The following is a list of recent publications from our lab group. For earlier publications, please see lab member Google Scholar profiles from our People page.

2025

Hysen, L., Wan, H.Y., Jantz, P., Gagnon, J. and Cushman, S.A., 2025. Variability in habitat selection between herds for a widespread ungulate. Ecological Modelling, 501, p.110991, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110991

2024

Fagua, J.C. and Jantz, P., 2024. Mapping Tropical Dry Forest Gradients in an Andean Region with High Environmental Variability. Ecological Indicators, 168, p.112744, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112744

Berner, L.T., Orndahl, K.M., Rose, M., Tamstorf, M., Arndal, M.F., Alexander, H.D., Humphreys, E.R., Loranty, M.M., Ludwig, S.M., Nyman, J. … Goetz, S. J., 2024. The Arctic plant aboveground biomass synthesis dataset. Scientific Data, 11(1), p.305. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03139-w

Burns, P., Hakkenberg, C., Goetz, S.J. Gridded GEDI Vegetation Structure Metrics and Biomass Density at Multiple Resolutions. Nature Scientific Data. 11(1):881, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03668-4

Burrell, A.L., Cooperdock, S., Potter, S., Berner, L.T., Hember, R., Macander, M.J., Walker, X.J., Massey, R., Foster, A.C., Mack, M.C., Goetz, S.J., Rogers, B. The predictability of near‐term forest biomass change in boreal North America. Ecosphere, 15(1), p.e4737. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4737

Cushman, S.A., Kaszta, Z.M., Burns, P., Hakkenberg, C.R., Jantz, P., Macdonald, D.W., Brodie, J.F., Deith, M.C. and Goetz, S.J. Simulating multi-scale optimization and variable selection in species distribution modeling. Ecological Informatics, doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102832

East, A., Hansen, A., Jantz, P., Currey, B., Roberts, D.W. and Armenteras, D., 2024. Validation and Error Minimization of Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Relative Height Metrics in the Amazon. Remote Sensing, 16(19), p.3550, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16193550

Doughty, C. E., Gaillard, C., Burns, P.,Malhi, Y., Shenkin, A., Minor, D., Duncanson, L., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Goetz, S.J., Hao, T. Satellite derived trait data slightly improves tropical forest biomass, NPP and GPP estimates. Journal of GeophysicalResearch: Biogeosciences, 129, e2024JG008108. doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008108

Hakkenberg, C.R.; Clark, M.; Bailey, T.; Burns, P. and S.J. Goetz. 2024. Ladder fuels rather than canopy volumes consistently predict wildfire severity even in extreme topographic-weather conditions. Nature Communications Earth & Environment. 5:721. doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01893-8

Hansen, A. J., Aragon-Osejo, J., González, I., Jantz, P., Goetz, S. J., et al. Developing national complementary indicators of SDG15 that consider forest quality: Applications in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Ecological Indicators, 159, 111654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111654

Liu, Z., Rogers, B. M., Keppel-Aleks, G., Helbig, M., … Berner, L. T., Goetz, S., et al. Seasonal CO2 amplitude in northern high latitudes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00600-7

Miller, C. E., Griffith, P. C., Hoy, E., … and Goetz, S. J. The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 2605–2624, doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2605-2024

Pillay, R., Watson, J.E., Goetz, S., Hansen, A.J., Jantz, P., Ramírez-Delgado, J.P., Grantham, H.S., Ferrier, S. and Venter, O. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework needs headline indicators that can actually monitor forest integrity. Environmental Research: Ecology, 3 043001, doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ad7961

Quinn, C.A., Burns, P., Jantz, P., Salas, L., Goetz, S.J., Clark, M.L. Soundscape mapping: understanding regional spatial and temporal patterns of soundscapes incorporating remotely-sensed predictors and wildfire disturbance. Environmental Research: Ecology, 3(2):025002, doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ad4bec

Keany, J.M., Burns, P., Abraham, A.J., Jantz, P., Makaga, L., Saatchi, S., Maisels, F., Abernethy, K. and Doughty, C.E., 2024. Using multiscale lidar to determine variation in canopy structure from African forest elephant trails. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.395

Sundquist, S., Lutz, D., Foster, A., Fulé, P. & Goetz, S., 2024. Integrating remotely sensed imagery in a forest gap model to study North American boreal forests in a changing world. Environ. Res.: Ecology, 3, 045001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ad7d94

