Publications

2014

Arkema, KK, G Guannel, ML Pinsky, JR Bernhardt, G Gelfenbaum, AD Guerry, CK Kim, M Papenfus, ML Plummer, S Polasky, M Ruckelshaus, P Ruggiero, J Toft, G Verutes, SA Wood. Restoration of coastal habitats will pay for itself with reduced storm damages. In review.

Dunne, JA, MW Betts, N Huntly, H Maschner, R Russell, RJ Williams, SA Wood. The roles of human foragers in North Pacific marine food webs. In review.

Kefi, S, EL Berlow, EA Wieters, LN Joppa, SA Wood, U Brose, SA Navarrete. Network structure beyond food webs: mapping non-trophic and trophic interactions on Chilean rocky shores. In review.

Poisot, TE, B Baiser, JA Dunne, S Kefi, F Massol, N Mouquet, TN Romanuk, DB Stouffer, SA Wood, D Gravel. mangal - making complex ecological network analysis simpler. In review.   [biorxiv]

Reddy, SW, G Guannel, R Griffin, J Faries, T Boucher, J Fisher, M Thompson, J Brenner, J Bernhardt, G Verutes, SA Wood, J Silver, J Toft, A Rogers, A Maas, A Guerry, J Molnar, J DiMuro. Enabling businesses to evaluate the role of coastal habitats in hurricane risk mitigation. In review.

Ruckelshaus, M, E McKenzie, H Tallis, A Guerry, G Daily, P Kareiva, S Polasky, T Ricketts, N Bhagabati, SA Wood, J Bernhardt. Notes from the field: lessons learned from using ecosystem service approaches to inform real-world decisions. Ecological Economics. In press.   [doi]

2013

Arkema, KK, G Guannel, G Verutes, SA Wood, A Guerry, M Ruckelshaus, P Kareiva, M Lacayo, JM Silver. Coastal habitats shield people and property from sea-level rise and storms. Nature Climate Change 3: 913-918.   [doi]   [pdf]   [press]

Wood, SA, AD Guerry, JM Silver, M Lacayo. Using social media to quantify nature-based tourism and recreation. Scientific Reports 3: 2976.   [doi]   [pdf]   [metrics]

2012

Guerry, AD, MH Ruckelshaus, KK Arkema, JR Bernhardt, G Guannel, CK Kim, M Marsik, M Papenfus, JE Toft, G Verutes, SA Wood, M Beck, F Chan, KMA Chan, G Gelfenbaum, BD Gold, BS Halpern, WB Labiosa, SE Lester, PS Levin, M McField, ML Pinsky, M Plummer, S Polasky, P Ruggiero, DA Sutherland, H Tallis, A Day, J Spencer. Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services and Management 8: 107-121.   [doi]   [pdf]

Kefi, S, EL Berlow, EA Wieters, SA Navarrete, OL Petchey, SA Wood, A Boit, LN Joppa, KD Lafferty, RJ Williams, ND Martinez, BA Menge, CA Blanchette, AC Iles, U Brose. More than a meal: integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs. Ecology Letters 15: 291-300.   [doi]   [pdf]

Kim, CK, JE Toft, M Papenfus, G Verutes, AD Guerry, MH Ruckelshaus, KK Arkema, G Guannel, SA Wood, JR Bernhardt, H Tallis, ML Plummer, BS Halpern, ML Pinsky, MW Beck, F Chan, KMA Chan, PS Levin, S Polasky. Catching the right wave: evaluating wave energy resources and potential compatibility with existing marine and coastal uses. PLoS One 7: e47598.  [doi]   [pdf]

2010

Wood, SA, SA Lilley, DR Schiel, JB Shurin. Organismal traits are more important than environment for species interactions in the intertidal zone. Ecology Letters 13: 1160-1171.   [doi]   [pdf]  

2009

Maschner, HDG, MW Betts, J Cornell, JA Dunne, B Finney, N Huntly, JW Jordan, AA King, N Misarti, KL Reedy-Maschner, R Russell, A Tews, SA Wood, B Benson. An Introduction to the Biocomplexity of Sanak Island, Western Gulf of Alaska. Pacific Science 63: 673-709.   [doi]   [pdf]

Wood, SA. Factors governing interactions among species in a complex marine ecosystem. PhD Thesis. University of British Columbia, Vancouver.   [hdl]   [pdf]

2006

Russell, R, SA Wood, G Allison, BA Menge. Scale, environment, and trophic status: The context dependency of community saturation in rocky intertidal communities. American Naturalist 167: E158-E170.   [doi]   [pdf]

Schiel, DR, SA Wood, RA Dunmore, DI Taylor. Sediment on rocky intertidal reefs: Effects on early post-settlement stages of habitat-forming seaweeds. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 331: 158-172.   [doi]   [pdf]

Schoch, GC, BA Menge, G Allison, M Kavanaugh, SA Thompson, SA Wood. Fifteen degrees of separation: Latitudinal gradients of rocky intertidal biota along the California Current. Limnology and Oceanography 51: 2564-2585.   [pdf]

Chapters

2012

Dunne, J, S Wood, R Russell, N Huntly, M Betts, H Maschner. How Sanak Aleut fit into the intertidal food web. In Reedy-Maschner, KL and HDG Maschner (Eds), Sanak Island, Alaska: A Natural and Cultural History (pp 79-90). Pocatello, ID: Idaho Museum of Natural History.

Huntly, N, S Wood, R Russell. Connections and movements that mold the ecology of the Sanak Archipelago. In Reedy-Maschner, KL and HDG Maschner (Eds), Sanak Island, Alaska: A Natural and Cultural History (pp 59-78). Pocatello, ID: Idaho Museum of Natural History.

Russell, R, N Huntly, S Wood, B Finney, D Hanson. Organisms: the remarkable life of Sanak. In Reedy-Maschner, KL and HDG Maschner (Eds), Sanak Island, Alaska: A Natural and Cultural History (pp 28-49). Pocatello, ID: Idaho Museum of Natural History.

Select Presentations

2007

A global assessment of community-wide species interaction strength in the rocky intertidal. Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference, Eatonville, Washington.   [pdf]

2006

The importance of species identity for community-wide species interaction strengths. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee (poster).   [pdf]

Assessing the relative impact of local ecological interactions and regional species pools on local species richness. Annual Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference, Bamfield, Canada.   [pdf]

2005

Why empirical tests of theory mandate more attention to ecological context: using local versus regional drivers of local species richness as a case-study. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.   [pdf]

An empirical assessment of community-wide species interaction strengths in the rocky intertidal. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.   [pdf]

Comparing ancient midden and present day marine communities to detect long term changes in intertidal community composition. Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska.   [pdf]

The united insight of ancient and contemporary data into long term changes in marine community composition. Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting, Monterey, California.   [pdf]

2004

Popular conceptions of wave-exposed algae: testing the relationship between algal abundance and wave exposure. Northwest Algal Symposium, Bamfield, Canada (poster).   [pdf]

2003

Assessment of community structure and diversity of intertidal rocky shores at local, regional, and latitudinal scales. International Temperate Reef Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand (poster).   [pdf]

Community structure and diversity: evaluating biotic interactions and oceanographic effects on Pacific rocky intertidal communities using a large-scale, data-intensive survey. International Temperate Reef Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand (poster).   [pdf]

The future of local-regional richness plots: rubbish or reconciliation? Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Savanna, Georgia.   [pdf]

A novel framework for local and regional influences on local species richness across scales, taxonomic resolutions, and habitat types: insights from the rocky intertidal. Northwest Scientific Association Annual Meeting, Forks, Washington.   [pdf]

Sedimentation on coastal reefs affects early post-settlement stages of dominant algae. International Temperate Reef Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand.   [pdf]

The fluid mechanics of propagule transport in the rocky intertidal zone. International Temperate Reef Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand.   [pdf]

The importance of trophic status in testing community saturation patterns across multiple local and regional scales. International Biogeography Society Inaugural Meeting, Mesquite, Nevada (poster).   [pdf]

2002

Building a geographic context: comparing the rocky shores of Monterey Bay to other sites along the West Coast of the United States. MBNMS Annual Meeting, Monterey, California (poster).   [pdf]

Wave transformation across a rocky reef: effects on intertidal plant survival. New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Nelson, New Zealand (poster).   [pdf]

Sharing data and results across the internet: building usable interfaces for ecological data. New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Nelson, New Zealand.   [pdf]

Online databases

Marine Algae of North America
    Featured in Science 300: 1633.   [pdf]

Marine Algae of New Zealand

The Sanak Island Intertidal

Archived Materials

2006

Proceedings of the 27th Annual Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference.   [pdf]

2003

Proceedings of the 7th International Temperate Reef Symposium.   [pdf]