure mapping is important for understanding humanity's role in shaping Earth's patterns and processes. Our ability to map this influence has evolved, thanks to powerful computing, Earth-observing satellites, and new bottom-up census and crowd-sourced data. Here, we provide the latest temporally inter-comparable maps of the terrestrial human footprint and assessment of change in human pressure at global, biome, and ecoregional scales. In…

  • Incorporating canopy structure from simulated Gedi lidar into bird species distribution models

    Open AccessPatrick Burns, M L Clark et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar began data acquisition from the International Space Station in March 2019 and is expected to make over 10 billion measurements of canopy structure and topography over two years. Previously, airborne lidar data with limited spatial coverage have been used to examine relationships between forest canopy structure and faunal diversity, most commonly bird species. GEDI’s latitudinal coverage wil…

  • Lichen cover mapping for caribou ranges in interior Alaska and Yukon

    Open AccessMatthew J Macander, Eric C Palm et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Previous research indicates that the effects of climate warming, including shrub expansion and increased fire frequency may lead to declining lichen abundance in arctic tundra and northern alpine areas. Lichens are important forage for caribou ( Rangifer tarandus ), whose populations are declining throughout most of North America. To clarify how lichen cover might affect caribou resource selection, ecologists require better data on the spatial di…

  • A narrow window of summer temperatures associated with shrub growth in Arctic Alaska

    Open AccessLaia Andreu‐Hayles, Benjamin V Gaglioti et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Warming in recent decades has triggered shrub expansion in Arctic and alpine tundra, which is transforming these temperature-limited ecosystems and altering carbon and nutrient cycles, fire regimes, permafrost stability, land-surface climate-feedbacks, and wildlife habitat. Where and when Arctic shrub expansion happens in the future will depend in part on how different shrub communities respond to warming air temperatures. Here, we analyze a shru…

  • Focus on changing fire regimes

    Open AccessBrendan M Rogers, Jennifer K Balch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Fire is a complex Earth system phenomenon that fundamentally affects vegetation distributions, biogeochemical cycling, climate, and human society across most of Earth’s land surface. Fire regimes are currently changing due to multiple interacting global change drivers, most notably climate change, land use, and direct human influences via ignition and suppression. It is therefore critical to better understand the drivers, patterns, and impacts of…

  • Focus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals

    Open AccessWilliam R Moomaw, B E Law et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    It is clear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone is insufficient to avoid large global temperature increases. To avoid atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases that result in dangerous alterations of the climate, large reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and land use changes must be accompanied by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration. Natural Climate Solutions have become a major foc…

  • Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

    Open AccessPedro H S Brancalion, Aidin Niamir et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2019

    Assessment of socioenvironmental benefits and feasibility identifies priority areas for restoring global tropical rainforests.

  • Impacts of climate and insect herbivory on productivity and physiology of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Alaskan boreal forests

    Open AccessMelissa Anna Boyd, Logan T Berner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Climate change is impacting forested ecosystems worldwide, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere where warming has increased at a faster rate than the rest of the globe. As climate warms, trembling aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) is expected to become more successful in northern boreal forests because of its current presence in drier areas of North America. However, large-scale productivity decline of aspen has recently been documented throughout…

  • An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities

    Open AccessCharles E Miller, Paul Griffith et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    The 2017 Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Airborne Campaign (AAC) was one of the largest, most complex airborne science experiments conducted by NASA’s Earth Science Division. Between April and November, the AAC involved ten aircraft in more than 200 science flights that surveyed over 4 million km 2 in Alaska and northwestern Canada. Many flights were coordinated with same-day ground-based measurements to link process-level studies with geo…

  • Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin

    Open AccessFritz Kleinschroth, Nadine Laporte et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Citada por: 12Referências: 2

  • Tundra plant above-ground biomass and shrub dominance mapped across the North Slope of Alaska

    Open AccessLogan T Berner, Patrick Jantz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Arctic tundra is becoming greener and shrubbier due to recent warming. This is impacting climate feedbacks and wildlife, yet the spatial distribution of plant biomass in tundra ecosystems is uncertain. In this study, we mapped plant and shrub above-ground biomass (AGB; kg m ^−2 ) and shrub dominance (%; shrub AGB/plant AGB) across the North Slope of Alaska by linking biomass harvests at 28 field sites with 30 m resolution Landsat satellite imager…

  • Anticipating social equity impacts in Redd+ policy design

    Open AccessJohanne Pelletier, Ned Horning et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2018Citada por: 1Referências: 38

  • Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle

    Open AccessJoshua B Fisher, Daniel J Hayes et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    NASA has launched the decade-long Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE). While the initial phases focus on field and airborne data collection, early integration with modeling activities is important to benefit future modeling syntheses. We compiled feedback from ecosystem modeling teams on key data needs, which encompass carbon biogeochemistry, vegetation, permafrost, hydrology, and disturbance dynamics. A suite of variables was identifi…

  • Ecosystem responses to climate change at a Low Arctic and a High Arctic long-term research site

    Open AccessJohn E Hobbie, Gaius R Shaver et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2017Referências: 54

    Long-term measurements of ecological effects of warming are often not statistically significant because of annual variability or signal noise. These are reduced in indicators that filter or reduce the noise around the signal and allow effects of climate warming to emerge. In this way, certain indicators act as medium pass filters integrating the signal over years-to-decades. In the Alaskan Arctic, the 25-year record of warming of air temperature …

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Open AccessBenjamin W Abbott, Jeremy B Jones et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    As the permafrost region warms, its large organic carbon pool will be increasingly vulnerable to decomposition, combustion, and hydrologic export. Models predict that some portion of this release will be offset by increased production of Arctic and boreal biomass; however, the lack of robust estimates of net carbon balance increases the risk of further overshooting international emissions targets. Precise empirical or model-based assessments of t…