Zhang, Y., Wang, J.A., Berner, L.T., Goetz, S.J., Zhao, K. and Liu, Y., 2024. Warming and disturbances affect Arctic-boreal vegetation resilience across northwestern North America. Nature Ecology & Evolution, doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02551-0

Zhu, X., Chen, D., Kogure, M., Hoy, E., Berner, L., … and Goetz, S. J., A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020), Earth Syst. Sci. Data. doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3687-2024

2023

Berner, L. T., Assmann, J. J., Normand, S. & Goetz, S. J., 2023. LandsatTS: an R package to facilitate retrieval, cleaning, cross-calibration, and phenological modeling of Landsat time-series data. Ecography, 9, e06768. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06768

Brodie, J.F., Mohd-Azlan, J., Chen, C., Wearn, O.R., Deith, M.C., Ball, J.G., Slade, E.M., Burslem, D.F., Teoh, S.W., Williams, P.J., Nguyen, A., Moore, J. H., Goetz, S. J., Burns, P., Jantz, P., Hakkenberg, C. R., Kaszta, Z. M., Cushman, S., Coomes, D., Helmy, O. E., Reynolds, G., Rodríguez, J. P., and Luskin, M. Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity. Nature, 620(7975), 807-812. doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06410-z

Clark, M. L., Salas, L., Baligar, S., Quinn, C. A., Snyder, R. L., Leland, D., Schackwitz, W., Goetz, S. J. Newsam, S. The effect of soundscape composition on bird vocalization classification in a citizen science biodiversity monitoring project, Ecological Informatics, 75 (102065). doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102065

Duncanson, L., Liang, M., Leitold, V., Armston, J., Krishna Moorthy, S.M., Dubayah, R., Costedoat, S., Enquist, B.J., Fatoyinbo, L., Goetz, S.J. and Gonzalez-Roglich, M. The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation. Nature Communications, 14(1). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38073-9

Hakkenberg, C.R., Atkins, J.W., Brodie, J.F., Burns, P., Cushman, S., Jantz, P., Kaszta, Z., Quinn, C.A., Rose, M.D., and S.J. Goetz. 2023. Inferring alpha, beta, and gamma plant diversity across biomes with GEDI spaceborne lidar. Environmental Research: Ecology. 2(3), 035005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/acffcd

Hakkenberg, C.R., Tang, H., Burns, P., and S.J. Goetz. 2023. Canopy structure from space using GEDI lidar. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 21.1: 55-56. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2585

Massey, R., Berner, L. T., Foster, A. C., Goetz, S. J. & Vepakomma, U., 2023. Remote Sensing Tools for Monitoring Forests and Tracking Their Dynamics. In: Girona, M.M., Morin, H., Gauthier, S., Bergeron, Y. (eds) Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 74. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15988-6_26

Massey, R., Rogers, B. M., Berner, L. T., Cooperdock, S., Mack, M. C., Walker, X. J. & Goetz, S. J., 2023. Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America. Nature Climate Change, 13, 1368–1375. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01851-w

Quinn C. A., Burns P., Hakkenberg C.R., Salas L., Pasch B., Goetz S. J., Clark M. L. Soundscape components inform acoustic index patterns and refine estimates of bird species richness. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 4:1156837. doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2023.1156837

Walker, X. J., Okano, K., Berner, L. T., Massey, R., Goetz, S. J., Johnstone, J. F. & Mack, M. C., 2023. Shifts in Ecological Legacies Support Hysteresis of Stand Type Conversions in Boreal Forests. Ecosystems, 26, 1796–1805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-023-00866-w

Williams, C. A., Andrews, A., Brown, M., Davis, K. J., Hoffman, F., Larson L., Poulter, B., Shrestha, G., Sundquist E. T., Wei, Y., … Goetz, S. J., et al. 2022 North American Carbon Program Science Implementation Plan. (C. A. Williams, Ed.). Washington, DC: U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program (US CCSP). http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/kwe1-w815

2022

Berner, L.T. and Goetz, S.J., 2022. Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift. Global change biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16121

Dubayah, R., Armston, J., Healey, S., Bruening, J., Patterson, P., Kellner, J., Duncanson L., Saarela, S., Stahl, G., Yang, Z., Tang, Hm., Blair, J. B., Fatoyinbo, L., Goetz, S. J., Hancock, S., Hansen, M., Hofton, M., Hurtt G., Luthcke, S., 2022. GEDI Launches a New Era of Biomass Inference from Space. Environmental Research Letters. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8694

