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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
103
Citations
48875
World Ranking
308
National Ranking
139

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
101
Citations
48385
World Ranking
1418
National Ranking
809

Michael L. Goulden publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael L. Goulden sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 376 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Michael L. Goulden D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael L. Goulden sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Michael L. Goulden is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's recent papers cover various topics within these fields and include:

  • Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds (2023, Nature)
  • Human-ignited fires result in more extreme fire behavior and ecosystem impacts (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Wildfire response to changing daily temperature extremes in California's Sierra Nevada (2021, Science Advances)
  • COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Warming increased bark beetle-induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California (2021, Global Change Biology)

Frequent co-authors of Michael L. Goulden include:

  • James T. Randerson
  • Roger C. Bales
  • Jonathan Wang
  • Carl A. Norlen
  • Charles D. Koven

The scientist has published multiple papers in prominent venues such as:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • AGU Advances
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Michael L. Goulden's research topics encompass:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Michael L. Goulden has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2016.

Best Publications

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

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Measurements of carbon sequestration by long‐term eddy covariance: methods and a critical evaluation of accuracy

    Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger;Song-Miao Fan;Bruce C. Daube

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change

    Anne E. Kelly;Michael L. Goulden

  • Relationships Between NDVI, Canopy Structure, and Photosynthesis in Three Californian Vegetation Types

    John A. Gamon;Christopher B. Field;Michael L. Goulden;Kevin L. Griffin

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Net Exchange of CO2 in a Mid-Latitude Forest

    S. C. Wofsy;M. L. Goulden;J. W. Munger;S.-M. Fan

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming.

    J. T. Randerson;H. Liu;M. G. Flanner;S. D. Chambers

  • Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw

    M. L. Goulden;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Harden;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Exchange of Carbon Dioxide by a Deciduous Forest: Response to Interannual Climate Variability

    Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger;Song-Miao Fan;Bruce C. Daube

  • Daily canopy photosynthesis model through temporal and spatial scaling for remote sensing applications

    J.M Chen;J Liu;J Cihlar;M.L Goulden

  • Carbon in Amazon Forests: Unexpected Seasonal Fluxes and Disturbance-Induced Losses

    Scott R. Saleska;Scott D. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Michael L. Goulden

  • Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Guangsheng Zhou;Guoyi Zhou

  • Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America

    B. D. Amiro;A. G. Barr;J. G. Barr;T. A. Black

  • Factors controlling long- and short-term sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in a mid-latitude forest.

    Carol C. Barford;Steven C. Wofsy;Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger

  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

    Xuhui Lee;Michael L. Goulden;David Y. Hollinger;Alan Barr

  • Modelling the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in a Quercus-Acer stand at Harvard Forest : the regulation of stomatal conductance by light, nitrogen and soil/plant hydraulic properties

    M. Williams;E. B. Rastetter;D. N. Fernandes;M. L. Goulden;M. L. Goulden

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott D. Miller
Scott D. Miller University at Albany, State University of New York
Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine
Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha
Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha Universidade de São Paulo
Yufang Jin
Yufang Jin University of California, Davis
Roger C. Bales
Roger C. Bales University of California, Merced
J. William Munger
J. William Munger Harvard University
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Allen H. Goldstein
Allen H. Goldstein University of California, Berkeley

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