Tana E Wood

Tana Elaine Wood is a biogeochemist and ecosystem scientist with a focus in land-use and climate change. Her research is focused on looking into how these issues affect tropical forested ecosystems and particularly focuses on soil science and below ground research efforts. She received a B.S. in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology in 1997. In 2007, she held a position as a postgraduate researcher at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Her main field of expertise is in soil science of tropical forests. She is known for her research in the field of soil science as well as her writing on the issue of ecosystem manipulation. Her research has been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Luquillo Long Term Ecological research as well as the United States Department of Energy. in the publication Global Change Biology. Pre-exposure to drought increases the resistance of tropical forest soil bacterial communities to extended drought in The ISME Journal. Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: a critical review spanning microbial‐to ecosystem‐scale processes in the publication Biological Reviews. Rain forest nutrient cycling and productivity in response to large scale litter manipulation in the publication Ecology. Variation in leaf litter nutrients of a Costa Rican rain forest is related to precipitation in the publication Biogeochemistry.

Awards and honors

Exploratory Research Award from the University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences (2001, 2003) Moore Research Award, from the University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences (2002, 2004) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship.