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Taylor E. Woods, Ph.D.

Taylor is a research ecologist at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center Center in Kearneysville, WV

Dr. Taylor Woods is a macroecologist whose research investigates the effects of global change on biodiversity, body size, and phenology in freshwaters. 

Professional Experience

  • 2022 - Present: Post-doctoral Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Education and Certifications

  • Ph.D. 2022, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  • M.Sc 2018, Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

  • B.Sc. 2011, Environmental Biology, Tulane University 

Science and Products

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Donut plots illustrate the change in proportion of habitats assigned through 2005-2090

Observed monitoring data and predictive modelling help understand ongoing and future vulnerability of Chesapeake Bay watershed stream fish communities to climate and land-use change

Issue: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed (CBW) is experiencing effects of climate (warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns) and land-use/land-cover (LULC; transition from forest or agriculture to developed lands) change, and these trends are likely to continue under future scenarios of warming and population growth. Stream biodiversity may be vulnerable to ongoing and future climate...
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Chesapeake Bay Activities, Eastern Ecological Science Center
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Observed monitoring data and predictive modelling help understand ongoing and future vulnerability of Chesapeake Bay watershed stream fish communities to climate and land-use change

Issue: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed (CBW) is experiencing effects of climate (warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns) and land-use/land-cover (LULC; transition from forest or agriculture to developed lands) change, and these trends are likely to continue under future scenarios of warming and population growth. Stream biodiversity may be vulnerable to ongoing and future climate...
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USGS

Communicating stream fish vulnerability to climate change

We will develop a vulnerability assessment R Shiny web application and present to stakeholders. The stakeholder feedback will be summarized into a one page ‘lessons learned’ document that will assist researchers in designing effective climate change visualizations and an R markdown ‘quick start’ guide on R Shiny applications.
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Chesapeake Bay Activities, Community for Data Integration (CDI)
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Communicating stream fish vulnerability to climate change

We will develop a vulnerability assessment R Shiny web application and present to stakeholders. The stakeholder feedback will be summarized into a one page ‘lessons learned’ document that will assist researchers in designing effective climate change visualizations and an R markdown ‘quick start’ guide on R Shiny applications.
Learn More
USGS staff in official green hat and shirt presenting on benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event
Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event
Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event
USGS staff in official green hat and shirt presenting on benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presents at the first station on stream ecology and benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event at Patuxent Research Refuge 

By
Eastern Ecological Science Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center
USGS staff in official green hat and shirt presenting on benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presents at the first station on stream ecology and benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event at Patuxent Research Refuge 

By
Eastern Ecological Science Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Assessing the added value of antecedent streamflow alteration information in modeling stream biological condition

In stream systems, disentangling relationships between biology and flow and subsequent prediction of these relationships to unsampled streams is a common objective of large-scale ecological modeling. Often, streamflow metrics are derived from aggregating continuous streamflow records available at a subset of stream gages into long-term flow regime descriptors. Despite demonstrated value, shortcomi
Authors
Taylor E Woods, Ken Eng, Daren Carlisle, Matt J. Cashman, Michael Meador, Karen R. Ryberg, Kelly O. Maloney
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center, Dakota Water Science Center

Observed and projected functional reorganization of riverine fish assemblages from global change

Climate and land-use/land-cover change (‘global change’) are restructuring biodiversity, globally. Broadly, environmental conditions are expected to become warmer, potentially drier (particularly in arid regions), and more anthropogenically developed in the future, with spatiotemporally complex effects on ecological communities. We used functional traits to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed fish res
Authors
Taylor E Woods, Mary Freeman, Kevin P. Krause, Kelly O. Maloney
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Water Resources Mission Area, Chesapeake Bay Activities, Eastern Ecological Science Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Non-USGS Publications**

Woods, T., Kaz, A., & Giam, X. (2022). Phenology in freshwaters: A review and recommendations for future research. Ecography, 2022(6), e05564. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05564.
Woods, T., Comte, L., Tedesco, P. A., & Giam, X. (2020). Testing the diversity–biomass relationship in riverine fish communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(10), 1743-1757. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13147.
McGarvey, D. J., Woods, T. E., & Kirk, A. J. (2019). Modeling the Size Spectrum for Macroinvertebrates and Fishes in Stream Ecosystems. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), (149), e59945. https://dx.doi.org/10.3791/59945.
Woods, T., & McGarvey, D. J. (2018). Assessing the relative influences of abiotic and biotic factors on American eel Anguilla rostrata distribution using hydrologic, physical habitat, and functional trait data. Ecography, 41(12), 2067-2079. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03782.
McGarvey, D. J., Menon, M., Woods, T., Tassone, S., Reese, J., Vergamini, M., & Kellogg, E. (2018). On the use of climate covariates in aquatic species distribution models: are we at risk of throwing out the baby with the bath water?. Ecography, 41(4), 695-712. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03134.

