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Stephen A. Wood

Stephen A. Wood

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
9442
World Ranking
5471
National Ranking
1867

Overview

Stephen A. Wood is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Plant Science.

The scientist's main topics of work cover Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development, Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, and Forest Management and Policy.

Recent publications highlight various aspects of environmental and agricultural research. These include:

  • The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth, 2020, Nature
  • How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals, 2020, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems, 2020, Nature Sustainability

Stephen A. Wood has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Philip K. Thornton
  • Mario Herrero
  • Daniel Mason-D'Croz
  • Christopher B. Barrett
  • Tim G. Benton

Their work has appeared regularly in specific publication venues, particularly:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Biogeochemistry

In addition to articles, Wood has contributed to academic books. Notably, they have published with Springer International Publishing the book titled Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions

    D. A. Bossio;S. C. Cook-Patton;P. W. Ellis;J. Fargione

  • Global meta-analysis of the relationship between soil organic matter and crop yields

    Emily E. Oldfield;Mark A. Bradford;Stephen A. Wood;Stephen A. Wood

  • Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

    Mark A. Bradford;Björn Berg;Daniel S. Maynard;William R. Wieder

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

    Susan C. Cook-Patton;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Sara M. Leavitt;David Gibbs;Nancy L. Harris

  • How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health

    Noah Fierer;Stephen A. Wood;Stephen A. Wood;Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita

  • Functional traits in agriculture: agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services

    Stephen A Wood;Daniel S Karp;Daniel S Karp;Fabrice A J DeClerck;Claire Kremen

  • Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

    Mark A. Bradford;Robert J. Warren;Petr Baldrian;Thomas W. Crowther

  • Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions

    Stephen A. Wood;Amir S. Jina;Meha Jain;Patti Kristjanson

  • Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Daniel Mason-D'Croz;Jeda Palmer

  • A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition

    Mark A Bradford;G F Ciska Veen;Anne Bonis;Ella M Bradford

  • Is voluntary certification of tropical agricultural commodities achieving sustainability goals for small-scale producers? A review of the evidence

    Ruth S. DeFries;Jessica Fanzo;Pinki Mondal;Roseline Remans

  • Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

    Mark A. Bradford;Stephen A. Wood;Richard D. Bardgett;Helaina I. J. Black

  • Measuring nutritional diversity of national food supplies

    Roseline Remans;Roseline Remans;Stephen A. Wood;Nilanjana Saha;Tal Lee Anderman

  • Synergies and tradeoffs between cash crop production and food security: a case study in rural Ghana

    Tal Lee Anderman;Roseline Remans;Stephen A. Wood;Kyle DeRosa

  • Cross-biome patterns in soil microbial respiration predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation.

    Mark A. Bradford;Rebecca L. McCulley;Thomas. W. Crowther;Emily E. Oldfield

  • Soil organic matter underlies crop nutritional quality and productivity in smallholder agriculture

    Stephen A. Wood;Stephen A. Wood;Dereje Tirfessa;Frédéric Baudron

  • Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems

    Christopher B. Barrett;Tim G. Benton;Tim G. Benton;Karen A. Cooper;Jessica Fanzo

  • Trade and the equitability of global food nutrient distribution

    Stephen A. Wood;Stephen A. Wood;Matthew R. Smith;Jessica Fanzo;Roseline Remans;Roseline Remans

  • Direct effects of soil organic matter on productivity mirror those observed with organic amendments

    Emily E. Oldfield;Stephen A. Wood;Stephen A. Wood;Mark A. Bradford

  • Soil carbon science for policy and practice

    Mark A. Bradford;Chelsea J. Carey;Lesley Atwood;Deborah Bossio

  • Elevated methane concentrations in trees of an upland forest

    Kristofer R. Covey;Stephen A. Wood;Robert J. Warren;Robert J. Warren;Xuhui Lee

  • Effects of genotype and nutrient availability on phytochemistry of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) during leaf senescence

    R.L. Lindroth;T.L. Osier;H.R.H. Barnhill;S.A. Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Bradford
Mark A. Bradford Yale University
William R. Wieder
William R. Wieder National Center for Atmospheric Research
Cheryl A. Palm
Cheryl A. Palm University of Florida
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Tim G. Benton
Tim G. Benton Chatham House
Krista L. McGuire
Krista L. McGuire University of Oregon
Robert J. Warren
Robert J. Warren Buffalo State College
Shahid Naeem
Shahid Naeem Columbia University
Daniel S. Maynard
Daniel S. Maynard University of Chicago
Thomas W. Crowther
Thomas W. Crowther King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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