A5086459929- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Tree-ring climate responses
University of California, Merced
2019-2025
University of California, Berkeley
2025
ABSTRACT Headwater watersheds and forests play a crucial role in ensuring water security for the western United States. Reducing forest biomass from current overgrown can mitigate severity impact of wildfires offer additional competing ecohydrological benefits. A reduction canopy interception transpiration following treatments lead to an increase available remaining trees runoff. However, management on balance be highly variable due differences climate, topography, location vegetation. In...
Montane watersheds of California’s Sierra Nevada are critical to sustaining local water security and economic wellbeing. However, decades fire suppression have led overgrown forests that highly vulnerable drought wildfire risks. Moreover, climate change is further compounding the negative impacts increased forest density. Land managers implementing active management restore source build resilience. In this study, we investigated individual impact thinning warming on watershed...
Higher global temperatures and intensification of extreme hydrologic events, such as droughts, can lead to premature tree mortality. In a Mediterranean climate like California, the seasonality precipitation is out sync with peak growing season. Seasonal snowpack plays critical role in reducing this mismatch between timing water input root zone forest use. A loss snowpack, or snow during warmer years, increases asynchrony inputs use, intensifying stress Therefore, we hypothesize that montane...