Tana E. Wood, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• T.J.Hawley Matlaga, P.A. Burrowes, J.E. Paterson, Tana E. Wood. 2026. Coping near thermal maximum: Demographic responses of the common frog species, Eleutherodactylus coqui, to experimental climate warming
• Gabriele Larocca Conte, Lucia Zuvela, Rachel Cruz-Pérez, Tatiana Barreto-Vélez, Nibia Becerra-Santillan, Sophia F. Campbell, Hieu P. Chu, Trung Dam, Iana F. Grullón-Penkova, Miriam Kleit, Deyaneira A. Ortiz-Iglesias, Laura C. Rubio-Lebrón, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha C. Reed, Debjani Sihi, Tana E. Wood, Christine S. O’Connell. 2026. Lowland tropical forests remain a methane sink under warming and long-term hurricane disturbance recovery
• Ari E. Puentes, D. Jean Lodge, Deyaneira A. Ortiz‐Iglesias, Tatiana Barreto‐Vélez, Laura C. Rubio‐Lebrón, Hieu Chu, Christine S. O'Connell, Sasha C. Reed, Tana E. Wood. 2026. Effects of Warming on Growth and Leaf Colonization by Litter Mat‐Forming Fungi in a Wet Tropical Forest in Puerto Rico
• Gabriela Hernandes Villani, Iana F. Grullón-Penkova, Parker Bartz, Joel Masanga, Jesse R. Lasky, Molly A. Cavaleri, Tana E. Wood, Benedicte Bachelot. 2025. Tropical Forest Soil Microbiome Modulates Leaf Heat Tolerance More Strongly Under Warming Than Ambient Conditions
• Parker M. Bartz, Iana F. Grullon-Penkova, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha C. Reed, Saima Shahid, Tana E. Wood, Benedicte Bachelot. 2025. Experimental warming alters free‐living nitrogen fixation in a humid tropical forest
• Carter Kelsey R., Cavaleri Molly A., Atkin Owen K., Bahar Nur H. A., Cheesman Alexander W., Choury Zineb, Crous Kristine Y., Doughty Christopher E., Dusenge Mirindi E., Kim S. Elvy, John R. Evans, Jessica Fonseca da Silva, Alida Mau, Belinda E. Medlyn, Patrick Meir, Richard J. Norby, Jennifer Read, Sasha C. Reed, Peter B. Reich, Alistar Rogers, Shawn P Serbin, Martijn Slot, Elsa C. Schwartz, Edgar S. Trisbury, Johan Uddling, Angelica Varhammar, Anthony P. Walker, Klaus Winter, Tana E. Wood, Jun Wu. 2025. Photosynthetic responses to temperature across the tropics: a meta-analytic approach
• Tana E. Wood, Tucker Colin, Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez, M. Isabel Loza, Iana F. Grullón-Penkova, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha C. Reed. 2025. Warming induces unexpectedly high soil respiration in a wet tropical forest
• German Vargas G., Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Tom Ruzycki, Tana E. Wood, William R. L. Anderegg, Jennifer S. Powers, Eileen Helmer. 2025. Aridity and forest age mediate landscape scale patterns of tropical forest resistance to cyclonic storms
• Rob Tunison, Tana E. Wood, Sasha C. Reed, Molly A. Cavaleri. 2023. Respiratory Acclimation of Tropical Forest Roots in Response to In Situ Experimental Warming and Hurricane Disturbance
• Eileen Helmer, Shannon Kay, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Jennifer S. Powers, Tana E. Wood, Xiaolin Zhu, David Gwenzi, Thomas S. Ruzycki. 2023. Multiscale predictors of small tree survival across a heterogeneous tropical landscape
• Tana E. Wood, Molly A. Cavaleri, Christian P. Giardina, Shafkat Khan, Jacqueline Mohan, Andrew T. Nottingham, Sasha C. Reed, Martijn Slot. 2022. Soil warming effects on tropical forests with highly weathered soils
• Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez, Tana E. Wood, Jamarys Torres-Díaz, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha C. Reed, Benedicte Bachelot. 2022. Understory plant communities show resistance to drought, hurricanes, and experimental warming in a wet tropical forest
