2020
Bossio DA, Cook-Patton SC, Ellis PW, Fargione J, Sanderman J, Smith P, Wood SA, Zomer RJ, Griscom BW (in press) The role of soils in natural climate solutions. Nature Sustainability.
Oldfield EE, Bradford MA, Wood SA (in press) Direct evidence for threshold effects of soil organic matter on crop growth. Ecological Applications. doi:10.1002/eap.2073 [paper] [data]
2019
Bradford MA, Carey CJ, Atwood L, Bossio D, Fenichel EP, Gennet S, Fargione J, Fisher JRB, Fuller E, Kane DA, Lehmann J, Oldfield EE, Ordway EM, Rudek J, Sanderman J, Wood SA (2019) Soil carbon science for policy and practice. Nature Sustainability 2(12): 1070-1072. doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0431-y [paper]
Bradford MA, McCulley RL, Crowther TW, Oldfield EE, Wood SA, Fierer N (2019) Cross-biome patterns in soil microbial respiration are predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 223-231, doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0771-4 [paper]
Faye C, Grippa M, Wood S (2019) Use of the Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) from 1950 to 2018 to determine drought trends in the Senegalese territory. Climate Change 5(20), 327-341
Oldfield EE, Bradford MA, Wood SA (2019) Increasing soil organic matter can close global yield gaps. SOIL 5: 15-32, doi:10.5194/soil-2018-21 [paper] [data]
Rasmussen LV, Fagan M, Ickowitz A, Wood SLR, Kennedy G, Powell B, Baudron F, Gergel S, Jung S, Smithwick EAH, Sunderland T, Wood SA, Rhemtulla JM (2019). Forest pattern, not just amount, influences dietary quality in five African countries. Global Food Security. doi: 10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100331
Shackelford GE, Kelsey R, Sutherland WJ, Kennedy CM, Wood SA, Gennet S, Karp DS, Kremen C, Seavy NE, Jedlicka JA, Gravuer K, Kross SM, Bossio DA, Muñoz-Sáez A, LaHue DG, Garbach K, Ford LD, Felice M, Reynolds MD, Rao DR, Boomer K, LeBuhn G, Dicks LV (2019) Evidence synthesis as the basis for decision analysis: a method of selecting the best agricultural practices for multiple ecosystem services. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. doi:10.3389/fsufs.2019.00083 [paper]
Tallis HT, Kreis K, Olander L, Ringler C, Ameyaw D, Borsuk ME, ..., Wood SA, ... (2019) Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development and environment. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 39: 81-93, doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2019.09.004 [paper]
2018
Wood SA, Tirfessa D, Baudron F (2018) Soil organic matter underlies crop nutritional quality and productivity in smallholder agriculture. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 266: 100-108, doi:10.1016/j.agee.2018.07.025 [paper] [code] [data]
Wood SA (2018) Nutritional functional trait diversity of crops in south-eastern Senegal. Journal of Applied Ecology 55: 81-91, doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13026 [paper] [code] [data]
Wood SA, Smith MR, Fanzo J, Remans R, DeFries RS (2018) Trade and the equitability of global food nutrient distribution. Nature Sustainability 1: 34-37, doi:10.1038/s41893-017-0008-6 [paper] [code] [data]
Wood SA and Bradford MA (2018) Leveraging new understanding of belowground foodwebs for ecological intensification of agriculture, in Soil Carbon Storage: Modulators, management, and modeling, ed. Singh, B. Elsevier Publication. ISBN: 978-0-12-812766-7 [chapter]
Bogard JR, Marks GC, Wood SA, Thilsted SH (2018) Measuring nutritional quality of agricultural production systems: application to fish production. Global Food Security doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2017.09.004 [paper] [data]
Oldfield EE, Wood SA, Bradford MA (2018) Direct effects of soil organic matter on productivity mirror those observed with organic amendments. Plant and Soil. doi:10.1007/s11104-017-3513-5 [paper]
2017
Wood SA, Gilbert JA, Leff JW, Fierer N, D’Angelo H, Bateman C, Gedallovich SM, Gillikin CM, Gradoville R, Mansor P, Massmann A, Yang N, Turner BL, Brearly FQ, McGuire KL (2017) Consequences of tropical forest conversion to oil palm on soil bacterial community and network structure. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 112: 258-268, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.05.019 [paper] [code]