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

Science and Products

link
Donut plots illustrate the change in proportion of habitats assigned through 2005-2090

Observed monitoring data and predictive modelling help understand ongoing and future vulnerability of Chesapeake Bay watershed stream fish communities to climate and land-use change

Issue: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed (CBW) is experiencing effects of climate (warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns) and land-use/land-cover (LULC; transition from forest or agriculture to developed lands) change, and these trends are likely to continue under future scenarios of warming and population growth. Stream biodiversity may be vulnerable to ongoing and future climate...
By
Chesapeake Bay Activities, Eastern Ecological Science Center
link

Observed monitoring data and predictive modelling help understand ongoing and future vulnerability of Chesapeake Bay watershed stream fish communities to climate and land-use change

Issue: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed (CBW) is experiencing effects of climate (warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns) and land-use/land-cover (LULC; transition from forest or agriculture to developed lands) change, and these trends are likely to continue under future scenarios of warming and population growth. Stream biodiversity may be vulnerable to ongoing and future climate...
Learn More
link
USGS

Communicating stream fish vulnerability to climate change

We will develop a vulnerability assessment R Shiny web application and present to stakeholders. The stakeholder feedback will be summarized into a one page ‘lessons learned’ document that will assist researchers in designing effective climate change visualizations and an R markdown ‘quick start’ guide on R Shiny applications.
By
Chesapeake Bay Activities, Community for Data Integration (CDI)
link

Communicating stream fish vulnerability to climate change

We will develop a vulnerability assessment R Shiny web application and present to stakeholders. The stakeholder feedback will be summarized into a one page ‘lessons learned’ document that will assist researchers in designing effective climate change visualizations and an R markdown ‘quick start’ guide on R Shiny applications.
Learn More
USGS staff in official green hat and shirt presenting on benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event
Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event
Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event
USGS staff in official green hat and shirt presenting on benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presents at the first station on stream ecology and benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event at Patuxent Research Refuge 

By
Eastern Ecological Science Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center
USGS staff in official green hat and shirt presenting on benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presenting at first station of Congressional Event

Taylor Woods presents at the first station on stream ecology and benthic macroinvertebrates during the Congressional Event at Patuxent Research Refuge 

By
Eastern Ecological Science Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Assessing the added value of antecedent streamflow alteration information in modeling stream biological condition

In stream systems, disentangling relationships between biology and flow and subsequent prediction of these relationships to unsampled streams is a common objective of large-scale ecological modeling. Often, streamflow metrics are derived from aggregating continuous streamflow records available at a subset of stream gages into long-term flow regime descriptors. Despite demonstrated value, shortcomi
Authors
Taylor E Woods, Ken Eng, Daren Carlisle, Matt J. Cashman, Michael Meador, Karen R. Ryberg, Kelly O. Maloney
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center, Dakota Water Science Center

Observed and projected functional reorganization of riverine fish assemblages from global change

Climate and land-use/land-cover change (‘global change’) are restructuring biodiversity, globally. Broadly, environmental conditions are expected to become warmer, potentially drier (particularly in arid regions), and more anthropogenically developed in the future, with spatiotemporally complex effects on ecological communities. We used functional traits to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed fish res
Authors
Taylor E Woods, Mary Freeman, Kevin P. Krause, Kelly O. Maloney
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Water Resources Mission Area, Chesapeake Bay Activities, Eastern Ecological Science Center, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

Non-USGS Publications**

Woods, T., Kaz, A., & Giam, X. (2022). Phenology in freshwaters: A review and recommendations for future research. Ecography, 2022(6), e05564. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05564.
Woods, T., Comte, L., Tedesco, P. A., & Giam, X. (2020). Testing the diversity–biomass relationship in riverine fish communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(10), 1743-1757. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13147.
McGarvey, D. J., Woods, T. E., & Kirk, A. J. (2019). Modeling the Size Spectrum for Macroinvertebrates and Fishes in Stream Ecosystems. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), (149), e59945. https://dx.doi.org/10.3791/59945.
Woods, T., & McGarvey, D. J. (2018). Assessing the relative influences of abiotic and biotic factors on American eel Anguilla rostrata distribution using hydrologic, physical habitat, and functional trait data. Ecography, 41(12), 2067-2079. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03782.
McGarvey, D. J., Menon, M., Woods, T., Tassone, S., Reese, J., Vergamini, M., & Kellogg, E. (2018). On the use of climate covariates in aquatic species distribution models: are we at risk of throwing out the baby with the bath water?. Ecography, 41(4), 695-712. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03134.

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.