Duncanson, L., Kellner, J. R., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Minor, D. M., Hancock, S., Healey, S. P., Patterson, P. L., Saarela, S., Marselis, S., Silva, C. E., Bruening, J., Goetz, S.J. and 80 others, 2022. Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, 112845. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112845

Foster, A., Shuman, J. K., Rogers, B. M., Walker, X., Mack, M. C., Bourgeau-Chavez, L., Veraverbeke, S., Goetz, S. J., 2022. Bottom-up drivers of future fire regimes in western boreal North America. Environmental Research Letters, 17(2) 025006. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4c1e

Foster A C, Wang J A, Frost G V, Davidson S J, Hoy E, Turner K W, Sonnentag O, Epstein H, Berner L T, Armstrong A H, Kang M, Rogers B M, Campbell E, Miner K R, Orndahl K M, Bourgeau-Chavez L L, Lutz D A, French N, Chen D, Du J, Shestakova T A, Shuman J K, Tape K, Virkkala A-M, Potter C, Goetz S. Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses. Environmental Research Letters 17 113001. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7.

Frost, G. V., M. J. Macander, U. S. Bhatt, L. T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, H. E. Epstein, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, M. J. Lara, T. Park, G. K. Phoenix, S. P. Serbin, H. Tømmervik, D. A. Walker, and D. Yang. Tundra greenness. NOAA Arctic Report Card 2021, T. A. Moon, M. L. Druckenmiller, and R. L. Thoman (Eds.), doi.org/10.25923/8n78-wp73.

Goetz, S., Dubayah, R. and Duncanson, L., 2022. 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 degradation. Environmental Research Letters, 17(11) 111003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9c1d

Goetz, S. J. Introducing Environmental Research: Ecology — a new journal devoted to addressing global challenges at the interface of environmental and ecological science, biodiversity and conservation. Environmental Research: Ecology, 1(1), 10401. doi.org/10.1088/2752-664x/ac85f1

Macander, M. J., Nelson, P., Nawrocki, T. W., Frost, G. V., Orndahl, K. M., Palm, E. C., Wells, A. F., Goetz, S. J., 2022. Time-series maps reveal widespread change in plant functional type cover across arctic and boreal Alaska and Yukon. Environmental Research Letters. 17(5) 054042. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6965

Orndahl, K. M., Ehlers, L. P. W., Herriges, J. D., Pernick, R. E., Hebblewhite, M., & Goetz, S. J., 2022. Mapping tundra ecosystem plant functional type cover, height and aboveground biomass in Alaska and northwest Canada using unmanned aerial vehicles. Arctic Science. doi.org/10.1139/AS-2021-0044

Orndahl, K.M., Macander, M.J., Berner, L.T. and Goetz, S., 2022. Plant functional type aboveground biomass change within Alaska and northwest Canada mapped using a 35-year satellite time series from 1985-2020. Environmental Research Letters. 17(11). doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9d50

Pillay, R., Watson, J.E., Hansen, A.J., Jantz, P.A., Aragon-Osejo, J., Armenteras, D., Atkinson, S.C., Burns, P., Ervin, J., Goetz, S.J. and González-del-Pliego, P., 2022. Humid tropical vertebrates are at lower risk of extinction and population decline in forests with higher structural integrity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01915-8

Quinn, C.A., Burns, P., Gill, G., Baligar, S., Snyder, R.L., Salas, L., Goetz, S.J. and Clark, M.L., 2022. Soundscape classification with convolutional neural networks reveals temporal and geographic patterns in ecoacoustic data. Ecological Indicators, 138, p.108831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108831

2021

Belmonte, A., Sankey, T., Biederman, J., Bradford, J., Goetz, S. and Kolb, T., 2021. UAV-based estimate of snow cover dynamics: Optimizing semi-arid forest structure for snow persistence. Remote Sensing, 13(5), p.1036. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13051036

Boyd, M., Berner, L., Foster, A., Goetz, S.J., Rogers, B., Walker, X., Mack, M., 2021. Historic declines in growth portend trembling aspen death during a contemporary leaf miner outbreak in Alaska. Ecosphere 12(6) e03569, doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3569.

Duncanson, L., Armston, J., Disney, M., Avitabile, V., Barbier, N., Calders, K., Carter, S., Chave, J., Herold, M., MacBean, N., McRoberts, R., Minor, D., Paul, K., Réjou-Méchain, M., Roxburgh, S., Williams, M., Albinet, C., Baker, T., Bartholomeus, H., Bastin, J.F., Coomes, D., Crowther, T., Davies, S., de Bruin, S., De Kauwe, M., Domke, G., Dubayah, R., Falkowski, M., Fatoyinbo, L., Goetz, S., Jantz, P. and 24 others, 2021. Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol. Version 1.0. In L. Duncanson, M. Disney, J. Armston, J. Nickeson, D. Minor, and F. Camacho (Eds.), Good Practices for Satellite Derived Land Product Validation: Land Product Validation Subgroup (Working Group on Calibration and Validation, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites), doi:10.5067/doc/ceoswgcv/lpv/agb.001

Fagua, J. C., Jantz, P., Burns, P., Massey, R., Buitrago, J. Y., Saatchi, S., Hakkenberg, C., Goetz, S. J., 2021. Mapping tree diversity in the tropical forest region of Chocó-Colombia. Environmental Research Letters, 16(5), 54024. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abf58a

Gaglioti, B.V., Berner, L.T., Jones, B.M., Orndahl, K.M., Williams, A.P., Andreu‐Hayles, L., D’Arrigo, R.D., Goetz, S.J. and Mann, D.H., 2021. Tussocks enduring or shrubs greening: Alternate responses to changing fire regimes in the Noatak River Valley, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(4), p.e2020JG006009. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006009.

Hakkenberg, C. R. & Goetz, S. J., 2021. Climate mediates the relationship between plant biodiversity and forest structure across the United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography, doi.org/10.1111/geb.13380

Hakkenberg, C.R., D.D. Tarasi, S.C. Cushman, and R.K. Peet. 2021. Community – Continuum in Biogeography. In: International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-AAG, Oxford, UK.

Hansen, A.J., Noble, B.P., Veneros, J., East, A., Goetz, S.J., Supples, C., Watson, J.E., Jantz, P.A., Pillay, R., Jetz, W. and Ferrier, S., 2021. Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservation Letters, 14(4), p.e12822. doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12822

Law, B.E., Berner, L.T., Buotte, P.C., Mildrexler, D.J., and Ripple, W.J., 2021. Strategic Forest can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change. Communications Earth & Environment 2(1), 254, doi:10.1038/s43247-021-00326-0

Mekonnen, Z.A., Riley, W.J., Berner, L.T., Bouskill, N.J., Torn, M.S., Iwahana, G., Breen, A.L., Myers-Smith, I.H., Criado, M.G., Liu, Y., Euskirchen, E.S., Goetz, S. J., Mack, M. C. and Grant, R. F. 2021. Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance. Environmental Research Letters, 16(5), p.053001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abf28b.

Walker, X.J., Alexander, H.D., Berner, L.T., Boyd, M.A., Loranty, M.M., Natali, S.M., and Mack, M.C., 2021. Positive response of tree productivity to warming is reversed by increased tree density at the Arctic tundra-taiga ecotone. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 51(9), 1323-1338, doi:https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2020-0466

Watts, J., Natali, S. M., Minions, C., Risk, D., Arndt, K. A., Zona, D., Euskirchen, Eugenie S., Rocha, A.V., Sonnentag, O., Helbig, M., Kalhori, A., Oechel, W.C., Ikawa, H., Ueyama, M., Suzuki, R., Kobayashi, H., Celis, G., Schuur, E.A.G., Humphreys, E.R., Kim, Y., Lee, B-Y., Goetz, S.J., Madani, N., Schiferl, L., Commane, R., Kimball, J.S., Liu, Z., Torn, M.S., Potter, S., Wang, J.A., Jorgenson, T., Xiao, J., Li, X., Edgar, C., 2021. Soil respiration strongly offsets carbon uptake in Alaska and Northwest Canada. Environmental Research Letters, 16(8), p.084051. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1222

2020

Anderegg, W.R.L., Trugman, A.T., Badgley, G., Anderson, C.M., Bartuska, A., Ciais, P., Cullenward, D., Field, C.B., Freeman, J., Goetz, S.J., Hicke, J.A., Huntzinger, D., Jackson, R.B., Nickerson, J., Pacala, S., Randerson, J.T. 2020. Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests, Science 368 (6497), https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz7005

