TANA E. WOOD
USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Rio Piedras, PR 00926
Tel: 434-242-0881; Fax: 510-643-5098; E-mail: wood.tana_at_gmail.com
USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba, Rio Piedras, PR 00926
Tel: 434-242-0881; Fax: 510-643-5098; E-mail: wood.tana_at_gmail.com
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2007 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, UVa
2004 Moore Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVa
2003 Exploratory Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVa
2002 Moore Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVa
2001 Exploratory Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVa
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
In Review
In Press or Published
PRESENTATIONS
SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS AND ORGANIZED ORAL SESSIONS
ATBC Organized Oral Session: Understanding warming effects on tropical forests: Insight from current research and a way forward. Organizer. ATBC 2013, Costa Rica.
ESA Organized Oral Session: From Leaf to Biosphere: The Effects of a Warming Climate on Tropical Rain Forests. Organizer and Moderator. ESA 2011, Austin, TX
Tropical Climate Manipulation Experiment Workshop I. Albuquerque, New Mexico. August 2009. Organizer. The goal of this workshop was to 1) identify major research needs in Tropical Forested Ecosystems and 2) discuss ideas for a large-scale climate manipulation experiment in the tropics that will best address them. Included 13 participants (senior and junior scientists, from 10 institutions)
Tropical Climate Manipulation Experiment Workshop II. University of California-Berkeley. December 2009. Organizer. The goal of this workshop was to 1) develop a proposal for a large-scale forest warming experiment in the tropics and 2) identify a plan of action and time-line for proposal submission. Included 20 participants (senior and junior scientists, from 16 institutions)
Tropical Climate Manipulation Experiment, Workshop III. Puerto Rico. October 2010. Organizer. The goal of this workshop was to 1) identify sites suitable for a large-scale temperature manipulation experiment, 2) further develop the experimental design and research time-line, 3) continue proposal development. (senior and junior scientists, from 10 institutions)
Tropical Secondary Forest Workshop (NeoSelvas), Morelia, Mexico. October 2009. Invited participant. Plant Functional Traits and Ecosystem Processes Working Group. The goal of this workshop was to 1) ascertain our current understanding of plant functional traits and ecosystem processes in tropical secondary forests, 2) identify future research needs, 3) establish a network of scientists working in tropical secondary forests.
Biosphere II Tropical Forest Workshop. March 2009. Invited participant. Belowground Processes Working Group. The goal of this workshop was to develop a research agenda that best uses the tropical forest biome of Biosphere II to address outstanding questions about how climate change will impact tropical rainforests.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewer Ecological Monographs, Biotropica, Oecologia, Global Change Biology, Biogeochemistry, Journal of Ecology, Ecology Letters,
Plant and Soil, Biogeosciences, Ecosystems, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Ecology, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Global
Biogeochemical Cycles
Chair La Selva Biological Station Research Seminars (2003)
Co-Chair Graduate Student Association, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (2001-2002)
Role Model Techbridge, an after school science program for girls, Oakland, CA (2010)
Mentor Job Corps, summer work program to train low-income youth in forestry research (2011)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Ecological Society of America, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, American Geophysical Union
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008 Guest Lecture; Tropical Ecology, University of California-Berkeley (45 students)
2007 Guest Lecture; Conservation Ecology, University of Virginia (165 students)
2004 TA: Environmental Choices, Undergraduate course, UVa (60 students)
2003 TA: Terrestrial Ecology, Graduate course, UVa (15 students)
2000-2002 TA: Fundamentals of Ecology, Head TA-Fall 2001-2002, UVa (20 students)
GRADUATE ADVISING
Masters Student, University of Puerto Rico (2012-present)
Co-Advisor: Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo. “Diurnal and seasonal variability in soil respiration of a secondary karst forest in Puerto Rico”. Awards: 2013 Puerto Rico NASA Space Grant Fellowship; 2012 Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid-of-Research; 2012 Western Ag grant
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORING
Independent Undergraduate Research, Puerto Rico (2010-present): Omar Gutierrez del Arroyo (University of Puerto Rico), “Spatial and temporal variability in soil respiration of a secondary moist tropical forest in Puerto Rico” Awarded Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the 2012 Ecological Society of America Meeting in Portland, OR.
