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Stephen A. Wood

The Nature Conservancy · US
Area of research
Soil Science · Ecology
Research interest
Research interests include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Climate change impacts on agriculture, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.
h-index
46
citations
13,099
works
133
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Managing for climate and production goals on crop-lands
Nature Climate Change 2025cited by 15position: middledoi
Managing for climate and production goals on crop-lands.
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Expanding smallholder irrigation in central Kenya demonstrates the importance of protecting grassland landscapes
Environmental Research Letters 2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions
Nature Sustainability 2024cited by 27position: middledoi
The principles of natural climate solutions.
2024cited by 24position: contributordoi
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions
Nature Sustainability 2024cited by 23position: contributordoi
Making soil health science practical: guiding research for agronomic and environmental benefits
2024cited by 7position: contributordoi
Exploring the potential for nitrogen fertilizer use mitigation with bundles of management interventions
Environmental Research Letters 2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
AgEvidence: a dataset to explore agro-ecological effects of conservation agriculture.
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
Priority science can accelerate agroforestry as a natural climate solution
Nature Climate Change 2023cited by 85position: contributordoi
Potential for biochar carbon sequestration from crop residues: A global spatially explicit assessment
GCB Bioenergy 2023cited by 49position: lastdoi
Potential for biochar carbon sequestration from crop residues: A global spatially explicit assessment
GCB Bioenergy 2023cited by 47position: contributordoi
Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation
Sustainable development goals series 2022cited by 46position: lastdoi
Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation
Sustainable development goals series 2022cited by 42position: lastdoi
Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles Tailored to Distinct Agri-Food Systems
Sustainable development goals series 2022cited by 2position: lastdoi
A global clustering of terrestrial food production systems
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Large-scale farmer-led experiment demonstrates positive impact of cover crops on multiple soil health indicators.
2021cited by 12position: contributordoi
Scale dependence in functional equivalence and difference in the soil microbiome
Soil Biology and Biochemistry 2021cited by 6position: contributordoi
The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions
Nature Sustainability 2020cited by 1,165position: middledoi
Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals
The Lancet Planetary Health 2020cited by 317position: middledoi
Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems
Nature Sustainability 2020cited by 171position: lastdoi
Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems
Nature Sustainability 2020cited by 150position: contributordoi
Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions
Environmental Health Perspectives 2020cited by 72position: middledoi
Conceptual Links between Landscape Diversity and Diet Diversity: A Roadmap for Transdisciplinary Research.
2020cited by 13position: contributordoi
Direct evidence using a controlled greenhouse study for threshold effects of soil organic matter on crop growth.
2020cited by 12position: contributordoi
How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health
2020cited by 4position: contributordoi
Global meta-analysis of the relationship between soil organic matter and crop yields
SOIL 2019cited by 708position: lastdoi
Global meta-analysis of the relationship between soil organic matter and crop yields
SOIL 2019cited by 601position: contributordoi
Soil carbon science for policy and practice
Nature Sustainability 2019cited by 156position: lastdoi
Soil carbon science for policy and practice
Nature Sustainability 2019cited by 127position: contributordoi

Grants

Travel of U.S.-Scientist under the U.S.-India Exchange of Scientist Program
NSF9023851$01991–1992PIRePORTER
Completion of Part 2 of a World Catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae
NSF8711632$55,3871987–1992PIRePORTER
Oxygen Transport in Ectothermic Vertebrates
NSF8796201$5,5001986–1987PIRePORTER
Oxygen Transport in Ectothermic Vertebrates
NSF8300472$183,9601983–1987PIRePORTER
The Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of North and Central America
NSF8105174$28,0001981–1982PIRePORTER
Special Foreign Currency Travel Award (In Indian Currency) For Participation in the U.S.-India Exchange of Scientists Program
NSF7927015$2,1021980–1981PIRePORTER
Metabolism and Function in Nucleated Red Blood Cells
NSF7724246$103,0971978–1982PIRePORTER
Symposium on Respiratory Pigments: Structure, Function, AndEnvironmental Adaptations; Richmond, Virginia; December 1978
NSF7814511$4,9981978–1979PIRePORTER
Taxonomic Monograph of the Bark and Ambrosia Beetles (Coleoptera)
NSF7503132$21,7001975–1977PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 19 papers (2019–2025)Mark A. Bradford · Yale University5 papers (2019–2021) · 3 papers (2019–2025)Susan Cook-Patton · Pacific Northwest National Laboratory3 papers (2023–2024)Jonathan Sanderman · University of Aberdeen3 papers (2019–2025)Jessica Fanzo · Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center3 papers (2017–2020)Mark A. Bradford · Yale University2 papers (2019–2019)Emily E. Oldfield · Environmental Defense Fund2 papers (2019–2019)Roseline Remans · Columbia University2 papers (2017–2018)Ruth DeFries · Climate Central2 papers (2017–2018)Susan C. Cook‐Patton · The Nature Conservancy2 papers (2020–2024)Jonathan R. B. Fisher · University of Michigan2 papers (2019–2019)Peter Woods Ellis · The Nature Conservancy2 papers (2024–2024)Dominic Woolf · Atkins (United States)2 papers (2023–2025)Joe Fargione · Pacific Northwest National Laboratory2 papers (2019–2024)Timm Kroeger · 2 papers (2024–2024)Yuta J. Masuda · Vulcan (United States)2 papers (2024–2024)Jonathan Sanderman · Columbia University2 papers (2019–2024)Johannes Lehmann · Deutsches Institut für Normung2 papers (2019–2025)E. E. Oldfield · Environmental Defense Fund2 papers (2019–2020)