Bradford MA, Veen GFC, Bonis A, Bradford EM, Classen AT, Cornelissen JHC, Crowther TW, De Long JR, Kardol P, Manrubia-Freixa M, Freschet GT, Maynard DS, Newman GS, van Logtestijn RSP, Viketoft M, Wardle DA, Wieder WR, Wood SA, van der Putten WH (2017) A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition. Nature Ecology & Evolution, doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0367-4 [paper]
DeFries RS, Fanzo J, Mondahl P, Remans R, Wood SA (2017) Is voluntary certification of tropical agricultural commodities achieving sustainability goals?: A review of the evidence. Environmental Research Letters 12: 033001, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa625e [paper] ~ERL Highlight of 2017
Diallo MD, Mahamat-Saleh M, Sarr PS, Masse D, Wood SA, Diallo A, Ndiaye O, Diop L, Agbangba EC, Ndao P, Dick RP, Doelsch E, Chotte J-L, Diop A, Guisse A (2017) Effects of major woody species of the Senegalese Great Green Wall on N mineralization and microbial biomass in soils. Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 333(3): 43-54 [paper]
Rose KC, Graves RA, Hansen WD, Harvey BJ, Qiu J, Wood SA, Ziter C, Turner MG (2017) Historical foundations and future directions in macrosystems ecology. Ecology Letters, doi:10.1111/ele.12717 [paper]
Thompson LR, Sanders J, McDonald D, Amir A, Ladau, J, Locey K, Prill J, Tripathi A, Gibbons S, Ackerman G, Navas-Molina-Navas J, Janssen S, Kopylova E, Vásquez-Baeza Y, González A, Morton J, Mirareb S, Xu Z, Jiang L, Haroon M, Kanbar J, Zhu Q, Song S, Kosciolek T, Bokulich N, Lefler J, Brislawn C, Humphrey G, Owens S, Hampton-Marcell J, Berg-Lyons McKenzie V, Fierer N, Fuhrman J, Clauset A, Stevens R, Shade A, Pollard K, Goodwin K, Jansson J, Gilbert J,Knight R, ..., Wood SA, et. al (as part of Earth Microbiome Project Consortium 300+ authors) (2017) A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity. Nature 104: 11436, doi:10.1038/nature24621 [paper]
2016
Wood SA, Bell C, Bradford MA, Naeem S, Sokol N, Wallenstein MD, Palm CA (2016) Opposing effects of different soil organic matter fractions on crop yields. Ecological Applications, 26(7): 272-285, doi:10.1890/16-0024.1 [paper]
Wood SA, McGuire KL, Hickman JE (2016) Microbial ecology under climate change in tropical agroecosystems, in Climate Change and Microbial Ecology: Current Research and Future Trends, ed. Marxsen J. Horizon Press
Bradford MA, Berg B, Maynard DS, Wieder WR, Wood SA (2016) Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition. Journal of Ecology 104: 229-238, doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12507 [paper]
DeFries RS, Mondal P, Singh D, Agrawal I, Fanzo J, Remans R, Wood SA (2016) Synergies and trade-offs for sustainable agriculture: Nutritional yields and climate-resilience for cereal crops in Central India. Global Food Security, doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2016.07.001 [paper]
Diallo MD, Wood SA, Diallo A, Saleh MM, Ndiaye O, Tine AK, Ngamb T, Guisse M, Seck S, Diop A, Guisse A (2016) Soil suitability for the production of rice, groundnut, and cassava in the peri-urban Niayes zone, Senegal. Soil & Tillage Research 155: 412-420, doi:10.1016/j.still.2015.09.009 [paper]
Naeem S, Prager C, Weeks B, Varga A, Flynn DFB, Griffin K, Muscarella R, Palmer M, Wood SA, Schuster W (2016) Biodiversity as a multidimensional construct: a review, framework and case study of herbivory’s impact on plant biodiversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 20153005, doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.3005 [paper]
2015
Wood SA, Karp DS, DeClerck F, Kremen C, Palm CA, Naeem S (2015) Functional traits in agriculture: agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30: 531-539, doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.013 [paper]
Wood SA, Bradford MA, Gilbert JA, McGuire KL, Palm CA, Tully KL, Zhou J, Naeem S (2015) Agricultural intensification and the functional capacity of soil microbes on smallholder African farms. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 744-752, doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12416 [paper]
Wood SA, Almaraz M, Bradford MA, McGuire KL, Neill C, Naeem S, Palm CA, Tully KL, Zhou J (2015) Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from tropical smallholder agriculture. Frontiers in Microbiology 6: 90, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00090 [paper]
Anderman TL, DeFries RS, Wood SA, Remans R, Ahuja R, Ulla SE (2015) Biogas cook stoves for healthy and sustainable diets? A case study in Southern India. Frontiers in Nutrition 2: 28, doi:10.3389/fnut.2015.00028 [paper]