Distinguished Majors Projects (3), University of Virginia (2004-2010): Zulay Lidster “Seasonality of Green Leaf Nutrients in a Neotropical Rain Forest”; Rachel Gittman “Nutrient Resorption in Secondary and Old Growth Tropical Trees”; Chad Logan “Effect of Forest Age on Soil Nutrient Stocks of a Lowland Tropical Rain Forest”; Danielle Matthews, “Diurnal Changes in Available Soil P of a Humid Tropical Forest, Puerto Rico”
Harrison Awards (2), School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia (2005): (Highly Competitive Undergraduate Research Grant, $5000): Rachel Gittman, Chad Logan
Research Experience for Undergraduates, Costa Rica (2003): Lihn Vuong (University of Puget Sound), “Response of Soil Glomalin Stocks to Litter Manipulation”
- Ph.D. Environmental Sciences: University of Virginia. Thesis: The importance of litter to ecosystem function in a wet tropical forest; Environmental and physiological controls on nutrient resorption of nine tropical tree species.
- M.S. Environmental Sciences: University of Virginia. Thesis: Litter nutrient cycling of an old growth tropical rain forest in Costa Rica: effects of climate and soil fertility.
- B.S. Biology: University of Texas, Austin. Minor: Biochemistry.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry: 2015-present.
- Adjunct Scientist, USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry: 2010-2015.
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California-Berkeley: 2009-2010.
- NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California-Berkeley: 2007-2009.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia: 2006-2007.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2007 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, UVa
2004 Moore Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVa
2003 Exploratory Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVa
2002 Moore Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVa
2001 Exploratory Research Award, Department of Environmental Sciences, UVa
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
In Review
- Bouskill, N.J., Baran, R., Wood, T.E., Bowen, B.P., Lim, H.C., Van Norstrand, J.D., Zhou J., Hao Z., Holman H., Silver, W.L., Northen, T.R., Brodie, E.L. Prolonged experimental drought in a tropical forest alters microbial functional diversity and modifies dissolved organic carbon composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
In Press or Published
- Wood T.E., Matthews D., Vandecar K., Lawrence D. In Press. Controls on short-term variability in labile soil phosphorus of a humid tropical forest. Biogeochemistry.
- Wood T.E., Silver W.L, Detto, M. 2013. The sensitivity of soil respiration to short-term variability in soil moisture and temperature in a humid tropical forest. PLoS ONE 8(12):e80965.
- Tully K.A., Wood T.E., Schwantes A., Lawrence D. In Press. Soil nutrient availability and reproductive effort drive patterns of nutrient resorption in the tropical legume Pentaclethra macroloba. Ecology. 94(4): 930–940.
- Bouskill NJ, Lim HC, Borglin S, Salve R, Wood TE, Silver WL, Brodie EL. 2012. Pre-exposure to short-term drought increases the resistance of subtropical forest soil bacterial communities to extended drought. International Society of Microbial Ecology. doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.113
- Wood, T.E.; Cavaleri, M.A.; Reed, S.C. 2012. Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: A critical review spanning microbial- to ecosystem-scale processes. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00232.x
- Wood, T.E. and Silver, W.L. 2012. Strong spatial variability in trace gasdynamics following experimental drought in a humid tropical forest. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 26, GB3005, doi:10.1029/2010GB004014
- Reed, S.C., Wood T.E., Cavaleri M.A. 2011. Tropical forests in a warming world. From Leaf to Biosphere: The Effects of a Warming Climate on Tropical Forests an organized oral session at the 96th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America Meeting Austin, TX, USA, August 2011. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03985.x For PDF: http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/41674
- Wood, T.E., Lawrence D., Wells J.A. 2010. Inter- and intra-specific variation in foliar nutrients and resorption of nine canopy tree species in a secondary neotropical rain forest. Biotropica. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00740.x
- Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Clark D.A., and Chazdon R.L. 2009. Rain forest productivity and nutrient cycling in response to large-scale litter manipulation. Ecology. 90(1): 109-121
- Vandecar K., Lawrence D., Wood T.E., Oberbaur S., Das R., Tully K., Schwendenmann L. 2009. Biotic and abiotic controls on diurnal fluctuations in labile soil phosphorus of a wet tropical forest. Ecology. 90(9): 2547-2555.
- Wood T.E., Lawrence D. 2008. No effect of four-fold increase in litter inputs on soil properties of a wet tropical rain forest, Costa Rica. Plant and Soil. 307: 113-122.
- McGlynn T.P., Dunn R.R., Salinas D.J., Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Clark D.A. 2007. Phosphorus limits tropical rain forest litter fauna. Biotropica. 39(1): 50-53.
- Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Clark D.A. 2006. Determinants of leaf litter nutrient cycling in a tropical rain forest: fertility versus topography. Ecosystems. 9: 700-710.
- Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Clark D.A. 2005. Variation in leaf litter nutrients of a Costa Rican rain forest is related to precipitation. Biogeochemistry. 73: 417-437.