• T.J. Hawley Matlaga, P.A. Burrowes, R. Hernández-Pacheco, J. Pena, C. Sutherland, Tana E. Wood. 2021. Warming increases activity in the common tropical frog Eleutherodactylus coqui
• Daniela Yaffar, Tana E. Wood, Sasha C. Reed, Benjamin L. Branoff, Molly A. Cavaleri, Richard J. Norby. 2021. Experimental warming and its legacy effects on root dynamics following two hurricane disturbances in a wet tropical forest
• Abel Méndez, Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Justin Filiberto, Ramses M. Ramírez, Tana E. Wood, Alfonso Dávila, Chris McKay, Kevin N. Ortiz Ceballos, Marcos Jusino-Maldonado, Nicole J. Torres-Santiago, Guillermo Nery, René Heller, Paul K. Byrne, Michael J. Malaska, Erica Nathan, Marta Filipa Simões, André Antunes, Jesús Martínez-Frías, Ludmila Carone, Noam R. Izenberg, Dimitra Atri, Humberto Itic Carvajal Chitty, Priscilla Nowajewski-Barra, Frances Rivera-Hernández, Corine Y. Brown, Kennda L. Lynch, David Catling, Jorge I Zuluaga, Juan F. Salazar, Howard Chen, Grizelle Gonzalez, Madhu Kashyap Jagadeesh, Jacob Haqq-Misra. 2021. Habitability models for astrobiology
• Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Tana E. Wood. 2021. Large seasonal variation of soil respiration in a secondary tropical moist forest in Puerto Rico
• Kelsey R. Carter, Tana E. Wood, Sasha C. Reed, Kaylie M. Butts, Molly A. Cavaleri. 2021. Experimental warming across a tropical forest canopy height gradient reveals minimal photosynthetic and respiratory acclimation
• Jess K. Zimmerman, Tana E. Wood, Grizelle Gonzalez, Alonso Ramirez, Whendee L. Silver, Maria Uriarte, Michael R. Willig, Robert B. Waide, Ariel Lugo. 2021. Disturbance and resilience in the Luquillo Experimental Forest
• Rosanise Odell, Virginia Rose Seagal, Caroline May, Tanya Hawley Matlaga, Patricia Burrowes, Tana E. Wood. 2020. Coqui diet note
• Ben Bond-Lamberty, Danielle S. Christianson, Avni Malhotra, Stephanie C. Pennington, Debjani Sihi, Amir AghaKouchak, Hassan Anjileli, M. Altaf Arain, Juan J. Armesto, Samaneh Ashraf, Mioko Ataka, Dennis Baldocchi, Thomas Andrew Black, Nina Buchmann, Mariah S. Carbone, Shih‐Chieh Chang, Patrick Crill, Peter S. Curtis, Eric A. Davidson, Ankur R. Desai, John E. Drake, Tarek S. El‐Madany, Michael Gavazzi, Carolyn‐Monika Görres, Christopher M. Gough, Michael Goulden, Jillian Gregg, Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Jin‐Sheng He, Takashi Hirano, Anya Hopple, Holly Hughes, Järvi Järveoja, Rachhpal Jassal, Jinshi Jian, Haiming Kan, Jason Kaye, Yuji Kominami, Naishen Liang, David Lipson, Catriona A. Macdonald, Kadmiel Maseyk, Kayla Mathes, Marguerite Mauritz, Melanie A. Mayes, Steve McNulty, Guofang Miao, Mirco Migliavacca, Scott Miller, Chelcy F. Miniat, Jennifer G. Nietz, Mats B. Nilsson, Asko Noormets, Hamidreza Norouzi, Christine S. O'Connell, Bruce Osborne, Cecilio Oyonarte, Zhuo Pang, Matthias Peichl, Elise Pendall, Jorge F. Perez‐Quezada, Claire L. Phillips, Richard P. Phillips, James W. Raich, Alexandre A. Renchon, Nadine K. Ruehr, Enrique P. Sánchez-Cañete, Matthew Saunders, Kathleen E. Savage, Marion Schrumpf, Russell L. Scott, Ulli Seibt, Whendee L. Silver, Wu Sun, Daphne Szutu, Kentaro Takagi, Masahiro Takagi, Munemasa Teramoto, Mark G. Tjoelker, Susan Trumbore, Masahito Ueyama, Rodrigo Vargas, Ruth K. Varner, Joseph Verfaillie, Christoph Vogel, Jinsong Wang, Greg Winston, Tana E. Wood, Juying Wu, Thomas Wutzler, Jiye Zeng, Tianshan Zha, Quan Zhang, Junliang Zou. 2020. COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data
• Kelsey R. Carter, Tana E. Wood, Sasha C. Reed, Elsa C. Schwartz, Madeline B. Reinsel, Xi Yang, Molly A. Cavaleri. 2020. Photosynthetic and Respiratory Acclimation of Understory Shrubs in Response to in situ Experimental Warming of a Wet Tropical Forest
• Deborah K. Kennard, David Matlaga, Joanne Sharpe, Clay King, Aura M. Alonso‐Rodríguez, Sasha C. Reed, Molly A. Cavaleri, Tana E. Wood. 2020. Tropical understory herbaceous community responds more strongly to hurricane disturbance than to experimental warming
• Sasha C. Reed, Robin Reibold, Molly A Cavaleri, Aura. M. Alonso-Rodríguez, Megan Berberich, Tana E. Wood. 2020. Chapter Six - Soil biogeochemical responses of a tropical forest to warming and hurricane disturbance
• Benedicte Bachelot, Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez, Laura Aldrich-Wolfe, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha C. Reed, Tana E. Wood. 2020. Altered climate leads to positive density-dependent feedbacks in a tropical wet forest
• Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Tana E. Wood. 2020. Significant Diel Variation of Soil Respiration Suggests Aboveground and Belowground Controls in a Tropical Moist Forest in Puerto Rico
• Charlotte Grossiord, Bradley Christoffersen, Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Heidi Asbjornsen, Luiza Maria T. Aparecido, Z. Carter Berry, Christopher Baraloto, Damien Bonal, Isaac Borrego, Benoit Burban, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Danielle S. Christianson, Matteo Detto, Boris Faybishenko, Clarissa G. Fontes, Claire Fortunel, Bruno O. Gimenez, Kolby J. Jardine, Lara Kueppers, Gretchen R. Miller, Georgianne W. Moore, Robinson Negron-Juarez, Clément Stahl, Nathan G. Swenson, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Charu Varadharajan, Jeffrey M. Warren, Brett T. Wolfe, Liang Wei, Tana E. Wood, Chonggang Xu, Nate G. McDowell. 2019. Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics
• Tana E. Wood, Grizelle Gonzalez, Whendee Silver, Sasha Reed, Molly Cavaleri. 2019. On the Shoulders of Giants: Continuing the Legacy of Large-Scale Ecosystem Manipulation Experiments in Puerto Rico
• Alida Mau, Sasha Reed, Tana E. Wood, Molly Cavaleri. 2018. Temperate and Tropical Forest Canopies are Already Functioning beyond Their Thermal Thresholds for Photosynthesis
• Aura M. Alonso-Rodríguez, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha C. Reed, Grizelle Gonzalez, Tana E. Wood, Bruce A. Kimball. 2018. Infrared heater system for warming tropical forest understory plants and soils
• Wendy H. Yang, Gavin McNicol, Yit Arn Teh, Katerina Estera-Molina, Tana E. Wood, Whendee L. Silver. 2017. Evaluating the Classical Versus an Emerging Conceptual Model of Peatland Methane Dynamics
• Nicholas J. Bouskill, Tana E. Wood, Richard Baran, Zaw Ye, Benjamin P. Bowen, HsiaoChien Lim, Jizhong Zhou, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Peter Nico, Trent R. Northen, Whendee L. Silver, Eoin L. Brodie. 2016. Belowground Response to Drought in a Tropical Forest Soil. I. Changes in Microbial Functional Potential and Metabolism
• Nicholas J. Bouskill, Tana E. Wood, Richard Baran, Zhao Hao, Zaw Ye, Ben P. Bowen, Hsiao Chien Lim, Peter S. Nico, Hoi-Ying Holman, Benjamin Gilbert, Whendee L. Silver, Trent R. Northen, Eoin L. Brodie. 2016. Belowground Response to Drought in a Tropical Forest Soil. II. Change in Microbial Function Impacts Carbon Composition
