Wood

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A dynamic yet vulnerable pipeline: Integration and coordination of hydraulic traits across whole plants. 
  • A network model links wood anatomy to xylem tissue hydraulic behaviour and vulnerability to cavitation. 
  • Accuracy of self-reports of fecal occult blood tests and test results among individuals in the carpentry trade. 
  • Age- and position-related changes in hydraulic versus mechanical dysfunction of xylem: inferring the design criteria for Douglas-fir wood structure. 
  • An assessment of occupational safety and health hazards in selected small businesses manufacturing wood pallets--part 1. Noise and physical hazards. 
  • An extractive removal step optimized for a high-throughput α-cellulose extraction method for δ13C and δ18O stable isotope ratio analysis in conifer tree rings. 
  • Analysis of the sensitivity of absorbed light and incident light profile to various canopy architecture and stand conditions 
  • Annual climate variation modifies nitrogen induced carbon accumulation of Pinus sylvestris forests. 
  • Biophysical modelling of intra-ring variations in tracheid features and wood density of Pinus pinaster trees exposed to seasonal droughts. 
  • Cancer incidence among union carpenters in New Jersey. 
  • Carcinogenic effects of wood dust: review and discussion. 
  • Challenges in residential fall prevention: insight from apprentice carpenters. 
  • Characterization of non-methane hydrocarbons emitted from various cookstoves used in China. 
  • Characterization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in vegetables near industrial areas of Shanghai, China: Sources, exposure, and cancer risk. 
  • Coastal ecosystem-based management with nonlinear ecological functions and values. 
  • Commentary: Two Roads Diverged in a Wood: Norwood Conduit Type and Recurrent Pulmonary Artery Interventions. 
  • Comparative hydraulic architecture of tropical tree species representing a range of successional stages and wood density. 
  • Compensation costs of work-related back disorders among union carpenters, Washington State 1989-2003. 
  • Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa. 
  • Concentrations of urinary 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-isoprostane in women exposed to woodsmoke in a cookstove intervention study in San Marcos, Peru. 
  • Conservation. CITES designation for endangered rosewood in Madagascar. 
  • Conservation: Protection for trade of precious rosewood. 
  • Constraints on physiological function associated with branch architecture and wood density in tropical forest trees. 
  • Contrasting hydraulic architecture and function in deep and shallow roots of tree species from a semi-arid habitat. 
  • Cooking fuels and risk of all-cause and cardiopulmonary mortality in urban China: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Curbing the U.S. carbon deficit. 
  • Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO₂ enrichment. 
  • Direct costs and patterns of injuries among residential carpenters, 1995-2000. 
  • Dynamic variation in sapwood specific conductivity in six woody species. 
  • Ecophysiological impacts of Esca, a devastating grapevine trunk disease, on Vitis vinifera L. 
  • Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands. 
  • Evidence for distinct isotopic compositions of sap and tissue water in tree stems: consequences for plant water source identification. 
  • Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests. 
  • Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds among recently pregnant rural Guatemalan women cooking and heating with solid fuels. 
  • Fruiting and sink competition. 
  • Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961-2017. 
  • Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) infestation affects water and carbon relations of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana). 
  • How do water transport and water storage differ in coniferous earlywood and latewood? 
  • How eco-evolutionary principles can guide tree breeding and tree biotechnology for enhanced productivity. 
  • Hydrocarbon emissions and health risks from cookstoves in developing countries. 
  • Identification of quantitative trait loci influencing wood specific gravity in an outbred pedigree of loblolly pine. 
  • Impact of extractive industries on malaria prevalence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a population-based cross-sectional study. 
  • Increasing colorectal cancer screening among individuals in the carpentry trade: test of risk communication interventions. 
  • Interclonal variation, coordination, and trade-offs between hydraulic conductance and gas exchange in Pinus radiata: consequences on plant growth and wood density. 
  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. 
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests. 
  • Management intensification maintains wood production over multiple harvests in tropical Eucalyptus plantations. 
  • Nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: risk factors and control measures. 
  • Persistent decay of fresh xylem hydraulic conductivity varies with pressure gradient and marks plant responses to injury. 
  • Predictors of delayed return to work after back injury: A case-control analysis of union carpenters in Washington State. 
  • Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forest 
  • Resource policy. Wood energy in America. 
  • Respiratory diseases among union carpenters: cohort and case-control analyses. 
  • The Paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes. 
  • The effect of exposure to wood smoke on outcomes of childhood pneumonia in Botswana. 
  • The effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization on stomatal conductance estimated from 11 years of scaled sap flux measurements at Duke FACE 
  • The roles of conduit redundancy and connectivity in xylem hydraulic functions. 
  • Toward full economic valuation of forest fuels-reduction treatments. 
  • Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species. 
  • Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites. 
  • Wood smoke particle exposure in mice reduces the severity of influenza infection. 
  • Work-related falls among union carpenters in Washington State before and after the Vertical Fall Arrest Standard. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Richter, Daniel D., Professor in the Division of Earth and Climate Science, Environmental Sciences and Policy