- USDA Forest Service Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Management Options. Intermediate Science Application Products: Key Findings for Climate Change Considerations for El Yunque National Forest. Revision Assessment. In press.
- US DOE. 2012. Research Priorities for Tropical Ecosystems Under Climate Change Workshop Report, DOE/SC-0153. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. http://tes.science.energy.gov/node/98
- Cavaleri MA, Reed SC, Wood TE. Strategies for global change experiments in tropical forests. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
- Raich JW, Clark DA, Schwendenmann L, Wood TE. Enhanced soil-nutrient uptake drives changes in biomass accumulation during tropical forest development. PLoS ONE.
- Meir P, Wood TE, Galbraith D, Brando P. The effects of soil moisture availability on tropical rainforest functioning and composition: insights from water manipulation experiments. Invited. BioScience.
- Wood TE, Lawrence D., Emanuel R. Species effects on stand-level nutrient economy of a Costa Rican rain forest: modeling from field data. Ecological Applications.
- Wood TE, Yang W, Silver WL. Anaerobic methane oxidation or ineffective oxidation inhibition: a test of diflouromethane in a carbon rich soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.
- Wood TE, Lawrence D. Significant seasonal and inter-annual variation in nutrient resorption in canopy trees of a secondary wet tropical forest. Ecology.
- Wood TE, Lawrence D. Links between soil nutrient availability and forest regeneration of a dry tropical forest in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula. Forest Ecology & Management.
PRESENTATIONS
- 2011 Wood T.E., Vandecar K., Matthews D., Lawrence D. Diurnal controls on labile soil phosphorus in a humid tropical forest, Puerto Rico Oral Presentation. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
- 2011 Wood T.E., Silver W.L, Detto, M. Temperature and soil moisture controls on soil respiration of a humid tropical forest. Oral Presentation. Ecological Society of America, Austin, Texas
- 2009 Wood T.E., Silver W.L. Effects of oxygen on methane production and oxidation in a managed peatland soil. Oral Presentation, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.
- 2009 Wood T.E., Silver W.L, Lugo A.E. Effects of experimental drought on trace gas emissions from a humid tropical forest. Oral Presentation, Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- 2008 Wood T.E., Emanuel R., Tully K., Lawrence D. Species effects on stand-level nutrient economy of a wet tropical forest. Oral Presentation, Ecological Society of America, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 2008 Wood T.E., Silver W.L. Effects of experimental drought on trace gas flux from a humid tropical forest, Puerto Rico. Oral Presentation, NOAA Global and Climate Change Summer Institute, Steamboat, Colorado
- 2008 Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Clark D.A., Chazdon R.L. The importance of litter to rain forest productivity and nutrient cycling. Invited Presentation, Association for Tropical Biology, Suriname.
- 2007 Wood T.E., Emanuel R., Tully K. Lawrence D. Species effects on stand-level nutrient economy of a Costa Rican rain forest. Poster, American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, California
- 2007 Wood T.E. Lawrence D. Seasonal variation in nutrient resorption of nine canopy trees of a Costa Rican rainforest. Presentation; Ecological Society of America, San Jose, California
- 2006 Wood T.E., Lawrence D. Seasonal variation in nutrient resorption of nine neotropical canopy tree species. Poster; American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, California
- 2006 Wood T.E., Lawrence D. Emanuel R. Nutrient resorption in nine common canopy trees of a secondary wet tropical forest in Costa Rica. Oral Presentation, Ecological Society of America; Memphis, Tennessee
- 2005 Wood T.E. Seasonality and Nutrient Dynamics of a Wet Tropical Forest. Department Seminar; Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
- 2005 Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Emanuel R. Nutrient resorption in nine common canopy trees of a neotropical rain forest, Costa Rica. Oral Presentation; Ecological Society of America; Montreal, Canada
- 2005. Lawrence D., Wood T.E., Chazdon R.L. Manifestations of recurrent drought stress in a Costa Rican rainforest. Oral Presentation, Ecological Society of America; Montreal, Canada.
- 2004 Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Clark D.A. The influence of litter production on P cycling in a wet tropical rain forest. Oral Presentation; Ecological Society of America; Portland, Oregon
- 2003 Wood T.E. Controls on Foliar Nutrient Cycling in a Wet Tropical Forest. Seminar; La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica
- 2002 Wood T.E., Lawrence D., Clark D.A. ENSO effects on leaf litter nutrient cycling of an old growth wet tropical forest in Costa Rica. Oral Presentation; Ecological Society of America; Tuscon, Arizona
- 2001 Wood T.E., Lawrence D. Clark D.A. ENSO effects on litter phosphorus dynamics across three edaphic types in wet tropical forests of northeastern Costa Rica. Poster; Ecological Society of America; Madison, Wisconsin
SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS AND ORGANIZED ORAL SESSIONS
ATBC Organized Oral Session: Understanding warming effects on tropical forests: Insight from current research and a way forward. Organizer. ATBC 2013, Costa Rica.