Andreu-Hayles, L., Gaglioti, B., Berner, L. T., Anchukaitis, K., Goetz, S., and D’Arrigo, R. 2020. A narrow window of summer temperatures associated with shrub growth in Arctic Alaska, Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), p. 105012, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab897f

Belmonte, A., Sankey, T., Biederman, J. A., Bradford, J., Goetz, S. J., Kolb, T., & Woolley, T. 2020. UAV-derived estimates of forest structure to inform ponderosa pine forest restoration. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 6(2), pp. 181-197. doi.org/10.1002/rse2.137

Berner, L.T., Massey, R., Jantz, P., Forbes, B.C., Macias-Fauria, M., Myers-Smith, I., Kumpula, T., Gauthier, G., Andreu-Hayles, L., Gaglioti, B.V. and Burns, P., 2020. Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome. Nature Communications, 11(1), pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18479-5

Buotte, P.C., B.E. Law, W.J. Ripple, and L.T. Berner. 2020. Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States. Ecological Applications, 30(2), p.e02039, https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2039

Dubayah, R., Blair, J.B., Goetz, S., Fatoyinbo, L., Hansen, M., Healey, S., Hofton, M., Hurtt, G., Kellner, J., Luthcke, S., Armston, J., Tang, H., Duncanson, L., Hancock, S., Jantz, P., Marselis, S., Patterson, P., Qi, W., Silva, C. 2020. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography. Science of Remote Sensing 1, p. 100002. doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2020.100002

Hansen, A.J., Burns, P., Ervin, J., Goetz, S.J., Hansen, M., Venter, O., Watson, J.E., Jantz, P.A., Virnig, A.L., Barnett, K. and Pillay, R., 2020. A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(10), pp.1377-1384. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1274-7

Kattge, J., G. Bönisch,… L.T. Berner et al. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 26:119-188, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904

Macander M.J., E. C. Palm, G.V. Frost, J. D. Herriges, P. R. Nelson, C. Roland, K. L.M. Russell, M. J. Suitor, T. W. Bentzen, K. Joly, S. J. Goetz, M. Hebblewhite. 2020. Lichen cover mapping for caribou ranges in interior Alaska and Yukon. Environmental Research Letters, 15(5), p. 55001, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d38

Moomaw, W., Law, B. E., & Goetz, S. 2020. Focus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4), p. 045009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6b38.

Myers-Smith, I. H., J. T. Kerby, … L.T. Berner, S.J. Goetz et al. 2020. Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic. Nature Climate Change 10(2), pp. 106-117, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0688-1

Potter, S., Solvik, K., Erb, A., Goetz, S.J., Johnstone, J.F., Mack, M.C., Randerson, J.T., Román, M.O., Schaaf, C.L., Turetsky, M.R., Veraverbeke, S., Walker, X.J., Wang, Z., Massey, R., Rogers, B.M. 2020. Climate change decreases the cooling effect from post-fire albedo in boreal North America. Global Change Biology, 26(3), pp. 1592-1607. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14888

Rogers, B., Balch, J.K., Goetz, S.J., Lehmann, C.E.R., Turetsky, M. 2020. Focus on changing fire regimes: Interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society. Environmental Research Letters, 15(3), p. 030201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d3a

Thomas, H. J. D., Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf, S. C., and 80 others. 2020. Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1351. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15014-4

Verdonen, M., Berner, L. T., Forbes, B. C., and Kumpula, T. 2020. Periglacial vegetation dynamics in Arctic Russia: decadal analysis of tundra regeneration on landslides with time series satellite imagery, Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), p. 105020, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abb500

2019

Brancalion, P. H. S., Niamir, A., Broadbent, E., Crouzeilles, R., Barros, F. S. M., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Baccini, A., Aronson, J., Goetz, S.J., Reid, J. L., Strassburg, B. N., Wilson, S., Chazdon, R. L., 2019. Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav3223. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav3223

Boyd, M. A., Berner, L. T., Doak, P., Goetz, S., Rogers, B., Wagner, D., Walker, X., Mack, M. C., 2019. Impacts of climate and insect herbivory on productivity and physiology of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Alaskan boreal forests. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8), p. 085010, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab215f.

