Dr. Uromi Manage Goodale is Professor of Plant Ecology at the Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. Her research focuses on seed bio-physiology, ecology, and conservation. She is the editor in chief of the Journal of Sustainable Forestry and the chair of the Ecology Section of the Botanical Society of America. She received her Masters in Forest Science (2001) and her Ph.D. (2009) from Yale University, USA.
Qualifications
PhD, Yale University, 2009
MFS, Yale School of the Environment, 2001
BSc (Botany), University of Colombo, 1998
Experience
Professor of Plant Ecology, Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Science, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2022-current
Associate Professor, Guangxi University, Nanning, China, 2014-2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Mengla, Menglun, Yunnan, China, 2012-2014
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Program (IRACDA) supported by National Institutes of Health, conducted at University of California, San Diego, USA, 2009-2012
Research interests
Ecology, Plant Physiological Ecology, Forestry, Tropical and Subtropical Forested Sytems, Regeneration Ecology, Conservation, Diversity, Inclusivity and Equality in STEM
Destailed Research Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Uromi-Goodale?ev=hdr_xprf
Articles
Full List of Articles: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_mandates&oi=pnf&hl=en&user=3JQCzJUAAAAJ&tzom=-480
Pradhan N. †, Xuli F. †, Martini F., Chen H., Liu H., Gao J., & U.M. Goodale*. 2022. Seed viability testing for research and conservation of epiphytic and terrestrial orchids. Botanical Studies. 2022: 63:3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40529-022-00333-0
Martini F.*, Song X., Zou C., and U.M. Goodale*. 2021. Abiotic drivers of seedling bank diversity in subtropical forests of southern China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9: 2021.784036. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.784036
Goodale E., Mammides C., Mtemi W., Chen Y-F., Barthakur R., Goodale U.M., Jiang A., Liu J., Malhotra S., Meegaskumbura M., Pandit M.K., Qiu G., Xu J., Cao K-F., and K.S. Bawa. 2021. Increasing collaboration between China and India in the environmental sciences to foster global sustainability. Ambio 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01681-0
Fang, C., Chen, H., Castillo-Díaz, D., Wen, B., Cao, K., & U.M. Goodale*. 2021. Regeneration and endogenous phytohormones responses to high temperature stress drive recruitment success in hemiepiphytic fig species. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12:754207. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.754207
Yao X., Goodale U.M., Yang M., Liao N., Yu S., Wang S., & S. Ye. 2021. Bidirectional nitrogen transfer and plant growth in a mixed plantation of N2-fixing species and Eucalyptus under different N applications. Forests. 12, 1171. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091171
Castillo-Díaz, D., Chen, H., Harrison, R.D., Wen, B., & U.M. Goodale*. 2021. Seedling emergence and environmental filters determine Ficus recruitment in a subtropical landscape. Forest Ecology and Management, 497, 119536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119536
Sreekar, R., Si, X., Sam, K., Liu, J., Dayananda, S., Goodale, U.M., Kotagama, S., & E.Goodale. 2021. Land use and elevation interact to shape bird functional and phylogenetic diversity and structure: Implications for designing optimal agriculture landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58, 1738-1748. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13927
Meaux, E. †, Castillo-Díaz, D.†, Pradhan, N., Dayananda, S.K., Balboa, C.M., Goodale, E.*, Mammides, C., Primack, R.B., and U.M. Goodale*. 2021. Transparency about human diversity in transnational environmental NGOs. Biological Conservation. 256: 2021, 109027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109027
Zou C., Martini F., Xia S., D. Castillo-Diaz., U.M. Goodale*. 2021. Elevation and micro environmental conditions directly and indirectly influence forests’ soil seed bank communities. Global Ecology and Conservation. 26: 2021.e01443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01443
Chen, H., Geekiyanage, N., Wen, B., Cao, K-F., and U.M. Goodale*. 2021. Regeneration responses to water and temperature stress drive recruitment success in hemiepiphytic fig species. Tree Physiology. 41: 358-370. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaa165
Grants
Uromi Manage Goodale, Principal Investigator, 2019-2020, Guangxi University Invited Expert Special Project. Continued funding for “Regeneration ecology and seed conservation biophysiology of tropical and subtropical seed plants” project.
Uromi Manage Goodale, Principal Investigator, 2017-2021, Guangxi Overseas High-level Talent “Hundred People Program” Professor, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Government, Guangxi, P.R. China.
Uromi Manage Goodale, Principal Investigator, 2017-2020, National Science Foundation of China. Understanding recruitment limitation and germination plasticity across elevational gradients in the subtropical forests of Guangxi, southern China.
Uromi Manage Goodale, Principal INvestigarot, 2014-2019, Guangxi University Invited Expert Special Project. Regeneration ecology and seed conservation biophysiology of tropical and subtropical seed plants.
Professional service activities
2015-current Editor in Chief, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Taylor and Francis Group, UK.
2017-2025 Co-Chair, Seed Conservation Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, IUCN.
2022-2025 Chair, Ecology Section, Botanical Society of America, USA.
2017-2018 Chair, International Society of Tropical Foresters, Parent Organization Task Group of the Reformulation Committee.
ES313(SIP Campus-Emerging & Interdisciplinary Sciences Building) Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District Suzhou Industrial Park Suzhou P.R.China 215123