ESA Organized Oral Session: From Leaf to Biosphere: The Effects of a Warming Climate on Tropical Rain Forests. Organizer and Moderator. ESA 2011, Austin, TX
Tropical Climate Manipulation Experiment Workshop I. Albuquerque, New Mexico. August 2009. Organizer. The goal of this workshop was to 1) identify major research needs in Tropical Forested Ecosystems and 2) discuss ideas for a large-scale climate manipulation experiment in the tropics that will best address them. Included 13 participants (senior and junior scientists, from 10 institutions)
Tropical Climate Manipulation Experiment Workshop II. University of California-Berkeley. December 2009. Organizer. The goal of this workshop was to 1) develop a proposal for a large-scale forest warming experiment in the tropics and 2) identify a plan of action and time-line for proposal submission. Included 20 participants (senior and junior scientists, from 16 institutions)
Tropical Climate Manipulation Experiment, Workshop III. Puerto Rico. October 2010. Organizer. The goal of this workshop was to 1) identify sites suitable for a large-scale temperature manipulation experiment, 2) further develop the experimental design and research time-line, 3) continue proposal development. (senior and junior scientists, from 10 institutions)
Tropical Secondary Forest Workshop (NeoSelvas), Morelia, Mexico. October 2009. Invited participant. Plant Functional Traits and Ecosystem Processes Working Group. The goal of this workshop was to 1) ascertain our current understanding of plant functional traits and ecosystem processes in tropical secondary forests, 2) identify future research needs, 3) establish a network of scientists working in tropical secondary forests.
Biosphere II Tropical Forest Workshop. March 2009. Invited participant. Belowground Processes Working Group. The goal of this workshop was to develop a research agenda that best uses the tropical forest biome of Biosphere II to address outstanding questions about how climate change will impact tropical rainforests.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewer Ecological Monographs, Biotropica, Oecologia, Global Change Biology, Biogeochemistry, Journal of Ecology, Ecology Letters,
Plant and Soil, Biogeosciences, Ecosystems, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Ecology, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Global
Biogeochemical Cycles
Chair La Selva Biological Station Research Seminars (2003)
Co-Chair Graduate Student Association, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (2001-2002)
Role Model Techbridge, an after school science program for girls, Oakland, CA (2010)
Mentor Job Corps, summer work program to train low-income youth in forestry research (2011)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Ecological Society of America, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, American Geophysical Union
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008 Guest Lecture; Tropical Ecology, University of California-Berkeley (45 students)
2007 Guest Lecture; Conservation Ecology, University of Virginia (165 students)
2004 TA: Environmental Choices, Undergraduate course, UVa (60 students)
2003 TA: Terrestrial Ecology, Graduate course, UVa (15 students)
2000-2002 TA: Fundamentals of Ecology, Head TA-Fall 2001-2002, UVa (20 students)
GRADUATE ADVISING
Masters Student, University of Puerto Rico (2012-present)
Co-Advisor: Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo. “Diurnal and seasonal variability in soil respiration of a secondary karst forest in Puerto Rico”. Awards: 2013 Puerto Rico NASA Space Grant Fellowship; 2012 Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid-of-Research; 2012 Western Ag grant
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORING
Independent Undergraduate Research, Puerto Rico (2010-present): Omar Gutierrez del Arroyo (University of Puerto Rico), “Spatial and temporal variability in soil respiration of a secondary moist tropical forest in Puerto Rico” Awarded Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the 2012 Ecological Society of America Meeting in Portland, OR.
Distinguished Majors Projects (3), University of Virginia (2004-2010): Zulay Lidster “Seasonality of Green Leaf Nutrients in a Neotropical Rain Forest”; Rachel Gittman “Nutrient Resorption in Secondary and Old Growth Tropical Trees”; Chad Logan “Effect of Forest Age on Soil Nutrient Stocks of a Lowland Tropical Rain Forest”; Danielle Matthews, “Diurnal Changes in Available Soil P of a Humid Tropical Forest, Puerto Rico”
Harrison Awards (2), School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia (2005): (Highly Competitive Undergraduate Research Grant, $5000): Rachel Gittman, Chad Logan
Research Experience for Undergraduates, Costa Rica (2003): Lihn Vuong (University of Puget Sound), “Response of Soil Glomalin Stocks to Litter Manipulation”