DeFries RS, Palm CA, Remans R, Fanzo J, Wood SA, Anderman TL (2015) Metrics for land-scarce agriculture. Science 349: 238-240, doi:10.1126/science.aaa5766 [paper]
Mulder C, Bennet EM, Bohan DA, Bonkowski M, Carpenter SR, Chalmers R, Cramer W, Durance I, Eisenhauer N, Haughton AJ, Hettelingh J-P, Hines J, Huston MA, Jeppesen E, Krumins JA, Ma A, Mancinelli G, McLaughlin O, Naeem S, Pascual U, Peñuelas J, Pettorelli N, Pocock MJO, Rafaelli D, Rasmussen JJ, Rusch GM, Scherber C, Setälä H, Vacher C, Voigt W, Vonk JA, Wood SA, Woodward G (2015) 10 years later: networking 35 priorities for science and society after the Millennium Assessment. Advances in Ecologial Research 53: 1-53, doi:10.1016/bs.aecr.2015.10.005 [paper]
Oldfield EE, Wood SA, Palm CA, Bradford MA (2015) How much SOM is needed for sustainable agriculture? Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 13: 527-527, doi:10.1890/1540-9295-13.10.527 [paper]
Tully KL, Wood SA, Almaraz M, Palm CA, Neill C (2015) The effect of the African Green Revolution interventions on yields and nitrogen balances in smallholder maize farms in Western Kenya. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 214: 10-20, doi:10.1016/j.agee.2015.08.006 [paper]
2014
Wood SA and Mendelsohn RO (2014) The impact of climate change on agricultural revenue at the local level: a case study in the Fouta Djallon, West Africa. Environment and Development Economics 20: 20-36, doi:10.1017/S1355770X14000084 [paper]
Wood SA, Jina AS, Jain M, Kristjanson P, DeFries RS (2014) Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions. Global Environmental Change 25: 163-172, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.12.011 [paper]
Bradford MA, Wood SA, Bardgett R, Black HIJ, Bonkowski M, Eggers T, Grayston SJ, Kandeler E, Manning P, Setala H,
Jones TH (2014) Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community
composition. PNAS 111: 14478-14483, doi:10.1073/pnas.1413707111 [paper]
:: Byrnes et al. Multifunctionality does not imply that all functions are positively correlated. [link]
:: Reply to Byrnes et al. Aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality. [link]
Remans R, Wood SA, Saha N, Anderman TL, DeFries RS (2014) Measuring the nutritional diversity of national food supplies. Global Food Security 3: 174-182, doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2014.07.001 [paper] [data]
Anderman TL, Remans R, Wood SA, DeRosa K, DeFries RS (2014) Synergies and tradeoffs between cash crop production and food security: a case study in rural Ghana. Food Security 6: 541-544, doi:10.1007/s12571-014-0360-6 [paper]
Bradford MA, Warren RJ, Baldrian P, Crowther T, Maynard DS, Oldfield EE, Weider W, Wood SA, King JR (2014) Climate fails to explain wood decomposition at regional scales. Nature Climate Change 4: 625-630, doi:10.1038/nclimate2251 [paper]
Ndiaye O, Diallo A, Wood SA, Guisse A (2014) Structural diversity of woody species in the Senegalese semi-arid Ferlo zone. American Journal of Plant Science 5: 416-426, doi:10.4236/ajps.2014.53055
Oldfield EE, Felson AJ, Wood SA, Hallett RA, Strickland MS, Bradford MA (2014) Positive effects of afforestation efforts on the health of urban soils. Forest Ecology & Management 313: 266-273, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2013.11.027 [paper]
2013
Wood SA (2013) The Gambia River, in Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia, ed. Howarth RW. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, pp: 584-586
Tully KL, Lawrence D, Wood SA (2013) Organically managed coffee agroforests have larger soil phosphorus but smaller soil nitrogen pools than conventionally managed agroforests. Biogeochemistry 115: 385-397, doi:10.1007/s10533-013-9842-4 [paper]
Tully KL, Wood SA, Lawrence D (2013) Fertilizer type and species composition affect leachate nutrient concentrations in coffee agroecosystems. Agroforestry Systems 87: 1083-1100, doi:10.1007/s10457-013-9622-0 [paper]
2012
Bradford MA, Wood SA, Maestre FT, Reynolds JF, Warren RJ (2012) Contingency in ecosystem but not plant community response to multiple global change factors. New Phytologist 196: 462-471, doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04271.x [paper]
Covey KR, Wood SA, Warren RJ, Lee X, Bradford MA (2012) Elevated methane concentrations in trees of an upland forest. Geophysical Research Letters 39: L15705, doi:10.1029/2012GL052361 [paper]