Foster, A. C., Armstrong, A. H., Shuman, J. K., Shugart, H. H., Rogers, B. M., Mack, M. C., Goetz, S. J., Ranson, K. J., 2019. Importance of tree- and species-level interactions with wild fire, climate, and soils in interior Alaska : Implications for forest change under a warming climate. Ecological Modelling, 409, p. 108765. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108765

Frost, G. V., U. Bhatt, H. Epstein, D. Walker, M. K. Raynolds, L.T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, A. L. Breen, B.C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, C. M. Iversen, M. J. Lara, M. J. Macander, G. K. Phoenix, A. V. Rocha, V. G. Salmon, P. E. Thornton, H. Tømmervik, and S. D. Wullschleger. 2019. Tundra greenness. NOAA Arctic Report Card, 48-57.

Hansen, A., Barnett, K., Jantz, P., Phillips, L., Goetz, S.J., Hansen, M., Venter, O., Watson, J.E.M., Burns, P., Atkinson, S., Rodríguez-Buritica, S., Ervin, J., Virnig, A., Supples, C., De Camargo, R., 2019. Global humid tropics forest structural condition and forest structural integrity maps. Scientific Data, 6(1), pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0214-3

Hughes, M.K., A. Olchev, A.G. Bunn, L.T. Berner, M. Losleben, and E. Novenko. 2019. Different climate response of spruce and pine growth in northern European Russia. Dendrochronologia, 56, p. 125601, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.05.005

Kleinschroth, F., Laporte, N., Laurance, W. F., Goetz, S. J., & Ghazoul, J., 2019. Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin. Nature Sustainability. 2:628–634. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0310-6

Miller, C.E., Griffith, P., Goetz, S., Hoy, E., Pinto, N., McCubbin, I., Thorpe, A.K., Hofton, M.M., Hodkinson, D.J., Hansen, C. and Woods, J., 2019. An overview of ABoVE airborne campaign data acquisitions and science opportunities. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d44

Pastick, N.J., Jorgenson, M.T., Goetz, S.J., Jones, B.M., Wylie, B.K., Minsley, B.J., Genet, H., Knight, J.F., Swanson, D.K. and Jorgenson, J.C., 2019. Spatiotemporal remote sensing of ecosystem change and causation across Alaska. Global change biology, 25(3), pp.1171-1189. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14279

Tang, H., Armston, J., Hancock, S., Marselis, S., Goetz, S., & Dubayah, R. , 2019. Characterizing global forest canopy cover distribution using spaceborne lidar. Remote Sensing of Environment, 231, 111262. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111262

Tang, H., Song, X.P., Zhao, F.A., Strahler, A.H., Schaaf, C.L., Goetz, S., Huang, C., Hansen, M.C. and Dubayah, R., 2019. Definition and measurement of tree cover: A comparative analysis of field-, lidar-and landsat-based tree cover estimations in the Sierra national forests, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 268, pp.258-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.01.024

Thomas, H.J., Myers‐Smith, I.H., Bjorkman, A.D., Elmendorf, S.C., Blok, D., Cornelissen, J.H., Forbes, B.C., … Berner, L.T., Goetz, S.J. et al. 2019. Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(2), pp.78-95. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12783

Walker, X. J., Baltzer, J. L., Cumming, S. G., Day, N. J., Ebert, C., Goetz, S.J., Johnstone, J. F., Potter, S., Rogers, B. M., Schuur, E. A. G., Turetsky, M. R., Mack, M. C., 2019. Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils. Nature, 572(7770), 520–523. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1474-y

2018

Anderegg, L.D., Berner, L.T., Badgley, G., Sethi, M.L., Law, B.E. and HilleRisLambers, J., 2018. Within‐species patterns challenge our understanding of the leaf economics spectrum. Ecology Letters, 21(5), pp.734-744. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12945

Berner, L.T., Jantz, P., Tape, K.D. and Goetz, S. J., 2018. Tundra plant aboveground biomass and shrub dominance mapped across the North Slope of Alaska. Environmental Research Letters, 13(3), p.035002. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaaa9a

Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf and 123 others. 2018. Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature, 562, pp.57–62. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7

Fisher, J. B., Hayes, D. J., Schwalm, C. R., Huntzinger, D. N., Stofferahn, E., Schaefer, K., Huntzinger, D. Stofferahn, E., Schaefer, K., Luo, Y., Wullschleger, S. D., Goetz, S. J., Miller, C. E., Griffith, P. 2018. Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle. Environmental Research Letters. 13(2). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9a

Foster, A.C., Shuman, J.K., Shugart, H.H, and Negron, J., 2018. Modeling the interactive effects of spruce beetle infestation and climate on subalpine vegetation. Ecosphere, 9(10), e02437. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2437

Loranty, M.M., Berner, L.T., Taber, E.D., Kropp, H., Natali, S.M., Alexander, H.D., Davydov, S.P. and Zimov, N.S., 2018. Understory vegetation mediates permafrost active layer dynamics and carbon dioxide fluxes in open-canopy larch forests of northeastern Siberia. PloS one, 13(3), p.e0194014. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194014

Pastick, N. J., Jorgenson, M. T., Goetz, S. J., Jones, B. M., Wylie, B. K., Minsley, B. J., Genet, H., Knight, J. F., Swanson, D. K., Jorgenson, J. C. 2018. Spatiotemporal remote sensing of ecosystem change and causation across Alaska. Global Change Biology. early edition online: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14279

Pelletier, J., Horning, N., Laporte, N., Samndong, R. A., & Goetz, S. 2018. Anticipating social equity impacts in REDD+ policy design: An example from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Land Use Policy, 75, pp. 102–115. doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.011

Rogers, B. M., Solvik, K., Hogg, E. H., Ju, J., Masek, J. G., Michaelian, M., Berner, L., Goetz, S. J. 2018. Detecting early warning signals of tree mortality in boreal North America using multi-scale satellite data. Global Change Biology, 24(6):, pp. 2284-230, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14107

Schmitz, O.J., Wilmers, C.C., Leroux, S.J., Doughty, C.E., Atwood, T.B., Galetti, M., Davies, A.B. and Goetz, S.J., 2018. Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle. Science, 362(6419). 10.1126/science.aar3213

Walker, X. J., Rogers, B. M., Baltzer, J. L., Cumming, S. G., Day, N. J., Goetz, S. J., Johnstone, J. F., Schuur, E. A., Turetsky, M. R., and Mack, M. C. 2018. Cross-scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest megafires. Global Change Biology, 24(9), pp. 4251-4265, doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14287

2017

Foster, A.C., Shuman, J.K., Shugart, H.H., Dwire, K.A., Fornwalt, P.J., Sibold, and J. Negron J., 2017. Validation and application of a forest gap model to the southern Rocky Mountains. Ecological Modelling, 351, pp. 109-128. https://doi.org10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.02.019

Foster, A.C., Walter, J., Shugart, H.H., Sibold, J., and Negron, J., 2017. Spectral evidence for early-stage spruce beetle infestation in Engelmann spruce. Forest Ecology and Management, 384, pp. 347-357. https://10.1016/j.foreco.2016.11.004.

Hobbie, J. E., Shaver, G. R., Rastetter, E. B., Cherry, J. E., Goetz, S. J., Guay, K. C., Gould, W.A., Kling, G. W. 2017. Ecosystem responses to climate change at a Low Arctic and a High Arctic long-term research site. Ambio, 46(1), pp. 160–173. doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0870-x

Kropp, H., Loranty, M., Alexander, H.D., Berner, L.T., Natali, S.M. and Spawn, S.A., 2017. Environmental constraints on transpiration and stomatal conductance in a Siberian Arctic boreal forest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(3), pp. 487-497. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JG003709

Pelletier, J., Siampale, A., Legendre, P., Jantz, P., Laporte, N. T. and Goetz, S. J., 2017. Human and natural controls of the variation in aboveground tree biomass in African dry tropical forests. Ecological Applications, 27(5), pp. 1578–1593. http://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1550

Rogers, B. M., Jantz, P. and Goetz, S. J., 2017. Vulnerability of eastern US tree species to climate change, Global Change Biology, 23(8), pp. 3302–3320. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13585

Shuman, J.K, Foster, A.C., Shugart, H.H., Hoffman-Hall, A., Krylov, A., Loboda, T., Ershov, D., and Sochilova, E., 2017. Fire disturbance and climate change: implications for Russian forests. Environmental Research Letters 12. https://10.1088/1748-9326/aa533eed.

Webb, E.E., Heard, K., Natali, S.M., Bunn, A.G., Alexander, H.D., Berner, L.T., Kholodov, A., Loranty, M.M., Schade, J.D., Spektor, V. and Zimov, N., 2017. Variability in above-and belowground carbon stocks in a Siberian larch watershed. Biogeosciences, 14(18), pp. 4279-4294. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4279-2017