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Tana Elaine Wood is a biogeochemist and ecosystem scientist with a focus in land-use and climate change and how they affect tropical forested ecosystems.

Early Life
Tana E. Wood, PHD attended the University of Texas Austin for undergraduate. She received a B.S. in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology in 1997. She received an M.S. in Environmental Sciences in 2003 from the University of Virginia. She later received a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia in 2006.

Career and Research
Dr. Wood currently works as a Research Ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service. She also is the primary on-site scientist for the Tropical Responses to Altered Climate Experiment and leads the below ground research effort. 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.

Awards and Honors
Dr. Wood received the Exploratory Research Award from the University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, in 2001 and again in 2003, Moore Research Award, from the University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, in 2002 and 2004. She received a fellowship with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research has been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Luquillo Long Term Ecological research.

Publications
Urgent need for warming experiments in tropical forests, 2015, Global Change Biology

Tropical forest carbon balance in a warmer world: a critical review spanning microbial‐to ecosystem‐scale processes, 2012, Biological Reviews

Rain forest nutrient cycling and productivity in response to large scale litter manipulation, 2009, Ecology

Pre-exposure to drought increases the resistance of tropical forest soil bacterial communities to extended drought, 2013, The ISME journal

Variation in leaf litter nutrients of a Costa Rican rain forest is related to precipitation, 2005, Biogeochemistry