• Tana E. Wood, Danielle Matthews, Karen Vandecar, Deborah Lawrence. 2016. Short-term variability in labile soil phosphorus is positively related to soil moisture in a humid tropical forest in Puerto Rico
• Patrick Meir, Tana E. Wood, David R. Galbraith, Paulo M. Brando, Antonio C.I. Da Costa, Lucy Rowland, Leandro V. Ferreira. 2015. Threshold responses to soil moisture deficit by trees and soil in tropical rain forests: insights from field experiments
• M.A. Cavaleri, S.C. Reed, K.W. Smith, Tana E. Wood. 2015. Urgent need for warming experiments in tropical forests
• J.W. Raich, D.A. Clark, L. Schwendenmann, Tana E. Wood. 2014. Aboveground tree growth varies with belowground carbon allocation in a tropical rainforest environment
• Tana E. Wood, M. Detto, W.L. Silver. 2013. Sensitivity of soil respiration to variability in soil moisture and temperature in a humid tropical forest
• K. L. Tully, Tana E. Wood, A. M. Schwantes, D. Lawrence. 2013. Soil nutrient availability and reproductive effort drive patterns in nutrient resorption in Pentachlethra macroloba
• Nicholas J. Bouskill, Hsiao Chien Lim, Sharon Borglin, Rohit Salve, Tana E. Wood, Whendee L. Silver, Eoin L. Brodie. 2013. Pre-exposure to drought increases the resistance of tropical forest soil bacterial communities to extended drought
• Tana E. Wood, W. L. Silver. 2012. Strong spatial variability in trace gas dynamics following experimental drought in a humid tropical forest
• Tana E. Wood, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha C. Reed. 2012. Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: a critical review spanning microbial- to ecosystem-scale processes
• Sasha C. Reed, Tana E. Wood, Molly A. Cavaleri. 2012. Tropical forests in a warming world
• Tana E. Wood, Deborah Lawrence, Deborah A. Clark, Robin L. Chazdon. 2009. Rain forest nutrient cycling and productivity in response to large-scale litter manipulation

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  Seedling census and natural enemy survey data at a tropical understory forest warming experiment (TRACE) in Puerto Rico from 2015-2017

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/iitf/products/dataandtools/seedling-census-and-natural-enemy-survey-data-tropical-understory-forest
• Dataset
  

  Leaf mass per area for 105 tree species in Puerto Rico

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/iitf/products/dataandtools/leaf-mass-area-105-tree-species-puerto-rico
• Dataset
  

  Guarea guidonia and Ocotea sintenisii physiological and climate data for Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE) canopy tower site at Sabana Field Research Station, Luquillo, Puerto Rico in summer 2017

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/iitf/products/dataandtools/guarea-guidonia-and-ocotea-sintenisii-physiological-and-climate-data

• Program
  

  Sabana Field Research Station

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/iitf/programs/sabana
  Station

  International Institute of Tropical Forestry

Multimedia

• Video

  Dr. Tana E. Wood, Research Ecologist

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/iitf/products/multimedia/videos/dr-tana-e-wood-research-ecologist

• University of Virginia, Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, 2006
• University of Virginia, M.S., Environmental Sciences, 2003
• University of Texas - Austin, B.S., Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, 1997