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Susanna A. Wood is affiliated with the Cawthron Institute in New Zealand and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics covered in their work emphasize Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Notable recent publications by Susanna A. Wood include:

  • "Toxic benthic freshwater cyanobacterial proliferations: Challenges and solutions for enhancing knowledge and improving monitoring and mitigation" (2020) in Freshwater Biology
  • "Blue Waters, Green Bottoms: Benthic Filamentous Algal Blooms Are an Emerging Threat to Clear Lakes Worldwide" (2021) in BioScience
  • "Comparing sediment DNA extraction methods for assessing organic enrichment associated with marine aquaculture" (2020) in PeerJ
  • "Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis as a tool to estimate absolute abundances from compositional 16S rRNA bacterial metabarcoding data" (2021) in Journal of Microbiological Methods
  • "Towards reproducible metabarcoding data: Lessons from an international cross-laboratory experiment" (2021) in Molecular Ecology Resources

Susanna A. Wood has frequently published in journals such as PeerJ, Environmental DNA, Harmful Algae, Scientific Reports, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Their frequent co-authors include John K. Pearman, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Georgia Thomson-Laing, Jamie Howarth, and Xavier Pochon.

Best Publications

  • A review of the global ecology, genomics, and biogeography of the toxic cyanobacterium, Microcystis spp.

    Matthew J. Harke;Morgan M. Steffen;Christopher J. Gobler;Timothy G. Otten

  • Perspective: Advancing the research agenda for improving understanding of cyanobacteria in a future of global change

    M.A Burford;C.C Carey;D.P. Hamilton;J. Huisman

  • First report of homoanatoxin-a and associated dog neurotoxicosis in New Zealand.

    Susanna A. Wood;Andrew I. Selwood;Andreas Rueckert;Patrick T. Holland

  • High Levels of Structural Diversity Observed in Microcystins from Microcystis CAWBG11 and Characterization of Six New Microcystin Congeners

    Jonathan Puddick;Michèle R. Prinsep;Susanna A. Wood;Sangata A. F. Kaufononga

  • Evaluating detection limits of next-generation sequencing for the surveillance and monitoring of international marine pests

    Xavier Pochon;Nathan J. Bott;Kirsty Fiona Smith;Susanna A. Wood;Susanna A. Wood

  • Wanted dead or alive? Using metabarcoding of environmental DNA and RNA to distinguish living assemblages for biosecurity applications

    Xavier Pochon;Anastasija Zaiko;Anastasija Zaiko;Anastasija Zaiko;Lauren M. Fletcher;Olivier Laroche

  • Sources of edaphic cyanobacterial diversity in the Dry Valleys of Eastern Antarctica

    Susanna A Wood;Susanna A Wood;Andreas Rueckert;Donald A Cowan;S Craig Cary

  • A comparison of droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (PCR), quantitative PCR and metabarcoding for species‐specific detection in environmental DNA

    Susanna A Wood;Xavier Pochon;Xavier Pochon;Olivier Laroche;Olivier Laroche;Ulla von Ammon;Ulla von Ammon

  • Release and degradation of environmental DNA and RNA in a marine system.

    Susanna A. Wood;Laura Biessy;Janie L. Latchford;Anastasija Zaiko

  • Advantages and Limitations of Environmental DNA/RNA Tools for Marine Biosecurity: Management and Surveillance of Non-indigenous Species

    Anastasija Zaiko;Anastasija Zaiko;Anastasija Zaiko;Xavier Pochon;Xavier Pochon;Eva Garcia-Vazquez;Sergej Olenin

  • First report of the cyanotoxin anatoxin-A from Aphanizomenon issatschenkoi (cyanobacteria)

    Susanna A. Wood;John Paul Rasmussen;Patrick T. Holland;Rebecca Campbell

  • Development and preliminary validation of a multi-trophic metabarcoding biotic index for monitoring benthic organic enrichment

    Nigel Keeley;Susanna A. Wood;Susanna A. Wood;Xavier Pochon;Xavier Pochon

  • Toxic benthic freshwater cyanobacterial proliferations: Challenges and solutions for enhancing knowledge and improving monitoring and mitigation

    Susanna A. Wood;Laura T. Kelly;Keith Bouma-Gregson;Jean François Humbert

  • Switching toxin production on and off: intermittent microcystin synthesis in a Microcystis bloom

    Susanna A. Wood;Andreas Rueckert;David P. Hamilton;S. Craig Cary;S. Craig Cary

  • A cross-taxa study using environmental DNA/RNA metabarcoding to measure biological impacts of offshore oil and gas drilling and production operations.

    Olivier Laroche;Olivier Laroche;Susanna A. Wood;Louis A. Tremblay;Louis A. Tremblay;Joanne I. Ellis

  • Targeted gene enrichment and high-throughput sequencing for environmental biomonitoring: a case study using freshwater macroinvertebrates.

    Eddy J. Dowle;Eddy J. Dowle;Xavier Pochon;Xavier Pochon;Jonathan C. Banks;Karen Shearer

  • Identification of a benthic microcystin-producing filamentous cyanobacterium (Oscillatoriales) associated with a dog poisoning in New Zealand

    Susanna A. Wood;Mark W. Heath;Patrick T. Holland;Rex Munday

  • Detection of tetrodotoxin from the grey side-gilled sea slug - Pleurobranchaea maculata, and associated dog neurotoxicosis on beaches adjacent to the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand.

    Paul McNabb;Andrew I. Selwood;Rex Munday;Susanna A. Wood

  • The rise of toxic benthic Phormidium proliferations: A review of their taxonomy, distribution, toxin content and factors regulating prevalence and increased severity

    Tara G. McAllister;Susanna A. Wood;Ian Hawes

  • Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on benthic communities

    Olivier Laroche;Olivier Laroche;Susanna A. Wood;Susanna A. Wood;Louis A. Tremblay;Louis A. Tremblay;Gavin Lear

  • Widespread distribution and identification of eight novel microcystins in antarctic cyanobacterial mats.

    Susanna A. Wood;Susanna A. Wood;Douglas O. Mountfort;Andrew I. Selwood;Patrick T. Holland

  • Advancing the research agenda for improving understanding of cyanobacteria in a future of global change.

    M. A. Burford;C. C. Carey;D. P. Hamilton;J. Huisman

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Hamilton
David P. Hamilton Griffith University
Anastasija Zaiko
Anastasija Zaiko Sequench Limited
Ian Hawes
Ian Hawes University of Waikato
S. Craig Cary
S. Craig Cary University of Waikato
Daniel R. Dietrich
Daniel R. Dietrich University of Konstanz
Frithjof C. Küpper
Frithjof C. Küpper University of Aberdeen
Brett A. Neilan
Brett A. Neilan University of Newcastle Australia
Gavin Lear
Gavin Lear University of Auckland
David Pearce
David Pearce Northumbria University
Julian J. Eaton-Rye
Julian J. Eaton-Rye University of Otago

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